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1. | Does a Fear of Rejection Have You Paralyzed?
If you are always afraid of being rejected by others, you probably have a lot fewer friends and relationships than you want.
You are probably lonely much of the time, wondering how you can get the courage to approach others. You can learn to ...
[Added: 02 Feb 2007 Hits: 950 Words: 450]
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2. | A Simple Secret For Making More Friends
Are you open to liking the people that you meet?
When you meet new people for the first time, do you usually like most of the new people that you meet?
Or do you ...
[Added: 05 May 2006 Hits: 711 Words: 727]
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3. | The Berry Surprise
Many foods that taste really good are actually bad for us. And many foods that are good for us, don't taste very good. Now meet the food that has it all – great taste, and fantastic health benefits!
Long before winter comes, black bears in the ...
[Added: 25 Feb 2006 Hits: 460 Words: 824]
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4. | Make Time For Friendship
Do you feel too busy with work and other committments to get together and relax with your friends?
Nurturing and maintaining friendships requires effort and commitment. Too many of us have let our lives become so busy that we don't get around to scheduling time for ...
[Added: 08 Jan 2006 Hits: 450 Words: 360]
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5. | The Truth About Persistence and Success
If you really want to be successful, you probably spend a lot of time reading motivational books and articles. You want to know what qualities are required for success.
When we read about the tools required to achieve success, very often we are ...
[Added: 23 Nov 2005 Hits: 480 Words: 1219]
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6. | Why Loneliness is So Common Today
Do you often feel lonely? If you do, you may spend a lot of time wondering what's wrong with you.
It may seem as if everyone else but you has lots of friends. It may seem like ...
[Added: 02 Nov 2005 Hits: 666 Words: 818]
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7. | Are You Co-dependent? Take This Quiz and Find Out!
One of the greatest benefits of having close friendships is that our friends can support and help us when things get rough in our lives.
In exchange for the support our friends give us during a crisis, most of us also help our friends when ...
[Added: 02 Nov 2005 Hits: 480 Words: 801]
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8. | Are You Too Nice For Your Own Good?
Are you too nice? How can anyone be "too nice"? Isn't being "nice" a good quality to have in a relationship?
Yes, it's true that people will value niceness in others, but if your way ...
[Added: 30 Sep 2005 Hits: 355 Words: 524]
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9. | Fighting For Your Life
Recently the well known American news anchor Peter Jennings died of lung cancer just a few months after he publicly announced that he had the disease and that he was going to fight it with everything he had.
After his death, I read some of the tributes that poured ...
[Added: 25 Aug 2005 Hits: 227 Words: 843]
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10. | Should You Take Gingko Biloba to Improve Your Memory?
Have you heard of the herbal supplement with the very odd name of gingko biloba?
In the last few years, gingko biloba has become one of the most heavily advertised herbal products in health food stores and ...
[Added: 04 Jun 2005 Hits: 253 Words: 872]
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11. | Seeing Eye to Eye - Making Contact
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to make new friends so easily, while others find it so hard to form successful relationships with new people?
Researchers who study relationships have discovered that a big ...
[Added: 16 May 2005 Hits: 345 Words: 516]
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12. | Small Talk is a Big Help in Making Friendships Happen!
Small talk is the name commonly given to the fairly predictable superficial chatter that makes up a large portion of our social encounters.
Neighbors chatting over the fence, strangers speaking to each other in a grocery line, or ...
[Added: 01 Apr 2005 Hits: 288 Words: 637]
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13. | Let Other People See Who You Really Are
Do you know anybody that you consider to be particularly engaging and lively? Take a moment to picture that person in your mind. What is it about that person that you find most attractive?
He or she ...
[Added: 01 Apr 2005 Hits: 298 Words: 383]
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14. | Body Language Signals - What Message Are You Sending?
Here is an exercise using your imagination to show how just much we can commucnicate with our body language, even when we don’t use any words.
Imagine that you are an actor who has been hired to perform as an “extra” in a play on ...
[Added: 01 Apr 2005 Hits: 400 Words: 1606]
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15. | Keep Your Brain Healthy as You Age
No matter what our current age, we all want to have a healthy body and a healthy mind as we get older.
There is not much pleasure in living a long life if our final years ...
[Added: 01 Apr 2005 Hits: 309 Words: 720]
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16. | Caffeine - Should You Be Giving it Up?
Many sober, law abiding people who would never dream of knowingly ingesting a mind- altering drug, actually consume one every day—caffeine!
Caffeine is so pervasive in our culture and in many other cultures that we often forget ...
[Added: 31 Mar 2005 Hits: 287 Words: 689]
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17. | Exercise Your Body to Help Your Brain
If you really want to be at your absolute peak mentally, if you want to have a dynamic and well functioning brain, an essential component of your program must include regular physical exercise. Does that surprise you?
You might wonder why physical exercise is important if your main ...
[Added: 31 Mar 2005 Hits: 296 Words: 984]
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18. | Boost Your Creative Ability
Would you like to enhance your creativity? Before you answer yes or no, think about what that word means to you. If you associate creativity with artistic expression, and you happen to be a middle-manager in a corporation, you may think increased creativity is ...
[Added: 31 Mar 2005 Hits: 304 Words: 1168]
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19. | Improve Your Study Habits and Learn More!
When we are faced with a study project that seems exceptionally difficult and overwhelming, it can be to maintain a high level of interest and motivation for the duration of the learning process. You can improve both your motivation and your ...
[Added: 31 Mar 2005 Hits: 363 Words: 623]
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20. | Boost Your Word Power Quickly and Easily!
If you want to be a great communicator, do you need to have a great vocabulary?
Not necessarily!
Some of the most dramatic messages that have ever been uttered in the English language ...
[Added: 31 Mar 2005 Hits: 300 Words: 1135]
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21. | Seven New Ways to Be Smart
Harvard professor Dr. Howard Gardner has been studying the topic of intelligence for many years and he has suggested that we should revise and expand our idea of what constitutes intelligence to include at least seven forms of intelligence.
These are: verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, musical, ...
[Added: 31 Mar 2005 Hits: 372 Words: 605]
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22. | IQ - Does it Spell Success?
You have probably heard the term “IQ” many times, and you probably know it has something to do with measuring intelligence.
The letters “IQ” stand for “intelligence quotient”, and an IQ test is widely used as a way to measure ...
[Added: 31 Mar 2005 Hits: 1030 Words: 1221]
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