bad behavior

Stand Up for Your Privacy While There Is Still Time

February 26, 2016

When our government has all the power to compel and the people must comply, then our relationship is flipped, upside down, and backwards, because government should fear the people, not the other way around, here in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Contact your legislator, write to the President, and support Apple in its difficult stand against the surveillance state coming to pass on our watch.

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How To Counter A Narcissistic Spouse’s Bad Influence On Your Kids

March 11, 2013

Dear Dr. K, I am married to an abusive narcissist. I have been to counselling for myself and have learned ways to cope, without feeding his disorder. My question now regards how to mitigate the damage that has inadvertently been done to my teen son.

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What A Difference Persuasive Communication Could Make pt3

March 4, 2013

Turning bad to good, turning good to great, it’s really not rocket science. It’s a matter of direction and skills. We know what the skills are. The skills are easily learnable, and it does make a difference to learn them. When bad people have the best skills and good people have the best ideas, bad things happen. It is now incredibly obvious to me that when good people have the best skills, great things are inevitable. But you can’t leave change to chance.

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Dealing With Difficult Fanatics – Turmoil In The Middle East

September 13, 2012

“The words of others don’t dishonor your beliefs. Only your behavior can do that. Free speech includes hateful speech. And tolerance for it doesn’t mean anyone likes or approves of hate speech. It means that hateful people can express their hatred without actually acting on it, and so it serves as a release valve. More to the point, my mother taught me that two wrongs don’t make a right.”

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Is Coercion A Form Of Persuasion? No, It’s Not!

March 12, 2012

Coercion restrains and inhibits. Coercion uses threats, isolation, deprivation and punishment as a means of control. Among its effects are phobias, anxiety attacks, and other behavioral disorders. Think this through and you’ll realize just how nasty coercion can be.

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4th Clip from Dealing With People You Can’t Stand Audio – The Yes Person

January 23, 2012

Resolved: This year, do better dealing with bad behavior! Today’s post is the fourth clip from the spoken word version of Dealing With People You Can’t Stand – The YES Person!

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2nd Clip from Dealing With People You Can’t Stand Audio – The Tank

January 9, 2012

Resolved: This year, do better dealing with bad behavior! Stay calm, stay focused, and be strategic around pushy, negative, distracting, disruptive, wishy washy, whiny and withdrawn people!. Today’s post is the second clip from the spoken word version of Dealing With People You Can’t Stand

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There’s A Dangerous Narcissism In The World

April 13, 2011

Our future may very well depend on growing up out of such childish self-centered behavior and taking the larger context into account. Otherwise, we are heading down a dangerous road.

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