Among the most important words for a successful vocabulary are words about everyday psychology, about why people think and act as they do. We must influence people if we are to be successful. But our ability to influence people depends a great deal on how well we understand them.
There was a time when it was [...]
An eminent man who raises funds for a large college said that of every hundred people who give gifts to the college, ninety-four want their names mentioned. The other six are satisfied to have their good deeds remain anonymous. He told me that by bestowing more praise on these ninety-four donors, the college receives more [...]
The famous psychologist, Dr. George Crane, said, “Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good will on earth.”
Psychologists want you to know that sincere compliments-appreciation, which is a form of love-mean as much to people as food, work, and the other essentials of normal, happy living. So here is one of your most important [...]
A phobia is an irrational, intense, persistent fear of certain situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject. When the fear is beyond one’s control, or if the fear is interfering with daily life, then a diagnosis under one of the anxiety [...]
Guard your health and it will help you obtain and retain a saner, healthier outlook on life.
It will also help you to be your natural, normal self. Too many of us like to look, to act and to appear important. We feel neglected when we are not the center of interest and at times will [...]
HAVE YOU HAD a physical check-up lately? Have you taken time out within the last year from work or from play, to consult a competent diagnostician and have he gives you a thorough examination?
If not, do it now, because even a casual check-up may reveal certain conditions about your state of health that need attention [...]
“The unconscious “you” is that vast, hidden, powerful force within you, as propounded originally by the father of psychiatry”
Dr. Sigmund Freud envisioned the unconscious as the repository of all dissatisfied urges and impulses, as the storehouse of all resentments, inhibitions, grievances and frustrations. He saw the primacy of sex as the motivating force in the [...]
WHETHER OR NOT you are aware of it, you are a composite being with several different “you” in control, one overlapping the other. There are outer and inner “you”.
One of the outer “you” is your body and its component parts, that are visible and invisible to the eye. This includes all the inner organs, the [...]
It is in your awareness that there are disturbing factors in your present emotional make-up. It is in your desire to look for the contributory causes and try to eliminate them. It is in your reading these lines and in your willingness to follow through in the projected thirty-day plan. It is in your readiness [...]
