The Trap of Perfectionism
Okay, so the holiday season is pretty much over, and we are headed back into work mode, routine mode, busy, busy mode. Right now, I feel pretty good about going back to work, because I learned (inadvertently) a trick or two about working while I was on my two-week...Looking Forward to 2014 (More Calmly)
As the New Year 2014 approaches, I’m finding I want to use the time remaining in 2013 to wrap up some loose ends. That is my typical approach to facing the new year changeover. I actually try to finish a few things. I have never been good at either making...Too Much To Do: The Foot-in-the-Door Technique
When I help students figure out how to get through a week or two of multiple assignments for different classes, I teach them my version of the Foot-in-the-Door technique. I learned the technique when I was in my Social Psychology class in graduate school. The idea,...Tips for Success in College (and Beyond): Volume I
The majority of my patients are college students, and working with this group of people is a great privilege. I get to watch people grow in leaps and bounds and rework and refine their personal styles of interacting with the world as they go. I have found that...Undoing Control
We don’t really ever have as much control as we’d like or as much as we think we need. We spend a lot of time and energy trying to forget that. We try to permify the present by compiling mementos, snapping pictures, filing things, writing in journals,...
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