By

Andrea Goeglein, Ph.D.
26
Mar

Smiles and Marriage

December 10th, 2009 by happier.com Researchers Measure Smiles to Predict Who Stays Married The December 13th New York Times Magazines features this piece by Jeff Stryker Say cheese and stay married? Yes, according to Matthew Hertenstein, a psychology professor at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. He and three colleagues recruited more than 600 people for...
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23
Mar

How Funny Saves Marriages

Thank You to Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener for the following article. At a recent family gathering my wife wore a T-shirt that read “I moved a heavy piece of furniture, ask me how!” And when my large brother-in-law asked her “how” she recruited him to move the furniture! My wife is, as you might have guessed,...
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18
Mar

Natural Behaviors Part 2 of 3

This post continues a theme started by reading Seth Godin’s blog about jerks and doormats. Being considered a “jerk” may be the opportunity we all share regardless of our natural behavioral style. Yet feeling like a doormat or being referred to as a “doormat”, I will argue, is something only some behaviors experience. Commercial: The...
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15
Mar

Natural Behavior Part 1 of 3

I always pay attention to what I am asked to explain, or topics that keep reoccurring in client and friend conversations, or behaviors or thoughts that pop up in me that cause me to pause and take notice. Today I read a line from Seth Godin’s about jerks and doormats at work and I knew...
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14
Mar

The Easiest Way

  I’ll be brief. Back in October I recommended a book, ZeroLimits. I am eternally grateful I was introduced to that book, yet I have now found a book I can recommend without the reservations which I had about recommending ZeroLimits. That book is The Easiest Way by Mabel Katz. I can recommend it for...
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12
Mar

My Deepest Fear…

Dr. Success Challenge: For the next 30 days, look yourself in the mirror and recite this first person adaptation of Marianne William’s famous passage. Keep track of changes in your personal confidence during the 30 days. Keep track of days it is easy to do, and days that it is difficult. Keep track of the...
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09
Mar

Success, The Poem

Some people refer to themselves as a life coach. I do not. I don’t like the title. Have never used it to refer to my work, nor is it a reference I have ever made about the work I do. I view myself as a life teacher. Before you get your bloomers all in a...
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06
Mar

A Question of Ethics

When one question keeps showing up in conversations, I know its time to pay attention. This week in three separate situations the question of business ethics and more specifically, “Dose a business have ethics?” came up in conversation. (Yes, yes I know, I hang out with people who don’t really know how to have fun!)...
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04
Mar

In Honor of SeaWorld’s Dawn Bracheau

In a December 2009 blog post, and on the December 2009 segment of AM Arizona, I featured a book, Whale Done Parenting. It is a story and guidebook of how to apply the positive psychology techniques used to train orcas at SeaWorld to the development of children. Last week an experienced, devoted trainer of SeaWorld...
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28
Feb

What Do You Value?

Dr. Success challenge: Review your checkbook and your calendar. What does how you spend your money and where you spend your time say about what you value in your life? Is the picture accurate? I have been working with the following questions this week: What do you value? Where do you put your priorities? Within...
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