What Is Your Ideal Gift? What Is Your Ideal Gift? My ideal gift to give has to be: 1) something he will use 2) something thoughtful 3) something super cool that he will love! It doesn’t mean you have to spend a lot of cash, it just means you need to get a little more creative! Here’s a list of fantastic Valentine’s Day gift ideas that are sure to please your man!...
1) Drama You might be attracted to it or you might create it—either way its purpose is to distract from and avoid unpleasant issues. As a way of dealing with fear or uncertainty (or putting off dealing with it), it’s common for people to invent “stories” to fill in missing details. For example, people create their own theories about why changes are happening in business strategy or personnel. The next time a little melodrama comes your way, try to see the story and return to the facts....
Tristan Harris, former design ethicist at Google and founder of Time Well Spent, offers these 5 tips for re-organizing your phone to create a less distracting experience: Two Tips for Mindful Tech: “Our devices hold out the false promise that there is something more important, more urgent, and more interesting than our present-moment experience,” says psychologist Christopher Willard, author of Growing Up Mindful. He offers these tips for cultivating a healthier relationship with your phone:...
It’s a predicament experienced by couples at all stages: newlyweds, those who have lived together for years, those who have been together for decades. So how can you reignite the spark of conversation? Here are six of our favorite questions to help bring you and your partner closer together. 6 Questions to Spark Intimacy and Conversation 6 Questions to Spark Intimacy and Conversation 1. What’s really going on with you? This is an invitation to take your conversation one level deeper, an invitation for your partner to talk about their challenges, struggles, and victories you may not know about....
When we think about personal growth, we often envision a solo quest, like Don Quixote on a journey of self-improvement. We are advised to increase our self-control, get grittier, and develop a sense of purpose. So we hunker down, turn inward, and start the solitary task of reshaping our habits and behaviors. And yet people who are thriving are usually doing so with the help of others. Peak athletes have coaches....
