How to Get People to Do Things They Don’t Want to Do
“Providing a sense of progression is a form of feedback and is a key component of making unpleasant tasks more manageable.”
Category: Self Improvement
Why Our Preoccupation with Happiness Has Made Us Less Happy
“Happiness studies seem to be a way of convincing people they’re happy — or could be happy — even as they’re being dealt increasingly bad hands in terms of thin...
Why Sitting Down Destroys You
“Fitness talks muscles before spine. Gymnasts focus on how they are moving their body — and they also just happen to have awesome posture and a really strong co...
What to Do When You Have Too Much to Do
“Pick one thing, and give it your focus. Yes, there are a lot of other things you can focus on. Yes, they’re stressing you out and making it hard to focus. But ...
You’ll Make the Same Mistakes Until You Acknowledge Them
“Admitting mistakes, first to ourselves, and then to others, allows us to channel our energies into self-improvement rather than waste them on covering up our h...
22 Weird but Profound Life Lessons
“Don’t let a quick decision ruin everything you’ve built for yourself. Keep saying no to things that don’t serve you.”
12 Rules for Life, According to a Woman Who Just Turned 45-Years-Old
“Always order one extra dish at a restaurant, an unfamiliar one. You might like it, which would be splendid. If you don’t like it, all you lost was a couple of ...
How to Create a Schedule That Works for You
“The most successful people consistently get their most important work done first.”
How to Challenge Your Own Ideas of Failure
“When you make a mistake you have two choices. One is you can accept that the final product is gonna be flawed, and maybe no one will ever see it but you will a...
How to Create a More & Less Monthly Challenge
“Each month I selected a new theme: something I would add or subtract to my life for the entire month. I invested each full month to explore and analyze the the...