Because Christmas is coming and because a person very close to me is leaving the country I decided to write today about family relations. From my experience the relationship you have with your family is the most complicated of human relations. They are complicated because we cannot choose or change our family, they are for …
This is the first time I write about happiness but I am sure it is not going to be the last. Happiness has been a popular term in our society for hundreds of years and people have always searched for it. We are born with a desire to maximize our pleasure and being in a …
Motivation is something which has interested me a lot in the past years and I am writing this article from a manager’s perspective. From my point of view, motivating your team is one of the most important, if not, the most important, things you have to do as a manager. I have seen the power …
It is said that patience is a virtue and, as with all virtues, when we forget about one of them, life has a way of making us aware and gives us lessons until we remember it. Because I received this kind of lesson lately, I have given it some thought and I think that the …
I went last week to a corporate training and here is how it went. The general idea about these kinds of trainings is that they are company’s way to make you work harder for them. So what annoys people is the fact that the company is trying to influence them. My question: what’s wrong with …
I see busy people everywhere, busy at work (projects, meetings, dead-lines) and busy at home and during the week-ends. We want to be informed; we want to stay in touch with our friends; we want to read as many books as possible; we want to shop, to find the best deals or the best clothes. …
I just finished reading a book which I found very interesting. It’s called “Influence” by Robert Cialdini. The book is about how people can be convinced into doing things they would not normally do. You might think it’s an evil book because it teaches people techniques they can use to influence other people. But what …
I have been to Greece for a few days this summer. It is a wonderful country and although I have been there several times, it never ceases to amaze me. I love everything about it: the landscape, the people, the food and I would definitely say it is one of the countries to see before …
You find them everywhere: on the Internet, in books, on TV – almost everywhere you look there is someone telling you how you should live your life in order to achieve a certain goal. But this kind of recipes never worked on me and I don’t think they work on others either. Usually at the …
According to Wikipedia,” the drama triangle is a psychological and social model of human interaction in transactional analysis (TA) first described by Stephen Karpman, in his 1968 article Fairy Tales and Script Drama Analysis” I am writing about it because it made a tremendous impact on me when I discovered it (when it finally reached …