Advice That Leaders Will Take To Heart

Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft There are all kinds of leaders. Small business owners, whether they have one employee or 100, have to lead their team to provide whatever product or service they provide. Managers,...

Are These Shortcuts To Success?

Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft There’s a reason that books that offer advice on achieving success are perennial best sellers: They work! There are many different ways to enhance your performance in your chosen career....

Want To Think Faster? Here’s How.

Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Smart young people are justifiably confident in their ability to remember an enormous amount of information and call it up quickly. What’s more, they’re probably confident that they can...

A Very Simple Contributor To Success

Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft The subject of success has fascinated people from time immemorial, and people have approached the idea from an incredible range of perspectives. In roughly the fifth century B.C., Sun Tzu...

Why We Get Angry And What To Do About It

Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft In the Disney film Inside Out, Riley — the young protagonist of the film — deals with five emotions: Joy, sadness anger, fear and disgust. In the movie, each emotion actually exists as a...

Which Way To Happiness?

Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft For some people happiness is not really a profound subject. They equate happiness with an emotion, a pleasant feeling you enjoy in the moment. But many serious thinkers and philosophers...

Is Wearing Prada Really So Bad?

Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Human behavior is a fascinating subject. We often tread onto that territory in response to something your partner or a friend has done. It begins innocently enough with a simple question:...

The Magical Effects Of Physical Touch

Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Many people — okay, let’s go out on a limb and say most people — enjoy a good therapeutic massage. It’s also not much of a stretch to extend that observation a bit and say that a nice...

Are You In Control Of Your Emotions?

Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Parents who take their parenting job seriously probably think about what they should say to their kids in difficult situations. They may read articles or books, turn to their own parents...