The Positive Emotion of AWE

Friends, Welcome to my 27th newsletter, this one dealing with experiencing the positive emotion of AWE. My purpose is to enable you to experience even more of this life enhancing emotion. I realize my quarterly letters have gotten a bit…

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Being in the Present

Friends, Welcome to my 26th newsletter. This one dealing with being in the present, something most of us, including your author, struggle to do. The technology that surrounds us, particularly our cell phones, makes being in the present exceedingly difficult.…

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Newsletters 18 to 24

Friends, Welcome to my 25th newsletter. This one provides a brief description and link to the last seven letters, newsletters 18 to 24. As such it is a little longer than usual. Sorry. Newsletter 18: Five Ways to Develop Better Relationships.…

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Positive Emotions

Friends, Welcome to my 24th newsletter, this one dealing with positive emotions. Several years ago, I wrote about emotions – what they are, why they are so important and how we might better manage them. In this letter I want…

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Youth Mental Health Crisis

Friends, Welcome to my 23rd quarterly newsletter, this one addressing our youth mental health crisis and the role of our educational institutions in addressing this crisis. There is a mental health crisis happening across America, and it is most pronounced…

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The Stories Our Lives Tell

Friends, Welcome to my 22nd newsletter, this one dealing with “The Stories Our Lives Tell.”  In 2018 I wrote a newsletter on ‘Mastering the Stories We Tell Ourselves.” Just in case you have forgotten, the basic message of that newsletter was that…

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Understanding Anger

Friends, Welcome to my 20th quarterly newsletter. In earlier letters, I addressed forgiveness and kindness. In this one, I want to address an opposite emotion … ANGER. Anger, like all negative emotions, can serve a purpose. Anger helps us ensure…

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Thinking and the Second Half of Life

Friends, Welcome to my 19th quarterly newsletter. This one addresses our minds and our ability to think in the second half of life. Our minds and our thinking ability change in the second half of life – starting, believe it…

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Five Ways to Have Better Relationships

Friends, Welcome to my 18th newsletter, this one outlining five ways to have better relationships. Living with others is difficult, living without others is impossible. We are a social species that survived thousands of years ago, not because we could run…

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