It is a good idea to write your bucket list. But what if you exhausted the ideas for your bucket list? Try building a passion list instead! I definitely think it beats bucket list: we have a very long life and die only once. The bucket list popularity People have regrets when they die. The …
Cultural Diets and Holidays: Tips for a Stress-Free Season
The holiday season, brimming with joyous gatherings and festive meals, often becomes a battleground for navigating cultural diets. Conversations about food, weight, and health can creep into holiday discussions, causing discomfort and challenging our efforts to maintain a balanced relationship with food and our bodies. If you’re dreading these moments, know that you’re not alone. …
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How Teachers Foster Problem-Solving in Young People
How Teachers Foster Problem-Solving in Young People At all ages, children face puzzles to challenge their agility, reason, and capacity for thinking outside the box. But the world today operates at a greater pace, and problems become more complicated quickly. What students are supposed to learn is not only to remember but also how to …
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Unlocking the Productive Parent: The 10 Most Effective Ways to Raise a Smart, Successful Child from Day One
Parenting today is not what it used to be. Parents are struggling to balance their careers, stress, digital distractions, high academic expectations, and rapidly evolving technology while striving to raise grounded, emotionally healthy, and successful children. Children do not simply develop productivity, focus, or discipline. That’s something you work at out of intention, repeatedly and …
A Wise Man Learns From Others’ Mistakes: A Shortcut To A Better Life
Life is a journey filled with opportunities, challenges, and decisions. At the heart of this journey lies the universal desire for happiness, peace, and fulfillment. Yet, achieving these goals is often fraught with trials that test our resilience and wisdom. While personal experience is a valuable teacher, it is neither the only nor the most …
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Ambition and happiness: do you have everything to be happy?
My wife recently told me “You have everything to be happy. I would expect you to be happier. Why aren’t you?”. The theme of today’s post is balancing ambition with satisfaction. Ambition is good It is probably good to have ambitions. Otherwise, we would not do anything worthwhile. A person who has high ambitions is more …
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Career and happiness
This was never a secret, but now it is official: millennials are the most stressed age group out there. Financial concerns are a viable reason to be stressed. High college loans and uncertainty regarding future employment, fear of taking mortgage to buy your own apartment, rising social gaps… There is no safe financial haven for …
Puzzled? Transform depression into motivation!
Comics heroes often discover their greatest strength once they hit the bottom. Sometimes it feels this way to real people. We can transform our depression and confusion into creative breakthroughs and a surge of motivation. Each time we do not feel that good with ourselves we can reframe that into a motivational moment. You may …
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Happiness and illusion of control
Happiness is the holy grail of many people on the path of self-improvement. It is probably the hardest of all goals and the progress to it is counterintuitive. There are many things that do not make us happy, despite our highest hopes. Maybe it is beneficial to talk about them. For more reading, I refer …
What Are the Top 10 Pet Peeves: Why Little Things Drive Us Crazy
Does your skin itch when you hear someone chewing loudly? Do you get irritated when someone cuts you in line at the coffee shop or interrupts you in the middle of a sentence? You’re not alone if these situations seem all too familiar. The minor annoyances in life that make us all a little crazy …
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