Tag: self help
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Have A Goal What is the outcome or result you’re hoping to achieve? Do you want to get your point across at a staff meeting? Get a refund for a faulty coffee maker? Be clear about what you want to get out of the situation and what will constitute success. In the beginning, simply voicing…
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I count myself lucky in that I’ve always had a good relationship with my mother. I never gave my parents any trouble growing up (unless being a chronic know-it-all counts) and she repays the favor by rarely nagging me about my career, when I’m going to get married, how I dress, etc. The most intrusive…
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Hate To Break It To You is a recurring feature wherein we dispense succinct home truths that everyone could benefit from facing up to, unpleasant as they may be. Photo by Bill Ruhsam Recently, I asked an overseas coworker what his future plans were after our project ends. He threw out a couple of vague…
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Screw setting actual goals and then feeling like crap when you inevitably fall short of societally-endorsed benchmarks of mainstream heteronormative success. We’ve got your five-year plan right here, baby! Let Mad Libs chart your course over the next half decade. Print it out and play with your friends! Tape the results to your fridge door…
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Recently, I took a little business trip. Being a consummate pre-planner with specific dietary quirks, I always do my homework when it comes to identifying restaurants that fit my needs in the city I happen to be visiting, which explains how I found myself in a vegan anarchist coffee house. The fact that I am…
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Sometimes, I look at the searches that bring people to this site and I want to put my arm around the internet and give it as many cookies as it takes to make things all better. I’m equal parts natural born fixer and adamant eschewer of drama. It’s an odd combination to be sure. A…
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Dear GenMeh; I don’t know what to say or how to keep a conversation going when I meet people. I even have trouble with friends and that awkward silence, not to mention my paranoia that everybody thinks I’m a loner loser. Are there any tips on better social interaction for dummies? -Tongue-tied At first glance,…
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A friend of mine was remarking recently about how much she admires people with the courage not to let quotidian concerns stop them from following their dreams and how she wishes she could be this way. Considering this was a woman who arrived from Romania with only two suitcases and a couple hundred bucks in…
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Hate To Break It To You is a recurring feature wherein we dispense succinct home truths that everyone could benefit from facing up to, unpleasant as they may be. Read the first installment here. Photo by spike55151 You’ll never get what you claim to want if you don’t truly believe that you deserve to have…
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Hate To Break It To You is a recurring feature wherein we dispense succinct home truths that everyone could benefit from facing up to, unpleasant as they may be. This is the first installment. Photo by Sister72 No one cares as much as you do. Whether it’s your wedding plans, your grandfather’s death, your favorite…
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