Psychology Today Blog:
Making Change
A psychologist provides guidelines to help individuals define their best pathways to change
By Leslie Becker-Phelps, Ph.D.
The secret of success: Lower your expectations
Contrary to what you might think, sometimes you can actually benefit by lowering your expectations for yourself – at least that’s what the researchers
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Self-awareness is vital to self-improvement
The first step in solving any problem is to identify and become intimately familiar with it. This is as true for overcoming depression and anxiety as it is for cracking
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Generating self-esteem, positive thinking, and other improvements
Has previous advice on how to improve yourself failed? Repeatedly? While this can be discouraging, it does not mean you are doomed to your present situation.
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Getting Advice? Here’s how to make it work
Are you unhappy? Want to be thinner? Stop smoking? Be more assertive? Have better self-esteem?…Want to finally make that change, now?
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Hesitate even bringing up something so intangible as meditation in the face of today’s hard, cold realities.
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Altruism helps save a little girl; and perhaps you, too
Wow. That was my first thought when I saw that a French tourist had jumped into New York’s East River to help a father rescue his two-year-old daughter.
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The timid bully; and other problem species
I’d know a school bully anywhere. He’s a squinty-eyed, scowly-faced boy (hat worn backward) who scares little kids out of their lunch money.
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How deadlines can be murder on motivation
I am passionate about doing therapy. While people often bemoan the lack of meaning or importance in their jobs, I feel gratitude for what mine offers.
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Botox: a Mask for Hiding Our Emotions – from Ourselves?
As the mass of baby boomers age, it seems our society as whole becomes even more obsessed with holding onto youth, at all cost.
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Understanding success: Harriet Richardson, Grant Desme, Barack Obama
It is amazing to learn about people who truly follow their dreams, especially when they do it against the odds. There was nothing about the early beginnings of Barack Obama
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