Are you looking for ways to fix your sleep schedule? You may be working as a firefighter, police officer, paramedic, or nurse, and your job requires you to be on rotating shifts, or on call to respond to emergencies at any time. Or it could be that your lifestyle forces you to keep late hours, … Read more
Imagine you are at the end of a hard exercise routine, and you can hardly push your body to do any more work. Your muscles are suffering from fatigue, and you are ready to give up. Your physical abilities have been depleted. The same concept can be applied to your mental abilities! Specifically, a concept called decision … Read more
Do you often find yourself continuing on a path that doesn’t feel right, only because you’ve already invested so much time or money into it? You might strongly dislike what you’re doing, but you feel like you have to stay the course because you can’t imagine doing anything differently. If this sounds familiar, then you’re … Read more
Do you know that sudden feeling you get when you are assigned a new project at work and you think you are in way over your head? Or when people around you are talking about their careers, and you feel quietly ashamed because you don’t think your success measures up? Maybe you beat yourself up … Read more
Coloring pages are no longer just for kids. These days many adults are coloring too, and not just to give them a temporary return to the days of their youth. There are many good therapeutic reasons why adult coloring pages are all the rage these days. This post goes over the top 10 benefits of … Read more
Nothing good happens after midnight. I first heard this phrase while in the military. It was true then; it is true now. All sorts of shenanigans happen to those who stay up late, especially past midnight. Think of the common reasons to stay up to the wee hours of the night: Video Games TV Facebook … Read more
Did you give in to that leftover piece of cake in your office’s breakroom? Or do you frequently procrastinate on tasks or projects that you know are important? As humans, we are fantastic at picking from a wide range of excuses to limit our capabilities. From avoiding the gym to studying for an exam, it’s … Read more
We all fall down sometimes. You can’t live life without making some major mistakes and hitting a few brick walls and low points along the way. Fortunately, it is not about how low you fall, but about how high you bounce back up when you hit the bottom and have had enough. These low points … Read more
Have you ever heard this famous quote that’s often attributed to Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Or, put more simply: “Excellence is a habit.” Over the past two decades, the world of personal growth and development has seemed to grow exponentially. The Internet, technological … Read more
With the new year well into motion, are you still focusing on your New Year’s resolutions or improving yourself in any way? Often, people make big promises to themselves at the beginning of the new year that are soon forgotten once the reality of everyday life sets in. Maybe you told yourself that you would … Read more