Mind & Soul
Different Types of Pet Memorials – Help Grieving Cat or Dog Loss
Many pet owners find it helpful to grieve the loss of a dog or cat with a pet memorial. Here, six pet owners describe how they immortalized their beloved animals. These six different types of pet memorials range from urns of cat ashes to dog toy inventions.
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and [...]
28Feb2010 | Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | 0 comments | Continued
How to Set New Goals When Your Old Goals Aren’t Working
Deciding to set new goals when you can’t or don’t want to achieve your old goals can be surprisingly difficult! These tips for setting new personal or career goals focuses on how to let go of your old goals without guilt, shame, or embarrassment.
First, here’s one of my favorite quips about setting goals:
“If at first [...]
22Feb2010 | Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | 2 comments | Continued
Re-Evaluating Your Goals – 5 Tips for Setting New Intentions
Are you stuck on old goals that you can’t achieve? If you’re re-evaluating your career or personal goals, these five tips for setting new intentions might help! Setting “intentions” is a great way to re-evaluate and achieve your goals. Setting intentions seems less rigid and more open to healthy changes in direction.
If you’re stuck on old goals, you’re [...]
7 People Skills That Help You Achieve Your Career Goals
Achieving your career goals may involve getting a job promotion, building better relationships with colleagues by polishing your people skills, or earning more than $50,000 a year as an entrepreneur (that’s my goal as a blogger!). But no matter what your work goals are, you’ll be more successful if you have a team or social [...]
12Feb2010 | Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | 1 comment | Continued
Music Singles for Newly Single People – How to Feel Good After a Break Up
Have you just broken up with someone you love? These songs for singles may help you feel better… all the tunes below are reader suggestions from my The Best Songs for Broken Hearts – Music to Heal Heartache article – and these tips for music singles for new singles are more creative than my original songs for singles!
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How to Make Conversation for Introverts – Tips for Small Talk
The art of making small talk can be baffling and even frightening for people with introverted personality traits! Here are six tips for making conversation for introverts (or anyone who finds small talk a pain in the tushie) – plus a bonus tip for making people like you.
Before the tips, a quip:
“In conversation avoid the [...]
25Jan2010 | Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | 2 comments | Continued
Tips for Introverts – 6 Ways to Reduce Christmas Stress and Anxiety
Holiday stress affects everyone differently – in fact, some people don’t find Christmas stressful or anxiety-provoking at all! Others, such as introverts who aren’t used to the socializing and hubbub the holidays bring, may find Christmas challenging. These tips for people with introverted personality traits will help reduce Christmas stress and anxiety, and make the [...]
3Dec2009 | Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | 12 comments | Continued
Getting Unstuck and Finding Happiness – How to Change Your Life
A reader recently asked for help getting unstuck in life; she’s not alone in wanting to find happiness! These tips can help her – and you – change your life.
Here’s a brief excerpt of her comment on my article How to Let Go of Someone You Love:
“I met my husband 16 years ago, after I [...]
12Nov2009 | Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | 4 comments | Continued
Ways to Stop Obsessing About Your Ex-Girlfriend or Ex-Boyfriend
You’ve been through a relationship breakup, and now you can’t control your obsessive thoughts about your ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend! This breakup advice includes practical ways to stop obsessing about a lost love, based on a question from a reader.
Here’s what he said on my How to Let Go of Someone You Love article:
“I still seem to [...]
11Nov2009 | Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | 2 comments | Continued
Coping With Grief and Depression – Help for Bereaved Children and Parents
“How do I help my parents grieve the loss of their child, who was my brother?” asked a reader here on Quips and Tips. He wants to help his parents cope with grief and depression. He recently lost his sibling to an illness; his parents are having a hard time dealing with their grief.
Here’s a bit of his question:
“I read 5 Ways to Help [...]
10Nov2009 | Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | 3 comments | Continued
