There are steps you can take to make arriving at a party less stressful and more fulfilling. 
One of the issues with parties, unless you’re the most gregarious of extroverts, is that feeling when you’re about to walk into one but don’t know a single person there. Or perhaps you’re only vaguely connected to the host, who will surely be busy hosting. How do you start a conversation at a party with a complete stranger or someone you barely know? What if you do something horribly wrong, requiring you to sever all relationships and perhaps even move to an entirely new town or galaxy?

The Arrival

Take a moment to identify, realistically, what your purpose is for going. Is it:<ul><li>To make a business connection?</li><li>To meet a new friend?</li><li>To relax?</li><li>To have a good conversation?</li><li>To taste some new food or wine?</li></ul>

Define Your Purpose

Party prep should involve what you wear. Pick a tried-and-true outfit — whatever taps you into the best version of yourself, as opposed to something that makes you feel self-conscious or that you’ll be constantly adjusting. 
Some people like to choose a great blouse or jacket or necklace, like a talisman. That’s powerful. Or imagine the person who would play you in a movie, and dress like that for a boost of confidence.

The Outfit

The classic rule is to show up with something in hand. Nowadays, however, you don’t always need to show up with something for your good friends. If you feel more comfortable arriving with a bottle of wine or a token of your appreciation, by all means, go for it.Remember that conversation is part of what you bring to any social event. I don’t walk into a party without two to three things to talk about. These topics can be anything that’s interesting to you at the moment, and you need not even talk about them — but they are there if you need them.

What To Bring To The Party

There’s the sense that we should arrive fashionably late and with a posse of friends, but in fact, the very best time to get there is right when the party starts — before everyone is ensconced in conversations and you find yourself in the position of having to work your way into established groups.
If you can bear it, go solo, and watch the other guests make a beeline toward you.

Arrive on Time, and Go Alone

The person who walks in alone at a party, that’s the most approachable person.

Getting past the initial hellos can itself be a juggernaut. Do you hug, shake hands or kiss on one cheek, or both, or three times, in the European style? What if you hate being touched? If something makes you uncomfortable, however, you can let the other person know by saying politely, “I’m not a big hugger,” or some version of that

Greetings

It’s time to start meeting your fellow partygoers and impressing them with your warm and witty repartee. But how do you do that?
You’ve arrived on time, by yourself or not, with a gift in hand or simply your presence as your present. You know what you want to accomplish, and you have conversational topics in the back pocket of your carefully selected outfit (which, by the way, makes you look like a million bucks). It's time to shine.

Time to Mingle

If you feel intensely awkward about standing in the middle of the room and smiling, or actually approaching someone else — this really does work, the experts say, though it also sounds terrifying — you have alternatives. One thing that is really powerful is to have a job.If you know the host, see if you can help serve drinks. You could also offer to help take coats, clear used glasses or open the door as people knock.

Get Yourself A Job

Although Americans tend to put down small talk as if it’s superficial, it’s actually very important.
It’s about negotiating relationships, as sometimes it leads to an ongoing relationship or even a romantic relationship. You hear, ‘We were at this party, the next thing we knew, we were talking until 2 a.m.’ 
The appetizer for any relationship. You don’t know where your next opportunity will be in life, in friendship, in romance, in meeting people. In most cases, the relationship started with small talk. Somebody had to say hello first. Most of us are afraid to say hello!

Do The Small Talk

You could ask a question: 
<ul>
<li>What do you do? </li>
<li>Been to any concerts lately?</li>
<li>Do you like that beer?</li>
<li>Did you take the train here?</li>
</ul>
Or give a compliment: 
<ul>
<li>I like your hair. </li>
<li>That’s a cool shirt. </li>
<li>Congrats on that promotion.</li>
</ul>

Polite Conversation Starters

Whatever you do, _do _say hello, and be genuine. 
If you’re the type who walks into a room and you don’t know what to say and you don’t say hello, never think they’re going to give you the benefit of the doubt. They’re going to think you’re avoiding them or a snob. 
If you don’t remember someone’s name, go over and say: ‘I don’t remember your name. I feel like an idiot, can you remind me?’

