I don’t know about you, but the past year has gotten me thinking hard about a lot of things I might not have paid a great deal of attention to in the past. One of those things is about lost opportunities. It might have been a missed opportunity for personal growth, a relationship we didn’t fight hard enough for, or a professional opportunity we declined because we didn’t believe enough in our capacity to succeed. We may have later regretted it, wondering what would have happe

I was doing some life planning the other day, looking ahead to my future and thinking about where I want to be in another 5, 10 or 20 years. Inevitably, the word “retirement” came up, as it does for all of us who have spent a lifetime working and striving toward that time where we could step off the career merry-go-round of 9 to 5 and, well…have more time for FUN! It’s that mythical, magical space of time in our lives where we live the way we want to, doing the things that gi

We all get angry, right? Even the most calm, even-tempered of us can be triggered by something or someone who pushes us too far or stretches our patience past its limits. If asked, most people would list anger as a negative emotion. Something to be avoided or detrimental to our overall emotional health. But, is it? In today’s segment, I’m going to share a bit of a different perspective. That, maybe, there are occasions when anger isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, it could ev

Welcome to part two of my series on “How to cope with a pathological liar”! In the first segment, I described what pathological lying, or PL, behavior is in psychological terms, as well as the difference between a white lie and chronic lying. I also shared some typical signs of this behavior, including: 1. They don’t always derive a clear benefit from their lie. 2. Their stories tend to be unusually complicated, dramatic and detailed. 3. They like to portray themselves as a h