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Don t Be Too Busy For Friends
Do you spend all your time working and have very little time to relax? If you are chasing money all the time and ignoring your relationships, your quality of life will suffer no matter how much money you make.
If you currently feel that you dont have enough friends in your life, one reason may be that you have let yourself become too busy to make time for the relationships you already have.
Nurturing and maintaining friendships requires effort and commitment. Many of us let our lives...
Create a Social Life For Yourself Don t Wait For Others
When you are faced with the prospect of yet another weekend alone, do you ever take the initiative to call someone you know and suggest a fun activity such as having coffee, or attending a movie? Or do you always take the passive approach and hope someone else will call you? If you spend your whole life waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that someone, somewhere, will call and invite you out to do something, you are giving up control of your social life to everyone else.
Why should...
What is Intelligence
What is intelligence? Can it really be measured?
Although IQ tests measure a certain aspect of intelligence potential, there isn't complete agreement that what is being measured is actually intelligence.
Standard intelligence tests focus a lot on exploring and measuring linguistic/logical/mathematical ability. But is that really the same quality as intelligence? Or is intelligence something broader than that?
We have all met people who have a lot of book smarts but who seem to have no...
Don t Be Resentful
Maureen worked in an office with twenty other people, processing checks. She didnt particularly like her job, but she didnt particularly dislike it either. Getting ahead in her career wasnt important to her until the day that her friend and co-worker Betty was promoted to be the boss of the unit.
Betty had not being doing the job as long as Maureen had, but Betty was always cheerful, hardworking and ambitious, where Maureen had been low-key and easy going.
Until Betty got the...
Fighting For Your Life
Recently the well known American news anchor Peter Jennings died of lung cancer just a few months after he publicly announced that he had the disease and that he was going to fight it with everything he had.
After his death, I read some of the tributes that poured in about the life of Peter Jennings. One of the common themes that appeared in the statements made by his friends and colleagues was that they remembered what a determined, competitive man he was.
They said that he took on his...
What I Learned From Doris
When I was twenty-two, I was befriended by a woman named Doris who was thirty years older than I was. We became very close friends and remained so until her death at the age of eight-two.
When Doris turned seventy-five, she was already widowed. The week she turned seventy-five, Doris threw two birthday parties for herself, one on a Wednesday night, and one on Saturday. Over thirty different people attended each party.
I was the only person invited to both. In all, about seventy of Doris...
What Does a High IQ Really Mean
You have probably heard the term IQ many times, and you probably know it has something to do with measuring intelligence.
The letters IQ stand for intelligence quotient, and an IQ test is widely used as a way to measure intelligence.
The test most frequently used today to measure intelligence is called the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test.
The earliest version of it was developed in France in 1905. The original test has been revised several times over the years, with a major revision...
Help For Overcoming Shyness
Do you need help in overcoming shyness? If you suffer from shyness, you probably often wish that your shyness would instantly go away, never to return. For some people, being shy can be a small problem. For others, shyness can be life crippling.
Some people suffer from extreme shyness that is very intense. Extreme shyness can result in a life of lost opportunities in love, friendship, dating and career opportunities.
People who are extremely shy can feel absolutely overwhelmed with...
How To Overcome Your Fear of Being Rejected
It is a fact of life that when we make social overtures to other people, we face the risk that people will sometimes reject us. The only people who never experience rejection are those who never interact with other human beings.
Otherwise, everyone occasionally experiences situations in which they are rejected. You might get turned down for coffee, for a dance, for a party, a relationship, or even for marriage.
Rejection is never fun to experience, and for some people, its not easy to...
Simple Tips To Improve Your Memory
1) When you need to remember something important, find a way to create an image about it in your mind that is very funny or bizarre. Your brain finds it much easier to remember things that are unusual, or funny or scary, while it easily forgets things that donοΏ½t stand out in any way.
2) DonοΏ½t cut back on your hours of sleep. Your brain needs to use your sleeping hours to put new information into long term memory storage.
3) When you need to remember a long string of letters, or a...
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