Motivation and Goals    
Topics

How to get into Second Life without really trying

Selby Evans is Thinkerer Melville in Second Life

What can psychology do for people?

Creativity, Invention, Ideas

Deciding, Choosing, Self-Direction

Focus and concentration

Memory and how to forget about it

Mood Management

Motivation, Goals, and Drive

Other People

Parenting

Problem-solving

Resilience and the Bounce-Back Routine

Relaxing

Self-Awareness

Exercises What's right with you?

Self-Confidence
and Self-Esteem
Time Control
More work for the overworked
Thinking
And Other Uses for Your Brain

Short and simple comments about psychological topics that people often think of as needing improvement.  Maybe in themselves, maybe in other people. 

Caution:  Comments are not likely to improve anything.  The most they can do is give you a view of the topic and help you decide whether you want to find out more.

Talk does not change behavior.
  Practice changes behavior. 

The topics will also offer links to tools that may be helpful if you want to go beyond talk to action.

If talking were doing, most people would get a lot more done.

Self-improvement is not a duty but an opportunity.

Famous fables about personal psychology

The first strength you need:
Self-starting

Glossary

Semi-Technical Background

Practice in a virtual reality:
How to get into Second Life without really trying

Kryptonite:  What problems can psychology help solve?

Procrastination

Conflicts in the head
Something got into me.  What does that mean?
Will Power

Learning, studying
and other tribulations

Doer's Block or Starting Block?
Writer's block for people who are not writing.

Impulsiveness

Habits

Resolutions

Other sites of interest

ABCs of Self Help

SelfGrowth.com

Psych Central 

Mental Health Missives

 

 

The Thinkerer 06/14/2010
Copyright (c) D. F. Dansereau & S. H. Evans

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