If you need a pep talk and some encouragement about your close relationships allow me to introduce you to Robert Waldinger and the Ted talk he gave titled; “What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness.” Dr Waldinger is the third director of a 75 year lifespan study that closely monitored 724 men and the course of their lives. While the sample was men, I think you will find there is a lot of information here that is applicable to all. You can watch his

Is there a talent you wish you had in greater abundance? Would you like to be able to paint or sing or have the ability to play a sport at a major league level or sell out an arena? Many people have a talent they wished they could expand so that they could make a living at it or at least spend more time enjoying their talents with by themselves or with others. If you took any of those abilities skill, ability or talent there would be those among us who have an abundance of i

I came across this statement in Scientific America: "Folks are going out into nature much less and decreasingly every year." Conservation ecologist Patricia Zaradic of the Environmental Leadership Program and co-author of the report published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. has this to add: "It would take 80 million more visits this year to get the per capita number back up to the level it was in 1987." This article was written in 2008. One explanation

I imagine we all have had moments when we have been misunderstood by others and have misunderstood what others are saying. Do you think that happens mostly because you aren’t listening carefully enough or not talking carefully enough or is it something else? Probably sometimes it is on you, other times on them and occasionally all parties are not paying as close attention as needed. Most of us would rather blame the other person for the misunderstanding, which may even be val