What is the single biggest determinant of your happiness? The answer to this question, as you probably already know, is not wealth, fame, beauty, or power. Rather, it is how others—particularly those ...

Follow these strategies when dealing with toxic people and environments on the job. We all have them: Those people in our ...

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Six months before Diana’s* marriage exploded in flames, her friend Vanessa* fell in love. “We were both in our mid-40s at the time,” says Diana, 57. “Vanessa was desperate for me to meet her new man, ...

Working with negative people is like running up a hill that never ends. It doesn’t take long for all those pessimistic attitudes to poison everyone. Ultimately, they bring down everyone’s motivation, ...

Most of us have dealt with that person before, right? Someone we’d classify as “difficult.” Someone we don’t like to spend time with, or who makes us feel stressed. We all have at least one person in ...

We all have them: Those people in our lives who seem to consistently drain our energy and leave us feeling depleted. Whether it’s a perpetually pessimistic friend, a family member prone to complaining ...