As Creswell puts it, self-affirmation provides "an easy and portable strategy that you can roll out before you enter a high-pressure situation where you are required to perform well, " whether it's engaging in public speaking, readying for an important exam or giving a critical presentation to your boss and her boss.
Fitting together a gaggle of autonomous businesses isn't easy, as Century Business Services, an accounting and consulting roll-up, has found out after vacuuming up 135 owner-operated shops.
This was usually my only opportunity to change the radio channel from my father's preferred easy listening station to WOKY, a popular Milwaukee rock-n-roll station.
Seymour sometimes gets an eye-roll from skiing purists for its slow chair lifts and relatively easy runs, but it remains the most popular place to learn to ski among Vancouverites.