07th October 2009
Are you looking for a mate? Sometimes very lonely people believe their real life won’t start until they meet and marry their one true love.
This belief is a fallacy. Your real life is going by right now, whether you are married or not. A single life ...
29th September 2009
Do you want to improve your conversation skills? One good way to pick up tips on making conversation is easily available to you every day. If you want to learn how to be a good conversationalist, a really useful place to start is by watching television!
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25th September 2009
When you are studying for an exam or if you need to learn some material for a presentation, you may be wondering how early you should start to study, and how often you should review the material in order to remember it.
Is it best to study large chunks...
25th September 2009
A few years ago a surprising survey discovered that people who spent a lot of time on the Internet were a lot lonelier than people who didn’t spend much time on the Net.
This was an unexpected find because many people view the Internet and e-mail as ...
24th September 2009
In every relationship there will be occasional misunderstandings and hurt feelings. Sometimes we are the one who hurt another person we care about; sometimes we are the one who has been hurt.
Hurt feelings will occur in friendships, in intimate relatio...
24th September 2009
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people suffer serious, permanent damage to their brains because of traumatic head injury. Survivors of brain trauma are often left with long-term damage to their ability to think and to learn, to remember and plan, and...
22nd September 2009
How important is perseverance in achieving your goals? Many success gurus tell us constantly that to achieve your goals, you have to keep on going, have faith in yourself, and never give up.
To keep persevering to achieve your goal does not mean tha...
17th September 2009
There are a lot of good reasons why we should try to improve our vocabulary. When we have a good vocabulary, we not only sound smarter, but we are smarter. We can learn more things. We can understand deeper concepts and learn the connections between va...
28th August 2009
When I was doing my research for my special report on making friendly conversation, I discovered that there’s a lot of information out there on the topic of how to start a conversation, and a lot of information about how to keep a conversation going.
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28th August 2009
Do you find it difficult to make small talk with strangers? Most of us do. Talking with someone we don’t know can make many of us feel very anxious, especially if we happen to be shy.
Why is it so hard to make conversation with strangers? When you...
27th August 2009
Many of us fear growing older because we are worried that when we are older we will be lonely. We often see older people sitting in shopping malls who seem to have no friends and nothing to do. We hope that won’t be our fate. What can we do to make s...
26th August 2009
One of the most common reasons that friendships break up is because one of the people involved in the friendship decides he or she really cannot trust the other person.
It may be that the other person has let them down too many times, or has been lyi...
23rd August 2009
First impressions – they are so strong - but do we get them right or wrong?
When we meet somebody new, we size that person up in just a few seconds.
A few seconds, that’s all it takes to decide whether or not we like somebody, whether we trust...
18th August 2009
We've all been in conversations that run out of steam. Sometimes a conversation that goes flat can be very awkward and embarassing. Learn some conversation skills that can help you improve your small talk and get a conversation going again.
If two pe...
18th August 2009
Are you worried that nobody likes you?
Feeling that nobody likes us or loves us is one of the most agonizing and devastating feelings in the world. Feeling as if you are unliked and unloved is tremendously depressing, because human beings are hard wir...
