It’s frustrating to choke under pressure—especially when you thought that you were totally prepared to, say, perform a piano piece beautifully for your family or play a good golf or tennis game ag...

You could be putting your health at risk—and wasting your money. Americans set a new record last year for the number of cosmetic procedures performed. All told, there were 13.8 million face-lifts, ...

Inspiring ideas from Bottom Line’s experts Each year, we ask a selection of our Bottom Line/Personal experts to think back on the past 12 months and identify something they did that went so well fo...

Think back to a moment when you felt utterly awestruck by the splendor of a sunset, the majesty of a symphony or the miracle of a newborn baby. Remember how it seemed as though time stood still while ...

What scares you? Speaking in public…driving over bridges…finding a creepy-crawly bug in your bedroom? Whatever the object of your phobia may be, you’d no doubt feel relieved if you could free yo...

It’s an undeniable truth—we all know people we just don’t like. Of course, some of these “enemies” are people we can simply avoid. But all too often, the person is someone we’re in regul...

My friend’s husband was recently late coming home from work. Instead of assuming that he was stuck in traffic (which he was), she immediately wondered if he had died in a car accident or was having...

When Hurricane Sandy dropped a 120-foot tree on my friend Hannah’s house—the dream home she had owned for just a few months—she felt upset, to say the least. She tried all the usual ways to comp...

Let’s say that I asked you this question: Are senior citizens at greatest risk of dying from a car-related injury while walking, riding in the passenger seat of a car or driving? If you’re like m...

If you’re married, there’s a good chance that when you were engaged you wondered whether taking the plunge was the right choice. Now, I know that the phenomenon of wedding jitters or “cold feet...