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How DO you fight dragons?
So, you’ve already met the dragons that are responsible for your bad luck. (If you haven’t yet, go and check that out a couple of blogs back!) But understanding the dragons and being able to identify which one(s) you are faced with is only half the battle. We fight dragons...
"Wives must submit to Husbands" is a Biblical recommendation... Really?
The first disconnect that jumps out at me with this quote is the context: the paragraph start with the advice to "submit one to another"... but then the focus seems to shift in the direction that it is the women who need to be doing 100% of the submitting. This...
Anger is like shaking a bottle of soda… but maybe not in the way you expect
WATCH OR READ If I told you we’d be explaining how anger works using a bottle of soda, right off the bat, you’d probably roll your eyes and jump to the conclusion that the analogy is obvious. I’m pretty sure you’d expect me to say something along the lines of,...
Want to change your life? Well, self-improvement is NOT the answer.
There are hundreds (if not thousands) of courses, books, articles, heck even memes out there that preach about self-improvement: “Want to change your life? Change yourself.” The thing is, it’s all a scam. You read that right: SELF-IMPROVEMENT IS A GIMMICK! The fact – yes, FACT – is that we...
Emotional Intelligence: The Basics
Michael G. Rayel, MDThere’s so much talk about emotional intelligence and how it can promote personal and business success. What is it really? What are its basic tenets?Emotional intelligence is the capacity to recognize, understand, and manage one’s emotions and that of others. This “intelligent” concept focuses on the role...