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Top Ten Happiness Robbers

Top Ten Happiness Robbers Byr Bill Cottringer “You can never make another person happy, only unhappy. ~The author. Are you happy enough with your happiness bank account balance? Knowing that a happiness bank account balance can never be high enough, here are a few bank robbers you will want to avoid at all costs: 1. Beliefs. Wrong, irrational or selfish beliefs are perpetual robbers of the happiness bank. You often aren’t even aware of what “wrong” beliefs you have that may be withdrawing happiness from your account when you think they are making deposits.

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The Most Difficult Thing About Managing Others Is…

The Most Difficult Thing About Managing Others Is… Byr Bill Cottringer “Mis-management of others is usually a symptom of mismanaging yourself.” ~An older, wiser, unnamed manager of sorts.

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An Ever-Growing Gap Between Managers And Employees In The Information Age

An Ever-Growing Gap Between Managers And Employees In The Information Age Byr William Cottringer When we first started on the path of the Information Age in the early eighties, we had no earthly idea where it was going to take us. Ironically, here in 2014, we still don’t know the answer to this question because the possibilities keep expanding. And, there is no end in sight if what they say about knowledge doubling every few years is true.

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PUTTING THE POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY MOVEMENT IN PROPER PERSPECTIVE

PUTTING THE POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY MOVEMENT IN PROPER PERSPECTIVE “Happiness is not a goal, but rather it’s a byproduct.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt. This quote by Eleanor Roosevelt puts a lot of things in proper perspective, especially the popular movements for change driven by the mass media marketing machine, such as positive psychology.

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The Only Relationship Article You Will Ever Have To Read (Really)

The Only Relationship Article You Will Ever Have To Read (Really) Byr Bill Cottringer “Good relationships are when your head, heart and hands agree most of the time and besides it doesn’t matter quite that much.” ~The author. Centuries of research would agree that relationships fail for three main reasons. You will probably want to find out these three reasons for three different reasons of your own: 1. You are starting a relationship and want to be smart and avoid preventable failure. 2.

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Five Pillars of Happiness

FIVE PILLARS OF HAPPINESS byr Bill Cottringer “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” ~Dalai Lama. Happiness is the end game goal of living. Whatever it is you are doing, it is to secure happiness. In a paradoxical way, how you define happiness determines how much or how little of it you have. One of the easiest and best ways to define happiness is by identifying the things you can do to get the most of it. Here are five pillars the experts agree on: 1. Purpose.

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Uncommon Sense for Work & Play

Uncommon Sense for Work & Play Byr Bill Cottringer “Success and happiness are a result of using uncommon sense, while failure and unhappiness are the consequence of using everything else.” ~The author. Success and happiness in life are most often tied to your efforts in reaching a healthy balance between the two primary aspects of life—work and play. How is your balance in these two main areas of living?

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Success Principles

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Resolving The Clash Between Younger and Older Workers

Resolving The Clash Between Younger and Older Workers Byr Bill Cottringer “Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.” ~Max Lucade.

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Trust: The # 1 Issue In Living, Relating, Working & Even Sleeping.

Trust: The # 1 Issue In Living, Relating, Working & Even Sleeping. BynBill Cottringe n“Trust is the secular version of religious faith and faith is the growing belief and comfort in the truth and certainty of something you can’t see or otherwise prove.” ~The author. Why is trust such an ...

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Success Principles

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THINK IT BUT DON’T SAY IT

THINK IT BUT DON’T SAY ITnBy Bill Cottringe n As a kid I never bought into the infamous playground chant, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. Just re-look at my last name above. Now let your imagination run wild, empathizing about all the possible hurt and ...

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THE FIVE C’S OF SUCCESSFUL REALITY REPAIR

THE FIVE C’S OF SUCCESSFUL REALITY REPAI By Bill Cottringe n There is a mighty roadblock in the way of successful reality repair—fixing broken realities (social problems, economy crises, wars) and creating new and better ones we want (equal access to and enjoyment of abundance and ...

