Life Habits

Karel is again joined by Marie-Josée Shaar this time to discuss four approaches to creating cultures of wellness. Make sure to visit Marie-Josée’s website smartsandstamina.com which also includes a link to her book. For further information on this topic, make sure to visit positivepychology.org.

In response to a listener suggestion, Karel devotes this episode to various ways of improving your personal impression management using the techniques and approaches from product marketing.

Karel devotes this episode to listener requests along the theme of staying true to yourself. He addresses awareness, consistency, and strength. (Updated to fix iTunes)

Karel addresses five questions listeners submitted on the topic of workplaces challenges.  The questions deal with communicating across age and experience level differences, knowing who to trust, workplace bullying, managing anger outbursts, and working effectively with a world-wide team.

This episode is a tribute to Karel’s mother who passed away recently and reflects on seven of the life lessons she taught, lived, and modeled, and will serve as her gift and legacy.

Would you like to be more aware of bullying of various types and what can be done about it?  This was a topic that rose to the top of our Facebook poll of listeners.  Karel has university student, George Janeteas, as his guest on bullying in general and cyber-bullying in particular.  You can find more about George at his website at georgejaneteas.ca.  George also provided the following additional resources: the

This episode is a tribute to the late Stephen Covey, the author of the seminal book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”.  Karel discusses the influence Covey has had on listeners, himself, and the world.  He then provides a few quotes and briefly summarizes Covey’s seven habits.

Karel dedicates this episode to a set of questions submitted by listeners on the theme of relationships and is again joined by UK Psychologist Mandy Kloppers. The questions address how to deal with infidelity, getting over a failed relationship, and dealing with parents as they are progressing through a divorce. Mandy has also written further on these topics on her blog, specifically “

After having heard Carol Dweck being interviewed on the Harvard Business Review podcast and checking with the Life Habits listeners on the Facebook page, Karel decided to read Carol’s book “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” and to dedicate this episode to its major insights and recommendations. Learn how to transition your thinking from a fixed mindset to one leading to ...

At the suggestion of a listener, Karel devotes this episode to the topic of “Doing the Right Thing” and provides some practical advice on what to consider in weighing options when needing to make an ethical/moral decision.