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3 Ways to Beat the Monday Blues

The Sunday blues. No, that’s not the title of a country song. It’s that palpable melancholy-mixed-with-anxiety that we sometimes experience as the sun sets on our weekend and we contemplate the coming workweek. (Freaky but true: As Christiane Northrup, MD, notes, more people die from heart attacks on Mondays than any other day of the week. Crap!)...

Create An Inspirational Workspace In 8 Steps

Believe it or not, environment can affect motivation. Ready to whistle while you plow through a ton of work? These eight design tips will help you create a workspace that inspires creativity and improves performance. 1. Let the sun shine in. Natural daylight and full-spectrum light both stimulate and boost mood. And proper lighting in a...

18 Ways To Cheer Yourself Up Quickly

Try as we might to be peppy and positive, sometimes life gets the better of us and even the perkiest folks can feel a little blue. What happens next, though, is up to us: Research has found that happiness is 60 percent circumstances and genetics — which means that 40 percent of it is within...

Foods to Enhance Brain Health

As we learn more about our bodies, many of us are starting to change different aspects of our lifestyle. We are learning more and more just how interconnected our body is with our environment and what we use to fuel our daily activities. Science now supports what common wisdom has always implied – a good...

7 Ways to Shape Up and Live Happier

Happiness is a commodity that never loses its value. People often mistake it for money, but actually it has more to do with the people around us. It affects the way we live, how we spend our time, and most importantly how we see ourselves. Here are seven tips on how to live a happier life. Smile When...

How the Humble Ampersand can Raise your Emotional Intelligence

& I’m a big fan of the ampersand; that intriguingly curvaceous symbol which represents the word ‘and’. Sometimes regarded as the 27th letter of the alphabet, the ampersand is not just a word in its own right, it is also, I believe, both a concept and a wonderfully empowering metaphor with implications for how we...

10 Ways To Become 10x

Ever heard the term “10x”? In the tech world, it refers to “one employee who can produce the output of 10 mediocre ones.” But 10x can also be applied to products. For instance, Larry Page, the CEO and cofounder of Google, expects his employees to create products and services that are 10 times better than the...

Resilience, Thriving and Post Traumatic Growth

We experience many traumas as we go through life. There are ‘micro-traumas’ like changing schools, failing an exam or giving a presentation and getting it wrong. There are ‘meso-traumas’, such as a house burglary, a bump in the car or health worries. And, sadly for many of us, there are ‘macro-traumas’. They are those experiences...

5 Ways to Handle Conflict in the Workplace

The modern workplace is not always the easiest place to be. The stress of the job role combined with a range of different personalities can cause all kinds of added problems. Office stereotypes and conflicts growing from them have become a running joke. Co-worker stereotypes such as ‘workplace gossips’ and ‘the know-it-all’ as well as...

Can Positive Thinking Actually Make You Depressed?

For some time now, optimism has been touted as the one-way route to ultimate health and happiness. Books like Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich and Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret promise prosperity and personal fulfillment with just a few cognitive tweaks to your thinking. However, recent studies have disclosed a few potholes in this smiley-faced philosophy. In...

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