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THE ONLY WAY TO THE TOP IS ALWAYS AN UPHILL CLIMB

THE ONLY WAY TO THE TOP IS ALWAYS AN UPHILL CLIMBnBy Bill Cottringe nn“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing all the hard work you already did.” ~Newt Gingrich. This morning I was driven to write this article after initially responding via e-mail to an ...

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HOW TO BE DEMOTED GRACEFULLY WHEN YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON

HOW TO BE DEMOTED GRACEFULLY WHEN YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON By Bill Cottringe n One of the realities of today’s economic downtu is a hard one to swallow, at least with any honorable degree of courage, humility and gracefulness. This is the reality that you can still be a good person, and an ...

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ACCESSING THE SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS CONNECTION

ACCESSING THE SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS CONNECTIONnBy Bill Cottringe n“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” ~Herman Cainnn Success and happiness definitely reign as King and Queen of the worlds’ mind, at ...

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The Central Conflict That Spills Over Into Everything Else

The Central Conflict That Spills Over Into Everything Else BynBill Cottringe nn After decades of studying and experiencing personal conflicts in a variety of work and domestic relationships, there is one that is more bothersome and difficult to talk about than any other. The strong ...

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Why You Want To Abandon Your Comfort Zone Right Now

Why You Want To Abandon Your Comfort Zone Right NownBy Bill Cottringe n“The security and safety of a comfort zone are a persistent illusion; but the only real security is in accepting your insecurities as you venture outside of your comfort zone.” ~The author. Here are six very good reasons to ...

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Dealing With The Pressure For Instant In And Out Results At Work Or Anywhere

Dealing With The Pressure For Instant In And Out Results At Work Or AnywherenBy Bill Cottringe n Many years ago I wrote about the need to slow down, because the hectic pace of living that most of us were getting caught up in was causing physical distress. This is certainly not new news, ...

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Success Principles

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Finding The Purpose Behind Your Purpose

Finding The Purpose Behind Your Purposenby Bill Cottringe nnn Finding the real purpose to our lives can provide us with valuable meaning. Such meaning can give us the right direction and structure we need, which will eventually lead to the success and contentment we want. I have discovered ...

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Best Perspective For Success In Closing The Gap That Matters Most

Best Perspective For Success In Closing The Gap That Matters Most Byr Bill Cottringer Success is not— What you do, What you get, Or what you have; But what you attract, From being who you are. “Success is a certain sense of progress accumulated from making all the right little choices in becoming your best self, so that you can share that best self and your success with others.” ~The Author.

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Finding Your Mental Sweet Spot

Finding Your Mental Sweet Spotnby Bill Cottrigner Sitting in two overgrown cedar rocking chairs watching the South Fork of the Snoqualmie River go flowing by in quiet North Bend, WA, two people—one intellectual and the other very practical—were just talking about troublesome life ...

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The Ten Most Common Causes of Unhappiness and Their Common Sense Cures

“O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson. I have dealt with a lot of unhappy people during my 45-year career and I have been unhappy enough myself during my own roller-coaster ride in life to have experienced the top ten reasons causing unhappiness and their best commonsense cures from the trenches. Here goes: • Unhappiness Cause # 1: Wrong, dumb or silly beliefs that you can never prove anyway.

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Success Principles

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SELF-GROWTH REALITY REPAIR

SELF-GROWTH REALITY REPAI By Bill Cottringe n“Common sense is the simple knack of seeing something as it is and doing things as they should be done.” ~Mark Twain. This article has been written for both self-growth writers and readers. Having been an avid student, teacher, practitioner, ...

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Understanding The Violence of Rape

Understanding The Violence of RapenBy Bill Cottringe nn“Liberty without love is destruction; love without liberty is despair.” ~Thomas Troward. Earlier in my career as a prison administrator, when I was just beginning my learning curve on understanding the hard core problems of life in ...