Be Genuine

There’s a difference between being an introvert and having social anxiety. Introverts are a little quieter than the general population and feel it requires a lot of energy to keep a conversation going at a party. 
Social anxiety, on the other hand, is a learned behavior often stemming from something traumatic.

Introversion Vs. Social Anxiety

Before partying, ask yourself if you might have that feeling in this situation, and think about how you can prepare for that. (Having an extroverted pal along, or conversational topics to rely on, can help ease the pressure.)
Just because you tend toward introversion doesn’t mean you can’t be good at parties. It’s all about managing your energy if you’re an introvert.

Being An Introvert

Phones complicate the equation, even though they feel like an escape.You’re not making eye contact or noticing how people in the room are feeling, and you’re probably missing out on some really good conversations by staring at your screen, which you can do all you want when you get home. And if you practice being without your phone at parties, your capacity to empathize will get better.

Getting Busy With The Phone

Being a party guest is easy. Being a great party guest takes work.
<ul>
<li>Tier one is safe territory: sports, the weather, pop culture, local celebrities and any immediate shared experience.</li>
<li>Tier two is potentially controversial: religion, politics, dating and love lives. Test the waters, and back away if they’re not interested.</li>
<li>Tier three includes the most intimate topics: family and finance, buckets into health and work life.</li>
</ul>

Don't Be That Person: 3 Tiers of Good Conversation

Don’t head to a party with the intent of leaving everyone in stitches, unless perhaps you’re a professional comedian. Instead, Channel your inner Oprah. This is especially helpful advice for introverts.T<a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/109/21/8038">alking about yourself triggers the same pleasure sensation</a> in the brain as food. People would forgo money in order to talk about themselves.  You can use this to your advantage simply by listening.

Be More Interested to Be More Interesting

Be attentive and give eye contact.
• Make active and engaged expressions.
• Repeat back what you’ve heard, and follow up with questions. 
• If you notice something you want to say, don’t say it. Challenge it and go back to listening. 
• For bonus points, wait an hour to bring up that thing you didn’t say earlier.
And keep in mind that when you say something declarative, seek out the other person’s opinion as well.

Be A Conversation Superstar

Mingling is an art, but remember what you're here for: to have fun and meet people.You’re trapped in a conversation with a monologuer and you’re racking your brain trying to escape.There are ways to excuse yourself. Say, ‘Oh, I just saw someone I haven’t seen in 10 years, it’s been so great to see you.’”

Working the Room: Excusing Yourself

You can use the white flag, as in car racing, to indicate “they have one more lap and then it’s over."
Acknowledge what you’ve heard — “Gosh, it sounds like you really have a passion for skiing,” and then give someone a warning that the conversation is almost over. For example: “I’ve only got a couple more minutes until I need to leave” (or get a drink, or talk to someone else, or head to the bathroom), “but before I leave, what would you say is the No. 1 ingredient to training as a skier?”

A Trick To Get Out Of A Bad Conversation That Does Not End

One huge conversational mistake is not picking up clues about how other people are reacting to you. But keep in mind, we all have different conversational styles.Be attuned to the signals others are sending. Some cultures have a high-involvement style, which means standing closer and offering more gestures and broad facial expressions; others have a high-considerate style, which means fewer broad gestures and facial expressions. If you’re experiencing a disconnect, it may simply be that you have different styles.

Don't Double Down if You're Not Getting What You Want

One way to avoid them is to “assume the burden of the conversation,” One might use self-disclosure to change the topic, and say, ‘Golf isn’t my thing, but I really like to cycle.’ Or, if someone asks about something sad or bad, throw the conversational ball back and say, ‘I just can’t talk about that right now, but what’s going on in your life?’”
Pauses are natural and, if you wait it out, the other person might revive the conversation. You can also circle back to an earlier topic, but if you’ve reached the end, exit the conversation in a polite way.

