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The Role of Attitude in Conflict Resolution

How do you approach conflict? Are you the kind of person who resolves conflicts peacefully or drags them out? Your attitude in conflictual situations plays a crucial role in the final outcomes. According to the Arbinger Institute—a leading consultant in conflict resolution, mindset change, and leadership training since 1979—a person who finds themselves in constant conflict embodies what they call a “combative mindset”—a conflict attitude characterized by self-focused viewpoints that lead them to worsen conflict instead of cooperating to resolve it. In this article, we’ll examine the combative mindset, how it makes conflict worse, and the biases that lead people

How to Create a Wealth Mindset and Become Rich

How to Create a Wealth Mindset to Change Your Reality

How do you create a wealth mindset? Why is a rich mindset so powerful? You create a wealth mindset by becoming success-conscious and having an all-consuming desire to be rich. When you think yourself rich, you stimulate your imagination to dream up action plans that will help you achieve your goals. Read more to master how to create a wealth mindset.

Diabetes: Causes and Prevention Measures

What causes diabetes? How does diabetes develop in the body? Diabetes is a chronic condition associated with abnormally high levels of glucose in the blood. Insulin produced by the pancreas lowers blood glucose. Absence or insufficient production of insulin, or an inability of the body to properly use insulin causes diabetes. Keep reading to learn about the two types of diabetes, causes, and prevention methods.

Fulfill Your Personal Mission Through Your Career

How can you dedicate your career to fulfilling your personal mission? What are the practical steps? Having a mission is a trait of a lovable job. It focuses your career, and it’s useful to the world— it might even change the world. When your work makes a difference, you find more joy and satisfaction. You also make a bigger impact and leave a greater legacy. Read more to learn about your personal mission in the context of your career.

Tony Robbins: Emotions (and How to Master Them)

How can you master your emotions the Tony Robbins way? What are some healthy ways to process emotions? In Awaken the Giant Within, Tony Robbins offers some techniques for processing your emotions and mastering them. Learning how to interpret, understand, and control your emotions can help you to improve your relationships, mindset, and responses to difficult situations. Keep reading for Tony Robbins’ emotions advice.

What’s Causing the Upsurge in College Riots?

Why have there been so many college riots in recent years? In what way is “violent” speech contributing to the problem? In the book, The Coddling of the American Mind, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff suspect that labeling speech as “violent” is giving college students the excuse to retaliate with physical violence. Two examples the authors use are the riots at the University of California at Berkeley and the Middlebury College in Vermont. Keep reading to learn how labeling speech as violent may be contributing to college riots.

The Ultimate Guide to Feedback in the Workplace

Do you have a feedback system at your organization? Do you feel like your employees take on the feedback provided by senior management? There’s no such thing as a perfect feedback system for any given organization. Every system will have tradeoffs. It will work well for some, be adequate for others, and be poorly suited to still others. There are some things you can do, though, to give your chosen system the best shot at success. In this article, we’ll examine these techniques through three perspectives: 1) senior leadership and HR, 2) team leaders and coaches, and 3) receivers.

Brené Brown: The Importance of Creativity, Play, & Rest

Why are creativity, play, and rest important to wholehearted living? Why should you stop using exhaustion as a status symbol? What are some of Brené Brown’s methods to release stress? According to Brené Brown, creativity, play, and rest are wholehearted behaviors that will promote a healthy mind and body. Society has led people to believe that these behaviors are childish and after a certain age, these abilities are scoffed at or degraded. Keep reading to learn why adults should re-embrace their creative sides.

Tony Robbins: Personal Rules for Empowerment

What are Tony Robbins’ personal rules? How can having effective personal rules improve your life? According to Tony Robbins, personal rules are the guidelines that decide if you’ve reached your values. For example, you may have a rule that you need a certain amount of money in the bank to feel that you’ve fulfilled your value of security. Creating effective and empowering personal rules will allow you to feel more positive emotions in your daily life. Keep reading for more on Tony Robbins’ personal rules.

Marketing Yourself: How to Sell Your Services Effectively

What are the secrets to marketing yourself effectively? How will you recognize the new improvements in how you market yourself? You can improve how you are marketing yourself by improving the quality and quantity of the services you offer. You must also boost the spirit of your business interactions by being pleasant with everyone you work with. Yearly self-analysis will help you track how well you are improving as a marketer. Read on to learn more about the secrets of marketing yourself effectively.