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How to be a better listener: 10 tips

Apparently, one of the most common complaints wives have about their husbands is that they don’t listen to them.  Who would have guessed that? 🙂  On the flip side, the most common complaint from husbands is that their wives complain too much! But let’s leave that one for another day.  As Emotionally Intelligent men, we […]

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Family Traditions And Rituals: How to build a family culture

Every family has a culture. And whether you plan it or not, your family is going to develop its own unique culture too. That’s just the way it works! Many factors contribute to a family’s culture. These include external influences such as ethnicity, religion, socio-economic conditions and the physical environment of wherever you happen to […]

7 ways to improve your emotional intelligence

7 Ways To Improve Your Emotional Intelligence

EQ has been linked to career success and it also contributes to success in many other areas of life.

Here are seven things you can do to improve your Emotional Intelligence.

Life lessons from the Stoics - Marcus Aurelius

8 life lessons from the Stoics

Despite being over 2,000 years old the Stoic philosophy is still highly relevant to our modern lives.

Here are eight important life lessons from the Stoics

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When is Fathers Day celebrated in different countries

For anyone who has lived in a different country to your home country, you may have been caught out by this and found yourself thinking – when is Fathers Day? I know I have. As it turns out, Fathers Day (as with Mothers Day) is celebrated on many different dates around the world.  To ensure […]

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Coaches, Mentors and Teachers – what are they and why you should have one

Success in life is rarely achieved alone.  Whilst grit, hard work and dedication will get us a long way, to be truly successful we also need to know when to ask for help.  And help can come in many forms. From many different sources.  When you actually stop and think about who you have to […]

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The Marshmallow Test and delayed gratification

Let’s start with a game!  Can you solve this riddle and guess the next three letters?  d r m f s _ _ _ If you’d like to know the answer immediately simply click here. However, before you do that, you also have a second option.  Instead, you can stick around to read the entire […]

The golden rule for relationships

Don’t trust the golden rule – It probably doesn’t apply to your relationship.

What is the Golden Rule? We’ve all heard about the golden rule, right?  If you didn’t hear it directly from your parents’ mouths, then you surely learned about it from a teacher, or a preacher, or perhaps a random old person in the street.  The most commonly used version of the golden rule, at least […]

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Tabata: The 4-minute workout for busy dads

Too busy to keep fit? I know. I know…. Being a busy dad means it’s harder to find time to exercise. But that doesn’t mean you have to surrender to the dad body.  Instead, you just need to be more efficient with the time that you do have available.  And when it comes to exercising, […]

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How to raise children with grit

What is Grit?  The concept of ‘grit’ has been popularised by psychologist and author, Angela Duckworth.  As part of her research, Duckworth conducted studies of high-achieving individuals in various fields ranging from business to education and the military. She was looking for common characteristics or personality traits that could be used as a predictor of […]

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