Tag: self-control

• Why You Must Let People Check Out From Conversations

  

  April 21st, 2014

  Sometimes in a conversation, especially a sensitive or heated one, you can tell you’ve hit a brick wall. When you recognize that, it is essential that you allow your conversational partner to check out of the conversation. If you don’t, it’s virtually guaranteed that something far worse than a lack of closure will be the […]

• Improving Self-Control with Control Points

  

  March 17th, 2014

  I’ve lost almost 100 pounds in the last few years. Doing that has taught me a thing or two about self-control. One technique that I find really helpful with self-control is worth mentioning, I think of it as adding “control points.” One of the surest ways that you can get fat it to leave abundant […]