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Increasing Your Self-Awareness: Distractions, triggers, habits, and blind spots.

Self-awareness is prerequisite to growth, professional and personal. Previous installments in this series offered specific activities to help increase your self-awareness: The Museum of You, What Have Been Your Life's Best and Worst Decisions, and The Half-Hour Autobiography,

This installment, my Psychology Today article today, takes a different approach. It invites you to self-assess in each of five areas.

The Psychology of Your Living Room: Choices that can make a difference

How you furnish and decorate your living room can make a big difference. It can make the room and, by extension you, seem friendly or impressive, relaxed or formal.

Even when it’s only you seeing your furnishings, that can change your mood. Imagine coming home and seeing a room that would impress House Beautiful? Contrast that with a room that feels as comfortable as an old shoe. Both approaches are defensible, but clearly, they create a different feel.

My Medium.com article today offers some choices that can make a real difference.

"I'm Over 60 and No One Wants to Hire Me"

My Psychology Today article today tackles the challenge of older people trying to be hired. I do so with a client case study, which embeds suggestions.

Reducing Relapse

32.3% of people who attempt to stop drinking relapse within one year.

After leaving rehab, 49% of marijuana users relapsed the first day it was available to them.

What happens and what might help reduce relapse?

How to Avoid Offending Someone: Wordings for a time of hypersensitivity.

It seems that we need be ever more careful lest we offend someone. My Psychology Today article today offers some phrases that may help.

Forced Out: She paid a big price for her avoidant behavior

One of my clients got terminated today, largely because she avoided the difficult but necessary parts of her job. My Psychology Today article today tells her story, the questions I asked her, and her answered.

What Have Been Your Best and Worst Decisions? A look back that can yield a better future.

We can learn a lot about what to do next by looking at what we did before. At each life stage, what were your best and worst decisions?

It may help to evoke your ideas to see a sample. Here are my best and worst decisions, and lessons learned.:

Brusque Doesn't Mean Bad: How to Choose a Practitioner

My Psychology Today article today discusses how to choose a physician, counselor, etc.

Fear and Loathing at the Holidays: Preventing, curing

Not exactly looking forward to the holidays? Well, perhaps my Psychology Today aticle today is for you.

How to Develop Poise

My Psychology Today article today asks you questions to self-assess whether you have the building blocks of poise and offers suggestions for improvement.