Category Archives: Getting Along with Each Other

Don’t Take Anything Personally

The second agreement Don Miguel Ruiz covers in The Four Agreements is “Don’t Take Anything Personally”. Like the other agreements, this one is simple to explain, difficult to practice, and powerful in its effects.  Ruiz says that whatever someone else … Continue reading

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Nervous Habits and How to Deal with Them

How are you breathing right now? Are you taking short, shallow breaths or are you breathing more slowly and deeply? Do your shoulders feel relaxed or are they tensed and pulled up toward your ears? If you’re not using your … Continue reading

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How I Handle Criticism

Unless you live alone and never interact with anyone else, you’re going to face criticism at some point in your life. Sometimes it’ll be intended to help and other times it’ll be intended to hurt. In either case, it’s important … Continue reading

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Review of How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People

Some of you may remember my review of How to Win Friends and Influence People. If so, then this review will feel like a walk down memory lane. That book is very similar to How to Have Confidence and Power … Continue reading

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Changing Times

Routines are comfortable. They are familiar, predictable, reassuring, and they allow you to act automatically and with little thought. The more you can act on habit, the more energy, both physical and mental, you can reserve for other tasks. Most … Continue reading

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Learning Spanish

Since February of this year, I’ve been working on learning Spanish. There are many resources for language learning and I chose to use a great app called Duolingo (that link takes you to the web version but there are also … Continue reading

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Encouragement

If you take some time to think about the people in your life whom you most appreciate, you’ll probably find that they are all encouraging. Everyone needs some encouragement, whether they’re going through a rough time or a smooth time. … Continue reading

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A Feeling of Importance

Les Giblin talks about how everyone wants to feel important in How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing With People. In a segment of the book about why employees often feel frustrated at work, Giblin provides these reasons:  Failure … Continue reading

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Fear

The driving force behind so many actions is fear. Fear of failure, fear of being hurt, fear of not being liked, fear of losing control, fear of loss, fear of the unknown, and countless other types of fear. Instead of … Continue reading

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An Ounce of Prevention

You may have heard the saying “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” It simply means that it’s better to consistently maintain something than let it lapse and then try to get it back to where it … Continue reading

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