Remember how it feels when someone else makes even a little effort to step around your bad mood – or your bad moment, or your major flub-up? It feels great, right? Well, now it’s your turn.
When you look the other way, you can save someone’s day.
Yes, identifying mistakes, down to the infinitude of the sub-atomic [...]
Your story file weighs you down when its contents perpetuate a dim view of you. Jettison the pity party going on in that mental drawer. Give the bad endings a makeover and lighten up so you can move forward with more tra-la in your step.
Revise your stories to add swing to your swagger.
Rather than telling [...]
There, now. You’ve poked the thing with a stick and its haunches are bunching to prepare for a pounce in your direction. You opened your mouth before your brain had a chance to calm down and everyone at the table is staring at you with open mouths, shocked at your immature outburst.
Now’s the time to [...]
How much time do you spend not doing the repugnant things you need to do? Why?
Wait! Don’t answer that.
Analysis takes time. Consider it optional.
What’s more important – getting the task done or knowing why you’re putting it off? Often, just getting it done is as far as you need to go. Applying brain power only [...]
Let the taste-makers whisper about you from their flashy corner of the party. Let them cast you off as a lost cause. Your human compulsion to fit into a social network can be satisfied just fine without making any compromises in the name of coolness.
Pick a team. Just make sure it’s your own.
Haul out that [...]
