In the business world, if you want to find out what people think of you, it’s usually done in the form of performance evaluations by your supervisor. These scheduled evaluations usually center on your work, although it often focuses on your attitude. If you are being evaluated by someone who doesn’t like you or is envious of you, these evaluations are useless, but if they’re done by people who like you and who use them to help you and the …
In this day and age when you have telephones, emails, and text messages to avoid difficult conversations, it’s more than cowardly to fake your own death to avoid getting married; it’s downright cruel. The groom-to-be met his fiancée two years ago while she was studying abroad in the U.S. When she began making plans to return to England, he proposed and, during their daily calls, they began making plans to spend the rest of their lives together. He wanted to …
Children of all ages have very finely attuned instincts. They might not be able to pinpoint the cause of their uneasiness, but they know when something doesn’t feel right. So, how much of a bad situation should you tell a child and how much should they be shielded from the truth? Many parents don’t share their financial problems with their children because they don’t want to worry them. Same, too, with their marital problems, but still, children have a way …
Are you a good liar? Can you recognize when a person is lying, and how reliable are the polygraphs, the tests to determine if someone is lying? Someone who is not a practiced liar will probably show signs of nervousness or breaking out in a cold sweat when lying about something that is crucial. Their eyes could be dead giveaways or their body language could give many clues. However, when it comes to a practiced liar or a pathological liar …
The getting to know you phase of dating can be very tricky. While it’s true that you don’t know someone until you live with him, it’s also true that you have to know when it’s all right to bare your soul to someone new. I’m a believer in getting the elephant in the room out of the way as soon as I can. If that means losing a potential friend or lover, so be it. Better early on than after …