Spice up your romantic relationship

Spice up your romantic relationship

Are you interested in spicing up your romantic relationship? A student and I published a journal article relating to how to do that . The article* showed that a simple couples intervention increased relationship excitement, satisfaction, and mood, with effects lasting...

Standing during meetings

I mentioned in a prior post that I am trying to spend less time sitting because sitting is associated with the development of health problems. Lately, I have been standing at work meetings. I first learned of this possibility years ago when I read an article about a...

You can shape others

I am reading a biography of Steven Jobs, written by Walter Isaacson. Jobs and Stephen Wozniak helped create the most valuable company in the history of the world, Apple. There is much to learn by reading about geniuses. One thing I have learned from the start of the...

Why do we read?

A few years ago I co-authored a book titled “Why We Read and How Reading Transforms Us.” I’ll give you here a few of the reasons we read: 1. We read because through reading we live a thousand lives rather than just one. On a recent day I led the life...

Are you killing yourself?

If you consider the top 15 causes of death (I just saw a list for the U.S. — see http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa-cause-of-death-by-age-and-gender), most of them are substantially related to behavior. The most obvious are suicide and accidents (the ones we...