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The Future of the World: A Debate Between an Optimist and a Pessimist

[image error] Many of my clients, colleagues, friends, and I wonder about the future of the world. We do it just for the fun of conjecture or for a serious reason. For example, some people wonder if they want to bring a child into the world s/he’ll spend the next 100 years in.
So it might be instructive or at least interesting to explore possible futures. To that end, my PsychologyToday.com article today offers  a debate between the optimist and pessimist within me.

41 Useful Words and a Fun Way to Learn Them

In the 5th and final installment of a five-part series aimed at helping professionals improve their vocabulary, I offer 41 words that are more precise in their meaning than their more common synonym. And to encourage the reader to learn them, I offer one of the few tasks I remember doing in school that I liked: writing a story that used all the words. And lest I be guilty of asking my readers to do that which I wouldn't, I wrote such a story. That's my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Questions and Answers for Older Employees

As my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer self-assessment questions for older workers to help them decide how ambitious they should be on the continuum from aiming higher to retiring. I then offer specifics for what one might do.

Unsung: A short-short story about our heroes

We idolize the wrong people. I explore that in a short-short story on PsychologyToday.com.

The New Widow: A short-short story

When a couple of the same age marries, there often are problems because men age faster and die earlier than women. I explore that in my PsychologyToday.com contribution today. It's a short-short story.

Five-Minute Career Advising

Of course, even a professional career counselor usually takes multiple sessions to provide adequate guidance. 

But counselors, social workers, teachers, parents and relatives often have the opportunity to provide a bit of career help.  My PsychologyToday.com article today offers sample dialogues and a career-finding chart that can be used to provide a  first-step to people who don't know what career to pursue or how to land a job.

Should You Consider a Career in Sales?

As my PsychologyToday.com article today, I ask six questions of people considering a sales career. The profession is underrated when done right but it's appropriate only for a special kind of person.

An Ordinary Life: A short-short story

As my PsychologyToday.com contribution today, I offer a short-short story called An Ordinary Life.

Come See My One-Man (plus my wife's scolding and firing me) Show TOMORROW- and it's Free!

Want to come see my one-man show Odd Man Out tomorrow (Saturday June 3)  at 10:30 AM at the Rockridge branch of the Oakland Public Library?  It's free.  

Saying What You Intend: 17 distinctions you should make.

This is the final installment in a four-part series designed to help professionals take their vocabulary to the highest level likely needed.
 
In it, I describe 17 examples of pairs or trios of words that are often thought to be interchangeable but aren't.