A compliment can easily brighten a guy's day. We all have a few in our back pockets, which typically resemble the stickers we got on our homework in Kindergarten. Think "Great job," "Thumbs up" and ...

Many of us struggle with this issue. Someone pays us a compliment and we deflect or minimize the kind words, as if doing so will make us seem humble or at least not look arrogant. We receive ...

Gratitude seems to be a popular buzzword these days, but nearly all of the focus is on the importance of expressing gratitude. This is certainly an important concept. However, for optimal relational ...

Some people - and I will admit I am one of them - just do not like getting compliments. But often immediately deflecting praise or trying to brush it off can end up hurting the feelings of the person ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Liza Higgins and her daughter Jovi. "In motherhood — and I learned this the hard way, and continue to learn it the hard way — we ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. The morning before my daughter was released from the hospital to recover from scoliosis surgery, a heat wave hit. Like most Seattle homes, ours ...

Thomas Edison's compliment with Twain's handwritten comments (from the Bob Slotta Collection published in Ephemera News, 2001) 1. Accept compliments with magical words that have worked for compliments ...