1. Unemployment: The First 48 Hours
In homicide parlance, the first 48 hours of an investigation are crucial. Similarly, there are many aspects of unemployment and job search that need to be addressed as quickly as possible....

2. Prolonged Unemployment: Reconnecting With The Labor Market
If you have been unemployed for an extended period of time, you know that potential employers are going to look at your long period of unemployment with a jaundiced eye....

3. Weight Loss: Suicide By Chocolate
We weight watchers are so gullible, so naive, so desperate for relief from the drudgery and boring routine of a diet, that we clutch at any straw that promises an interruption to our misery....

4. Unemployment: Become Your Own Job Coach
Try reframing your perspective and instead of looking at yourself as an unemployed applicant, think of yourself as a professional job coach. Your mission is to assist someone in finding work. Luckily, you have only one client to devote your time and effort to: YOU....

5. Weight Loss: The Cheat Codes
We hit a plateau and no matter which way we turn or what strategies we use, the scale refuses to budge. For those days that threaten our best laid plans, we need our own diet cheat codes....

6. Unemployment Blues: The Ripple Effect Of Fear
Unemployment carries a lot of emotional baggage for most of us and fear is a major component.If not quickly contained, it can wrest control of our lives....

7. Job Interviewing: Taking Care Of Yourself
Looking for work is generally a miserable undertaking. No matter how much education and experience you have, you are in a powerless and vulnerable position....

8. Job Seeking Secrets: Organize Your Attack
A systematic approach to job search can help you focus on your goal, avoid wasting the energy you need to conserve for interviews and employer contacts, and lower your stress level....

9. The Perils Of Unemployment: Losing Ourselves
The scourge of unemployment is what it does to our minds, our confidence, and our belief in our own self-worth....

10. Job Search Secrets: Living Outside Your Comfort Zone
While it is worthwhile to try new techniques before dismissing them out of hand, the best job search strategies in the world only work if they fit your individual style....

11. Job Seeking Secrets: Personal Contacts = Successful Networking
The premise of networking is that most people find a job through someone they know. It may be a direct referral or, more likely, indirectly hearing about an opening that seems suitable....

12. Unemployment Blues: Staying Afloat
The unemployment checks are running out and there is no potential income in sight. Here are five tips to keep you afloat....

13. Unemployment Blues: Jobs and Immigration
What are those positions we keep hearing about that Americans refuse to take such that they must be filled by illegal immigrants?...

14. Unemployment Blues: Mourning Your Job Loss
To lose a job, for any reason, is to lose something of value. Even work we didn't particularly like gave us some type of identity, money, sometimes prestige and power....

15. Unemployment Blues: Mind Over Mood
Unemployment plays havoc with our emotional system. We take a number of hits all at once: loss of occupational identity, economic pressure, family anxiety, and the humiliation of job search....

16. Unemployment Blues: The Mixed Emotions Of Finding A Job
Don't be surprised or upset if you don't experience an unalloyed sense of joy and optimism when you finally obtain the job you have been seeking for so long....

17. Job Seeking Secrets: Time Management
The rigors of job search are magnified by the turmoil we experience: lack of self-confidence, humiliation, financial pressure, and the undercurrent of emotions that color all we do -- fear, anger, depression, anxiety, loss....

18. Employment Interviewing: Ask For The Job
During any interview, it is important to display unabashed enthusiasm for this position, with this company, at this time....

19. Job Search Secrets: Make An Organizer
Creating a central organizer for our activities can help assure that we have a clear understanding of where we've been and what we've done, and provides a private resource chart for on-going contacts and re-contacts....

20. Unemployment Blues: Self-Preservation
Looking for work can be difficult, frustrating, anxiety-provoking, and demeaning....

21. Unemployment Blues: Staying Active
Unemployment is depressing: financial pressures stress you out, looking for work is humiliating, and your fragile self-confidence reels under the blows of indifference and rejection....

22. Unemployment Blues: Reframing The Pain
In addition to the anger and fear generated by job loss, there is the total emotional devastation of being figuratively thrown on a pile of human debris....

23. Unemployment Blues: Take Back Control!
One of the most emotionally crippling aspects of unemployment is the sense of powerlessness it engenders. We feel that we have no control over our situation, our lives, our future....

24. Employment Issues: The Night Worker
In the process of musing about our perennially awake world for my Social Psych blog, I started to think about our present work world and how its 24 hour operations have changed the lives of millions of workers....

25. Overwhelmed and Overworked: The Myth Of American Productivity
In a world where employees are tethered to their workplaces virtually around the clock, by laptops, cell phones, and blackberries, the traditional balance of home and work has crumbled....

