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How To Brainstorm Successfully – Life Skills

October 12, 2009

What matters is that whenever you have an outcome, it’s useful to come at it in a lot of different ways before settling on the best way, in order to keep tunnel vision from narrowing your range of powerful possibilities.

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Do Self Help Books Really Help? – Jefferson Exchange Interviews Dr. K

October 9, 2009

Audio interview in two parts. Jefferson Public Radio interviews Dr. Rick Kirschner about the value of Self Help books. Do they work? Who uses them? Why? Can you expect results? What kind?

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Change Is Gonna Come (to Dr. K’s Blogging Schedule)

September 30, 2009

That means Dr. K’s blog is more than two years old! I’ve already got close to 500 posts up, after maintaining a posting rate of three posts a week for virtually the entire duration of the blog. There are currently 777 comments on the blog, and I’ve appreciated every one of them, along with the email I’ve received the twitter and facebook responses I get regarding my posts.

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60 Years Old? Young? So Far, So Good… It’s my birthday and I’ll blog if I want to.

September 27, 2009

I know that the world has appeared to be coming to an end since it’s very beginning, and that things are actually getting better while they appear to be getting worse. I know it’s always darker before the dawn, and that my feelings serve me and empower me if I simply honor them.

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Dealing With Negative People – Use Them As A Resource

September 9, 2009

The trick is not to buy into negative behavior, but instead, to reframe it and make it useful to yourself. How to make negativity useful? Remember, a negative person can serve two valuable functions in your life: They can be your personal character builder, and they can serve as an early warning system when it comes to problems.

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Think Fast – Persuasive Communication and Life Skills

August 31, 2009

How can you think fast? It begins by accepting what the moment brings and responding to it creatively and with determination. Worse case scenario, your quick thinking gets a bad result. But best case is a great result, and when it comes to thinking fast, you’ll never know until you try.

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Top Ten Interpersonal Skills -7- Get and Give Feedback

August 17, 2009

Relationships have less to do with reality than with perception. Find out what you’re doing that you could do better, what you’re not doing that you should be doing, and what you’re doing that you should stop doing, and you can improve any relationship for the better.

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Top Ten Interpersonal Skills -1- Useful Assumptions

July 29, 2009

The role that our assumptions play in communication success is fundamental. And the challenge with assumptions is to make useful ones rather than limiting ones. A useful assumption gives you enough informed perspective on your own behavior and the behavior of others that you can engage in behaviors that lead to worthwhile outcomes.

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