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Come On, Get Happy! Ah yes, we've heard it time and time again. "Do what you love and the money will follow. " Well, in turbulent economic times it's not uncommon to feel stuck in a job, knowing your heart would truly sing if you were only doing anything BUT your current job. And hey, your current job is stable. It's predictable. You know what you're doing so why rock the boat, right? We convince ourselves it's supposed to be painful, feel suffocated as we work in a daze and clock in the timesheet only to be closer to free at the end of the day. I know it all too well.

Now, for whatever reason we don't pursue our happy. What is convincing you that staying in the muck is better than pursuing the happy? According to Jessica Pryce-Jones , another Psychology Today blogger and author of Happiness at Work, it doesn't only positively impact other people you come in contact with. Which option do you prefer? How to increase passion and intimacy between couples? Before we delve deep into this topic there are some of us who are passionate and some who are not passionate or detest passion.intimacy is the need of the hour for most of us not priority.so how many of us want a passionate relation ship or real intimacy? It is claustrophobic to many.so we got to first self analyse as to how romantic are we?

Passion is romantic obsession with the partner and intimacy is privacy personified. so unless it dips in our lives we need replenish it and both passion and intimacy should not be in overdose too. why passion and intimacy dips? Often we compare our passionate and intimate love life to our courtship days when both the partners are their smiling best try to impress each other constantly compelled to be desirable constantly obsessed to be non repelling wear a mask covering the inner desires curious to explore each other physically and emotionally anxious to confirm whether we will ultimately attain each other prechild birth vs post partum work hours extended.

How to Spice Up Your Sex Life in 30 Sexy Ways. New relationships are always exciting, especially when it comes to sex. The whole act of exploring each other and experiencing new together times in bed can be a rush that few things can ever give you. In a perfect relationship, your compatibilities have to be perfect and the sex has to be awesome. It’s quite a bit of a contradiction though. Relationships need time to build trust and compatibility. On the other hand, sex starts to get repetitive after a while. [Read: 50 sexy kinky ideas to try in bed] How to spice up your sex life If you’re in a relationship for a while, find new ways to spice up your sex life and keep it interesting. Having sex with a new partner may feel great, but there’s nothing better than getting innovative in bed with someone you love and understand completely. We live in a kinky world and what works sexually for one couple may not always work for another.

Find your own ways to excite each other in bed. . #1 Have an affair with you partner. . #2 Role play in bed. 10 Truths To Keep Your Relationship Healthy | Psychology Today - StumbleUpon. I think it's easy to make things more complicated than they need to be. Here are some basic rules of the relationship road that will keep you headed in the right direction 1. Successful relationships take work. They don't happen in a vacuum. They occur when the couples in them take the risk of sharing what it is that's going on in their hearts and heads. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

There are no guarantees, but couples who practice these techniques have longer and stronger relationships than those who are not proactive in their love. Dr. 10 Reasons Why Having Sex Is Good For Your Health & Paulo Coelho's... 50 Things Men Wish Women Knew. I just came across this article and thought it would be great for all of us ladies on here. I know my single friends and I always question what guys really want and this gives us a little more insight into that. Not to mention it's some great advice from men about what they wish we ladies knew/understood about them. Hope you enjoy!! (Also, be sure to check out our list of 50 Things Women Wish Men Knew) What He Wishes You Knew #1 Express yourself. It makes us proud, even if someone thinks you're wrong. What He Wishes You Knew #2 You look hot in running shoes and shorts.

What He Wishes You Knew #3 Bare, tan shoulders are underrated. What He Wishes You Knew #4 If you think I'm speeding now, you should see me drive when you're not in the car. What He Wishes You Knew #5 If you're truly interested in us, don't play hard to get. What He Wishes You Knew #6 Shopping is a chore, not an activity.

What He Wishes You Knew #7 When I screw up, go ahead and tell me—once. What He Wishes You Knew #8 My guy friends. Wisdom in few words. Throughout last couple of years I’ve been collecting my personal favorite quotations from various inspirational people in my Evernote. As a result I got quite a long list of sayings which I personally consider to be one of the smartest, wittiest, daring and positive at the same time. Moscow, 2008. So, I thought why not to share them with you? Assuming I have a lot in common with my readers, you might enjoy them too. If you don’t then you might just skip the post and excuse me for wasting your time.

Otherwise, here is the collection: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi“Life isn’t about finding yourself. “Interviews I conducted with more than 70 CEOs and other leaders point to 5 essentials for success — qualities that most of those C.E.O.’s share and look for in people they hire. “Pause now to ask yourself the following question: “Am I dreaming or awake, right now?” You might also like:Thoughts, pictures, music. Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills. Aesthetics. "Aesthetician" redirects here. For a cosmetologist who specializes in the study of skin care, see Esthetician.

More specific aesthetic theory, often with practical implications, relating to a particular branch of the arts is divided into areas of aesthetics such as art theory, literary theory, film theory and music theory. An example from art theory is aesthetic theory as a set of principles underlying the work of a particular artist or artistic movement: such as the Cubist aesthetic.[6] Etymology[edit] The word aesthetic is derived from the Greek αἰσθητικός (aisthetikos, meaning "esthetic, sensitive, sentient"), which in turn was derived from αἰσθάνομαι (aisthanomai, meaning "I perceive, feel, sense").[7] The term "aesthetics" was appropriated and coined with new meaning in the German form Æsthetik (modern spelling Ästhetik) by Alexander Baumgarten in 1735. Aesthetics and the philosophy of art[edit] Aesthetics is for the artist as Ornithology is for the birds.— Barnett Newman[8][9]

Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Maslow's hierarchy of needs, represented as a pyramid with the more basic needs at the bottom[1] Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in Psychological Review.[2] Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity.

His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology, some of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans. Maslow used the terms "physiological", "safety", "belongingness" and "love", "esteem", "self-actualization", and "self-transcendence" to describe the pattern that human motivations generally move through. Maslow's theory was fully expressed in his 1954 book Motivation and Personality.[5] The hierarchy remains a very popular framework in sociology research, management training[6] and secondary and higher psychology instruction. Hierarchy Physiological needs Safety needs Safety and Security needs include: