So, habits are pretty much the human version of automation. You do one thing often enough, your brain will take over and start producing the most efficient results with the least amount of effort from you. You don’t have to think about it or plan for it or convince yourself to do it. One cue […]
A to-do list can be a great companion for productivity — helping you to plan ahead, making sure that you don’t forget anything, and freeing up your mind to focus on the important stuff. On the flip side, an excessively long to-do list could kill your motivation before you even get started, limit creativity and […]
No, really. There is such a thing as “bad’’ rest. Did you know, for instance, that whatever you choose to do during off-duty periods like evenings, weekends, and vacations should ideally be as different from your work as possible? And not just different in the sense that one activity earns you money and the other […]
As the name suggests, remarketing is simply the practice of marketing your business to a certain audience again. This is important because quite naturally, people do not usually buy a product or subscribe to a given school of thought after just one encounter. It takes a certain amount of interaction and shared experiences before you […]
Knowing exactly what you want from your life and committing to it in the form of goal setting can be liberating or overwhelming, depending on how you approach it. It is common knowledge that you can not do more than one thing at a time and do it well so even though setting goals can […]
Oftentimes when we think about creativity, we think about the greats like Einstein, Picasso or Beethoven but did you know that we are all repeatedly creative in our daily lives? That one time you managed to fit a last-minute meeting into your schedule. The tiny tweaks to an old family recipe that made it so […]
Enough people have reported feeling lonely and socially isolated in the last decade that it’s now considered an epidemic, and it has become necessary to intentionally invest in and nurture our personal tribe as often as we can. With the growth of social media, we can leverage technology to find our people and build something […]
The year is coming to an end, and most of us are getting ready to close up shop and dive into the festivities. Before we do that though, we’ll need to take stock and come up with a game plan for when we return in the new year, also known as resolutions. Remember those? You […]
Growing pains, so aptly named, are not just for children. It’s physical and uncontrollable for the kids, whereas the adults have to deal with the mental version of it. Unfortunately for us, we can opt out. We can choose not to take risks. To stay firmly rooted in our comfort zones. To take only what […]