7 Morning Habits That Can Affect Your Entire Day
Mental Floss · 3 minIt can be easy to fall into a morning routine without considering how it impacts you later in the day.
It can be easy to fall into a morning routine without considering how it impacts you later in the day.
Changing your mind (or someone else’s) is a complex process. But understanding how your brain works can help.
How rituals can help you approach basic tasks more mindfully. Mason Currey’s interest in rituals grew out of his inability to write without distraction.
For a life of harmonious ease, find the rhythm in the everyday: make your world your temple and submit to its sacred ritual.
It’s time to tackle that junk drawer.
When it comes to self-improvement and that ever elusive sense of self-love, many rush to think of all the things they should start doing for a better, healthier routine—but rarely think about tendencies they can stop for their immediate wellbeing.
Many of my habits and hobbies changed during the pandemic. I found myself spending too much time alone and didn't have a lot of plans or events to look forward to. In April, I decided I needed a self-help activity that I was excited about to help get my life and personal goals back on track.
We all know that one person who’s in amazing shape. You know who I mean. They rock a beach body year round, train 5–6 days a week and have energy coming out of their ears. We’re tired just thinking about them.
Earlier this week I asked you for your unwritten rules of driving etiquette. After all, we could all be a little bit better drivers. Out of the nearly 200 comments, three major topics sprung up again and again: 1.
My name is Ashely Smith. It's one of the most common names in the United States (especially if you were born in the 80s), except my first name is misspelled on account of my dad, who just couldn't spell so good. I'm a middle child of five siblings. Pale-skinned, freckle-faced and ordinary.
There are people we really love — friends and family we consistently enjoy and feel strong affection for. There are people we completely despise — folks we positively can’t stand.
The very first question you will ask is: Why one should get just 1% better every day? As mentioned in the bestseller book, Atomic Habits: growing just 1 percent every day, makes you 37.78x times better at the end of the year.
A phrase that first became fashionable a decade ago is everywhere. “Bring your whole self” is one of four values that British Land, a property developer, trumpets on its website. Quartz, a publisher, ran a workshop last year called “How to navigate the whole-self workplace”.
“Build small habits. Make big plans. 1) Keep your daily actions small. Strive to get 1% better every day.
Rumination is associated with a number of mental health issues.
As Seneca said, “Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
Getting enough sleep is critical for physical and emotional well-being, but so many people fall short. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that a whopping 1 in 3 Americans don’t get enough sleep on a regular basis.
My daughter is in her late 20s and I am 65. She was married last summer and has no children. I have felt for many years that she has kept me at arm’s length, starting in her early teens, and it seems to have worsened in recent years.
Stress is a natural response to uncertainty, and it's normal to find yourself worrying about future events every now and then. But excessive thoughts about the future can be a sign of anticipatory anxiety — a fear of unpredictable future events, which is sometimes a symptom of anxiety disorders.
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Whenever I teach about memory in my child development class at Rutgers University, I open by asking my students to recall their very first memories.
Not to brag, but I’m pretty good at sticking with things even when they get hard. Bad relationships, toxic workplaces, demanding sports — I’ve hung on for months and even years longer than I should have, convinced the situation would improve if I refused to give up.
Susanna Abse is the marriage counsellor’s marriage counsellor – 30 years in practice giving her peerless insights into the challenges couples face without making any dent in her curiosity and originality.
To listen well is not only a kindness to others but also, as the psychologist Carl Rogers made clear, a gift to ourselves.
The Scandinavians have done it again—this simple bedroom tweak could put an end to your nightly battle of duvet tug-of-war.
When you forget things, you fall short:What time was that meeting tomorrow? Was it April who said she might want to become a customer in August, or was it August who said to call him next April? Wait, what was the third thing?I joke, of course, but if there's one thing many business leaders worry ab