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Making it Easier to Do Healthy Things: Mask-wearing, weight control, exercise, sleep, etc.

Most people know what they should do to maintain or improve their health. But there’s a Grand Canyon of difference between knowing and doing, especially doing it consistently. Perhaps one or more of the ideas that have helped some of my clients (and me) might help. That's my PsychologyToday.com article today.

11 Low-Risk, High-Payoff Actions: Ideas for improving your relationships, work, and happiness

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers distilled versions of ideas that my clients have found particularly useful.

5 Trends That the Career-Minded Should Consider in 2021

As a career counselor, part of my job is to anticipate trends and the implications for people at work and for those who are looking for work. My PsychologyToday.com article today describes five such trends.

Five Musts in the Excellent Manager or Leader

Today, a client said she was nervous about getting promoted to her first position managing people. While we dealt with her psychological issues, she said she found the practical advice most helpful. So I thought I’d share that with you. They boiled down to five keys. I describe them in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

A Tormented Liberal and a Tormented Conservative Job Seeker

My career counseling practice isn’t immune from today’s political polarization. While many of my clients are politically moderate or apolitical, I have clients on both political poles, and they tend to be angst-filled.

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers composite letters from a tormented liberal and from a tormented conservative, followed by my responses

Words or Phrases to Use Less Often

Yesterday, I posted 10 words and phrases that convey intelligence and nuance.   Today's Psychology Today article suggests some words and phrases that you might want to use less. Not a bad New Year’s resolution.

10 Words or Phrases to Use More in the New Year: Words that convey intelligence and nuance

How-to books and even, ahem, blog posts, may not sufficiently engender behavior change.

My clients generally find that the more concise the advice, the more likely they are to follow it. Well, the ultimate in brevity of course, is the word or phrase. My PsychologyToday.com article today suggests ten words or phrases that you might want to more often use in in 2021. Of course, there’s no need to wait until the New Year. Feel free to start now.

Reviewing the Photos of Your Life: Clues to what you should be doing now

Your old photos can be useful prompts for thinking about your life. I offer suggestions in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Walking the Earth Feeling Insecure: A letter and my response

My clients and friends say they often feel insecure, a feeling that usually affects both professional and personal life. My PsychologyToday.com article today offers a composite letter encapsulates their experiences and is followed by my response.

Should You Be More of a Thinker or a Doer?: A thinker and a doer exchange letters

A perhaps under-discussed human continuum is thinker vs. doer. My PsychologyToday.com article today offers two composite letters. One is from a thinker to a doer, the other from a doer to a thinker.

Perhaps reading them will help you clarify if you are where you want to be on that continuum.