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Choosing a Calendar

Wall calendars represent the cheapest and easiest way to decorate your walls with a different beautiful image every month just by turning a page.

As I was perusing all the choices, I realized that the process of selecting can be a bit nuanced, incorporating not just aesthetics but what will make you feel good and make the right impression on others. In my case, that's important because I see clients in my home-office.

So, as my PsychologyToday.com article today, I describe what went through my head as I was walking the aisles of calendars.

 

Career and Workplace Predictions for 2017

The past two years, I’ve written career and workplace predictions for TIME and they’ve been reasonably accurate. So, my PsychologyToday.com article today offers my predictions for 2017.

“I Thought Being an Introvert was Abnormal”

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers a distillation of my interview of Darren Love, 21 of  Bellwood Illinois.

So You've Already Broken Your New Year's Resolution.

So you’ve already joined the Broken Resolution Club. Is it time to accept that resolutions get broken so you might as well kick back and down a brewski?

Maybe, but in my PsychologyToday.com article today, I encourage you to take a second shot and offer tips to make it more likely you'll succeed this time. .

What Resolution to Make and How to Keep the Darn Thing

There's an endless debate on whether it's worth making New Year's resolutions. But how do you decide which to make and, more important, how the hell will you, this time, actually keep it for more than a day? I address those questions in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

The Most Emotional Events of 2016

Life brings enough emotional challenges. But in 2016, society added mightily to our emotional burdens. In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I remind us of 2016's most emotional events and offer a suggestion for coping with 2017's.

Counseling Ethically

A fellow career coach hired me to pick my brain about how I run my practice. We ended up talking a lot about ethics and he suggested I write an article on the topic. So I did so as my PsychologyToday.com article today. 

Core Ideas from 50 Self-Help Classics

In some fields, it's worth focusing on the new. For example, we buy a smartphone rather than a flip phone.

But in self-help, things don't change as rapidly. People are people. And so today's latest and greatest is often tomorrow's abandoned fad.

So it makes sense to note self-help ideas have stood the test of time. To that end, PsychCentral.com has selected "50 Self-Help Classics." There, they are unannotated. In my PsychologyToday.com article today, for each, I very briefly state on or two of its recommendations.

An Atheist in Praise of Bible Stories

As my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer my reaction to this edited excerpt from a Christmas Day editorial in the Berkeley Daily Planet:

Wouldn't it be great if we all loved our neighbor because of the metaphor of Jesus rather than because we believed Jesus was the product of a virgin birth, could walk on water, and was resurrected after he died?

After all, once we're educated, we realize that no one comes back from the dead except in horror films; no one rises into the sky except in sci-fi. We wouldn’t have to be good for fear of not getting a reward and for fear that Santa  (shorthand for a Big Brother God,) is monitoring us when we are sleeping and when we are awake. We could be good for goodness' sake.

YOUR Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future

Why is A Christmas Carol a foolproof Holiday favorite? Because we all can relate to seeing the light, redemption for past errors, and the promise of a better tomorrow that can start right now.

But as with all lessons, A Christmas Carol’s too quickly fades from our memories. In an attempt to increase its longevity, My PsychologyToday.com article today offers a few questions that may help.