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Leading With Hope and Kindness: 5 Ways to Be a Better Leader

By fostering hope, trust, and a strong sense of purpose, leaders can help their teams thrive. Learn how to up your leadership skills with these five research-backed strategies.

By fostering hope, trust, and a strong sense of purpose, leaders can help their teams thrive. Learn how to up your leadership skills with these five research-backed strategies.

Navigating the Rapid Currents of Change

Embracing change as opportunity, rather than threat, opens doors to unexpected growth.

Embracing change as opportunity, rather than threat, opens doors to unexpected growth.

Why You Should Thank Your Chatbot

Leaving aside the practical benefit of more professional outputs to our prompts, the habit of polite prompting (PP) our AI helps us curate the mindset we want to live with.

Leaving aside the practical benefit of more professional outputs to our prompts, the habit of polite prompting (PP) our AI helps us curate the mindset we want to live with.

Heading Into the Home Stretch

Twelve ways to close out your college career.

Twelve ways to close out your college career.

The 6 Lessons I Learned from Being a Psychotherapist

6 lessons distilled from a vast lake of psychology research and scholarship about how to live a good life.

6 lessons distilled from a vast lake of psychology research and scholarship about how to live a good life.

Is the News Cycle Making You Anxious, Angry, and Stressed?

Is the constant news barrage making you anxious? Turn down your stress response with friends and peaceful places, and then channel your stress energy into action.

Is the constant news barrage making you anxious? Turn down your stress response with friends and peaceful places, and then channel your stress energy into action.

Positive Psychology for Challenging Times

Ideas to help us climb out of the quicksand.

Ideas to help us climb out of the quicksand.

Conditional Self-Worth vs. Unconditional Self-Worth

Many of us are either trapped in self-loathing or striving to prove we are enough. Humility can bring us back to our essential goodness, with nothing to prove.

Many of us are either trapped in self-loathing or striving to prove we are enough. Humility can bring us back to our essential goodness, with nothing to prove.

Is There Value in Asking “What If”?

Personal Perspective: Living with and adjacent to chronic illness is hard. What if I'd never been forced into this role? Who would I be?

Personal Perspective: Living with and adjacent to chronic illness is hard. What if I'd never been forced into this role? Who would I be?

The Gifts of Remembering

Personal Perspective: We’re often told to “move on” from loss, but what if remembering is the real gift? Honoring loved ones while they’re still here creates deeper connection and joy.

Personal Perspective: We’re often told to “move on” from loss, but what if remembering is the real gift? Honoring loved ones while they’re still here creates deeper connection and joy.

Are You Living in an "I" World or a "We" World?

In a world tilting towards selfishness, we need to answer the question, "Why are we here?"

In a world tilting towards selfishness, we need to answer the question, "Why are we here?"

20 Ways to Inspire Kindness in Your Life

Every kind act can make a difference and can benefit the giver and the receiver. Showing kindness is a great way to focus your energies in a positive way. Here are some ideas.

Every kind act can make a difference and can benefit the giver and the receiver. Showing kindness is a great way to focus your energies in a positive way. Here are some ideas.

The Psychology of Forced Gratitude

Minorities in leadership—women, neurodivergent individuals, Indigenous peoples, immigrants—are often met with an unspoken expectation: You should be grateful just to be here.

Minorities in leadership—women, neurodivergent individuals, Indigenous peoples, immigrants—are often met with an unspoken expectation: You should be grateful just to be here.

The Hidden Impact of Appreciation

Appreciation strengthens relationships, boosts well-being, and fosters teamwork. A simple “thank you” creates a ripple effect of positivity. Start today—your impact matters!

Appreciation strengthens relationships, boosts well-being, and fosters teamwork. A simple “thank you” creates a ripple effect of positivity. Start today—your impact matters!

Lost Your Optimism?

You don’t have to fake optimism—try these five realistic ways to shift your perspective.

You don’t have to fake optimism—try these five realistic ways to shift your perspective.

For Peaceful Continuity in Political Chaos, Write a Memoir

For people hooked on the news, it may be time to change your routine to focus on yourself instead of the chaos of politics.

For people hooked on the news, it may be time to change your routine to focus on yourself instead of the chaos of politics.

Cherish This Encounter, for It Will Not Come Again

You never know when an interaction with a person may be your last. Stay attentive and mindful, and make the most of the moment.

You never know when an interaction with a person may be your last. Stay attentive and mindful, and make the most of the moment.

What Is the Secret to Success?

Take a cue from a Super Bowl champion coach. Here are three steps to becoming a champion in life.

Take a cue from a Super Bowl champion coach. Here are three steps to becoming a champion in life.

Individualized Well-Being Plans: A Roadmap for Flourishing

Want to thrive this year? Discover how an individualized well-being plan can help you build lasting happiness.

Want to thrive this year? Discover how an individualized well-being plan can help you build lasting happiness.

We Can Have an Impact

A Personal Perspective: Decency becomes a growing intention, one person at a time, one situation following another.

A Personal Perspective: Decency becomes a growing intention, one person at a time, one situation following another.

Be Kind to Yourself During Times of Turmoil

Despite today's political turmoil and toxic personalities, we can rise above the fray through finding uplifting activities and expressing gratitude.

Despite today's political turmoil and toxic personalities, we can rise above the fray through finding uplifting activities and expressing gratitude.

Chewing Gum: A Habit Filled With Memories

Personal Perspective: Gum chewing, a habit I've had for over 60 years, relaxes me and connects me with my past. How incredible that a simple act can add so much to one's life.

Personal Perspective: Gum chewing, a habit I've had for over 60 years, relaxes me and connects me with my past. How incredible that a simple act can add so much to one's life.

Gratitude Prisoner

Personal Perspective: Do you feel stuck in the same patterns? I do, and I'm trying to get stuck in a new pattern: gratitude.

Personal Perspective: Do you feel stuck in the same patterns? I do, and I'm trying to get stuck in a new pattern: gratitude.

A Path Through Adversity

A Personal Perspective: Moving in harmony with others can transform despair into connection, strength, and hope.

A Personal Perspective: Moving in harmony with others can transform despair into connection, strength, and hope.

Savoring Enjoyment

A student asked me to help her enjoy her horse. It opened up a world of improvement in all of us.

A student asked me to help her enjoy her horse. It opened up a world of improvement in all of us.

4 Powerful Ways to Live in Faith During Great Challenges

A Personal Perspective: Gratitude, faith, and flexibility can bolster resilience during difficult times.

A Personal Perspective: Gratitude, faith, and flexibility can bolster resilience during difficult times.

Journaling: The Hidden Daily Routine

Journaling provides an outlet for self-reflection, emotional processing, and personal growth, with the potential to increase self-awareness, empowerment, and social connection.

Journaling provides an outlet for self-reflection, emotional processing, and personal growth, with the potential to increase self-awareness, empowerment, and social connection.

Why We Need Groundhog Day

A Personal Perspective: In a time of climate anxiety, political unpredictability, and technological change, Groundhog Day isn't silly. It's grounding.

A Personal Perspective: In a time of climate anxiety, political unpredictability, and technological change, Groundhog Day isn't silly. It's grounding.

Kind Words, Weird Feels: The Psychology of Compliments

Reflect, reframe, and let it sink in.

Reflect, reframe, and let it sink in.

Facing What You Can’t Forget

Wrong can happen easily, but forgiving ourselves—not so much. Learn what true self-forgiveness is and how to make it real in your life.

Wrong can happen easily, but forgiving ourselves—not so much. Learn what true self-forgiveness is and how to make it real in your life.