Category: Workplace
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Honoring Your Differences Instead of Feeling Threatened By Them
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There’s a tendency to make someone ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ just because they have a different point of view or way of doing things. Why not honor your differences – instead of feeling threatened by them?
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Rewriting the Messages of Childhood
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Stories about Wendy Wasserstein and her family help us understand how the onslaught of childhood rejection messages affected the woman she grew into. And here are more stories to illustrate how childhood messages may have affected you and your work and personal relationships.
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Self-Sabotage – The Gremlin That Ruins Relationships and Careers
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What propels public figures (or the rest of us for that matter) to engage in risky, self-destructive, self-imploding behavior? What role does Self-Sabotage play?
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Dealing with Feeling Left Out
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Feeling left out causes stress in personal relationships and affects productivity in the workplace. These 7 great tips help you deal with rejection when you’re excluded.
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Conquering Ambivalence – Getting Out of That Stuck Place
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Ambivalence is the clash between the voice of confidence and the voice of doubt. It’s the presence of simultaneous, conflicting, and/or competing thoughts, feelings or wishes. Here are ideas on what it is, where it comes from and tips on how to tame it.
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Outraged, Enraged, Air Raged
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Air rage boils down to someone taking something personally. Like road rage, air rage is an out of control reaction to feeling wronged, slighted, or intruded upon. When someone invades our personal space, we feel disrespected. We take it personally. The events regarding the Jet Blue flight attendant and passenger are good examples of this.
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Relationship Spring Cleaning
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What better time than spring to clear out relationship clutter? Why not toss things you’ve been stockpiling? You could chuck misunderstandings. Donate hurt feelings. And give anger and resentment the heave-ho. By clearing out the resentment, you’ll be making room for respect, connection and enhanced communication.
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Exploited! – Bamboozled By a Helium Balloon
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The Balloon Boy story brings up many memories of other exploitation, coercions and feeling taken advantage of in childhood experiences and in personal and professional present situations.