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Submitted by procreative-admin on Sat, 18/09/2010 - 10:38am
It's to me quite amazing how much we can ignore some simple concepts that are so hugely important to our wellbeing.
In a LGGO meeting recently we got talking about what "great outcomes" really mean.
Submitted by Steaphen on Wed, 15/09/2010 - 8:46am
Last night as I watched a televised studio-debate on sexual harassment in the workforce, I found that I was feeling increasingly troubled. This trouble I sense is of particular relevance and importance to those who want to get great outcomes (This post was originally written as a blog article on my Belief Doctor website - hence its long-winded style, but is now read-only to the LGGO Groups).
During the debate about how bad and uneducated the perpetrators were it seemed to me that a great big elephant in the room was being steadfastly ignored.
Submitted by Steaphen on Fri, 10/09/2010 - 6:06am
While chatting with a very interesting, dynamic entrepreneur and scientist, the subject of fear was discussed.
While initially the idea that death was our greatest fear, I remembered that studies reveal our greatest fear, or at least what is held at the forefront of our cares and concerns, is public speaking.
It seems to me that public speaking is indicative of our fear of others, not of death. Thinking and chatting on it in more depth, we realised that it is fear of what others think that mostly constrains or limits our behaviours.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Sat, 17/12/2011 - 6:58am
MOST couples assume having children will make them happier. But time and again researchers find parents are no happier than childless couples. More often children seem to bring unhappiness.
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Husbands and wives both ''benefit when they embrace an ethic of marital generosity that puts the welfare of their spouse first," write the researchers Elizabeth Marquardt and W. Bradford Wilcox in the Atlantic magazine.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Sun, 31/07/2011 - 3:30am
FINANCIAL stress is the equivalent of a cold shower.
A survey by Relationships Australia has revealed that people's sex lives improve along with their income - and that the magic number for satisfaction starts at about $80,000.
Only 44 per cent of people with a household income under $60,000 a year are sexually active, compared with 81 per cent of people with a household income of more than $80,000 a year.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Fri, 01/07/2011 - 11:52am
This post links to a number of interesting articles on the subject of choice, and the debilitating consequences of not requiring independence in children...
" ... (there's) a lot of women in their early thirties coming with a list of achievements, of perfect choices they have made: the best school, wonderful job, they're exercising, they're slim, they have even a good partner, but they feel "we've done all the right choices, but we still feel empty."
Submitted by procreative-admin on Thu, 21/04/2011 - 5:51am
Factors in living a long-life.
Friedman and Martin unhesitatingly say the single strongest social predictor of long life is a strong network. Widows outlive widowers; women tend to have stronger social networks. Interestingly, neurotic widowers tended to outlive their less neurotic peers – they were more likely to take care of their health after their wives were gone.
