This Is How To Increase Self-Esteem: 4 Secrets From Research
ere are days when you feel like you can do anything. And then there are other days… Days where your self-esteem is playing hide and seek, and let's just say it's really good at hiding. You're looking for it like, "Come out, come out, wherever you are," and it's under the bed, snickering and reading old issues of "Inadequate Weekly." We hear a lot about how to increase self-esteem. Unfortunately, most of that stuff should be filed under “Hooey and…
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This Is How To Feel Better And Achieve Your Goals: 4 Secrets From Research
all reach a point where we feel hopeless. Your inner monologue sounds like a rejected Alanis Morissette lyric and any level of optimism you possessed is now playing varsity level hide and seek. You’re Cinderella’s ugly stepsister in this fairy tale, and those shoes were never meant for you. You could use a little hope. Yeah, the thing people love to tattoo in cursive on their ribcage next to a butterfly. It’s the kind of word that feels like…
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How to Be Healthier Without Really Trying
u’ll take roughly 670 million breaths in your lifetime. But we don’t think about breathing much. It’s only when something goes wrong -- like when you’re choking on a chicken nugget -- that you suddenly realize breathing isn’t as optional as it appears. At least with eating, you can skip a few meals. But with breathing, you slack off for even two minutes, and suddenly everyone’s calling an ambulance. Here's the thing: most of us have been breathing wrong. Seriously.…
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New Research Reveals 8 Secrets That Will Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Succeed
w Year’s resolutions: the annual ritual of declaring war on your own bad habits while simultaneously proving that you, in fact, are your own worst enemy. “I’m going to learn Spanish, quit caffeine, organize my closet, and become someone who hits the gym every morning!” Aaaaand a few days later, it’s all on fire. New Year’s resolutions failing doesn’t even seem like an accident anymore; it feels as much a part of the tradition as resolutions in the first place.…
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New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Secrets That Will Make You Lose Weight
ting. It’s the most basic human need, right up there with breathing and arguing on the internet. But we all tend to overdo it, especially around the holidays, when the phrase "biting off more than you can chew" is not a metaphor but a brutal, self-inflicted reality. Now if the weight gain arrived immediately, we’d change our habits. But there’s that sinister lag. It’s only weeks or months later that you notice. Your belt becomes less an accessory and more…
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How To Have A Happy Retirement: 4 Secrets From Research
tirement. The mythical Promised Land where every day is a Saturday. No more punching the clock, no more staff meetings, no more pretending to be interested in Sharon’s photos from her third trip to Dollywood. Retirement is often presented like a montage from a pharmaceutical ad: biking through scenic parks with a face radiating pure joy, like you just swallowed a bottle of sunshine. And it can be like that. For a little while. Um, in the beginning, at least……
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New Neuroscience Reveals 5 Secrets That Will Make You Smarter
is real, folks. It’s a number that tells you how good someone is at puzzle-solving, logical reasoning, and making you feel inadequate at dinner parties. But here’s the rub: IQ isn’t everything. Greater education and intelligence don't necessarily lift you up; sometimes they just provide better tools for digging trenches. Check this out: “Intelligent and educated people are less likely to learn from their mistakes, for instance, or take advice from others. And when they do err, they are…
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How Psychology Can Make You A Better Cook: 5 Secrets from Research
u wanted to have friends over for dinner and impress them. Now the kitchen has become your personal Jackson Pollock canvas. Flour has turned the countertops into a winter wonderland, a lone egg yolk is weeping into the sink, and you’re wearing most of the other ingredients. Why is this so hard? The recipes always call for some fancy ingredient that you’ve never heard of and couldn’t find if your life depended on it. (What the hell is fennel pollen,…
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