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Let's Stop the Glorification of Busy
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Redefine success
There’s no prize for working the most hours per week or making the most money.
The question is how much joy you’ve brought into people’s lives and how much have you made the world a better place.
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Avoid burnout
Burnout, stress and depression are worldwide problems.
Working harder doesn’t necessarily mean better results — in fact, it can have the exact opposite effect.
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Nurture your well-being
Make time to take care of yourself in terms of exercise, meditation, music, art and family life — this isn’t selfishness, it’s good sense.
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Sleep your way to the top
Get more sleep. Not getting enough sleep is associated with health risks and higher stress levels. Every element of your life can be improved by getting the proper amount of sleep.
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Take a digital detox
When’s the last time you turned off the cellphone and focused 100 % on the people you’re with?
Challenge yourself and your loved ones to turn off the digital interruptions. The email will be there when you turn your phone back on.
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Keep learning
We learn many of our life lessons from our parents, relationships with our spouse and our children.
Learning shouldn’t stop when you’re out of school — indeed, that’s when learning may truly begin.
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Listen to your inner voice
Have you ever had a hunch about something, ignored it and in retrospect you knew that you should have followed it?
The next time this happens, listen to your gut feelings and be in touch with the perspective of your own thoughts.
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Act like a child
Spend time with your kids or grandkids and see life through their eyes at a museum or art gallery. Take a trip to your bucket list location that you’ve always wanted to see.
Every action doesn’t have to advance your ability to earn money or exercise power.
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Find solitude
Mediation helps relieve stress and helps us tap our inner voice. If you don’t like being with yourself, how can you expect others to like being with you?
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Give back to your community
Being a compassionate person and helping others can help solve some of society’s biggest problems.
Find a way that you can share your unique talents or time with a local shelter, an elderly home or at your children’s school.
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Lifequakes
They are the transitions and moments of disruption that offer unique opportunities for insight and wisdom.
The constant handling of big and small obstacles and setbacks, ironically, is what provides meaning to our lives. It is almost as if a Gateway or threshold has to be crossed, signifying the commitment of the journey from the ‘Hero’ who is able to successfully complete the ‘test of life’.
Autobiographical Occasions
Life transitions are the interesting chapters of our internal autobiographies, that provide us with the opportunity, tools and the reason to transform ourselves for the better.
We need to take small steps, or ‘microsteps’ to accept these transition moments, visualize and plan out the change, shed our old ways, unveil our transformation and the resulting new self, and to storify the entire transition.
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Benefits of an evening routine
Haphazard evening routines can have serious effects on our sleep.
The right evening routine helps us wind down, relax, and get into a deep, restorative sleep—making us refreshed and ...
The science of sleep
When we close our eyes for the night, our mind cycles through different stages of sleep:
- Light sleep: Which is most similar to being awake
- REM (or Rapid-Eye-Movement): Where our minds are asleep but active and where dreams are most likely to happen
- Deep sleep: Where our mind is in “regeneration” mode
So many things can get in the way of us reaching deep sleep, from stress and burnout to late-night screen usage, eating late, and physical issues. To make sure we reach our deep, restorative sleep, we need a proper evening routine.
Create a “closing ritual”
For most of us it is the mind, rather than the body, that disrupts restorative sleep.
To cleanse our mind of the leftover responsibilities of the day, we need to bring a mental wind down into our evening routine.
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Dealing with difficult times
We may wonder if it is even possible to thrive during difficult patches in our lives.
The word difficult could mean something different for every person, but the constant is our commitm...
Keep the big picture in mind
What you're going through is just a chapter of your life. The rest of the story is still unwritten. Once you emerge from a difficult period, a blank page will await you to change the record.
At the moment, everything feels confusing, but hindsight will be 20/20 vision.
Define your success
Define your success. It is critical in order to know yourself. Success could be your health, career, friendships, being a good spouse or parent.
Difficult times in life require us to redefine our objective, to modify them to fit our new situations. What does betterment look like to you? Is it better health, better grades, healthy relationships? Write down your priorities and work towards them daily.