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Advice & Confessions
Life Tip 28: Listen Attentively
When you pay attention, you’re improving your connections and learning something.
When you pay attention, you’re improving your connections and learning something.
5 Financial Changes That Happen When You Turn 55
Turning 55 can unlock new retirement planning opportunities, including the Rule of 55 and higher contribution limits for some retirement accounts.
Turning 55 can unlock new retirement planning opportunities, including the Rule of 55 and higher contribution limits for some retirement accounts.
Cold Cities Are the Most Ready for Winter, With One Exception. See Where Your City Ranks
A look at which U.S. cities are best prepared for winter home maintenance and which ones tend to fall behind.
A look at which U.S. cities are best prepared for winter home maintenance and which ones tend to fall behind.
Personal Growth After Trauma: What It Really Looks Like (and How to Support It)
Sometimes the real work is learning to live in the life you have now, without letting what happened define you.
Sometimes the real work is learning to live in the life you have now, without letting what happened define you.
To Solve Your Problems, Start
You already know you don’t know the answer.
You already know you don’t know the answer.
You’re Not Lazy. You’re Tired in a Way Sleep Can’t Fix
Sometimes exhaustion has less to do with how much you sleep and more to do with how long you’ve been carrying a life that never lets you fully switch off.
Sometimes exhaustion has less to do with how much you sleep and more to do with how long you’ve been carrying a life that never lets you fully switch off.
A New Kind of Helper
We want to develop helpers capable of entering complicated human situations without prematurely reducing, diagnosing, fixing, or simplifying them.
We want to develop helpers capable of entering complicated human situations without prematurely reducing, diagnosing, fixing, or simplifying them.
Every Moment Is the Guru
How to respond to bad news.
How to respond to bad news.
10 Ways to Embrace Your Authenticity
People talk a lot about being authentic but what does authenticity mean to you? Do you ever think about it or what it means? Your authenticity is what's inside, the real you.
People talk a lot about being authentic but what does authenticity mean to you? Do you ever think about it or what it means? Your authenticity is what’s inside, the real you.
The Provider Trap: When Career Success Starts Costing Too Much
How men can think differently about salary, ambition, flexibility and family when making major career decisions
How men can think differently about salary, ambition, flexibility and family when making major career decisions
More Than Half of U.S. Consumers Now Routinely End the Month Short of Funds
More U.S. consumers are struggling to cover monthly expenses as essential household bills leave little room in family budgets.
More U.S. consumers are struggling to cover monthly expenses as essential household bills leave little room in family budgets.
How to Find a Way When You Feel There’s No Way Out
What to do when life feels impossible and you can’t see what comes next.
What to do when life feels impossible and you can’t see what comes next.
Reaction Is Not Intention
They say shame and self-blame are among the most self-destructive emotions.
They say shame and self-blame are among the most self-destructive emotions.
What Do You Want to Want?
Your aspirations and impulses are rarely aligned.
Your aspirations and impulses are rarely aligned.
I Won an Argument. Really?
You can win the argument and still lose something far more valuable.
You can win the argument and still lose something far more valuable.