How To Be More Resilient: 6 Steps To Success When Life Gets Hard
metimes life doesn't just hand you lemons -- it pelts you with them like you're in a citrus fruit dodgeball game. Yeah, we’re talking about when you have to deal with grief, like the death of a loved one or other serious tragedies. You're left with this bizarre, jagged-edged picture that sort of resembles your life, but not really. It's a process that’s as confusing as trying to read a book where every other page is from a different novel.…
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This Is How To Have A Long Awesome Life: 4 Secrets From Research
ere’s no specific moment when you know you’re getting older. No ceremony where they hand you a cardigan and a book of crossword puzzles and say, "Welcome. You're one of us now. The Wi-Fi password is getoffmylawn." But the wrinkles and gray hairs start accumulating. Your brain's default setting has gone from "efficient" to "making that dial-up internet sound.” And you wake up with injuries from sleeping wrong. SLEEPING. You know, that passive activity where you're unconscious and immobile. It's…
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This Is How To Be More Lucky: 4 Secrets From Research
times, inexplicably bad stuff happens to all of us. The kind of thing that makes you want to stand in front of the universe with a sign reading, "Really? This is what we're doing now?" And sometimes we call it “bad luck.” Oh, magical thinking, my favorite kind of thinking when I want to avoid responsibility and logic, which, if I'm honest, is most of the time. We all have a friend who believes every retrograde Mercury heralds personal…
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4 Rituals To Keep You Happy All The Time
ppiness. It's the one characteristic everyone goes on about like it's the golden ticket to the Wonka factory of life. And maintaining happiness, well, yeeeeesh. It's a relentless pursuit in a world that constantly shifts the goalposts. You're trying to maintain a sunny disposition in an era where the news cycle is less "informative briefing" and more "24/7 carnival of despair." The world might feel like your oyster, but unfortunately, you're allergic to shellfish. Everybody thinks they have answers. The…
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How To Get Wealthy – Slowly But Surely: 5 Secrets From Research
e grand human fantasy: making money with the least amount of sweat. It's a dream as old as time, or at least as old as the invention of money and laziness, which I assume came about in the same brainstorming session. We're living in an age where people become millionaires by making videos about unboxing toys. But getting started on learning about personal finance can be both boring and confusing. Investing? Oh boy. Bulls, bears, shorts, longs – it sounds…
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How To Know Who You Can Trust: 6 Secrets From Research
ust — humanity's favorite high-wire act. What’s the reason most people cite for wanting to leave their job? Not trusting their employer. And what quality do you value in a friend more than any other? You guessed it: trustworthiness. But a 2021 poll showed that 18 percent of American adults said they only have one or zero people they can trust for help in their personal lives. It’s a sad "I'll laugh about this in therapy" kind of statistic. Makes…
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This Is How To Deal With Negative Thoughts: 6 Secrets From Research
the theater of the mind, unwanted thoughts are the hecklers in the back row, throwing popcorn at the screen of your consciousness. Your brain, that squishy blob sitting in its dark skull-room is like those old jukeboxes in dive bars that play the same three songs on a loop. Except instead of "Don't Stop Believin'," it's "What if everyone's secretly laughing at you?" We’ve all had intrusive thoughts at one time or another: impostor syndrome, embarrassing memories, fears, anxieties,…
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This Is The Easiest Way To Make Your Life More Awesome
r homes, our schedules, our digital lives - it's all just an overflowing cornucopia of too muchness. You've got back-to-back meetings, a deluge of emails, and a to-do list longer than a CVS receipt. If you had a dime for every meeting that could've been an email, you could retire and live on an island made entirely of dimes. Our homes are now less like cozy havens and more like a game of Tetris where we're perpetually losing. We don't…
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