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Effective communication, especially listening, is something everybody knows is important. Amazing how ‘everybody’ doesn’t do it. This series of articles is about the obvious; so obviously, you should read it. In organizational settings, for psychologically healthy people, there is a natural tension between the need to be liked while at

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in her book On Death and Dying brought into the modern lexicon the notion that when people are first told that they have a terminal illness they will often experience a sequence of emotions in order to psychologically cope with the news. This model was quickly adopted by

It’s not their fault. They never claimed to have e.s.p. and the ability to forecast spring, or anything else. They were forced into it by a bunch of pagans millennia ago – human beings who in their feeble cognition had a need to know. And even now in our modern

This series has hardly been the last word on overcoming procrastination but maybe it gave you a couple of insights, and more importantly some inspiration. Procrastination can be understood as voluntarily delaying an intended course of action despite the negative consequences of that delay. It is not the same as

Procrastination can be defined as one’s voluntary delay of an intended course of action despite being worse off as a result of that delay. A number of treatment interventions might be used in relation to procrastination – efficacy performance spirals, automaticity, stimulus control, stimulus cues, learned industriousness and cognitive restructuring.

Despite my earlier diatribe against positive self-talk in the shallow Anthony Robbins style, it has its place if framed properly. Cognitive Therapy can help us escape the paralyzing grip of negative thinking. Positive self-talk is a remedy for taking the next step for action. The ABCs and DEs of Cognitive