"This is all a giant procrastination and you must deal with it. You must."
- Words spoken to author and then-active alcoholic Caroline Knapp by her dying father, also an alcoholic (from Knapp's book, Drinking: a Love Story)

The link between perfectionism and addiction has been well documented, but...

Greed may not be good, but speed sure is. It was only when I got into this line of work that I understood the meaning of the axiom "He who hesitates is lost." Procrastination -- the fear-based inner force that wants you not to complete your projects -- will latch...

To begin with, check out the romantic presidential couple at the bottom of the right-hand group of pictures (near the date) here. Isn't it wonderful that we elected someone who, among his many other virtues, is so loving? That's not a trivial thing, as psychologists Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks...

What's the awesomest gift you can give someone? Their life back, right?

That's what I had been thinking for a while. And so, I had been looking into donating a kidney. From my research I knew that the surgery was really safe (only 2/10,000 fatality rate, lower than for appendectomies),...

Most people think of procrastination as a simple bad habit, but it's often much more than that: it's a strategy we employ when we're afraid of the outcome of an activity or project. So, someone who hates his job might procrastinate on looking for a new one because he's afraid...

I work part-time at a nonprofit where I teach immigrants personal finance and "life success" skills. I begin each course by telling my students about how, when I was a kid 40+ years ago, my dad supported a family of five on a Post Office letter carrier's salary.

How...

How important are mentors? Let's just say that everyone I've ever met who was stuck in their life or career was severely under-mentored. In olden days, mentoring was probably more of an automatic process: you grew up working alongside your parents on the farm, or apprenticed with a local crafts-person...