How I Kept Up With Meditation For An Entire Year
What it's like when your whole life is self-improvement
"Know what you want" is about having a more immediate presence of mind
Could an imaginary "cursor" give us more self-control?
Reduce negative experiences to just the onset negativity
Life before introspection
Principles of self-realization: What's really happening in 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Cognitive therapy teaches that all introspections are suspect
Is everything in your head?
Can you change from an ENTP to an ENTJ?
New Age and the placebo effect
The 90-10 Rule of Happiness
How cognitive therapy evolves from correcting negative thoughts to correcting negative stimulus
What causes depression? Negative thoughts or negative events?
You can't always say "negative thoughts cause depression"
Cognitive Therapy vs. Positive Thinking
Is cognitive therapy the answer to low EQ?
The CBT default disputations seem to target an Asperger's mind
How were the default CBT disputation techniques chosen?
Method: Toward a unifying theory of self-improvement
Wants are many, needs are few. Needs are simple, wants are complex.
Over 5 years, how has self-improvement worked for me?
Is depression good for you?
How to stop over-thinking your life's problems
Finding purpose in work
"Undertow" as a word to describe the unpleasant effects of happiness
The secret to happiness (according to research)
Happiness in less than 200 characters
Money doesn't buy happiness. So what, should I quit my job?
How a book like The Loner's Manifesto works
What constitutes the happiness set point?
A case where ignoring someone doesn't work (RE: Shamu Book)
Positive psychology should also include some footnotes from philosophy.
Can self-help be a personality disorder?
What's really happening with mid-life crises, quarterlife crises, empty-nest syndrome, and teenage ennui
Do people become experts in areas of deficiency?
How changing the way you socialize can change your life
The self-help principles behind diaries
What I think about self-actualization
Self-Help Reality Show
Listen to Your Dreams
Instant-contentment perspectives
More on "The opposite of love is not hate. It's indifference."
The ironic subtext of What Shamu Taught Me About Love, Life, and Marriage
Prediction: 50 years from now, a secular self-help book will compete in popularity and influence with the Bible.
The Empowerment Paradox
A Unifying Theory of Self-Help
What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage
We CAN be good at happiness
The more eloquent the words, the more careful you should be to match those words to actions.
What is Reality Therapy?
The One Question that makes you happy
Life isn't about the elimination of fear or the eradication of sadness . . .
Why I don't judge people who do self-help, tarot, therapy, or religion
"There is no such thing as balance."
Add this to the warning labels on anti-depressants
"Too many people take drugs when they really need to be making changes in their lives."
The whisper of liberation from depression
How Tarot cards and vacations make us happy
What Americans should have done 10 years ago
One of the most compelling documents about humans and socializing (from an unlikely source)
How I used Stephen Covey's Principle-Centered Living to change my life
What do you do when your heart, mind, intuition, and gut disagree?
I'm not a loner, but I'm not really its opposite.
Introducing Self-Programming, my approach to self-help
When your friends have unrealistic dreams
The Best of the Best Advice Books
The Meaning of Forgiveness
How do I break the habits that keep me from finding Mr./Ms. Right?
Short post on the meaning of vacation and recreation
Security is no contentment
What is Intentional Living?
Follow interesting people, not interesting topics
Ten 10-min. Relaxation Videos
How do you stop the endless chatter in your mind?
6 Seconds To Relax
The Highest Success
A Stillness Movement
When meditation fails, focus on net relaxation
Relaxation IS a Panacea
If It's a Good Idea Don't Do It
Don't Build Your Happiness On a Tower of Babble
What to do when you can't find something
Self-discipline is write in front of you
Relax right now
DTFMA
Maybe nothing is wrong with you
Transitioning from an ENFP to an ENFJ
What Excel taught me about value-based living
How to confront someone
A little prod to your creativity
Negative-space thinking and its application to The 7 Habits
A universal principle for socializing
The greatest love of all
What is the meaning of life?
Why pessimism is a bad idea.
Basics of optimism
What if depression is much simpler?
Extra Cognitive Therapy Method -- Substitutes
Supression versus Repression
Can Cognitive Therapy change my tastes?
Cognitive Therapy's "Self-explanation" (no. 7) method explained
core beliefs (from Cognitive Therapy, Basics and Beyond)
How Aesop can help you grow
Happiness can be measured
Solving problems with the "pursuit of happiness"
positive emotions
Persuading yourself to change
autocidal goal, i.e. goals that undo themselves (this post becomes autocidal in the end anyway)
What is happiness? Here is my definition lifted from Seligman, the psychology master.
A small success story of positive thinking in action
Move over Dr. Phil and Jenny Craig, humans need an exercise-regiment for the heart, not the body
How forgiveness can improve the meaning of your relationships
How does the self-programmer deal with the command prompt that is the mind?
convincing myself I'm average
self-acceptance helps you work in groups
work better in groups
be thoughtful in your responses
on forgiving by accepting ppl's faults
on dealing with unwanted thoughts