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Five Career Tips I Particularly Like

For my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer five career tips I particularly like because they're potent but may not be obvious.

When is it Worth Being Politically Incorrect?

When is it worth espousing a politically incorrect viewpoint? I explore that in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

I'm seeking "workaholics" to be profiled in my next book

I'm planning to write a book called "Workaholic!": 30 hard workers tell their story. Its purpose will be to encourage people to respect them rather than pathologize them as workaholics, like alcoholics, addicts. 

If you know someone who, as a way of life, chooses to work 60+ hours a week, I'd welcome their posting their contact information as a comment on this blog post. 

The Incredible Disappearing Job: A five-point plan for creating jobs

As most people know or at least intuit that the low unemployment rate masks the real job situation for many millions of Americans. 

My Time.com essay today, The Incredible Disappearing Job, offers a five-point plan for addressing the problem.

Nuggets from Psychology Today’s “Essential Reads”

From the thousands of articles on PsychologyToday.com published this year, the editors selected approximately 300 as “Essential Reads.” 
I have reviewed them all and in my PsychologyToday.com article today, I list my favorite nuggets. I’ve divided them into categories: self-help, mental health, relationships, parenting, materialism, and aging. 

My Workplace and Career Predictions and Trends for 2015

As you make your career and workplace plans for 2015, you might want to consider the list of predictions and trends I identify in my Time.com article today.

Not Workaholic, Heroic: An ode to people who work long hours

I’ve been saddened, okay angered, by the change in how we treat our hard workers. They used to be almost universally admired. Today, many lesser lights diminish them as "out of balance" or pathologize them as "workaholics." My Time.com article yesterday is an ode to the people who work long hours.

Commercials Seem More Deceptive Than Ever

When commercials come on, I typically look away or turn off the TV. But recently I happened to notice the commercials…with concern. So, I carefully watched and then researched an hour or two worth of commercials. They are even more deceptive than I would have thought. I report on what I learned in my Time.com article today.

Should You Say Something Negative?

Many people have been taught that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it.  But not everything is nice nor deserving of suppression.

My PsychologyToday.com article today presents an internal debate that may help you decide when to speak up and how.

Should I Bother With New Year's Resolutions?

My PsychologyToday.com article today presents an internal debate on whether it's worth making New Year's resolutions. It also embeds tips on how to keep the two most common resolutions: losing weight and finding a good job.