26. Job Seeker Secrets: Recycle Your Job Search
If you have been out of work for quite a while, you have undoubtedly pursued a standard job search campaign: the unemployment office, newspaper classifieds, job fairs, online resources, agencies, networking, and cold calling....

27. Internet Marketing: Give Me Quality
Correct your errors before you intrude on my valuable time. I'm not interested in flawed material tossed at me by a self-satisfied but disrespectful guru....

28. Internet Marketing: Give Me Good Content
Have you ever considered how much boring, poorly written, superficial, and totally uninteresting stuff there is in those billions of web pages floating in the ether?...

29. Internet Marketing: Are You Turning Off Your Customers?
So what will this article tell you? It will tell the slick sales reps and the marketing mavens and the irrepressible admen what the rest of us are looking for, what we want, what we like, and what we are going to demand....

30. Internet Marketing: Give Me Follow Up
I need follow up that answers my unasked questions and helps me make up my mind about whether I really want what you're offering and if your product will really meet my needs....

31. Internet Marketing: Give Me Something I can Use
Two pages of specific, focused tips are a lot more helpful than endless ramblings about your own success record. Give me tools, not trite homilies....

32. Internet Marketing: Give Me Something New
Give me freshness, variety, and a taste of greatness. I am totally frustrated by the lack of vitality found in the majority of websites....

33. Internet Marketing: Give Me Immediate Gratification
As soon as I've paid, or taken you up on a free offer, I want to right click, download, and read. I don't want to have to go into my inbox and click to activate something....

34. Internet Marketing: Are You Feeding These Customer Demands?
I wrote this report after thinking about what I, as a typical Internet customer, really want. I hope that it strikes a chord with you also and that much of what I demand overlaps with your own needs....

35. Internet Marketing: Give Me Clear Directions
Three hours later, I still haven't found what I'm looking for. I yearn for someone to give me clear navigation, letting me know where I've been and where I'm going....

36. Unemployment Support: A Job Search Diary
Start a job search diary right now. Even if you have been unemployed for some time, start one anyway because a late start is better than never doing it at all....

37. Unemployment Blues: Assessing Personal Value
The world may not seem to need you when you're out of work but it is important that you know your own worth and stop buying into a sense of incompetency and despair....

38. Unemployment: Creating A Sense Of Security
Your only job security lies in self-security. Knowledge and appreciation of your value as a worker: your skills, your competence, your personal qualities, can build the sense of security you crave....

39. Careers: Are We Pre-Programmed To Be Productive?
To feel productive seems to be an inherent human need. We feel good about ourselves when we are contributing -- to our own independence, to our family, to our community....

40. Unemployment Blues: The Value of Temporary Work
Working for a temporary agency has some drawbacks but also a number of positive aspects....

41. Unemployment Blues: Life Changing Events
If we are unlucky enough to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, we experience a personal tsunami - a misfortune of devastating proportions that sweeps away our routine lifestyle and forever changes the world we know....

42. Unemployment Blues: Maintaining Emotional Balance
Some kind of emotional balance is necessary if we are to stay healthy, maintain our relationships, and be able to effectively function in job search....

43. Seven Proposals To Cure Unemployment Cycles
Here are seven proposals to permanently address the "Unemployment Problem."...

44. Unemployment Blues: Emotional Damage Control
Acknowledging the pressures and emotional swings of unemployment and job search will help you look at the situation more objectively and allow you to continue to function in other important areas of your life, those not connected with work or income....

45. Job Search: Knock Out The Competition
When it comes to financial survival, to regaining independence and self-worth, competition can be crippling....

46. Job Search Secrets: Containing Anxiety
Although anxiety can unnerve you and make you feel paralyzed, consider its ability to energize you....

47. Employment Under The Microscope
A certain amount of oversight is involved in almost any job. The more important, the more highly skilled, the more successful the position, the lower the degree of oversight....

48. Interviewing Skills: How To Present Your Work History
It may take you some time and self-exploration to identify it, but there are always some aspects of your work history that carry a positive spin....

49. Help vs. Exploitation: Is There A Difference?
Is there something inherently exploitative about selling a product or a service to individuals who are in a place of great need and few resources?...

50. Job Search: Accepting Judgment
Applying for work sets us up to judged but we need to remind ourselves that only a small discrete portion of who we are is being examined....

51. Unemployment Blues: Dump Those Tapes
We are hard on ourselves because we have a deep, subconscious, lifelong belief that we don't quite measure up....

