Relationships
How to be assertive
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Thousands of people every day are suffering in difficult situations through lack of assertiveness. Most commonly the assertiveness problems tend to arise at work and with friends. However, assertiveness [...]
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7May2009 | Steven Aitchison | 17 comments | Continued
10 Ways to keep your children safe online
The internet is a fantastic way for us to communicate, quickly and easily and is questionably responsible for changing our lives over the last 20 years. There is no doubt is can help us gain knowledge, communicate, bank, shop, sell, make money, be creative and to express ourselves. [...]
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13May2008 | Steven Aitchison | 15 comments | Continued
How to make true friends – part 7 – Be yourself
This is the last and final part of the ‘How to make true friends’ series. You can see the links to the other six parts at the end of this article.
Be yourself
If you’ve read all the other parts of the series you will have a strategy for [...]
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25Apr2008 | Steven Aitchison | 17 comments | Continued
How to make true friends - Part 6 - Attracting the friends you want
How to make true friends – Part 6 – Attracting the friends you want
This is the 6th part of 7 in the how to make friends series. You can find the links to all the other parts of the series at the bottom of this article.
Attracting the friends, you want
To [...]
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14Apr2008 | Steven Aitchison | 7 comments | Continued
How to make true friends - Part 5 - Get out of self Deprecation mode
This is the 5th article in the ‘Making true friends series’, see the links at the bottom of this article for the other 4 parts of the series
The quickest way to lose potential friends is to put yourself down all the time. People who do this, no matter what’s going on in [...]
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6Apr2008 | Steven Aitchison | 15 comments | Continued
How to make true friends - Part 4 - Body language
Read the other part of this series:
How to make true friends – part 1 – Know yourself
How to make true friends – part 2 – The pride of loneliness
How to make true friends – part 3 – The art of honesty
The components of Body language
We’ve all read about body language and [...]
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31Mar2008 | Steven Aitchison | 11 comments | Continued
How to make true friends - Part 3 - The art of honesty
The art of honesty
It’s easy to say be honest and open with everyone but there is an art to being honest.
I remember when I was about 19, I was dancing with a girl in a nightclub, (that was back in the day when you just went up to a girl and tapped [...]
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26Mar2008 | Steven Aitchison | 15 comments | Continued
How to make true friends - Part 2 - The Pride of loneliness
Read: 7 Ways to make friends – Part 1 – Knowing yourself
The world has never been so connected but we have never been so alone. When was the last time you had a conversation with your neighbours? When did you last strike up a conversation with someone in a [...]
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21Mar2008 | Steven Aitchison | 14 comments | Continued
How to make true friends - Part 1 - Know Yourself
Making friends is not easy for a lot of people, and for some the thought of speaking to others is terrifying. This can be debilitating in your life and if you’re the self conscious type it makes it even worse. You might worry about what people think of you, you [...]
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16Mar2008 | Steven Aitchison | 26 comments | Continued
5 steps to meeting your perfect partner
Part 2 – Attracting your ideal partner
This is the second in a series of six attracting articles.
Okay, you have sown your wild oats, done the single life, bought the t-shirt in fact you bought the whole outfit. There comes a thought in the back of your mind, a slow burning thought that [...]
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17Oct2007 | Steven Aitchison | 7 comments | Continued
A letter from a parent
A letter to my son…….
NOT TO BE OPENED UNTIL YOUR 30TH BIRTHDAY
Dear Son
You might not understand this fully just now which is why I am asking you not open this letter until you are 30 years of age.
First I would like to tell you I love you, I know I have told you [...]
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20Aug2007 | Steven Aitchison | 10 comments | Continued
6 ways to dramatically improve your eye contact skills
Eye contact: The most important communication tool
Is your eye contact aggressive, is it soft, is it inviting, do you love with your eyes? Eye contact is a very tricky art to master but vital to effective communication. How can you make it better?
Eye contact provides social information to the person you [...]
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11Aug2007 | Steven Aitchison | 30 comments | Continued
10 ways to show you care for your family
10 ways to show you care about your family
A lot of us are busy with jobs, managing the house and other activities we are involved with. It is really easy to lose sight of your family in the midst of your busy days.
How many times have you heard yourself saying ‘I [...]
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15Jul2007 | Steven Aitchison | 17 comments | Continued
The secret to relationships
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Nurturing bad relationships
Occasionally we come across people we just do not like. This is mostly down to personality clashes, we dislike something about the person or the person dislikes something about us. Other reasons include jealousy, intimidation, and intelligence.
When it [...]
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8Jul2007 | Steven Aitchison | 11 comments | Continued
5 ways to appreciate your children
Appreciating your children
It’s father’s day again over here in the UK and I received a fantastic gift from my two boys. It was a speaker set for my iPod Nano. I love it and it was bought from my sons own money which makes it all the more special as [...]
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17Jun2007 | Steven Aitchison | 12 comments | Continued
13 ways to be a better lover
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13
ways to be a better lover
Okay this one is for the guys. Guys often get a bad rap when it comes
to their bedroom antics. It doesn’t have to be this way. An explanation
might be needed for the women [...]
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2May2007 | Steven Aitchison | 7 comments | Continued
The art of listening
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Tips for a better life #4
I have met a lot of people in my lifetime and the one thing
that every single one of those people have wanted is for someone to listen
to them. Listening
to someone, actually actively listening, is a [...]
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22Apr2007 | Steven Aitchison | 2 comments | Continued
10 personality traits you will be hated for
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10 traits to lose friends and
lovers
I think of myself
as a fairly pleasant person who is kind of laid back and likes most people. I have
been teaching my sons, which is an ongoing process, about potentially harmful
traits. As [...]
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21Apr2007 | Steven Aitchison | 17 comments | Continued
7 Tips for dealing with confrontation
A lot of people cannot handle confrontation and start to shake, they lose control of their voice pitch, and they want to hit out and cannot control their thoughts properly. It can be frustrating when someone is putting us down and you can’t argue back as you have got a touch of confrontation [...]
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29Mar2007 | Steven Aitchison | 25 comments | Continued
Being a better father
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Being a dad, not just a father
Being a Dad is possibly the biggest responsibility you will ever have in your
life. It will be the longest commitment you ever make in your life and
it will be the source a lot of you r [...]
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10Feb2007 | Steven Aitchison | 12 comments | Continued