Most Productive People: 6 Things They Do Every Day
er feel like you’re just not getting enough done? Know how many days per week you're actually productive? About 3: People work an average of 45 hours a week; they consider about 17 of those hours to be unproductive (U.S.: 45 hours a week; 16 hours are considered unproductive). We could all be accomplishing a lot more -- but then again, none of us wants to be a workaholic either. It'd be great to get tons done and have work/life balance.…
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Decision Making: The #1 Secret Of Astronauts, Samurai, Navy SEALs, and Psychopaths
all make a lot of bad decisions. With careers: More than half of teachers quit their jobs within four years. In fact, one study in Philadelphia schools found that a teacher was almost two times more likely to drop out than a student. In our jobs: A study showed that when doctors reckoned themselves “completely certain” about a diagnosis, they were wrong 40% of the time. And in our personal lives: ...an estimated 61,535 tattoos were reversed in the United…
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Old School: 7 Ideas From Ancient Thinkers To Improve Your Modern Life
e modern world has brought us a lot of great stuff. (I, for one, am a huge fan of antibiotics.) That said, we know there are things that were better in the past, ideas we can learn from or reclaim. What's interesting is recently science and experts have validated many of the lessons ancient thinkers knew but could not prove. Here are 7 new ideas from the old world that can make your life better: 1) Community Is Vital For 99% of human existence…
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How To Overcome Regret And Seize The Day — Scientifically
at hurts more than those pangs of regret? It's one of the worst feelings in the world, right? But I've got a surprise for you -- regret can be a good thing. In fact, sometimes you enjoy it. Sound crazy? When researchers asked people to score the upside of many different emotions, regret actually beat out pride. Via Mastering the Art of Quitting: Why It Matters in Life, Love, and Work: Both regret and disappointment, however, scored much more favorably…
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Take A Nap! 5 Secrets That’ll Make You Happier And Smarter
r many of us, more hours of shut-eye at night just doesn't seem to be in the cards. Is there anything we can do? Yes. Naps. Wonderful, glorious naps. They're not a full-on substitute for lack of sleep but they can do much more than you think and in less time than you'd guess. Without them, you're going to be a mess. Here's why. Wanna Be Dumb And Ugly? Lack of sleep not only makes you ugly and sick, it…
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How 5 Post-It Notes Can Make You Happy, Confident and Successful
ttle Reminders Create Big Changes You know why older people are happier? Research shows as we age we remember the good and forget the bad: ...older people shown pictures of faces or situations tend to focus on and remember the happier ones more and the negative ones less. Yeah, that's all it takes. So if you could just regularly get reminders of the good things in your life, well, you'd be halfway there... And it's not speculation -- research shows thinking about…
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The Science Of “Happily Ever After”: 3 Things That Keep Love Alive
Daniel Jones, author of Love Illuminated, explains: we spend youth asking "How do I find love?" and midlife asking "How do I get it back?" Anyone in a relationship or who plans on being in one needs to know how to keep love alive over the long term. But how do you learn the secret to this? Everyone is happy to explain "how they met" but few give the details on "how they stayed together." So let's look at what…
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How To Achieve Work-Life Balance In 5 Steps
hieving work-life balance can look impossible. And, frankly, it seems like it's getting harder. In the ten years from 1986 to 1996 work-life balance was mentioned in the media 32 times. In 2007 alone it was mentioned 1674 times. Via The ONE Thing: A LexisNexis survey of the top 100 newspapers and magazines around the world shows a dramatic rise in the number of articles on the topic, from 32 in the decade from 1986 to 1996 to a high…
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