Gerry Fisher, Life Coach in Baltimore Maryland - Archive of essays, tips, and book reviews

Address/contact information

Gerry Fisher, Life Coach
3600 Clipper Mill Road
Suite 240
Baltimore, MD 21211

p. 410-949-7888
e. GerryCoach@comcast.net

Executive: Don't burn the candle at both ends at work

Writing archive

This page includes links to old soapbox articles (essays) and tips that used to be featured on this website years ago.

Soapbox articles

Here are old soapbox articles (essays) and tips that used to be featured on this website years ago:

	Soapbox	Tip
9/07	Room for me in my life	Network with peers
8/07	Healthy body image	Leverage for promotions
7/07	More "go with the flow"	Learn something new
6/07	Sopranos: Nothing ever happens	Work: choose to stay or go
5/07	No thinking without feeling	Create a pleasant workspace
4/07	My body is boss	Work in a pleasant way
10/06	Focus on partnership	Do the least fun task first
9/06	Who are you? (purpose)	Do the fun task first
8/06	Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)	Plan your escape from your job
2/06	"What's love got to do with It?"	Insert sensual experiencing
11/04	Curses and Deeply Held Beliefs	"How do I want to be about this?"
10/04	"Sailing to Bermuda"	Reward achieving milestones
7/04	The Limits of Compromise	Playful motivation
6/04	The Power of Forgiveness	"Why can't I be 'King of the World'?"
3/04	"Play nicely with the world"	"Play nicely with the world"
2/04	Beware bad love-life advice	Thought stopping
1/04	Cognitive-behavioral counseling	Notice your thinking
9/03	Rudeness and stress	Improve depression
7/03	Happiness	[not available]
6/03	"Physical therapy"	Improve depression
3/03	Balance	Reduce stress

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Happiness newsletters

Here are old soapbox articles (essays) and tips that used to be featured on this website years ago:

	Featured Summaries
7/08	Attention can be taught, friendships and memory, boomerang adult children, busting the serotonin myth, helpful acting lessons.
6/08	Getting rid of "stuff," temperament is not destiny, CPR talks with difficult coworker, boredom is an under-appreciated emotion, and deep-funny thoughts for the day.
5/08	Thinking being linked to body movement, even forced laughter is good for you, visualization, mind-body affect of how we think about illness, positive psychology write-ups.
1/08	Mature love, leaving a job gracefully, acronym for effective goal setting (SMART), men lose intelligence around blonde women, stopping negative thinking.
11/07	Helping overweight adolescents, managing people who assign you work, the Trouble Tree, factors correlated with heroism, and a good joke ("I'll do anything you want for $20").
10/07	Mindfulness in the classroom, tips for combating verbal abuse, try taking a nap, building confidence, tips for business-email etiquette.
9/07	Resume tips, interrupt suffering with laughter, value your mistakes, tips for delivering bad news, gender differences with empathy.
8/07	Teenaged brains are OK, research on baby vocabulary, gratitude for partners doing household chores, research on forgiveness, improving the family's morning routine.
7/07	Steps for a well-done apology, time-management tips, blocks to discovering your purpose in life, limitations to "following your gut" decisions, CIA methods for busting biases.
6/07	The yin and yang of life (go with the symptoms), forgiveness, try any action as a way to work toward your career, safeguard your money when working with a financial advisor, more information is better for your health.
5/07	Thank you for your patience, your brains need your heart, positive spin on "disease," bosses and assertiveness, post-divorce dating lowers pressure, don't gloss over gaps in your resume, and placebo exercise.
10/06	Exercising is important (part 1), dads experience postpartum depression, try multiple part-time jobs, gay parents and children, exercising is important (part 2).
9/06	British are serious about taking children off antidepressants, Dan Gilbert's latest book about happiness, review of treatments for anxiety and sleep disorders, who is in charge of your thinking?, and research supporting "gut" decisions.
8/06	Pharmaceuticals affect doctors' decisions, biased custody decisions, research regarding bisexual-male arousal, trauma's effect on fetuses, and the connection between schizophrenia and toxoplasmosis.
2/06	The neuroscience of teenage moodiness, divorce rates, treating adult ADHD, postnuptial agreements, and why innocent people confess.
11/05	Risks associated with using SSRI antidepressants, stess accelerates aging, the benefits of being flexible with emotional expressiveness, CBT as a powerful adjunct to medical treatment for pain, and the power of apologizing.
10/05	Benefits of meditation, risk taking essential for anxiety treatment, the myth of childhood depression, review of treatment for conduct disorder, review of non-methadone treatments for opiod abuse.
7/05	Prejudice as a part of "tribal psychology," children of schizoprenic mothers, psychological cost of war, multi-family groups, and antidepressant withdrawal mistaken for depression.
6/05	Cola drinks and hyperactivity, moods affect buying and selling, sifting career advice, PET effective for depression, and an overview of anxiety and depression.
5/05	Psychological effect of 9/11 on elders, anxious parents raise anxious kids, mindfulness and mental health, antidepressants fair poorly in the long run, and the key to a happy relationship.
1/05	Psychotherapy not as effective as previously reported, notes on winter depression, tips for reducing anxiety during small talk, notes on relationship between depression and pain, and teachers haunted by night terrors.
10/04	Quality socializing helps heart, how the human brain experiences abandonment, backrubs fight the blues, connecting anger and scapegoating, the relationship between poverty and mental health.
7/04	Pets and stress, limit children's exposure to TV ads, more on nature versus nurture, grief therapy ineffective, DARE not as effective as "harm prevention" programs, a summary of facts about women and depression.
6/04	School-based self-esteem programs get failing grade; new findings about depression treatment; Couples: when "time outs" hurt more than help; Addictions treatment: myths versus realities.

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