52. Self-Criticism Is A Female Flaw
If we women could only learn to look at ourselves as uncritically as men do! We look in a full length mirror and instead of appreciating our assets, we groan with horror at our shortcomings....

53. Why Dieting Is Keeping America Fat
There are literally hundreds of diets available to suit everyone's taste: Atkins, Zone, South Beach, low carb, low fat, liquid mixes, vegetarian, all protein. Millions of us are on these different diets. So why are we still fat?...

54. Diet: Changing Your Focus
If we want to remove food from its central role in our lives, we have to stop thinking about it. Not an easy task but it can be done, even if painful. The real question is how can we do it....

55. Super-Sizing America
Somewhere, a brilliant light bulb exploded in an ad man's brain and "Super-Size" was born. If a burger was good, why not make it bigger for just a little more money?...

56. Happy Relationships: Change Your Appearance
An occasional change of our looks and our demeanor develops a new awareness in each partner and shakes out the cobwebs from the habits and routine of long time marriages....

57. The Folly of Diet Recipes
Admit it, the only reason we crave recipes is to spice something up, to increase our pleasure and make the whole dieting task less painful. We can eat food plain without any fancy recipes but that would be no fun....

58. Happy Relationships: Discuss Your Pet Peeves
No matter how close we are to our partner, no matter how strong the bond and the mutual likes and dislikes, there are always little things that we do that "bug" our greatest audience....

59. Five Really Tough Dieting Tips
If you are losing, trying to lose, or think you need to lose, weight, you are probably as sick as I am of those "easy" and "quick" diet tips that NEVER work! The following tips are neither quick nor easy. They are tough, uncomfortable, and demanding (but they work)....

60. Life Is One Damn Diet After Another
Allowing ourselves to think of a diet as a delineated, restricted period within our total life span is a sure avenue back to tent city (that refers to what we wear, not where we live). To have any hope of attaining permanent weight control, we must approach it as a lifelong effort, watching our intake day after day, week after week, year after year....

61. I'm Not Fat -- I'm Fluffy!
No matter our weight, our body image frequently fails to reflect what is in the mirror but represents what is held in our mind's eye. The closer we can approach to the differing views being compatible, the more comfortable we will be in ourselves and the more valuable any changes we seek to make....

62. Food Journal: A Mirror To Yourself
All the weight control experts recommend keeping a record of what you eat. A food diary can become so much more useful for your weight wars if you use it as a tool for self-exploration and self-discovery....

63. Happy Relationships: Share Your Day's Activities
A regular sharing of the day's activities can help partners feel that they are truly participating in each other's lives during the large portion of the time we spend away from our significant others....

64. Momma Said "Keep Your Fingers Out Of Your Mouth"
Watching television exercises our eyes but nothing else. Unfortunately, it doesn't require us to do anything with our hands which leaves them free to grab something to eat....

65. Diet Fads: Supermarket Sheep
Many of us are so desperate to control our weight that we buy into the promises like the unaware followers we are: bleating sheep heading for a precipice with no thought of questioning our leaders or striking out in a different direction....

66. Happy Relationships: Schedule Some Fun Time
Doing something totally different together, just for fun, brings a fresh breeze into our stale daily routines and gives us a much needed recess from a world filled with problems and responsibilities....

67. Is Losing Weight Worth The Trouble?
Reframing weight goals and redefining our diet success leads to higher self-esteem and make the probability of continued weight control far more likely....

68. Weight Loss Superfecta
Approaching our weight loss efforts with a bettor's attitude, we're going to pick four sure winners in the dieting game. To improve our chances, we going to "box" our choices, meaning that they can finish in any order as long as our picks run first, second, third, and fourth....

69. Happy Relationships: Give 100%
Reframing your commitment to your marriage as 100% rather than 50-50 changes expectations, contributions, and the level of partner satisfaction....

70. Bye-Bye Bread
Cutting out butter and margarine, eschewing salad dressing above the 3 calories per tablespoon level, and eliminating fast foods and soft drinks does have a marked effect on my caloric intake. But I find that to really lose pounds, and keep them off, I have to pass on my favorite breads....

71. Food: The Proof Is In The Portion
Where did we get the idea that bigger is better? Is it the national legacy of the depression when we swore we'd never "do without" again? Is it the speed and stress of our competitive lives that logically leads to our attacking our food with the same disregard for restraint we show in business?...

72. The French Fry: Weapon of Mass Destruction?
The innocuous potato, relatively low in calories and packing its fair share of vitamins and minerals, has been transformed into a culinary weapon of mass destruction. Disfigured by saturated fat into a caloric and artery-hardening horror, the French fry may be the deadliest peril we face on a daily basis....

