How To Easily Build Good Habits: 4 Secrets From Research
ou have a long list of things you know you should be doing regularly... But for some reason, you just don't do them. What's the deal? The solution is building habits. Doing hard things isn't hard if you're on autopilot. But how do we make building habits simple and painless?…
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How To Be Smarter With Money: 8 Simple Secrets
veryone wants to know what the next great investment is. But that's the wrong question. If you want to make money over the long haul, picking investments isn’t the real problem. When studies compare how well investments perform to how well investors perform there's always a gap. Investors almost invariably…
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This Is The Easy Way To Save Money: 6 Powerful Secrets From Research
e'd all like to have more money. (That stuff is really useful, ain't it?) Being worried about makin' the bacon can end your marriage, skyrocket your blood pressure, and even cause your brain to malfunction. From Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter: Money is…
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This Is How To Quit Bad Habits Without Willpower: 3 Secrets From Neuroscience
ot any serious bad habits? The extra-strength ones with the FDA warning. The kind you really beat yourself up about -- but still engage in all the time? Procrastination that screws up the quality of your work? Epic tidal waves of laziness? Or cardiac-threatening levels of overwork? Snapping at the…
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New Neuroscience Reveals 3 Secrets That Will Make You Emotionally Intelligent
otional Intelligence. It's everywhere. They won't shut up about it. And yet nobody seems to be able to explain what it really means or how you develop it. Face it: you don't even know what an emotion is. Most people would say an emotion is a feeling. And what's a feeling? Umm... an emotion? Yeah, nice work there, Captain Circular. And it turns out the latest research shows that the little we know about emotions is actually all wrong. And…
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7 Secrets That Will Make You Build Good Habits
just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall bestseller! Building good habits can be hard. Real hard. Nearly half of dieters give up within a week. From Stick with It: Forty percent of dieters quit within one week and more than 50 percent end up weighing more than they did before they started their diets. So what really helps? Does…
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This Is How To Kill Bad Habits With Mindfulness
just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall bestseller! We all struggle with bad habits. Resisting them is hard. Changing them feels impossible. Now there are plenty of tricks from standard psychology on how to deal with bad habits. But what if there was a way that really helped you understand yourself better? Something that wasn't just a "lifehack", but actually led…
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This Is How To Make Life Magical – Scientifically: 5 Secrets Backed By Research
was hesitant to write this. I'm the guy who talks about using evidence-backed stuff -- scientific research -- to get real results. But now I'm going to talk about magic... No, this isn't Hogwarts and I haven't totally lost it. Science gives us clear answers to deal with challenges. Problem is, well, us. We're just not very scientific creatures. Our brains are wired all funny and we're often not terribly rational. As writer Matthew Hutson points out, we often see meaning where there isn't…
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