Awkward Silences

<ul><li>Keep up your posture.</li><li>Make eye contact</li><li>Open your body isn't of sitting cross-armed.</li><li>Smile.</li></ul>

What To Do With Your Body

You're the hit of the party, and you've charmed your way into the hearts of all. Now stick the landing.
While you don’t want to make a big interruption, you should acknowledge the departure and thank your host. There are, of course, always exceptions, and you could follow up after the party to thank the host if the in-person goodbye simply can’t happen.

The Exit

Say you forget a name, or introduce yourself anew to someone you’ve already met, or spill your drink all over your host’s white carpeting? 
Admit the predicament, apologize with sincerity and move on.

Messing Up

Don't let the fear of missing out get you after you exit a party.
It’s just one party. There’s always another one around the corner. Reward yourself with Netflix or a bath or a pizza and the simple satisfaction that you survived. And maybe you even had fun, too?

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People love to party! Well, at least some of them do. For the rest of us, parties bring on waves of feelings, good and bad, much like the events themselves. Here's everything you've ever wanted to know about being the hit of the party.

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These tricks will help you learn anything fast, such as psychology, for whatever assignments you have or work you need to do. These mind tricks make you learn faster than usual! Drinking Water Improves Exam Grades https://www.bbc.com/news/education-17741653 Why Your Brain Needs Water https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/you-illuminated/201010/why-your-brain-needs-water Effect of Mastication on Motor Preparation Processing https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19447294/ Tea Improves Memory https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041030144110.htm Chewing Gum: Cognitive Performance https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4449949/ Evidence that Chewing Gum Affects Stress, Alertness, and Cognition http://psych.cf.ac.uk/home2/smith/206.pdf 10 Proven Ways to Learn Faster https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/323450 Scientific Ways to Learn Anything Faster https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/these-10-scientific-ways-to-learn-anything-faster-could-change-everything-you-know-about-dramatically-improving-your-memory.html Study Smart https://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2011/11/study-smart Tricks to Improve Your Memory https://time.com/52237/7-tricks-to-improve-your-memory/ Benefits of Studying with Music https://www.fnu.edu/benefits-studying-music/ Music from Bensound.com Thanks to Tristan Reed (writing), Troy W. Hudson (VO), HowlingCreations for helping to create this video!

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These tricks will help you learn anything fast, such as psychology, for whatever assignments you have or work you need to do. These mind tricks make you learn faster than usual! 

Drinking Water Improves Exam Grades
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-17741653

Why Your Brain Needs Water
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/you-illuminated/201010/why-your-brain-needs-water

Effect of Mastication on Motor Preparation Processing
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19447294/

Tea Improves Memory
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041030144110.htm

Chewing Gum: Cognitive Performance
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4449949/

Evidence that Chewing Gum Affects Stress, Alertness, and Cognition
http://psych.cf.ac.uk/home2/smith/206.pdf

10 Proven Ways to Learn Faster
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/323450

Scientific Ways to Learn Anything Faster
https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/these-10-scientific-ways-to-learn-anything-faster-could-change-everything-you-know-about-dramatically-improving-your-memory.html

Study Smart
https://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2011/11/study-smart

Tricks to Improve Your Memory
https://time.com/52237/7-tricks-to-improve-your-memory/

Benefits of Studying with Music
https://www.fnu.edu/benefits-studying-music/

Music from Bensound.com

Thanks to Tristan Reed (writing), Troy W. Hudson (VO), HowlingCreations for helping to create this video!

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Over the past decade, companies have struggled with organizational designs that vary widely in how centralized or decentralized they are across functions. These organizational redesigns are often prompted more by who is designing them than by objective, fact-based decisions about what maximizes value. For example, when functional leaders design functions, they are usually more centralized (in pursuit of economies of scale and skill); when business-unit leaders weigh in, functions tend to end up more decentralized (in pursuit of responsiveness and control).

Striking the Right Balance 

In large, global multi-business companies, this dynamic may result in a struggle between functional leaders trying to achieve standardization and scale, and business leaders who feel they are paying for a large corporate overhead that is not sufficiently responsive to their needs. Underlying these issues are two problems: the lack of a strategic rationale for the current design and an unclear division of decision rights and roles between business-unit and functional leaders.

