Change Your Reactions, Change Your Life Quick Fix #2 Instant Buddha Quick Fix #2 for the Short Attention Span brings big results. Yet it’s so simple, anyone can do it. My dogs can do it. Sometimes. Set-up. For you to have a reaction, first you must perceive an action—You smash …
Own Your Emotional Reactivity MysteryShrink for the Short Attention Span is about what you can do right now to make a difference in your experience inside your head and with other people. We humans are predictable. We can use this information for good. For starters, open a folder and log …
Practical Psychology: What Works and What’s Nuts . . . For any change effort to make a difference in a relationship or experience, we must switch attention away from what other people are thinking and doing and direct attention toward thinking about and better understanding our own emotions and behavior. …
Anxiety What If . . . Every Moment You Experienced Today, You Had to Do Over Again? Dateline: Dallas, Texas, 9 p.m. I’m standing in front of the yummy shrimp display at Eatzi’s gourmet take-takeout, my over-educated and under-used brain caught in a dilemma. Should I sacrifice and buy only four …
Complaining is Bad for Your Health: “Eat it the Way It Is!” Back in graduate school I had a course in behavior modification design. The first assignment was to set up a plan to alter a self-destructive behavior of our own. Of course, the instructor did not recognize that, just …
Miss Me? I’m Not That Crazy! The availiability of putting our words on the fabulous World Wide Web has left each of us with the impression that we are much more important than we actually are. We are even taught tricks to bubble up hit statistics and further over-estimate our …
The Opposite of Love is Not Hate: It’s Using People How to Sell Lots of Books I hunched down in an end seat on the back row of the Century City Los Angeles Hyatt Hotel auditorium. My presence was forced labor, a contract requirement from a publisher. The publisher had …
