Category: Health & Wellness

  • Your Health Matters: What Is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

    by JEANINE BARONE Many of us possess at least a touch of narcissism. And with the advent of social media, what might once have been considered pretty self-obsessed behavior—for instance, repeatedly taking photos of oneself (a.k.a. the “selfie”)and posting them online for public viewing—has become not only culturally acceptable but even expected, at least in some…

  • Can Work Friends Become Real Friends?

    Friendship and colleagues:Can workplace bonds cut it in the real world? Oct 7th 2016 This article is part of our Change Generation project, supported by KBC. To read more click here. MAKING FRIENDS AT WORK can be a tricky business. As we get older, we spend more time with work colleagues and less with even our…

  • 6 Telecommuting Hard Realities No One Tells You About

    BY ANNAMARIE HOULIS Photo credit: Pixabay TAGS: Work-life balance, Flexibility, Google, Slack Technologies, Forbes, FlexJobs, Workplace Before I took the leap to freelancing full time, I’d assumed that telecommuting would mean never wearing pants and getting to answer emails from the comfort of my bed. Certainly, there are those elements. But there’s a lot more to it than I’d never anticipated, and there are some legitimate challenges.…

  • The Importance of Emotional Intelligence at Work

    Use These 7 Emotional Intelligence Tips to Be a Better Leader Mariah DeLeon • Guest Writer   Scholars may have coined the term “emotional intelligence” in the early 1990s, but business leaders quickly took the concept and made it their own. According to emotional intelligence, or EQ, success is strongly influenced by personal qualities such as perseverance, self-control…

  • Why Self-Awareness Matters and How You Can be More Self-Aware

    From the ancient Greek Aphorism “know thyself” to the western psychology, the topic of self-awareness has always been an intriguing subject of inquiry of philosophers and psychologists for the last century.   So What is Self-Awareness Exactly? The psychological study of self-awareness can be first traced back to 1972 when Psychologists Shelley Duval and Robert Wicklund’s developed…