Our complex, highly developed human capacity for language is a major part of human life. Doing it right is central to our well-being as individuals, and as a species. In times of stress, the best ... Read More about Communicating: Listening and Discussing
Affirming someone puts an exclamation on their sense of self-worth, expanding and amplifying it, and sometimes them and ourselves. This is a bit simpler when we affirm ourselves. In springtime ... Read More about Affirming, Adding To, Expanding Upon, and Amplifying
The ability to move quickly through something, seemingly without effort, is the eyebrow-raising characteristic of the person who excels at an activity. It is the ability to do something quickly and ... Read More about Exhibiting Facility
A reward is something that accrues to someone by accomplishment or recognition. The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm ... Read More about Rewarding
For good and ill, family is a central part of human relationships. In early childhood, it is formative. There's something unique about having a member of a family that really needs you in order to ... Read More about Family
Environment refers to everything from home and family to the world. Our environment consists of everything external to the self that affects us in any way: the physical world as well as other ... Read More about Environment
Numbers are symbols. Every building plan is a symbolic representation. At another level, there are abstract and realistic forms of art - fundamentally, both are abstract. Artists have a unique ... Read More about Symbolic Thinking; Abstract Reasoning
Responsibility is about shouldering basic responsibilities of life, for the benefit of others. Think of parents, spouses, and service workers. You cannot hope to build a better world without ... Read More about Being Responsible
Meeting worldly obligations requires seriousness and attentiveness. The characteristic attitude at this level is attentiveness, as in "Pay attention." A person who characteristically and as a matter ... Read More about Being Serious and Attentive