How to Set Emotional Boundaries and Stop Taking on Other People’s Issues
“We’re afraid that if we clear set boundaries for ourselves, the people in our lives will begin to resent us. However, learning to communicate boundaries effect...
Category: Self Improvement
Why It’s Important to Revisit Your Notebooks
“Almost every writer will tell you how important it is to keep a daily diary or notebook, but very few emphasize how important it is, if you want to publish, to...
How to Use Smart Exercise to Stay Younger Longer
“Instinct tells us that playing bridge and doing the crossword are good for the brain, but workouts also improve cognitive function, although the process is poo...
15 Signs You Can Trust Someone
“Individuals who are worth your trust know they don’t have all the answers. They look for ways to learn and improve themselves constantly, and through that proc...
Why Men Should Cry at Movies
“Crying at movies has become, for me, a quasi-ritual act, an opportunity to let a piece of art disarm my defenses and remind me how to, well, feel — to sit with...
Eight Ways to Beat Burnout
“A huge source of burnout is the feeling that we’re not accomplishing the things that we want to accomplish — we’re pushing and pushing and pushing, but somehow...
Three Ways to Be Happy Based on Scientific Research
“Becoming acutely lonely, the experiment found, was as stressful as experiencing a physical attack. It’s worth repeating. Being deeply lonely seemed to cause as...
Five Ways to Figure out How You Waste Your Time
“Progress gets harder to measure the closer you get to the middle of a project. In that nebulous middle zone, the finish line is still too far away to see.”
How to Sit
“You probably didn’t realize this, but we have been sitting incorrectly the majority of our lives. And it’s making our bodies stressed.”
16 Things Andrea Zittel Knows for Sure About Life and Creativity
“What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.”