How to Improve Your Communication Skills?
Do not overpromise, hear people out, react to what they say and keep track of your loose ends — four practical tips for talking with other people.
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We Get What We Agree On
In life we get what we can agree on. Three books and a few principles that help you learn how to negotiate with other people.
Three Weeks of Writing Every Day
Three weeks into the “not a day without a line” challenge. Here is the technique of lighting one match from another, so you never sit down to a blank page.
Relationships Exist in 3 States
Like a person's health, a relationship exists in one of three states. Couples fail to save theirs because they don't know which of the three they are in.
Value in Every Post
Entertainment, information, problem-raising, value — four content formats. Why I chose the fourth one, and what it gives you even when your reach is tiny.
I Don't Know How to Rest
My last real vacation was in 2019. Here is how that happened, and what changes when you put rest into the calendar first and only then fill in the working days.
The Main Principle of Our Family
"In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things love." How that principle works in our family, even though my wife and I are very different.
Types of Budget
The synchronised budget, the four-account system and the "drawer" — three working models of a shared family budget, and the one my wife and I use.
A Shared Budget
Want to know whether a family is happy? Ask how many budgets it has. Separate finances all but guarantee that a strong emotional bond will never form.