A large part of excelling at work means knowing how to deal with your superiors and reminding them of your achievements. If you can successfully manage your managers, odds are that you’ll live a more peaceful life at the office, on the sales floor, at the construction site, and elsewhere. However, some managers are bent … Read more

It’s not all sunshine, rainbows, and delicious cookies after a homemade dinner when you’re part of a family. There are some… secrets there, in the nooks and crannies, behind smiles and twinkling eyes. Growing, spreading in the shadows. Or locked up and hidden away out of fear that somebody might accidentally stumble upon them. Most … Read more

There’s no such thing as a person whom everyone and anyone would find attractive. Certainly, there are conventionally attractive facial and body features that might draw in quite a number of admirers. But there will always be folks who simply don’t get the appeal because they have very different tastes. And there’s no arguing about … Read more

If you thought soap opera-worthy drama only happens during Thanksgiving or on TV, think again. Workplaces are usually festering with gossip, romances, and even affairs. There’s a reason why Grey’s Anatomy, Mad Men, and even The Office are so popular. After all, we spend almost a third of our lifetimes at work, and it’s not … Read more

Richard Branson once said, “opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” He was mostly talking about business, but life is full of those moments where you can see the cards laid out perfectly to give you a win if you take a chance. If you aren’t sure what I mean, then scroll down. … Read more

Parenting styles change with each generation. Our generation is all about gentle parenting and letting kids express their emotions freely. Our parents had a different style: some were a tad bit overprotective, others, on the contrary, only saw their kids in the morning and at night. Baby boomers, people say, were the worst. Either extremely … Read more

Usually, when we think about people objecting during weddings, we think of popular movies or TV shows. Situations like that are so dramatic (and possibly romantic, depending on who you’re rooting for) that it seems like it has to come from a great screenwriter’s imagination. However, these sorts of objections happen in real-life, too. But … Read more

Nobody expects to peak in high school. Even if someone was prom queen, head cheerleader and student body president, they still had big dreams for what would come next. High schoolers are so young, and their ideas of what’s considered cool are skewed by rampant hormones and teen angst. The “nerdiest” kids in high school … Read more

Employment – love it or loathe it, you’re never getting away from it. Though the process has been around for thousands of years, our society still fails to make the conditions comfortable. Many organizations are the victims of toxic cultures; microaggressive managers, overly competitive, and, at times, backstabbing colleagues – basically all the things that … Read more

Cutting in line thinking their time is more precious than others, parking in handicap spaces, tossing cigarette butts on the street — we’ve all encountered certain people who treat public spaces as their personal playground. And they couldn’t care less if it comes at the cost of everyone else’s peace of mind. Call it entitlement … Read more