Mind Games: Countering Passive-Aggressiveness
Maintaining honest communication and maneuvering conflict is never easy, so sometimes people may resort to passive-aggressive behaviors to get a point across. Passive aggression is finding a way of expressing negative feelings or concerns, such as frustration or annoyance, in an indirect way. Passive aggression can be difficult to classify and has the potential to corrode personal and working relationships.
How to change our focus to live an authentically happy life
Many of us live our lives on autopilot, without much thought to what we really want to cultivate in our lives. We may have set long-term goals, but in the short term, we are stuck, causing us to perhaps not meet those long-term goals. How can we change this pattern?
Building Your Self-Motivating Muscles
Do you often feel like your get-up-and-go has got-up-and-gone? Do you get a burst of raw enthusiasm to start a new project only to have your drive to complete it fizzle out like a dud grenade? You are not alone. Self-motivation can be a tough skill to learn, one that must be constantly exercised.
Toxic Positivity- How Positivity can Become Negative
Ever meet someone so unfailingly positive and chipper that it grated on you like sitcom nails on a chalkboard? Of course, there is nothing wrong with positive thinking, optimism and a sunny disposition, but there is a dark side to positivity if it is continually prioritized over all other types of feeling. Psychology Today tackles the issue head on in their article aptly named “Toxic Positivity.”
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