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Is stress preventing you from having a successful career? Maybe it’s time to reconsider your professional path. Jobs aren’t designed to get the best of you, they are supposed to motivate you to become a better person. That’s why it is essential to reassess your current situation if you feel that your workplace is not conducive to success. This infographic covers points that you should consider when determining how stress is affecting your career....

Perhaps the three hardest words to say in the English language. But perhaps they are also words we should be using more often. You don’t have to look far back into history where people believed things that we would now see as ridiculous: a flat Earth, a sun that orbits us or that blood letting was an effective medical practice. Similarly I don’t think you need to look far back into your personal history to find examples of where you have been wrong....

5 Hacks For Prioritizing Complex Tasks

Micronaps are those moments you catch yourself having fallen asleep, usually for somewhere under 5 minutes. However, if you schedule these in your day you can give yourself some easy pick-ups. Could a nap replace coffee? Steven Aitchison takes two a day and claims he can be refreshed the whole day with 5 hours sleep the night before. Micronap your way to success – [ChangeYourThoughts]

Research clearly shows the positive impact of art therapy on emotional health and it’s important that you find ways to expose yourself to this powerful therapeutic practice as frequently as possible. Thankfully, there are a number of online resources designed to make art therapy accessible and convenient. In fact, you may want to bookmark the following blogs. 1. Psychology Today Arts and Health This blog is managed by Cathy Malchiodi, an experienced art therapist and author of 13 books on the subject, and offers a very educated look at “the integrative, reparative and restorative powers of the arts....

10 Things You Can Do In One Second To Make Your Life Happier

You shouldn’t think of your desk as merely a desk, as a piece of furniture. Instead, it is important to make your desk your own, something distinctly yours. Working at a place you are comfortable with, a place you regard as yours will affect your productivity and the quality of your work there. What you need is a workstation that is well built, comfortable, and well designed. With that in mind, here is a list of ten of the best for your consideration....

Read on to find out her answers to my questions: Why is losing weight after menopause so difficult? Well, first I want to say, as a woman who has been through menopause, I know how frustrating this process can be, and I want the ladies reading to know there’s hope. You can have a healthy, attractive body after menopause, but it is challenging and I’ll tell you why. In one word, the problem is “change....

Some of these require special training from accredited sources and she points you in the right direction to get signed up. Other tips are just good to know, such as home remedies for diarrhea. And if you’re looking for some advice on how to provide care until professionals arrive, there are skills such as first aid for severe bleeding from the Mayo Clinic. And finally — even though the following video is aimed at adult therapy, it’s an entertaining reminder of the benefits of CPR (and even better when you know Ken Jeong is a board-certified doctor)....

However, what happens when sex gets out of control? When it becomes an uncontrollable urge, a persistent itch beneath the skin, interfering with your life and relationships, what happens then? What happens when sex becomes an addiction? Sex Addiction is Real: The Signs and Symptoms Understanding sex addiction is difficult for most people to understand, as is addiction in general. When one has never experienced the overwhelming, all-consuming urge to drink, use illicit substances, or compulsively do something despite knowing how harmful it can be, it’s easy to deny that addiction is more than a moral shortcoming....

It’s worth my while, then, to make the effort to process the information that I learn and apply it in real life. All of the tricks I have for learning new information when I was still in school just don’t work out in the real world. So many learning techniques focus on a test or classes where you have a clear chance of how to build on specific ideas. We need more practical solutions....

In my mind, it was a success. And to celebrate how much the blogging community got on board, I want to share some of the best posts that came out of Blog Action Day. Seven tips for how simultaneously to boost your happiness and safeguard the environment (in your own small way) by The Happiness Project suggests some simple practices to make you feel better about yourself and the environment....

Writer’s block hits most writers at one time or another. Usually it happens quite unexpectedly and at the most inconvenient time possible! It doesn’t matter how long a writer tries to force themselves to continue working on their writing project, once writer’s block takes hold, the project grinds to a halt until the block is released and the creative muse can start working once again. Blogging can help this process in a number of ways....

Sorry, not sorry. 1. I Go After What I Want Too often, women who go after what they want are classified as being overly ambitious or too aggressive. Commonly accepted qualities usually associated with men.For a woman to be a go-getter is suggesting, she cares only about her acquired success while having little to no concern for others. Women are supposed to be nurturers and caregivers, not hungry for fulfillment....

Do you get frustrated when visitors to your site don’t convert into subscribers? For many bloggers, not all, success equals an engaged and high volume readership, and/or making money from their blog. If you fall into either of those categories then you can benefit from improving the brand of your blog. This post will show you how. Gaining a High Volume Readership What makes a reader want to subscribe to a blog?...

BRAT diet has been a go to diet for stomach flu since 1926, with variations such as BRATT with tea, and BRATTY with tea and yoghurt. Being bland, simple and easily digestible with little residue, the diet has proven successful in cases of diarrhea and nausea. However, being low in fiber, protein, and fat, the diet is becoming much less prescribed by medical experts due to lack of important nutrients, especially for kids....

However, you may be missing the main reason…you could just very well be bored. It’s early in the morning, and I’m just lying in bed, drifting off into the dangerous thought of; him. I used to think that I was crazy. I’d get five minutes to myself and I’d be all over his social media to see what he was up to. He really wasn’t that great. I mean, from the outside looking in he seemed like a great guy....

Consider this: In three weeks time, you have a big presentation to a long-hoped-for new client. Three weeks is plenty of time, though, so each day you sit down at your computer and, instead of working on your presentation, play game after game of Desktop Tower Defense. Three weeks and a day later, you’re clearing out your desk after being let go for failing to get that big wished-for client....

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