7 Ways You Can Easily Increase Your Willpower
general, people have an overly positive vision of themselves and their abilities. But what's the one thing surveys show most everyone will admit they have a problem with? Self-control. And who is most likely to give in to temptation? Ironically, it's the people who think they have the most willpower. Via The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It: Research shows that people who think they have the most willpower are actually the…
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How To Be Resilient: 8 Steps To Success When Life Gets Hard
tick with it!" "Be resilient!" "Never give up!" I see a lot of stuff about resilience, persistence and grit. What I don't see is a lot of legitimate info on how to actually increase those qualities. How can we be more resilient? How can we shrug off huge challenges in life, persist and -- in the end -- succeed? So I looked at the most difficult scenarios for insight. (Who needs resilience in easy situations, right?) When life and death is on the line,…
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What The Music You Love Says About You And How It Can Improve Your Life
e Music You Love Tells Me Who You Are Ever been a bit judgy when you hear someone's taste in music? Of course you have. And you were right -- music tells you a lot about someone's personality. Research has learned a great deal about the power of music: Your musical taste does accurately tell me about you, including your politics. Your musical taste is influenced by your parents. You love your favorite song because it's associated with an intense emotional experience in your life.…
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Interesting People: 7 Things They All Have In Common
ve posted a lot of research from experts on getting people to like you, being influential and having great conversations. What's the best way to use all this information to be more interesting? 1) First, Don't Be Boring Sometimes the best offense is a good defense. Look at it like the Hippocratic Oath of conversations: Do no harm. We're all terrible at realizing when we bore others because, well, we all think we're just fascinating. The #1 tip for never boring…
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The Single Most Proven Way To Get Smarter And Happier
s, It's This Simple Many of the fixes for our problems aren't complex -- something that's clear in the things I recommend people do every day. What's a scientifically validated way to get smarter, happier, healthier and calmer? Stop reading this right now and go for a walk. It's that simple. Here's why. Exercise Powers The Body -- And The Mind They used to say you don't grow new brain cells. They were wrong. Via Spark: The Revolutionary New Science…
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Here Are The 7 Things That Can Make You Wildly Successful
at does volumes of research say you can learn from wildly successful people? To Build A Better Career, First Build A Better You It might sound fluffy but research shows how people feel about themselves has a huge effect on success. Via The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: For most people studied, the first step toward improving their job performance had nothing to do with the job itself but instead with improving how they felt about themselves. In fact, for eight…
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9 Steps To New Year’s Resolutions That Last Longer Than New Year’s Day
is year I resolve to... Hold on a second. Let's not join the lemmings who screw this up every year. 88% of people fail to achieve their New Year's Resolutions. There is a ton of science on this subject so if we want to do New Year's Resolutions, let's do them right. First, Stop Fantasizing Do fantasies give you the energy to achieve your goals? Nope. Fantasies steal the energy you need to achieve your goals: Positive fantasies allow people to mentally…
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Barking Up The Wrong Tree: Top 10 of 2013
What’s The Most Important Life Lesson Older People Feel You Must Know? Spoiler alert: Don't stay in a job you dislike. You know those nightmares where you are shouting a warning but no sound comes out? Well, that’s the intensity with which the experts wanted to tell younger people that spending years in a job you dislike is a recipe for regret and a tragic mistake. There was no issue about which the experts were more adamant and forceful. Over and over they…
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