73. Were Cave Dwellers Ever Fat?
What did our cavemen forbears bequeath as their legacy? Underfed and overactive, they willed us a body that still thinks we dwell in the primordial forest. Suddenly cut back on our intake of food and the alert is sounded through the nervous system and organs of our prehistoric physiology. "Famine coming, famine coming" our bodies shriek and immediately our metabolism slows to a crawl....

74. Happy Relationships: Spend Quiet Time Together
Finding quiet time together is often difficult for couples in our overly busy lives. The payoff of making the effort is an increased intensity in your special relationship....

75. Making It Through A Diet Day
Like the alcoholic who faces the urge to drink at every turn, the overweight fataholic must also steer a narrow passageway through the shoals of temptation and the deadly barrage of food advertisements, ubiquitous drive-throughs, social occasions, and office treats....

76. Five Reasons NOT To Lose Weight
Enough of the diet gurus, the nutritionists, and the weight loss experts (including me), let's enjoy ourselves for a while. The diabetes and clogged arteries will overtake us all too quickly. For today, let's feast freely at the banquet of life....

77. How To Cop An Attitude With An Overzealous Hostess
We all encounter those hosts and hostesses who feel it is their duty to make us eat whatever their specialty is and generate a sense of guilt if we do not flatter their creation by stuffing ourselves with it, regardless of our weight control plans and weight loss goals....

78. Diet: Facing Lousy Choices
If you truly want to control your weight, you can do it anywhere. Even trapped in the office with nothing more than a killer vending machine, you can turn bleak choices into a self-esteem building triumph....

79. Happy Relationships: Set Regular Dates
A return to occasional dating can invigorate a mature relationship ny enhancing anticipation of the special event and allowing partners to interact at the intense level that prevailed during their courtship....

80. Weight Control: Operationalizing Your Plans
Before you run off, filled with enthusiasm for your latest, greatest, and final (you swear) weight control plans, slow down and take the time to operationalize your goals and the likelihood of your success will increase exponentially....

81. Look On Aisle 5
We stock up on packages loaded with chemicals we can't even pronounce. We pick up bags of quick snacks with nary a nutrient in the bunch. We throw fluffy breads and crackers into our cart, knowing they are merely edible plates....

82. America's Secret Addiction
We hang on every word about the recovery and relapse of our celebrities but the most widespread, self-destructive, dangerous addiction afflicting America is never discussed: FOOD....

83. The Psychology Of Diet Preparation
We tend to think of weight loss as something that involves only our body. Yet the actual size of the body does not trigger the decision to lose weight, such a choice in made in the brain....

84. Weight Loss: Tweaking Your Lifestyle
Despite our national propensity to overeat, under-exercise, and grow steadily heavier and more out of shape, we all yearn to be slender, fit, and attractive....

85. The Chefs Are Coming, The Chefs Are Coming . . .
It was in the late 1980s and 1990s that we started to balloon to what is now epic proportions. Yes, that correlates with the growth spurt of the fast food outlets and the soft drink industry. It also quietly parallels 85 million of us falling in love with the television chefs and the appetite for culinary masterpieces they triggered....

86. It's All In The Numbers
Offer a woman the choice between a dress she likes a lot, that fits well but is size 12, and a dress she sort of likes, which also fits well but is labeled size 8, and she'll take the smaller size every time....

87. Weight: Give Us Something To Shoot For
We have all seen the new Dove commercials that feature "real" women rather than the impossibly "ideal" models that are usually selected. While the Dove girls are universally attractive and fit, they also reflect different sizes and shapes, designed to represent the average American woman. Is that what we want?...

88. Weight Loss At Work: Non-Food Rewards
Food seems to be the perennial favorite for any kind of work reward because it is universally accepted. Some of us (we hard core dieters) may pass on the sweet stuff but usually find something allowable. In a world where two thirds of us are overweight or obese, is there nothing else available as a gift that cuts across all individual interests? Five specific non-food rewards are suggested....

89. Dieting: I Can't Afford To Lose Weight!
When it comes to our weight, our emotions reign supreme. We so desperately want to be more attractive, more respected, and more desirable. We will even subject ourselves to painful and sometimes dangerous surgery to bring our reality closer to our ideal. And we will rob our piggy banks, deplete our bank accounts, and run up our credit cards for anything that promises us a slender future....

90. Death Of The Internet: The Duplicate Content Glut
Scams are not just the phishing sites, the strident letters from African widows, or the non-existent lottery winnings, they are also the shysters and cheaters who pass off the creations of others as their own....