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Why Going From Surviving To Thriving Is So Difficult

Why Going From Surviving To Thriving Is So Difficult By Bill Cottringe n“Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in awhile there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.” ~Ralph Ranson. There are ...

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Firefighting

FirefightingnBy Bill Cottringe n Are you part of an organization where everyone is in a perpetual firefighting mode, spending most of their day scurrying around putting band-aides on ruptures? As the direct Dr. Phil would ask, “How is that working for you?” Not very well I would imagine. I ...

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The Flashing Red Flags of Fatally Crashing Relationships

The Flashing Red Flags of Fatally Crashing RelationshipsnBy Bill Cottringe n You may wonder why anyone in their right mind would miss these blatant red flags before they found themselves stuck in a fatal relationship; but the real problem becomes more of how to get out of such a ...

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TRUE BALANCE: WHEN TO BE EVEN-HANDED AND WHEN TO GO FOR IT WITH ALL FOURS

TRUE BALANCE: WHEN TO BE EVEN-HANDED AND WHEN TO GO FOR IT WITH ALL FOURSnby Bill Cottringe n“Genuine happiness and true peace of mind only come about when you begin to make progress at knowing when to be even-handed and when to close your eyes, hold your breath and jump in with all fours.” ...

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Isn’t It Time To Agree Upon The Important Stuff—Doing What Matters Most?

Isn’t It Time To Agree Upon The Important Stuff—Doing What Matters Most? BynBill Cottringe n In making the long, bumpy and winding way home in my own reality repair journey, I have finally discovered answers to the two most important questions I imagine we all have. These are: • What is ...

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Why Do Bullies Bully?

Why Do Bullies Bully?nby Bill Cottringe nn“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.” ~Benjamin Disraeli.nnn I am beginning to think that a very widespread problem today, especially with youth, is the problem of perceiving you are being bullied (by life, parents, teachers, peers, employers, ...

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A PERSONAL CHOICE: PRETEND OR PLAY?

A PERSONAL CHOICE: PRETEND OR PLAY? BynBill Cottringe nn“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.” ~Henry David Thoreau. For a long time now I have gradually realized ...

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DECREASING UNHAPPINESS TO INCREASE HAPPINESS

DECREASING UNHAPPINESS TO INCREASE HAPPINESSnBy Bill Cottringe nn“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.” ~Anthony de Mello.nnn More and more people are ...

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Success In The Tit For Tat Relationship Game

Success In The Tit For Tat Relationship GamenBy Bill Cottringe n Success in relationships is based on accurate information used in the basic cooperation vs. antagonism tit for tat game we all play. The tit for tat game typically goes like this. If I choose to do this then I expect you to do ...

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MENTAL SLICING & DICING YOUR WAY TO HALF-HAPPINESS

MENTAL SLICING & DICING YOUR WAY TO HALF-HAPPINESSnBy Bill Cottringe nn“All colors are friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.” ~Marc Chagall. I am well into the second half of my life and in looking back I think I can openly admit that I goofed greatly in the first ...

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Putting the Common Back in Common Sense Again

PUTTING THE COMMON BACK IN COMMON SENSE AGAINnby Bill Cottringe nn Why do some people succeed and some fail in life? Why do we all sometimes fail and sometimes succeed? Can we do anything to improve our chances of success? In studying success and failure for over 40 years, I have ...

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WHEN TO FISH OR CUT BAIT?

WHEN TO FISH OR CUT BAIT? By Bill Cottringe n“Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson. One of the hardest places to locate intellectually and emotionally is getting to the comfort zone where you can make the right decision to fish or cut bait—to continue ...

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The Will To Grow

THE WILL TO GROWnBy Bill Cottringe n There is one particular motivation that has a significant impact on the quality of your life; it can result in varying degrees of happiness and unhappiness, success and failure, peace and turmoil and good health and ill health. This single motivation ...

