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A Deep Dive Into the Positive and Negative Impacts of Gossip

Success

Don’t tell anyone, but… I really shouldn’t say anything, but did you know… This stays between us… Miss Manners might clutch her pearls at the idea of this decorum-shattering habit, but gossip isn’t always in poor form. At some point doing our workday, we’ll casually share information with one another—in other words, gossip.

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4 Ways to Say No to Negativity

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When you’re driving down the freeway and there’s a wreck, people will sit in a long line complaining about the people up ahead who are rubbernecking to get a look—but when those complainers get up there, they’re the ones doing the rubbernecking. If you want to reduce those negative thoughts, spend time with people who build you up.

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10 Bad Habits You Really Need to Break

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The challenge is bad habits are insidious, creeping up on you slowly until you don’t even notice the damage they’re causing. Self-control is like a muscle—to build it up you need to exercise it. Gossipers derive pleasure from other people’s misfortunes. You are the sum of your habits. Using your phone, tablet or computer in bed.

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Are You Self-Sabotaging?

On The Job

You figure out how to deal with Marcia's gossiping, your understand what your boss wants you to do and you even have plotted out the first industry conference you will attend once pandemic restrictions are lifted. You don't tell your boss that you'd like to head up a new project. But despite all these efforts, you do something dumb.

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From the Archives: The Power of Reading

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The very consciousness that he lacked the advantages of an early education spurred him on to make up for the deficiency in other ways. Think of the untold wealth locked up in the spare moments and long winter evenings of every life. It is possible to pick up an education in the odds and ends of time most people throw away.

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Steel Magnolias, Barbie, and Other Wise Women – In Celebration of a Complicated Women’s History Month By Bonnie Low-Kramen

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Olympia loved that at the beginning of the movie, the women could be seen as the beloved and well worn Southern female stereotypes – preoccupied with gossip, clothes, hair, flowers, and food. Bonnie Low-Kramen on speaking up Author, mother, and grandmother Think about all the times you turned out to be RIGHT.

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HR How-To: Tips to Handle Common Workplace Controversies

Office Dynamics

Often people within the work environment will gossip or joke about the vaguely sexual misbehavior of their coworker, rather than report it. Brush up on workplace rules and the specifics that indicate a case of sexual harassment. Any health or safety hazard in the work environment may case a lot of stress for workers.