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What Are Your New Year Resolutions Going to Be?
It’s that time of the year when we are (probably) making pious plans to become better in the coming year resolving to do X, Y and Z and resolving not to do A, B and C. The commonest New Year Resolutions are usually to do with getting healthy or fit, kicking bad habits and spending [...]
Are You a Control Freak? Top Signs That You Are One
A Control Freak is a term ascribed to a person who tries to control and dictate how everything around them is done. The control freak is the person who typically tries to persuade, to pressure or even manipulate others into thinking or doing things their way. There are plusses and negatives to being a control [...]
Fighting Procrastination – 8 Tips to Overcome Procrastination
It is a familiar situation – you have a task to do which you find difficult, arduous, time consuming or just boring. You would rather be doing something else (or even nothing) so you decide to do this arduous or boring task later; by the simple expedient of procrastination. Here are some tips to help [...]
Detecting an Eating Disorder – Signs That someone Close Could Have One
Eating disorders are defined as a group of conditions characterized by abnormal eating habits with mental and physical consequences and are a manifestation of complex issues relating to self esteem, control, and body image. Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder are the most widely observed and studied eating disorders. The following behaviors could [...]
Can Recession Affect Relationships?
Money can be an issue in any relationship though we may think that it shouldn’t be. Money can tilt the balance of power; it can create unwanted secrets, it can create resentment; it can even breed suspicion. And then when things are tight, such as when a recession is on and lay-offs are feared and [...]
Reading Body Language – Interpreting Wordless Cues
It has been suggested that only 7% of our communication is done through actual words; the rest is though body language and other cues and non verbal behavior. Body language is non nonverbal communication that we subconsciously internalize, and consists of facial expressions, gestures, eye movements, and body postures. Why we use body language Body [...]
Self Love – Why a Lack of This Can Be So Problematic
It isn’t narcissism or conceit that we speak of when we talk of self love, but of a positive sense of the self. It is self esteem and acceptance of ourselves that we’re talking of here. What is self love or self esteem? We all have faults; but equally we have our special talents. To [...]
Turning Slow Mornings into a Productive Start
Mornings are a flurry of activities in a family. To get the lunches packed, backpacks and briefcases ready and getting the whole lot of them out on time can be a challenge. It can be especially daunting if you are not a lark or you habitually put in late hours. Most people don’t wake up [...]