Discipline

Cultivating Compassion: Meditation For Better Relationships

Chade-Meng Tan | Posted 12.22.2009 | Living


Chade-Meng Tan

There are two components to spiritual practice, Wisdom and Compassion, and associating with people helps us grow Compassion. You probably cannot live a holy life without associating with people.

Hunger, Learning and Making Mistakes...

Sebastian Siegel | Posted 12.15.2009 | Entertainment


Sebastian Siegel

I'm hungry, hungry for life, hungry to feel, hungry to do. It just feels right. If you look at your hands, these hands, they were meant to DO things with - to work, to play, to struggle, to fight for it, to care.

Kobe Bryant, Anoushka Shankar, and You -- On Mastery

Scott Schwenk | Posted 12.07.2009 | Los Angeles


Scott Schwenk

I'm not interested in finding a glamorous group of some sort to accept me and white-wash over the places I haven't been willing to do the work around releasing insecurity myself.

Mayim Bialik's Latest Role: Green Mom

Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green


Avital Binshtock

We know her as Blossom, that spunky adolescent on that eponymous sitcom. But since the series ended in 1995, Mayim Bialik, now 33, has truly blossomed.

Spanking Is Bad For Children, Study Says

cnn.com | Elizabeth Landau CNN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living


A new study of more than 2,500 toddlers from low-income families found that spanking may have detrimental effects on behavior and mental development....

Sleep Tips: Making Sure Your Child Gets A Good Night's Rest

realsimple.com | Teri Cettina | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living


Your child can't sleep? Put bedtime bugaboos--and your kids--to rest with these expert solutions....

Start Asking

Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living


Marshall Goldsmith

Why don't most of us ask, even though we know we should? We don't ask, because we are afraid of the answers.

Discipline (Obama, Part IV)

Peter Clothier | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living


Peter Clothier

Our culture doesn't do much to encourage us to respect discipline, much less practice it. We grow up believing it to be the enemy of creativity and an obstruction to our imagined freedoms.

Getting Rich and the Marshmallow

Don McNay | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business


Don McNay

We have a financial system that has played to people's weaknesses. We have allowed people who are prone to instant gratification to have as much credit as they could get their hands on.

The One Secret to Making the Most of Unwanted Downtime

Jay Michaelson | Posted 07.09.2009 | Living


Jay Michaelson

The secret to spiritual practice is doing it precisely when you don't feel like doing it. When such thoughts matter most is when they are the hardest to summon up.

13 Tips For Actually Getting Some Writing Done

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living


Gretchen Rubin

One of the challenges of writing is...writing. Here are some tips that I've found most useful for myself, for actually getting words onto the page: 1...

Daily Ups and Downs

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 04.02.2009 | Living


Arthur Rosenfeld

Go ahead and watch that stress and be mindful of your habits -- including your own tendency to obsess or judge or take life twists and turns to heart.

Three Management Styles

Robert Rose | Posted 03.28.2009 | Living


Robert Rose

There is a time and place, for coercion and for persuasion, but the more you learn to use negotiation the more satisfaction you get from teaching and your students.

5 Ways To Get Little Kids To Take "No" For An Answer

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 03.15.2009 | Living


Gretchen Rubin

Every Wednesday is Tip Day. This Wednesday: 5 tips for getting a little kid to take "no" for an answer. My three-year-old hates being told "No" and "...

On Mastery

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 03.14.2009 | Living


Arthur Rosenfeld

Has mastery become an old-fashioned notion? Mastery takes time, something most of us have trouble finding. It takes discipline, a quality in short supply today.

RESOLUTIONS

Jim Randel | Posted 02.07.2009 | Business


Jim Randel

Today being the first real business day of the New Year, I am writing this e-letter about New Year's resolutions - those commitments of resolve we fin...

Yoga Provides Unexpected Life Lessons

Danny Groner | Posted 02.02.2009 | Living


Danny Groner

]At the class' conclusion. I noticed a difference. My body felt more limber, just from an hour's work. I also recognized a shift in my outlook on yoga.

Is Spanking Children to Discipline Them, American?

Sean Jacobs | Posted 01.16.2009 | Living


Sean Jacobs

How do you raise 'American kids' when you were raised to be an African parent?

Happiness Tip: Abandon Your Self-Control

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 12.24.2008 | Living


Gretchen Rubin

I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. ...

ABC News' Dan Childs on Michael Savage and Autism

Kim Stagliano | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media


Kim Stagliano

Who declared open season on people with autism? Autism ain't for wimps. Whether you're a pre-verbal toddler or a high functioning forty year-old, it has challenges most folks cannot fathom.

Balancing Fitness with "Inner Strength"

Dave Burdick | Posted 07.10.2008 | Living


Dave Burdick

I knew the inner strength goals before we'd even read the fitness book. Discipline and organization were tops.