How To Do Life

Fresh ideas about career and personal issues

Marty Nemko Ph.D.

Address-and-Distract

An underappreciated tool for coping.

Surviving and Maybe Thriving as a Contrarian

Tips for remaining authentic in a difficult time.

Four Career Musts in the COVID Era

What I'm planning to say in a talk today.

Final Wishes

Clarifying and making known your intentions can add meaning to your life.

Life Lessons from Looking Back

Reminiscing can help you make wiser choices moving forward.

Avoiding Education Armageddon

Two ideas to propose to an educator.

Getting Respected

The HUVA technique can help.

Resilience in the Time of COVID

Ideas for bouncing back from coronavirus-related economic and medical fears.

Work in 2021-2025

An optimistic and pessimistic COVID scenario and their career implications.

Telling Your Life Story

Two prompts that may make it easier to tell or write your life story.

The Simple Business Plan

A way to jump-start a small business.

Mother Teresa's 'Anyway' Poem

Its embedded life lessons plus my yes-ands, yes-buts, and questions for you.

Should You Be Bolder or More Cautious?

Should you live more riskily or more cautiously? A 13-item self-assessment.

Replaying Your Lifetime's Favorite Activities

Identifying and perhaps revisiting your life's favorite movies, and experiences.

Stopping

Thoughts on 12 important things that people often choose to discontinue.

The Lonely Conservative

Advice for the out-of-step.

Should You Be More Suspicious or Less?

A 10-item self-assessment.

Should You Have More Adventure or Less?

Thoughts on the standard and on the piquant life.

A Case for Silence

Why listening may be more important than ever.

Toward Knowing Thyself

16 questions to help you know yourself better.

What to Believe

Distinguishing truth from truthiness.

Aim for Easy

A counterpoint to our strive-hard society.

Work in 2021 and Beyond

Ten likely trends.

19 Words That Make You Seem Smart

And actually make you smarter.

'Am I Living Life Well Enough?'

Is that all there is?

4 Career Problems

Here are four career problems and the advice I’d give.

Buying in the Time of COVID

10 savvy, comforting purchases for our stressful, belt-tightening times.

Living as a Sad Person

Thoughts for the downcast.

What to Say: Miscellaneous Situations

A script for seven ticklish situations.

What to Say: Intimate Relationships

Scripts for five ticklish situations.

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