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I don’t know anyone that says “Oh I wish I had more time to spend on social media.” LOL! People spend over 2 hours per day on social media. 2 hours!!!! That's 5 years and 4 months of your life! Think of everything else you could do with that time!

Balancing work/home life can be quite the mountain to climb. But I do everything that I can to be there for my family!

How to use pre-planning, social support, listening to your body, and self-love to increase your willpower and accomplish your goals!

Today I share some wisdom and application from an educational psychology legend, Dale Schunk about how he applied his own (and others') research on goal setting to his own work and it helped him reduce stress and get more done. This piece was put together by my amazing colleagues in Division 15 Educational Psychology of the American Psychological Association.

I have worked from my office, from home, from coffee shops, from my car, playgrounds, park benches, classrooms, airplanes, trains, Ubers, nail salons, hair salons, auto mechanic shops, you name it. My job has a lot of flexibility about where and when I work and that is one of my favorite things about it and one of the reasons I chose this line of work. However, that can also be one of the most challenging aspects of my work.

I've been so worried about not coming off as egotistical and yet playing small like this is feeding the ego and making it stronger! Not acting or sharing or speaking strengthens the ego’s fear that we will be judged and it makes the ego right, it makes the ego stronger. Feeding the ego isn’t always about telling someone how fantastic they are. And for the many of us who deal with imposter syndrome, telling us how fantastic we are can actually feel like quite an affront to the ego.

Yep, it’s time to make a PROs and CONs list ;)

Benevolent sexism is (very basically) sexism disguised as care or consideration. It usually takes the form of men wanting to protect women's "delicate" or "fragile" sensibilities. And it is particular harmful and dangerous because most men don’t realize they’re being sexist, and many women probably don’t see it either!

Many people have a difficult relationship with discipline, myself included! But discipline doesn’t have to be about punishment. If used as a teaching and learning opportunity, even with yourself, you can cultivate greater self-love and freedom in your life.

I’ve really been struggling with my motivation for weeks. Finally, today I thought to myself, “Hey, I’m a motivation researcher. Let me use my research on myself.” I was reviewing an article that used Self-Determination Theory (SDT) by Ryan and Deci so that presented itself as an appropriate theory to use for my self-analysis.