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9 Strategies to Create a More Civil, Loving Marriage
Why are we so rude to our spouses, yet courteous, kind, and patient with complete strangers? Paying attention to good manners and small niceties may be the key to sustaining the vitality of your relationships.
The Myth of Happiness — and How to Be Truly Happy
Want long-lasting joy? Shifts in your mindset can make all the difference.
4 Simple Questions to Uncovering Happiness
Elisha Goldstein shares his four tips for uncovering happiness.
How Practicing Compassion Boosts Happiness and Well-Being
Top-tier research confirms that being compassionate is good for us, altering our physiology to boost not just happiness but well-being.
Compassion and Health: An Interview With James Doty, MD
How compassion and social connection have a powerful effect on our health, happiness, and well-being.
The Art of the Relapse: How to Stop Falling Back Into Old Habits
Instead of feeling like a failure when you fall back into old, unhealthy behaviors, consider embracing your relapses as mile markers on your route to success.
Why Thinking Positively Doesn’t (Always) Work
How to stay emotionally authentic — without becoming a grouch.
6 Ways to Discover Real Gratitude
Why you should not overdo gratitude exercises, plus five more tips on how to nurture authentic appreciation.
How To Reinvent Yourself: 10 Tips for Transformative Change
Want to move beyond your life’s current limits? Shift your motive from self-presentation to service.
How to Be 10 Percent Happier
After an on-air panic attack, ABC newsman Dan Harris embarked on a journey of faith — and discovered a path to well-being.
The Art of Joy
It’s not a rat race for money, success and achievement. The quest for true happiness has far more value – for you and everyone around you.
How to Shift from a Judger to a Learner Mindset
The questions we ask can lead us down paths of discovery and delight, or down corridors of doom and gloom. Unlock the power of questioning with Marilee Adams’ transformative tool, the Choice Map, and decide which path will you choose.
How to Avoid Drama
Are your relationships defined by tired role-play? Here’s how to break out of character.
Coming to Terms With Reality
Are you being held hostage by your negative thoughts? Byron Katie and “The Work” will help you discover how to negotiate a truce.
Peace Through Personality: How to Use the Enneagram to Manage Conflict
The Enneagram can help us understand why each of us deals with conflict differently — and how we can find common ground.
Navigating Social Anxiety
Tricks and tips from professional performers.
Show Up! How Embracing Enthusiasm Creates a Rich, Full Life
Don’t hold back! Participate with enthusiasm: You’ll have more fun, feel more present and discover a wellspring of satisfaction.
Walking Your Talk: The Path of Personal Integrity
Do you walk your talk? Say what you mean and mean what you say? Or does your language take you down roads you’re not willing to follow? Taking a closer look at how your words and deeds connect — or don’t — can help you see where you really stand.
8 Anger Management Strategies
The fire of anger can burn us — but it’s also an important, essential, even creative emotion. Learn to control your anger, before it controls you.
The 5 Love Languages
Explore Dr. Gary Chapman’s best-selling book on the five ways most people “speak” love and discover how to connect more deeply with loved ones.
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
Dilbert comic-strip creator Scott Adams explains how to stumble your way to success — one trip-up and mistake at a time.