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Perfectionism – good thing or bad thing
Is your perfectionism out of control? Perfectionism, that constant striving to do everything just right, has been connected with high accomplishment. Parents often believe the way to get the most out...
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What is this thing we call friendship? Being and having friends
Hard to define, easy to know when you have it, this thing called friendship Friendship Reflecting today on this thing we call friendship that means so many different things to each of us. Today on this...
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Friends can be like jumper cables or emotional vampires
Friends ether get you started or drain you of all your energy. Are your friends helpful or do they drain your batteries? Do your friends help you get going or do they hold you back? This thought that...
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Undoing a bad habit – lessons from the big box stores
Sometimes trying to break a habit only makes it worse. If you have a habit that you wish you had never started, gambling, drinking, drug use, over eating, or whatever, and want to change it, take a...
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Is it the Bipolar or is it me? Confusion and self-doubt
The struggles to find yourself when you have Bipolar Disorder or another mental illness People who grow up with a mental illness have a difficult time finding out who they are separate from their...
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3 reasons why people keep telling you that
Everyone seems to keep telling me the same thing! Ever had this experience? All over town seems like you keep hearing the same things. You go to your friend and they tell you something. Later that day...
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Memory March – How to improve your memory and motivation
Your memory can be improved with a little effort, some motivation will help Memory This month let’s take a look at memory, its role in our life and how you might improve it. Contrary to popular belief...
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Improving your memory by finding happiness – excavating happiness
Sometimes you need to excavate those happy memories Part of memory improvement it reviving old memories you may still need but are having a hard time finding. One good place to start is reviving happy...
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What purple glass? Memory and the expert effect
The thing may be right in front of you and still you can’t see it. The tale of the collectible purple glass remembering purple glass For a brief period I dabbled in antiques and collectibles The goal...
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Increase mental efficiency – Remembering people better
An exercise to improve mental efficiency and rev up the memory Memory improvement Improve your mental efficiency and improve your memory by practicing skills of observation. Becoming more observant is...
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5 reasons learning and memory are not about intelligence
Average people remember things that supposed smart people forget Happy Memories Our educations system and a lot of parent’s efforts to help their children learn are misguided. Somewhere along the line...
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Finding success when fear is in the way
You can’t get there from here; you need to go somewhere else first Road to Success Do you have a picture of success in your mind? Have you thought about the things you will need to do to get there from...
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How many senses do you use? Mindfulness and memory
A mindfulness exercise for all the senses to improve mental efficiency and memory Most people rely on one or two senses to do all the work. How many do you routinely use? Memory Fountain One reason...
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Will the Counselor, therapist, psychologist keep your secret or tell?
Just how confidential is confidentiality Just what is confidential and what is not is a major concern to clients in mental health treatment. I have written several posts in the past on this subject but...
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Are you original or ordinary?
Which is better, being ordinary or being original? Conformity Careful – think about this before you answer. We sometimes tell our kids to be original without thinking about the cost. We adults...
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Drugs increase false memories
They may not be lying; they remember things that never happened. Drugs and False Memory Drugs suppress true memories but also increase false memories. We have heard a lot about false memories over the...
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Why memories keep changing
PET scan of a normal human brain (Photo credit: Wikipedia) You think your memories don’t change? What if memories were like time travel in the science fiction stories? Every time you visit them there...
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How did you know that? When and where we learn things matters.
You know you know something but can’t remember why Try to Remember Lately I am having this problem more and more. How about you? And no it is not just about age. Seems that preschoolers have this same...
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What is confabulation? Relationship to false memories and...
Confabulation, Wernicke-Korsakoff’s syndrome and false memories Alcoholism Confabulation is sometimes called “honest lying” because the person telling the tale actually believes that it is true despite...
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We remember the unique not the ordinary – memory is about choices
The tale of an alligator dinner Unique events make a deep impression and are stored more deeply, more thoroughly in our brains. Common everyday events pass us by with barely a second glance. Humans are...
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