Choose How You Want to Feel

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Since self-affirmations make most sad people sadder, lift your mood by taking the ACT approach and enjoy more upbeat and meaningful moments

Why Men Retreat and Women then Go wild

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013

Get concrete steps to turn your closest relationships, including with loved ones, into opportunities to bring out the better side in both of you rather than the worst. There’s probably no more vital capacity for you to hone and have a meaningful, mostly satisfying life of caring and enduring accomplishment

Ten Somewhat Unexpected Truths About Lying and Liars

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

If you’re new to MovingFromMeToWe.com, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!George O’Leary’s lies cost him the Notre Dame coach’s job in 2001 and lying about his resume cost Yahoo CEO, Scott Thompson his job. Yet how common is lying? Truth One How often do most of us lie? About [...]

Two Secrets to Daily Happiness

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

Simplify. It’s clarifying. Only then can one can focus. Focus on what is really going on. From the inside out What do you feel right now?  What most matters to you? What is happening, truly happening with those in the scene you are playing out right now? What best serves the situation?  My friend Nate says, [...]

The Forgotten First Step for Connecting

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

While happiness books are all the rage, none begin by showing us the inescapable first step to connecting with others.   Yet having social ties is the single best predictor of a longer, healthier, more satisfying life.  That seemingly mundane step? Attention. When hired by Disney to observe what infants and toddlers paid the most attention [...]

13 Ways to Damage Relationships

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

When things go wrong, we tend to blind ourselves to other’s feelings. We are more likely to fall into a destructive behavioral trap. Sadly, when we do, we cannot be empathic. We weaken that human bond that’s vital to re-grouping and resilience. These blinding mindsets make us feel dumb, powerless … and alone. (Of course [...]

Count Your Blessings Rather Than Your Burdens

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

If you’re not feeling happy then this post can help. Did you know that more Americans are happier now than before our economy went bad? Now how does that make you feel? Stay with me though for the revelation that can lift your spirits. Everyone who claims to be happy may have some reason for finding an upside [...]

How Humorless People Affect Us

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Like scent, humor has extremely offensive or captivating effects on us, depending on the kind.  In the past two posts I described two kinds, unifying and divisive. The third is humorless. Are you?  Frank Tyger suggest that, “The ultimate test of whether you posses a sense of humor is your reaction when someone tells you [...]

Trick Your Brain Into Making Smarter Choices

Friday, February 20th, 2009

The brain has limited bandwidth for making decisions, found On Amir.  Spend too much time making one decision, however mundane, and you’re worse at making the next decisions.  Further we often feel overwhelmed by too many options and are not satisfied when we finally choose, Barry Schwartz discovered. (Hint: to get more customers to buy, offer three 

Spreading Joy Isn’t Just a First-Hand Experience

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

The sweet scent of the narcissus plant wafts upstairs to me just like the lingering memory of my uphill neighbors, an always upbeat Irish couple in their early eighties.  Stopping off on their daily walk, they knocked on my door early this morning to deliver the plant, their holiday gift, knowing I would be up [...]

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