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A new social science study has found that the positive emotions associated with social media postings generally outweigh negative one. The study looked at the content and spread of 19 million English-language posts from September 2014. The results showed that while negative content tended to spread faster,…

Dave Earley says, “Relationships can be understood as bank accounts. Realize it or not, you have a relational account with every person within your sphere of influence. Every positive interaction makes a deposit in that account. Every negative dealing with a person makes a withdrawal in your relational…

In study published in the online journal PLOS ONE, suggests that when using social media, people need to be aware that the prevailing mood online is likely to influence them. The author of the study, James Fowler, professor of medical genetics and political science at the University of California says…

These are the top ten ways to tell if you’re having a bad day. Number 10 - Your horn sticks on the freeway behind 32 Hell's Angels Number 9 - You call suicide prevention and they put you on hold. Number 8 - Your birthday cake collapses from the weight of the candles. Number 7 - Your 4-year-old tells…

A little wave pushed Yusuf Islam, once Cat Stevens, to Islam Sun Dec 3, 3:55 PM ET Yusuf Islam, formerly the pop star Cat Stevens, said that a small wave literally washed him ashore and pushed him toward Islam, in an interview with CBS television. Islam, who recently released his first commercial album…

Empathy Practice Empathy; Forgive; Forgiveness; Difficult People; EGR; Compassion; Hardness; Inflexible; An effective tool for forgiving others is empathy, and empathy comes when we pause long enough to look at others through the lens of their own experience. . . . Writer F. W. Boreham once lost patience…

LeRoy Lawson Dr. Joe Harding’s wonderful story of the man who finally decided to ask his boss for a raise deserves repeating. That fateful morning he told his wife what he had determined to do. She agreed that he should make the request. All day he was apprehensive. Finally, late in the afternoon he…

Look down at your shirt for a moment. Is there a little emblem on the pocket? Or perhaps you have a certain swoosh on your tennis shoes or distinctive rivets on your jeans. If you’re drinking coffee while reading this chapter, is there a green circle on the cup? If you’re sitting at the table, is Tony…