by Margaret Anderson | Sep 29, 2016 | Blog
You’ll remember the series on happiness I posted a while back.[1] A key concept was that we attract what we focus on. So, for example, if you don’t want to be late for work, turn off the, ”Hurry! Don’t be late” head talk and substitute, “I’m on time.” New...
by Margaret Anderson | Sep 22, 2016 | Blog
Last time I wrote about Isobel and Violet building a friendship despite differences of opinion. But Mary and Henry show us what not to do. The two are mutually attracted, passionately so. Yet Mary insists that they “aren’t right” for each other. She overrides her own...
by Margaret Anderson | Sep 9, 2016 | Blog
Our local PBS station recently re-aired all six seasons of Downton Abbey during a pledge drive. I’ve enjoyed them, but as a consensus trainer and author, I also had professional reasons to watch. I wanted to follow the development of the friendship between...
by Margaret Anderson | Sep 1, 2016 | Blog
A positive attitude earns you many rewards, from better negotiation results to better health. People often have “good luck” because they’re optimistic. In one experiment, subjects were instructed to walk a particular route to a coffee shop. Some money was placed in...
by Margaret Anderson | Aug 25, 2016 | Blog
Just in case anyone needs further motivation to cultivate happiness, Elizabeth Gilbert reports an amazing true story.[1] You may recall that, in the 1986, a nuclear reactor near the Village of Chernobyl, Russia, exploded, leaving the surrounding area highly toxic with...
