How to Navigate New Situations (2017)
Our guest offers advice on how to navigate various situations when you’re the newbie in the room.
Personal Growth and Development Sub-categories:
- Goals (7)
- Mentorship (2)
The Pursuit of Happiness (2017)
Two experts talk about how to overcome fears, withstand constant change, and feel more happiness in our everyday lives.
The “Voices in Our Heads” (2017)
We dive into the science behind self-talk and how the voices in our head can be used in a productive manner to help us accomplish our goals.
Finding Happiness
We explore the science behind happiness, how our brain achieves the elusive emotion, and how it all depends on who you are and where you are.
Getting Things Done: It’s all in the planning (2017)
Two experts provide simple strategies you can use to make more of the time you have to get things done.
Intelligent Disobedience: Knowing when and how to say “no” (2017)
Our guest discusses when and how to say “no” effectively for the benefit of the individual and others.
Lessons on the Pursuit of Happiness (2017)
Douglas Abrams shares the joy practices and little things that the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu do daily to experience joy regularly.
Unleashing Your Creativity (2017)
It’s a common goal to get back to the creative passions in the new year. Two experts give tips on how to over come obstacles and finish your masterpiece.
The Art of Quitting (2017)
Many people remain in bad situations because they are afraid to quit their job, but careful planning can ease the anxiety that often follows.
Digital Independence (2017)
Our guest, Christina Cook, took a 31-day vacation from the Internet and learned how online life needs to be balanced with face-to-face communications and relaxation.
Fighting Fair and Productively (2017)
We talk to two experts on conflict about how to make disagreements with anyone, from your work life to your home life, into a more peaceful, enlightening experience.
Using the “Voices in Your Head” (2016)
Experts tell us the “voices in your head” can be used to talk to, and about, yourself in a healthy, productive way.
Advice for success in making resolutions
How are bad habits created and why? A behavioral specialist explains and gives us ways to help give resolutions some staying power.
Emotional Agility
Developing “emotional agility” to deal with the thoughts, emotions and the stories we have in our lives.
Grit: The passion and perseverance to succeed (2016)
We discuss how grit, passion, hope and perseverance all play into the ability for some individuals to keep on course and accomplish great things.
Travel, People and Freedom: A journalist’s travels inform his life
Our guest has spent many years of his life traveling the world and he suggests that for a better and more memorable trip, you should rub shoulders with the locals.
Getting Rid of Clutter
Our guests discuss how a minimalist lifestyle not only keeps our homes neat but also helps us maintain focus on those things that are most important.
Keeping Those Resolutions: The Key is Low and Slow
About this time of year, New Year’s resolutions begin to wane -- and most die. How do you keep them going? And how can you make better ones that you’re more likely to keep in the future? Our guests give advice on crafting a goal and setting up a process that will help you attain it.
Little Victories: Taking Joy in the Little Things in Life
In our fast-paced world, people get stressed out about things that aren’t that important, such as traffic jams, their fantasy football team and if they’re wearing the latest fashions when they take the kids to school. By worrying about those things, they often ignore those everyday events that make life joyful. Our guest shows us through stories from his own …
What To Do When You’re New Navigating New Situations (2015)
When you’re the new person at the office, in the neighborhood or at a party it can be an awkward situation, especially if you’re not the most gregarious person. Our guest discusses the issue and offers advice on how to navigate various situations when you’re the newbie in the room.
Intelligent Disobedience: When It’s Okay to Say No
We’re taught from a young age that we should obey authority and do what adults tell us to do. Those lessons usually work in our favor, however there are times when a child – and an adult – should say "no" to the ones in charge. Our guest has studied this issue and has come up with situations where refusing to do something is the right thing.
Happiness: What it is and how to find it
We hear that we should be happy, and that happiness helps you live longer, brings more tranquility to your life, and to the lives of your family and friends. But do you know what happiness truly is? We talk to a psychologist and a philosopher about the essence of happiness, how to find it and how it’s different from person to person and across the globe.
Getting Things Done (2015)
Does it ever seem like the more you try to get stuff done, the less you accomplish? It may be that you’re expending too much energy on doing and not enough planning ahead of time. We talk to two experts in the field about some simple strategies you can use to make more of the time you have to get things done.
The Joy of Missing Out: Getting Off the Internet (2015)
With emails, spam, texts and instant messaging it’s a wonder we ever have time anymore to just sit and relax with family and friends. At the office, we spend so much time online, how do we get anything done…or done well? That’s what worried our guest who took a 31-day vacation from the Internet to reconnect with her loved-ones and learn about how online life …