Addressing The Needs of Business Units

Functions in an organization continuously shift between centralized and decentralized modes, first centralizing to achieve efficiency, then giving power back to business units to spur responsiveness and accountability.Organizations implement tenuous “we’ll both do it” models that rely on collaboration and result in large and expensive functions, with business units finding ways to opt-out and act independently. Functional organizations follow an agenda that is not tailored to the needs of business units, so business units create shadow functions that add even more cost to the organization.

Common Symptoms And Scenarios

we believe companies need a new approach to set up functions that maximize business value and successfully serve business units. This approach is based on three core beliefs:<ul><li>Organizations should flip the script on traditional value assessment of functions and define functions by looking first at business-unit needs.</li><li>Defining “corporate” does not mean functions need to be one size fits all.</li><li>Not every corporate function is up for grabs. </li></ul>

Toward a New Approach

Safeguarding functions include those protecting the company from threats to survival by maintaining basic controls. These functions are almost always led by a corporate entity. Typically, they involve decisions inappropriate for a single business unit to make and often involve legal, risk, regulatory, or investor-related topics.

Safeguarding the Organization 

Shaping functions include those supporting the implementation of the organization’s strategic priorities and requiring one voice across the enterprise, such as branding, strategy and business development, communications, R&D, and centers of excellence (CoEs). The top team must always set the value agenda, but corporate functions, and to some extent the business units, should help shape it. In turn, business units should always be responsible for carrying out the value agenda.

Shaping The Value Agenda

Sharing functions serves needs across business units (for example, payroll, IT, and accounting). Sometimes, these functions can be aggregated to provide efficiencies of scale. Other times, they can be distributed within business units when needs are dissimilar. Sharing functions should be highly responsive to the day-to-day needs of business units.

Sharing Economies of Scale, Skill, and Scope

Putting these core beliefs into practice requires organizations to take three key steps: define the organizational strategy and ground it in how functions deliver value at the enterprise and busines-unit levels, take a BU-back approach to function design, and move quickly to determine how to allocate decision rights and responsibilities.

Employing a BU-Back Lens(Business Unit Needs)

Organizations must first determine the kind of business leaders they need to consult to understand the design requirements of a given function. To gain this perspective, executives must take a step back and <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/bridging-the-gap-between-a-companys-strategy-and-operating-model">consider the value narrative of the organization</a>. The overall narrative ensures all leaders are aligned on value creation and organizational strategy and enables them to make the trade-offs and decisions required to design an effective, efficient organization

Define The Organizational Strategy

Companies should identify the unique characteristics of the markets they operate in and the competitive dynamics within them. How do companies meet the needs of their core customers? How do business units differ in their response to those needs? What products do business units offer, what differentiates them from one another, and what cycle times does each one require?When this exercise is done correctly, a solid value-creation narrative for the organization will emerge.

Identify The Market

The next step is to determine how functions best fit into that narrative. Organizations must answer the following questions:<ul><li>What are the key decisions that business-unit leaders need to make, and what do they need to control? </li><li>What markets, products, and customer bases might require targeted functions? What shared needs could be addressed more effectively or efficiently if they were commonly tied across the organization?</li><li>Why are certain resources best housed at the centre? </li></ul>

Fitting The Narrative

The reason organizations struggle to define central functions is that they move too quickly to define how functions could add value rather than grounding decisions more fully in the needs of business units.Organizations often struggle to define their organizational strategies. They create an answer that sounds good but that results in a bloated, inefficient organization that often provides worse service.

Understanding Value Addition

Organizations should adopt a business-unit lens, or BU-back approach, when designing functions. Because value creation primarily happens within business units, activities of corporate functions should reflect the needs of business units. Functions should be set up only when a business unit absolutely needs them; the functions must then ensure they are fulfilling their promise to those business units.

Designing Functions

This business-unit leader has little to no control over most functions. Instead, this type focuses on pursuing business development and sales, often playing a role with a light touch in product development and in adapting products to local customer bases. This leader operates well with fully centralized functions and clearly defined service-level agreements. For example, companies with similar products across business units often choose this model.