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Reality Repair Rx 4 Normal Folks

A big challenge in life is to fix the broken realities you don’t like and to create newer and better ones you want. Unfortunately this is much easier thought about in our heads than done with our hands. Most of us are still stuck trying to deal with undesirable realities that are getting in ...

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The Four Stages Of Organizational Development

THE FOUR STAGES OF ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENTnby William Cottringe nnn The human potential movement of the early seventies employed a helpful frame of reference to understand the process of interpersonal group development. This model involves four distinct stages of development: ...

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When All Is Said And Done

WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONEnBy Bill Cottringe n What remains when all is said and done? Take away all the additions, subtractions and changes we make to life with our thinking, perceptions and reactions and what remains is the 5% truth making up our personal success quest. Hidden away in that ...

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Being Certain

BEING CERTAINnBy William Cottringer, Ph.D.nnn“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” ~Philip K. Dick. The other day my daughter Abby was given a question to answer by the instructor of her epistemology class as a high school senior. The question was ...

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Soulful Satisfaction

SOULFUL SATISFACTION By Bill Cottringe n“It is not the things in life that bother us but rather our opinions about these things.”n ~ Epictetusnn Without a doubt, the above quote is my all time favorite, because day by day it keeps growing in meaning and value in my own life and adding ...

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How Do You Know What To Do For Sure?

How Do You Know What To Do For Sure? By William Cottringer, Ph.D. “Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.”n ~ Anonymous. How do you know what to do for sure? That is a very good question to which we should all want to know the answer, especially ...

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Principles of Successful Conflict Resolution

Truth = The absolute way things could be in a perfect world, where we are trying to go. Reality = The relative way things are in the real world, where we are at now. Conflicts occur when people have differing opinions as to the causes of and solutions to particular truths and ...

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The Challenge for Returning Veterans

The Challenge for Returning Veteransr By Bill Cottringer Veterans Day is a day we can all be thankful for the men and women who generously and unselfishly served our country, past and present and some with their lives, to keep the rest of us safe and secure in the freedom we cherish. This article is a special tribute to the military personnel now serving or returning from overseas duty in the many “war zones” around the world.

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ESSENTIAL REALITY REPAIR Rx:

ESSENTIAL REALITY REPAIR Rx: Fixing Broken Realities & Creating Better Ones. BynWilliam Cottringer, Ph.D.nnn“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer. I believe I may ...

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The Common Misalignment Problem in Organizations

The Common Misalignment Problem in Organizationsr By Bill Cottringer “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” ~John F. Kennedy. Every “group” goes through a similar progression of four stages in its development and maturity: • Stage One: Members start out interacting with superficial “cocktail chitchat,” warming things up as an introduction of what is to come. • Stage Two: Then the conversations eventually switch to deeper subject matter conce s and issues, like the purpose of the group and how to proceed with that purpose and other related topics.

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Success By Perspective

SUCCESS BY PERSPECTIVEnBy William Cottringer, Ph.D. Success—What you get from doing what you do to get it; acquiring any or all of the following: Having an abundance of health, wealth, power, influence, friends and wisdom; gaining a sense of satisfaction from achieving your goals, being ...

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TEACHING RESISTIVE OLD DOGS NEW TRICKS

TEACHING RESISTIVE OLD DOGS NEW TRICKSnBy William Cottringer, Ph.D.nnnn“The best way to teach something is to share a story of your own failure, tell what happened to help you get past it, and offer some helpful hints to succeed.” ~The author. A common problem in management and training is ...

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And Then There Is The truth

THERE ARE ALWAYS TWO SIDES OF THE STORY n& THEN THERE IS THE TRUTHnBy William Cottringer, Ph.D. nnn“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.” ~ John Lennonnn Actually there are probably as many ‘stories’ as there are people on this planet. But, there is but one overall, unifying truth that ...

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Personal "P" Points

Being successful and winning in life takes much talent, effort, determination, cleve ess, good timing, and patience. However you can shorten the learning curve by understanding and practicing certain “P” points. These psychological power points are the little things you can do, with ...

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