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Get Up and Grow!
Positive psychology has been a booming business lately. Scores of new “paths to happiness” have filled our bookshelves and newsfeeds. The ones worth examining, however, are usually not the most popular.
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What’s the Worst that can Happen?
The simplest tool I know for combating a known fear is to ask the question, What’s the worst that can happen?
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Facing the Right Fears
“Face your fears” is a very common self-help axiom. Very common, but not always helpful. It only tends to work if the fear in question is something you actually need to face.
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Breathe, Baby, Breathe
Right before you taxi down the runway, flight attendants share a simple message. “In the case of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks will drop from the ceiling compartment.” You know what they’re going to say next, right?
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The Gentlemen’s Key to Happiness
Somewhere, somehow, we men are taught that vulnerability automatically means weakness.
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Growth Takes Patience
Uber lost $2.2B last year. Their investors are nervous, since they’ve lost more money every year since they started in 2009. But the company is still optimistic.
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The Magic, and Madness of Deadlines
Yesterday was Deadline Day for me. Turns out we’re releasing a 10th Anniversary Revised Edition of ScreamFree Parenting in the fall, with lots of new stories and applications, and I had to turn in the first draft yesterday.
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Teaching Our Kids to Dream…Realistically
One of the paradoxes of parenting is that, at the same time, we want our children to be incredibly observant about reality, and yet incredibly courageous in spite of what they see.
