All Blog Posts Tagged 'work' (8)

Despite the money, time and emotional effort you’ve invested in marriage counseling, it doesn’t seem to work. It feels like the last hope of saving your marriage is being shattered and you are stuck in a dead end street.

If marriage counseling doesn’t…

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Being angry and frustrated at work is its own special brand of misery. Why? Because you can’t lash out at the co-worker or manager or VP that is driving you nuts without risking the loss of your job. Whereas at home, you can probably get plenty angry at your teenager, your spouse, or your mother, without them banishing you from their presence forever.

 

More often than not, we just stomach whatever frustrations we endure at work. But that’s not good for your emotional or…

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Ack!! Your computer is acting up—again—and despite hitting “escape” and every other “get-me-outta-here” key you can think of,  you’re in frozen hell. “I hate this computer!” you mutter. Your co-worker glances over at you, “That’s what you always say. Maybe you should try talking pretty to it.” You snort, “Right! And the computer can hear me and will suddenly unlock itself. I’ll bet you still believe in Santa Claus.” Your co-worker shrugs: “Works for me.”

 

You grumble and…

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Whenever a company unveils a survey or study that supports their position and/or industry we have to take it with a grain of salt. Saying that, however, we aren't surprised to see the numbers out of this survey of 15,000 users of MocoSpace, a social gaming site. Perhaps the biggest surprise was not that people were playing mobile games, but where. The number one…

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Can certain foods truly stimulate sexual desire, or is it all in our heads?



For example, anything shaped like a penis--like asparagus--was thought to be sexually stimulating to both sexes (why are we not…

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Ramblings with Nancy and Linda – Discussing what you need to work from home… Nancy and I talk about business and family and life all the time. We decided to let you all in on our conversations!



Every week we will talk about what is happening in our businesses as well our lives. These conversations will be recorded and posted on our blogs and on Facebook.

You can download these calls and put them on your MP3 players… Continue

Why do you think if something's going wrong, it must be your fault? Why are you so sure if your boss is upset, it's because you've done something to upset him?



Your boss is in a bad mood, and the first thing that goes through your mind is "What did I do?" You're sure you've made some terrible mistake. You obsess until you can't stand it anymore and come right out with "Let me know what I've done. Whatever it is, I'll fix it." Your boss looks at you funny and says "What are you… Continue

Why do you get so frustrated with your customers or clients that you have to exercise major self-control not to say something bitingly sarcastic to them? How do you keep it together when what you really want to do is blow up?



OK, so you're a people-person, you really are, and 90% of the time you love your job, dealing with people all day long, day in day out. But then you get a griper, or a whiner, or a nagger, or some other lower form of personhood, and then you have to smile and… Continue