How to get through to people who need a financial wake-up call – Diana Clement
Sometimes, sadly, people need to ‘bottom out’ before the wake-up happens, and they can make radical changes to the way they live, said Tom Hartmann, Sorted’s personal finance lead. That doesn’t mean that caring contacts can’t try. Approach the conversation with empathy, not judgment. If you didn’t care, you wouldn’t be involved – and showing […]
The Ex-Files with Jeremy Sutton: How to handle the post-Christmas divorce
This is really important. While friends and family can provide valuable support, consider seeking counselling as well, either for yourself or as a couple. There was a time when counselling was seen as a sign of weakness, but now it’s widely accepted and even mainstream. Many couples attend counselling, and I highly recommend it. It […]
How To Protect Your Organization And Your People This Week
Supporters of US Presidential Candidate and former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg watch … [+] poll results as they come in on a large screen at Nashua Community College on February 11, 2020. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Leaders of every organization […]
How to break up with a friend – and why is it so hard to make new ones?
Unfollow. Cancel. Delete. If you want to know who (literally) doesn’t like you, just check your social media accounts. Consider on again, off again BFFs Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez. They met as child actors, starred together in Disney teen movies but then, adulthood. A Buzzfeed story on messy celebrity breakups breaks it down: “The […]
How to thrive as an introvert
Life as an introvert isn’t always easy. When I describe someone as an “introvert”, people expect them to be quiet, introspective, and self-contained. The sort who are more comfortable behind a camera than in front of it. Extroverts are typically seen as outgoing and social — the kind of people who excel at public speaking […]
Business deans explain how to avoid going off key in meetings
Interested in more work-life content? Check out our weekly Careers newsletter. Sent out every Sunday afternoon. Yolande Chan, dean of McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management, sees meetings as something to orchestrate. You plan beforehand. During the meeting you must listen carefully, sensitive for off-key notes or orchestra members not fully contributing. You must bring […]
Steve Braunias: Lessons on how to survive old age – NZ Herald
This is how actual old age begins: isolated from the wider community, unable to rely on tenuous connections. Robert Lowell's famous poem about his … Source link
How to teach the thrill of reading
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. This week, The Atlantic published its list of the 136 most significant American novels of the past century. […]
How to Tackle Truth Decay
When then-President Donald Trump was briefed on the California wildfires in 2020, the scientific opinion he heard was that climate change was real and had contributed to the conflagrations that ended up consuming more than 4 million acres and killing 31 people. His response? “Science doesn’t know.” Millions of Americans trusted Trump, a fact he […]
How to build a lot of housing that isn’t ugly
Open this photo in gallery: Two women peer into a construction site on Broadway street in Vancouver on Feb. 16.Jennifer Gauthier /The Globe and Mail At first glance, the three new buildings that developer Adrian Lai is promoting – among the first proposals in Vancouver’s effort to turbocharge densification along its extensive east-west Broadway corridor […]