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Ever feel like you’re not appreciated? Or that you’re appreciating someone else but they don’t seem to notice? It may be that you are speaking in different languages. Gary Chapman, in his beautiful book, The Five Love Languages, explains that we have different ways of giving and receiving love. In other words, we have different channels to show how we care. If we are operating under our own language, and our co-worker is operating under another, then the situation is ripe

Ever been in an argument and wish you could have taken back what you said? I certainly have. Toxic communication is just that – it is noxious and damaging to any relationship, whether it be personal or business. It also tends to bog down productivity and morale. Yikes! What to do about it? Psychologist John Gottman in his book, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, identified four ways in which we communicate at this noxious level. He called them the “Four Horse

I used to have a habit of meditating. And once again, I have fallen off the proverbial cushion. And now find myself asking why? I know the research. I know how it great it makes me feel when I do it. But still the cushion sits there. Inviting me. And I close the door and say “tomorrow.” So how to create a habit that sticks? Habits are how our brains organize the vast amount of information our world brings to us every day. Charles Duhigg, in his excellent book, The Power of Ha