Four primary Archetypes of Business-Unit Leaders: The Powerful Commercial Leader

This type of leader has control over functions, typically those requiring more localized oversight. Strong centralized functions best support this type of executive. For example, Procter & Gamble’s business-unit leaders are responsible for a range of functions such as product development, branding, advertising, and product positioning, but they also take advantage of global business-services groups (for example, IT support and accounting) because the needs in these areas across business units are similar and highly transactional.

Four primary Archetypes of Business-Unit Leaders: The Line-Of-Business Integrator

The empowered general manager controls most profit and loss (P&L) functions and plays a prominent role in shaping and executing the value agenda. However, this leader looks to centralized functions to support a narrow range of shared needs. There are two ways to set up functions in support of this archetype: a lean CoE in which resources may report directly to the business unit, or a <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/the-helix-organization">helix model</a> in which business units make up the value line and functions make up a capability line that business units can tap.

Four primary Archetypes of Business-Unit Leaders: The Empowered General Manager

This type of leader controls nearly all the functions (except essential safeguarding functions responsible for risk mitigation), must manage P&L statements, and substantively drives the value agenda. These executives are often found in private-equity companies, for example, which require severable businesses that can be independently evaluated and easily sold.

Four primary Archetypes of Business-Unit Leaders: The Autonomous Business-Unit Leader

Once organizations have a clear view of what type of corporate-function setup is required, they can choose from nine different options:<ul><li>Fully centralized</li><li>Fully centralized shared services</li><li>Strong CoE, with some execution resources informally assigned to business units</li><li>Strong CoE, with some execution resources directed by business units</li><li>Helix organization</li><li>Lean CoE with enforcement ability</li><li>Lean CoE to promote sharing and adoption of best practices</li><li>Decentralized with formal networks</li><li>Fully decentralized:</li></ul>

Determine How to Allocate Decision Rights and Responsibilities

The balance between centralization and decentralization is a frequent, ongoing negotiation between business units and functions. Taking a BU-back approach grounds functional design in the needs of business units and enables organizational leaders to align on a common vision. Spending time up front on this holistic assessment will help ensure that functional decisions best meet the needs of the business and maximize the organization’s value proposition.

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Drawing is a powerful tool of communication. It helps build self-understanding and can boost mental health.But our current focus on productivity, outcomes and “talent” has us thinking about it the wrong way. Too many believe the myth of “I can’t draw”, when in fact it’s a skill built through practice.Dedicated practice is hard, however, if you’re constantly asking yourself: “What’s the point of drawing?”We need to reframe our concept of what it means to draw, and why we should do it – especially if we think we can’t.

Drawing Is Good

Devoting a little time to drawing each day may make you happier, more employable and sustainably productive.New jobs are emerging all the time for visual thinkers who can translate complex information into easily understood visuals.Big companies hire comic creators to document corporate meetings visually, so participants can track the flow of ideas in real-time. Cartoonists are paid to draft innovative, visual contracts for law firms.

Drawing In 2022

Art-making can reduce anxiety, elevate mood, improve quality of life and promote general creativity. Art therapy has even been linked to reduced symptoms of distress and higher quality of life for cancer patients.And it can help you enter a “flow state”, where self-consciousness disappears, focus sharpens, work comes easily to you and mental blockages seem to evaporate.

Benefits Of Drawing

Cultivating a drawing habit means letting go of biases against drawing and against copying others to learn technique. Resisting the urge to critically compare your work to others’ is also important.Most children don’t care about what’s considered “essential” to a functioning society. They draw instinctively and freely.Part of the reason drawing rates are thought to be higher in Japan is their immersion in Manga (Japanese comics), a broadly popular and culturally important medium.

Cultivating a Drawing Habit

Unlike language, we consider it normal for people not to learn to draw, and consider those who do to be exceptional.Without sufficient practise and exposure to an external system, a basic system persists despite arguably impoverished developmental conditions.

Drawing Is Language

With regular practice, you may find yourself occasionally melting into states of “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)">flow</a>”, becoming wholly absorbed. A small, regular pocket of time to temporarily escape the busy world and enter a flow state via drawing may help you in other parts of your life.

