How Creative are you? Creativity is a huge buzz-word today. Most of us would like to be known as creative, innovative, imaginative, a person who thinks “outside the box.” Why? Because we live in the age of creativity. In fact, in our society, creativity has become a highly valued skill, the crème de la crème [...]
All of us have come across self-centred, bullying and at times abusive people at work. These toxic people make our lives miserable by the way they interact with us so much so that many of us fear walking in to work or resign rather than deal with such people. We see them not only at [...]
At many times and in many ways, yes we can. How many times have we criticised, undermined and belittled ourselves. At other times, we have heaped guilt and self-blame on ourselves because of a small mis-step, cut down any burgeoning self-confidence because something we said did not come over right. At other times, we have [...]
Notable traits: *can be hypersensitive to actual or perceived criticism * Unclear as to what they want – just for things to be better * Often resist feedback from their therapist/counsellor or nitpick for faults * Usually oppose most suggestions * Complain that their significant other makes unreasonable demands on them and do not take [...]
I have been reflecting on the issue of Happiness vs. Meaning – Recent research states that finding or having meaning in one’s life does not necessarily mean we are happy. “…Happiness is mainly about getting what one wants and needs…In contrast, Meaningfulness was linked to doing things that express and reflect the self and in [...]
