We all have to cope with conflict in our lives, it’s a fact of life. But wouldn’t knowing how conflict management styles vary among people help us deal with it a little better? According to Thomas, K.W., and R.H. Kilmann, there are five conflict management styles: Accommodating – Where you are the one who is [...]
By taking the right approach to the decision-making process, you can reach your goals and make the right choices in life. So often in life, your dreams and your reality don’t match up. Isn't that frustrating (not to mention draining)? Wouldn’t it be nice if there was some way to make them meet so that [...]
Unless you’re the most laidback person on the planet, it’s likely you’ve suffered your fair amount of stress, as we all have. When we come across a stressful situation or go through difficult times we learn to cope. However, there are healthy coping mechanisms and unhealthy ones. Before we talk about healthy coping mechanisms, here [...]
Often when we have a problem, we try to solve it in the same way we did before. However, some issues cannot be solved with existing ideas and solutions. In this case, we need to turn to creative problem-solving strategies. Creative problem-solving is a way of moving beyond predictable and obvious solutions to problems. When [...]
Much of the time when we are out and about we are unaware of what is going on around us and this can make us vulnerable. Developing good situational awareness skills can keep us safe. We have all had moments when we felt unsafe or vulnerable or when bad things happened to us because we [...]
For many decades, humans have fallen in love with the notion of escaping the reality and living a fantasy life. Regardless of whether we read about a make-believe world like with Alice in Wonderland and Ready Player One, or see it on-screen with films such as The Matrix and Ghost in the Shell, the idea of [...]
We tend to think that public opinion reflects the truth about the current situation. But in reality, nothing is more inaccurate and biased than people's opinions and here are some good reasons why. It seems that now more than ever people’s opinions are being heralded as the truth and are considered to be as important [...]
We all have many problems to solve every day. But have you ever thought how improving your problem-solving skills could make you more successful? Every day we are bombarded with problems that need solving. Many of these are mundane everyday problems, such as how to fit in your child’s dance class, a grocery shop, and [...]
