It is easy to hurt someone’s feelings. It is much harder to apologize, but an honest apology makes everyone feel better. Here are five important tips for a good apology. Eye contact is important. If someone is hurt deeply, they expect a personal apology, not an email. Emails are OK if you have to miss [...]
10 Ways to Overcome Embarrassment
There is an English phrase, “dying of embarrassment”. This is because when something embarrassing happens to us, dying really does seems like the better choice. It happens to everyone and it is not pleasant. One person said that “embarrassment is like a kidney stone. After the first day, you can relax.” Here are ten ways [...]
Good Enough Really Is Good Enough
Many people worry that what they do is not good enough. These people spend lots of time making decisions about how they look, what they wear, what they do. They are not satisfied with themselves and always think they could do better. These people are called “perfectionists” which means they expect themselves to be perfect [...]
Why Laughter Feels So Good
Most people believe that laughter is good for our mental and physical health, but there has been little proof that this is true. Scientific studies show that it is not the mental pleasure of humor, but the physical act of laughing that has the most benefit. Simply using the muscles that cause the ha, ha, [...]
Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?
Decision fatigue (getting tired) helps explain why people get angry at friends and family, spend too much on clothes, and buy junk food at the supermarket. No matter how smart we try to be, we cannot make decision after decision without paying a mental price. This different from having a tired body, it means that [...]
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