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With the New Year days away, many people set out to make resolutions to improve themselves in the coming year. Sadly, most folks will not succeed in their efforts. An article recently published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology explored this phenomenon. Several potential reasons for the lack of success people experience with resolutions were explored, including the idea that resolutions are primarily an attempt at self-motivation, which fall short when the person making the resolution isn’t actually motivated to make long term changes in t...
The story of the birth of Jesus is an interesting one, but can be difficult to understand and appreciated to the fullest because of the huge cultural difference that separates us from the events. There is a great deal of scandal embedded in the original nativity scene, and it translates into great news for us today. Before exploring the idea, it’s important to understand that sanitizing the shocking elements of the story is more an accident of history than an act of deception. For example, when you hear about the shepherds watching their flocks...
A few years back, a study was done with children, in which young boys and girls were placed by themselves in a room, in front of a mirror. Before long, most of the little girls began to talk to themselves in the mirror. Whereas, the boys looked in the mirror and began to pretend to shoot at themselves, pretend to be an airplane, or some other sort of active play that they watched themselves engage in. In addition, the boys became distracted, losing interest in the mirror, and began looking around at their surroundings. The experiment...