Personal Growth for Success

Parenting Techniques

Conn — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:52:55 +0000

Parenting techniques may range from permissive and tolerant to authoritarian, severe and pushy. I think they must be somewhere at the middle and let’s call them assertive techniques. Be aware that parents and children are often stuck in an unhelpful and vicious cycle of chaotic and angry based actions and reactions, when it comes to [...]

Happiness, Dilemma and Difference

Conn — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:50:17 +0000

We often think that happiness is reserved only for wealthy people, who have enough money to satisfy all their wishes. The problem is that happiness implies two dimensions that are contrary one with another. The first dimension form the foundation on which is built personal happiness and it don’t require money or wealth to reach [...]

Social-Emotional Skills

Conn — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:50:33 +0000

Knowing much about emotional and social intelligence doesn’t give you social-emotional skills over night. Of course, learning begins with knowledge, but only by practice can we transform our knowledge into an active and efficient tool. To become a social and emotional skilled person is a tough task but, if you want to bring success into [...]

How to Have a Positive Attitude

Conn — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:11:18 +0000

When we talk about how to have a positive attitude, we firstly have in mind those tough, problematic and negative situations when we loose our calm, hopes and joy. But we have to understand that positive attitude must be a daily presence in our life, not only in bad contexts. Usually our daily mood isn’t [...]

How Can Thinking About Happiness Help You Live Happy

Conn — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:01:48 +0000

Thinking about happiness (including reading, conversations, meditations) can help you to live happy because it: 1) make you become aware about some facts and factors related to happiness; 2) help you find causes and sources of unhappiness and happiness; 3) help you understand the mechanics of happiness; 4) show you ways to solve problems that make you unhappy; 5) help you apply principles of happiness in your daily life.

Happiness, beyond Satisfaction or Not

Conn — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:24:11 +0000

Happiness & Satisfaction. Imagine that you watch the earth from a distance above. What do you see? People running in circle. They leave home in the morning and get home in the night, or run in circle in their home from bed to desk and back. Why do they this? Surviving, satisfaction, happiness?! I was [...]

Dealing with End of Life Issues

Conn — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:57:22 +0000

End of life is the only certainty we have and, in the same time, the subject we are frequently avoiding to discuss. We bravely try to “beat” death doing all kind of activities which give us satisfaction, fulfillment and the feeling of being in control of our own life. Even the feeling of losing the love [...]

The Risk of Being Different

Conn — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:44:00 +0000

The concept of abnormality is not only relative but it’s often mixed up with being different. Every one of us needs to be accepted in a social group and, many times, we are willing to do major compromises to reach this goal. A frequent one is the tendency of constantly showing a similar behavior to [...]