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•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’...

•Are You Co dependent
One of the greatest benefits of having close friendships is that our friends can support and help us when things get rough in our lives. In exchange for the support our friends give us during a crisis, most of us also help our friends when they need it. In a relationship between two emotionally healthy adults, the roles of giving and receiving help are balanced. Both people offer help and receive help from each other in approximately equal amounts. However, there are some people who...

•Use Mind Maps to Increase Your Creative Thinking
Do you want an easy method to boost your creative thinking ability? It can be done with a simple change in the way you make notes when you are trying to organize your thoughts. When you need to organize your thoughts, you probably make notes the old fashioned way, writing down everything you think is important. If you want to improve your ability to generate new creative ideas, try the technique of making mind maps to organize your thoughts. There are several techniques that can help...

•Students Are You Taking Notes the Wrong Way
When you study, do you take notes the old fashioned way, writing down everything you think is important? There are many ways of taking notes, and for some people, the most effective way to remember a lot of information is to make learning maps or mind maps. Find out how. If you are a university or college student, you probably make a lot of notes when you are attending classes or reading your text books. Then later you review the notes you made when you are preparing for exams. You...

•The Coming Alzheimer s Epidemic
Few diseases scare us as much as Alzheimer's does. Alzheimer's disease robs the victim of memory and thinking, and the sense of self, leaving behind a shell of a body. The world is poised on the brink of an epidemic of Alzheimers as many countries face an aging population. Alzheimer’s disease is a disease that strikes terror into many of us, especially as we get older and start to notice our first incidents of disturbing memory lapse. Alzheimer’s is a very serious brain disease that...

•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...

•Improve Your Word Power Easily
If you want to be a great communicator, do you need to have a great vocabulary? Not necessarily! In the history of the English language, some of the most dramatic messages that have ever been uttered used only very simple words to stir the blood, or touch the heart. Look at any well-known passage in the Bible. Chances are it doesn’t rely on fancy word manipulation for its power. Think of Lincoln’s Gettysberg Address. Although the language that President Lincoln used is not the...

•How to Make More People Like You
When you meet new people for the first time, do you usually like most of the new people that you meet? Or do you find that you usually dislike new people, unless they can eventually prove after a long time that they deserve your friendship? Perhaps you have never thought about this before. And you may even wonder if it’s really important. Does it really matter very much if you like most people when you first meet them, or if you decide to like them much later, after you get to know them...

•Use Eye Contact Effectively in Conversations
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to make conversation easily, and turn their conversation partners into friends quickly, while others struggle with conversation and friendship? Researchers have discovered that one of the most striking differences between people who are socially confident and those who are shy, is that confident people have much more frequent eye contact with their conversational partners. Many shy people never make eye contact at all, tending to look downward...

•The Amazing Health Benefits of Berries
Long before winter comes, black bears in the forest spend all their time eating everything they can sink their teeth into. During the summer, bears eat and eat and eat, trying to get as fat as they possibly can, and when the weather turns cold, they look for a place to curl up and then they sleep the winter away. Now, the habits of bears might not seem like something you should try to follow. After all, doctors are always warning us humans that we shouldn�t overeat, and that we...