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Patterns and Payoffs: How Habits that Don’t Serve You…Serve You!

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.    – Norman Vincent Peale People are creatures of habit, as the popular saying goes. We get into grooves that, over time, become autopilot ways of responding to or thinking about ourselves, others, the tasks […]

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Why your relationship might be hurting your kids and what to do about it

While many of us once dreamed of having a family with our partners, once we had our children, we’ve spent so much time dealing with their needs, work demands, and day-to-day life, that we have had little or nothing left over; our relationships became secondary, even dispensable. For many parents, romantic relationships aren’t all that

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Resiliency, self-determination theory, and leadership

Almost forty years ago, social scientists Richard Ryan and Edward Reci first published their cross-cultural findings on what they dubbed Self-Determination Theory (SDT), a theory that looks at both the external and internal factors that contribute to motivation. They were especially interested in intrinsic motivators—what they called three core human needs—the “why” of behavior that

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