How To Do Life

Fresh ideas about career and personal issues

Marty Nemko Ph.D.

5 Minutes on Life and Death

Brief thoughts on living and dying well.

Palliative Counseling

An underdiscussed way for counselors, coaches, and therapists to help clients.

Developing a Business Idea Worthy of Shark Tank

How to create a smart business idea and plan, step by step.

Chameleon Communication

Six ways to flex for effective communication.

Is Assertiveness Overrated?

Is today’s “I’m loud and I’m proud” demeanor really to be lauded?

Getting Good at Nearly Anything

A 4-step plan for tackling tasks.

Burned Out

23 questions to find personalized baby steps to get you out of burnout’s pit.

Out of Step

How much do you want to follow the crowd? A self-inventory.

Who is Molding Your Opinions?

Society’s mind-molders may shape the things we value.

Moving Forward

A lesson from Holocaust Survivors.

What to Do on New Year’s Day

Alternatives to football for the psychologically oriented.

Three Questions Toward a Life Well-Led

Identifying your guiding principles.

Hats and Horns?

Alternatives to New Year’s Eve manufactured frivolity

What If You Could Start Over?

Eight questions to unearth what you might've done.

Better Than a Diet

Mini-tweaks work better.

Feeling Useless

Remedies for an underdiscussed cause of unhappiness.

Taking Inventory

Reaping 2018’s lessons learned for a better 2019.

Small Talk for People Bad at It

A step-by-step approach.

Toward a Grand New Model for Diagnosis and Treatment

Counselors might come to use rather than ignore the growing link between biology and psychology.

Giving a Persuasive Talk

Powerful tactics for inducing change.

Grieve Less

The case for moving on quickly.

Later Relationships

Suggestions for finding the right relationship in the 2nd half of your life.

Relationships in 2019 and Beyond

An ever wider range of practices will be available and socially accepted.

The Future of In-Vitro Fertilization and Gene Editing

An interview with Steve Hsu.

“He’s Deadwood!”

Countering fear of being chopped away.

Low-Risk Actions

“Ready. Fire. Aim” is usually wiser than extensive rumination.

What You Did as a Child

And how it can provide clues for what to do now.

Give More to the Neediest or the Higher-Potential? A Debate

An underdiscussed Thanksgiving topic and foundation for broader decision-making.

7 Almost-Awesomes

Not-obvious things to be grateful for.

Fear of Embarrassment

An underdiscussed inhibitor of self-actualization.

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