Our approach to nearly every daily activity is shaped and influenced by some sort of “comfort zone.” Just think about that for a moment…we are wired from birth to reject anxiety and discomfort. It is our tendency to behave in…
In December of 2010, an enraged Clay Duke walked into a Panama City, Florida school board meeting and, after a tense 4-minute argument with the superintendent, pulled out a gun and fired multiple shots at the school board members across…
Despite all the books, seminars, speeches, courses and consultants that promise to teach us how to manage our time, the truth is that it’s impossible! No human effort can add to the 1,440 minutes that every person in the world…
Confrontation is a necessary part of every person’s life, usually on a daily basis. It might be about a critically important issue, or it might just be something that irritates you enough to say something. Whether or not a confrontation…
In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s Walter Mischel, then at Stanford University, conducted a behavioral experiment which has come to be known as the “Marshmallow Experiment.” The Landmark Experiment The experiment was designed to test the impulse control of…
Procrastination is a universal human behavior. Everyone has tasks that they find more difficult than others to get started on. This is typical, and no cause for undue handwringing and self-deprecation. But there is a more destructive sort of procrastination,…
Playing with the Professor’s Head In 1970, researchers Allen Ivey and John Hinkle performed a psychology experiment that demonstrated the power of non-verbal communication to generate connection between people. They invited a visiting lecturer to address the class on a…
Very few things affect our success, survival and happiness more than our beliefs about why our lives are the way they are. For example: The job I go to, the spouse I have, the house I live in, the salary…
In the opening paragraph of his inaugural address, Franklin Roosevelt gave the western world one of the most familiar quotes about fear: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” With the Great Depression in full swing, his…
EVERYBODY procrastinates! Some people do it more than others. And most of us have just certain tasks that we put off, while efficiently completing others. Piers Steel, industrial psychologist and professor at the University of Calgary, undertook a study spanning…