How to Check (and Increase) Your Concentration
We’ll be short. Over the past few years, you’ve probably seen at least one article claiming that people’s attention span is diminishing to the point […]
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We’ll be short. Over the past few years, you’ve probably seen at least one article claiming that people’s attention span is diminishing to the point […]
Continue reading »Fortunately, 2021 is almost over, and as we look to the bright future that awaits us next year (when all our problems will certainly be […]
Continue reading »When we focus on improving our health, we often get in our minds a list of things we don’t do: I need to exercise , […]
Continue reading »Generally speaking, lying is not considered positive. But not all lies are the same. There is a wide range of lies, from small lies that […]
Continue reading »Your weight on the scale changes for many reasons . We can gain or lose muscle, and we can gain or lose fat. We may […]
Continue reading »For a long time, our default answer to the question “How are you?” was “okay” or some variation of it. But in the past few […]
Continue reading »Even as the pandemic wanes ( sort of – get vaccinated! ) And we mirror the political struggles of 2020 in the mirror of the […]
Continue reading »Whether you’re reaching out to a group of people at work or having a one-on-one conversation with a friend, you need to fight for their […]
Continue reading »Girls ‘and Boy Scouts’ jobs look great when going to college, and the lessons tend to live with you forever. I climbed the rankings for […]
Continue reading »There has never been a shortage of group fitness fashion trends – from TaeBo to zumba to pole dancing and everything in between. However, there […]
Continue reading »For most of my life, my name was pronounced incorrectly or with errors, apparently by everyone who was not familiar with its cultural significance. Often […]
Continue reading »They say that we laugh less with age . Sometimes it is our changing values that change how funny we find it, or the break […]
Continue reading »The global pandemic is probably considered one of the worst conditions for hone creativity. Contrary to what the bravest of us may have argued in […]
Continue reading »Morning routines are an important way to start your day and increase your productivity. We talk a lot about productivity here , and for good […]
Continue reading »Feeling anxious? Even if this moment does not bother you, chances are good that at some point in the Year of Pandemic you will feel […]
Continue reading »This is a challenging time for optimism. Back in March and April – when most people were just beginning to realize the scale of the […]
Continue reading »Exercise during a pandemic is a good and healthy use of your time. Playing sports while watching your favorite shows is an even more efficient […]
Continue reading »I woke up this morning and suddenly realized that today I have another play night scheduled with my friends. This is what our quarantine lives […]
Continue reading »When Christa signed up for the Science of Happiness course at UC Berkeley, she didn’t know what to expect. The closest she has done before […]
Continue reading »Until recently, I have not finished reading the book since the end of January. In that sense, I’m not unusual – a 2018 Pew Research […]
Continue reading »Not a day goes by that I don’t see friends turn against each other, stupid relatives or people they knew, and the rest of us […]
Continue reading »There is a quote from Kurt Vonnegut that I often relied on in 2020, taken from his 1969 novel Slaughterhouse 5 , this strange sci-fi […]
Continue reading »After spending a couple of months in isolation, I started looking for ways to improve our living space in small ways. If I will have […]
Continue reading »Growing up, my family used the slightest achievement as reason enough to go to a festive dinner. Maybe it was just a cover for my […]
Continue reading »Just because you’re at home with your partner, children, or pets all the time doesn’t mean that you’re better off spending time with each other. […]
Continue reading »For some reason, I held on to my last nonstick skillet for 12 years. I bought it in Florida, moved it to Portland, and took […]
Continue reading »Times are tough. Unemployment is off the charts; schools cannot decide how to open safely or whether to open at all; We did so badly […]
Continue reading »If you haven’t worked from home before covid, chances are good that you will now, and you may be tired of looking at the interior […]
Continue reading »The birds are beautiful and fun to watch, and if you are lazy, you don’t even need to leave your house to see them. Imagine […]
Continue reading »If you’ve always dreamed of becoming a gymnast, or putting gymnastics at the top of your list of your favorite Olympic sports, the good news […]
Continue reading »If you’ve been thinking about writing a novel, writing a play, keeping a diary, or simply keeping a record of what you’ve experienced during this […]
Continue reading »If you’ve ever tried to upload a panoramic image to Instagram – or, to be honest, any interesting horizontal image – then you’ve probably run […]
Continue reading »I’m not saying I’ll be the next Deadmau5, but the new Citizen DJ web app from the Library of Congress is great to play with […]
Continue reading »If you are spending some time at home to learn how to draw, Disney Parks has several videos to help you. The How To Draw […]
Continue reading »If you’ve spent your time socially distancing to work on your photography skills, now you have a few more ways to do it. Last weekend, […]
Continue reading »If you’re in the middle of a NaNoWriMo draft and feel like your novel lacks those sensory details that other writers seem to naturally include […]
Continue reading »Work-life balance for creative people is more like work, work and life. You must make time for both your work and non-work responsibilities, plus time […]
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