It’s fairly common for people to have slightly different definitions for ordinary, everyday words. If I say “trees,” I may picture towering redwoods, while you, coming from a totally different background, may be thinking of an orchard full of dwarf apple trees. Or maybe you tell me that an event will be casual dress, meaning [...]

Understanding other people can be pretty hard. But compared with understanding ourselves, getting a handle on other folks’ thinking can seem downright simple. That’s why so many very smart people have been studying this subject for so very long – thousands of years, actually. And every other week, it seems, somebody comes out with a [...]

Intent and intention – they play HUGE roles in what happens in our lives. But often we’ve hidden our own motives away, shrouding them from our own view so thoroughly that we can’t admit the REAL reason we’re having so much trouble getting along with those we care about. Today’s guest author Wayne C. Allen [...]