It’s never too early for parents to foster mental resilience in their children. Yet there are so many common, easily avoidable parenting mistakes that can jeopardize the process. Kids with well-developed mental resilience stand a greater chance of feeling empowered to follow their dreams, and take failure on the chin, as they enter adulthood. So…
7 Biggest Parenting Errors That Harm Kids’ Mental Resilience, According to Therapist
How to Use Immediate Gratification to Reach Long-Term Goals
If you’ve made some New Year’s resolutions or set some annual goals for yourself, you might be wondering, “Will I succeed this year?” The real test will come when you’re stressed, tired, or just plain unmotivated. Here’s the plain truth: If your annual goals or New Year’s resolutions feel like chores, or if they feel…
Challenges Beat Resolutions—Every Day of the Week
As a young comedian, Jerry Seinfeld hung a big calendar on his wall. He began writing jokes every day. After he wrote, he put a big red X over that day. According to Seinfeld: “After a few days you’ll have a chain… Your only job is to not break the chain.” Seinfeld didn’t resolve to…
Why Being Stuck at Home Drains Our Creativity
While the pandemic has caused thousands of small businesses to temporarily close or shutter for good, the disappearance of the corner coffee shop means more than lost wages. It also represents a collective loss of creativity. Researchers have shown how creative thinking can be cultivated by simple habits such as exercise, sleep, and reading. But another catalyst is unplanned…
To Beat the Winter Blues, Think Like a Norwegian
You might find inspiration for handling the dark months ahead from Norwegians, according to Kari Leibowitz. Leibowitz, a doctoral candidate in social psychology at Stanford University, has studied how Norwegians cope with winter and “polar nights,” the period beginning on Nov. 21, when the sun sets in Norway and doesn’t rise again for another two…
Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real
I took a deep dive into fear after someone I love dearly, a close family member, began experiencing a physical symptom. We’ve been unable to get to the bottom of it; the doctors have not been particularly concerned, and so we’ve resorted to just managing the symptom best we can. I haven’t been particularly worried, assuming it was just one of the umpteen physical symptoms that…
How to Improve Any Moment
The title of this article is a bit misleading because every moment is already perfect (as good as it is going to get) and doesn’t need to be improved. But our experience of the moment can be fraught with difficulty, and we have the power to create a new experience in each moment. The problems we face…
How to Set Sustainable Wellness Goals for the New Year
With the new year on the horizon, many people are rushing to try to shed the holiday fluff. Unfortunately, these well-intentioned behavior changes tend not to last long. On average, 80 percent of New Year’s resolutions fail by the second week of February. Is this because of a lack of willpower? Do old habits die…
A Year of Blursdays
Does it feel like 2020 went on forever? Did lockdown drag, and can you even remember how you spent your time when you weren’t living under coronavirus restrictions? You aren’t alone. For many, 2020 has been the year in which the constancy of time was lost to the upheaval of COVID-19. Objectively, time passes at…
Cultivate the Positive
Sixty-five years ago, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale revolutionized the publishing world with his enormously popular book “The Power of Positive Thinking.” Fifty-one years later, the equally popular book and video “The Secret” proposed the same argument: that focusing on the things that we want (i.e., being positive or optimistic) can pay big dividends. Some people…
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