What is your favorite tool? Recently a friend suggested a garden tool that has cut weeding time in the garden by half! Hello, new best friend. Where have you been all my life? We have all heard the saying, “Work smarter, not harder.” Tools allow us to do this and they are helpful for all […]
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Paul: We are not going to jump into all of the psychological aspects of listening so much as the actual mechanics and skills that are associated with listening, and I have Vicki helping me with this as she works will this all the time. Vicki: There is something called central auditory processing. That is where
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A commercial (which will not be named), came on during a perfectly family friendly show and a conversation ensued about how the world is changing. A few longed for the good ol’ days. Funny thing is, the good ol’ days mean something different to each generation and do we really wish our world was static?
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We’ve all wondered it from time to time how do you get someone to like you. You know what? I learned this from some little kids. I’ve shared with you before that I spent (Wow) probably 12 or 13 years of my career doing child custody evaluations. I did a lot of psychological evaluations and
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Three Ways to Improve Performance Just like actors who take on a role, we all have roles to play every day. The difference is few people get to see us perform in a given role and rarely do we set out to perform with the thought of getting an award for our work and efforts.
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You already know about the power of positive parenting, but what about with your teenager? Vicki, I think we’ve both heard this from parents that we’ve worked with, when their teenager is a little out of control or giving them some challenges. And they say something like, “This is not my kid.” And they are
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Would You Rather? You Decide! Have you ever played the game, “Would You Rather?” It is a great way to find out how another person feels about something, really anything. All you do is present two options and ask, “Would You Rather?” The questions can be simple from, “Would you rather attend a world-renowned symphony
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It’s a risky world out there, especially on the internet. I have four clear pointers for you today on how to protect your child while on the internet. Before we get into those four points, let’s talk about risk briefly. There are three things that you can do about risk. The first thing you might
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Set Yourself Up for Creativity We all know someone we consider to be creative. You may even consider yourself to be creative. What about the rest of us? The ones who don’t think they have a creative bone in their bodies? There are ways you can generate ideas that lead to creativity. In the YouTube
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In my book, Pathological Positivity, I share a story Richard Paul Evans wrote about a traveler who visits a poor, run down kingdom. He gives the king and his subjects a magic spyglass that when they look through the glass, they do not see the dismal state of things, they see a beautiful scene of
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