The holidays can be a hotbed for conflict, not only because it is often mixed company cooped up in close quarters, but that our usual distractions (concerns with work, etc.) are usually gone. There is a level of honesty or, perhaps more accurately, bluntness that occurs around the holiday dining table, at the company office …

I sometimes tend to think of life as a battlefield—albeit, a metaphorical one, very different from the horrors of war. Can anyone deny that bloodless battles rage around us every day, often fought against familiar enemies that loom from the past? The cause of these everyday battle wounds vary: a bitter divorce, the loss of …

When was the last time you felt satisfied with your life? When everything is going really great and especially when it gets tough, it’s easy to forget to be grateful. But if the science behind routinely practicing gratitude is so convincing—it has been associated with greater well-being in a wealth of psychological research—why aren’t we …

While running for president of the United States in 2012, Mitt Romney famously said: “Corporations are people, my friends.” Actually, the converse is true as well: People, in a sense, are corporations. Until recently, we thought that only companies had brand identities. That is, until we started thinking of celebrities–such as Kim Kardashian, Beyoncé, or …

Successful people understand that they live in a world where change is continuous and not episodic. Some of the most important things in life are accomplished when we have a sense of urgency. And some of the greatest stresses we endure are experienced when we are bombarded and ambushed by the emergencies of life. What’s …