Want to feel better immediately? Go on a news diet. You will feel better when you lose the weight of all that worry. Learn more in this week’s encore podcast….

Do you want to be happier? Try something new. Learning something new helps contribute to happiness in multiple ways. First, just doing something novel engages your brain and your attention,…

Beating yourself up for mistakes you made in the past takes emotional energy, energy that you could be putting toward learning something new, working to improve your situation, or simply…

When permanent change happens, we have to adjust, whether we want to or not. Even when you think change is unbearable, you can manage to cope and to learn to…

Any change you want to make in your life begins with the decision. Once the decision is made, you can begin making plans. This week’s podcast covers the basics of…

Frustration comes into every life. Some problems just cannot be solved; that is reality. Finding an effective way to cope with frustration can be as simple as picking up an…

If you suffer from “busy brain,” you may have a hard time getting the rest you need. In this encore presentation, how to turn off your upsetting thoughts and get…

As appealing as it can be to cling to childish notions of love, love is not a Disney movie or a Nicholas Sparks novel. Thank goodness! Real love can be…

When it all gets to be too much, how do you recover, refresh yourself, and go on? For maximum rejuvenation, make it personal. I thank my friends for the wisdom…

There are three phases of happiness: anticipation of an event, the event itself, and the memory of it. Planning for happiness can expand our experience of it. Learn more in…