How to Focus Easily When You Are Constantly Distracted Life is busy. It’s a constant battle to find a balance between professional and personal activities. In the midst of this busyness, you may wonder how to focus and keep distractions at a minimum so that you can be as efficient as possible. What is Distraction? […]
Changing Your Future With Vision Boards, Gratitude Journals, and Science
Understanding the Science Behind Gratitude Journals Do you have a gratitude journal or vision board? Both are tools that can help you plan and monitor progress. Something that started as a dream on your vision board could end up as an entry in your journal—it’s the amazing result of hard work. Envisioning Your Future John […]
Improving Your Life With Mindfulness and Meditation
Mindfulness Practice: The Who, What, When, Where, and Why Every day is packed full of activities and distractions. It makes it easy to feel like your mind is full instead of being mindful. Now is the time to incorporate mindfulness practice into your daily life. The Basics of Mindfulness Mindfulness has become a hot topic, […]
Feeling Burned Out At Work? Here’s What to Do About It
Is Burnout Harming Your Productivity? Here’s How to Cope “I feel thin, like butter scraped over too much bread.” If you’re not familiar, that’s a quote from The Fellowship of the Ring, the first book of J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The quote is spoken by Bilbo Baggins, a character some readers […]
Is Perfectionism Doing You More Harm Than Good? Here’s How to Tell
Does Perfectionism Lead to Perfection? Science Says No Everyone knows a perfectionist: The artist who spends hours agonizing over minor details of their paintings, the student aghast at getting an A instead of an A+, or the worker who’s mortified at the slightest mistake. If you’re reading this article, you might even be a perfectionist […]
It’s Not You, It’s Me: How Low Self-Esteem Harms Relationships
How Self-Esteem Harms Relationships and How to Stop It If we asked you to predict how long a new couple’s relationship would last, what would you look at? You’d probably start with how much they have in common, their respective life goals, how well they communicate, and so on. But there’s another major factor that […]
Walking for Weight Release: The Science-Backed Benefits!
Walking for Weight Release: The Science-Backed Benefits! Approximately half of Americans are trying to lose weight right now. If you’re one of them, you’re probably dealing with a lot of frustration! From fad diets to Crossfit, it seems like there’s no shortage of complex ways to lose weight circulating on the internet—but what if there […]
A New Study Shows Sleep’s Importance to Your Brain Power
Issues With Relational Memory? More Sleep Can Help Ever forgotten the name of a coworker you hadn’t seen in a while, or who you’d just met a short time ago? Do you forget to put your keys in the bowl by the door, or do you keep forgetting they’re there when you do remember? Have […]