State Of Flow

Use simple tools that you’re comfortable with, whether it’s a ballpoint pen on post-it notes, pencil on paper, a dirty window, or a foggy mirror.Times you’d typically be aimlessly scrolling on your phone are prime candidates for a quick sketch. Doodle when you’re on the phone, watching a movie, bored in a waiting room.Together with mindful doodling, drawing from observation and memory form a holy trinity of sustainable proficiency

How To Start Drawing Naturally

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The “Great Resignation” can be considered the result of pent-up frustration and being put on pause. It is a great reexamining. People are looking at their lives and considering not just how much they want to be paid; they’re also deciding what they want their title to be and what their life should look like. Instead of getting through the day, they’re looking at the long term.
If you’ve been waiting to ask for a raise, ask now! If you’ve been waiting to go for the promotion, go now!

The Great Resignation Is A Re-examining

Get better at asking for more by realizing where negotiation starts. It doesn’t start from the moment you sit down with your boss; it starts at home with you. It starts with being able to clarify your goals, your concerns, and your needs.
Expert negotiators are not the people with the most bluster or aggression; they’re the people with the most knowledge. They know themselves. They know the situation, and they have the ability to listen and get to know the other person really well so that they’re crafting the best possible deals.

Prepare To Ask For More

The key is going from closed to open questions. Classic closed questions can be answered with a “yes” or “no,” and the easiest answer is “no.” Instead of asking for a promotion. You can ask: "What’s the promotion process going to look like this year?” Or, “What do you need from me to make the case for my promotion?” Then listen to the answer.
When you ask someone that question, very often you’re going to get powerful information that’s going to tell you what matters most to them, so that you’re going to be able to figure out a way that meets their needs, while also meeting yours.

Asking Open-Ended Questions

The final critical skill you need to master in a successful negotiation is “landing the plane.” 
You asked your question and made your request, now, stop talking and land the plane. Silence can be nerve-wracking, putting you at risk of eating it up with words you may regret. A lot of high-value negotiation moves come after three and a half seconds of silence. If you need to count in your head, do it. But silence is a superpower in negotiation. It gives the other person time to think, and it prevents you from bidding against yourself.

Stop and Land the Plane: A Few Seconds Of Silence

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Be mindful of your ideas. Examine them. Recognize how your fear presents itself in you. Do you sway? Feeling tense? Sweat? Do you feel ill? Is it continual ruminating or thinking?

Be Watchful

You may begin to analyze the patterns and triggers after you are aware of how the sensation shows itself in you. What causes the fear to arise? Is it continuous or sporadic? Are there any particular physical or emotional triggers? Understanding the triggers can assist us in determining where the fear is coming from and what we need to address.

Recognize

Perception is everything in life; you may see things in any way, shape, or form. Rather than being terrified of something, turn it into a challenge.

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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

What’s up, it’s @hackedongrowth here, What is preventing us from progressing? Fear. If you’re a high achiever, you probably refer to it as stress.Stress is related to fear.We have all experienced fear at some point in our lives, whether it be fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of success, fear of love, fear of being alone, or dread of the unknown.

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Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary

A lack of sleep leads to brain fog, low energy, irritability, and forgetfulness.A few of the actionable sleep tips:<ul><li>Exercise more</li><li>Make your bedroom a sleep sanctuary</li><li>Put screens away at least 90 minutes before going to bed </li><li>Stop consuming caffeine after 15:00</li></ul>

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Less stuff. Fewer demands. Fewer obligations.Most people are too busy with things that don’t matter much. They major in minor things. They waste their money on stuff they don’t need, waste their time on trivial tasks that don’t matter, and waste their energy worrying about the opinions of people they don’t even like.

The Power of Less — Leo Babauta

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

It is for anyone looking to improve their finances and build real wealth. You’ll see how the average millionaire truly thinks and acts — not how the media portraits them.<ul><li>80% of millionaires are first-generation self-made millionaires</li><li>Most don’t acquire any luxury items to show their status </li><li>Most live below their means so they can save and invest</li></ul>

The Millionaire Next Door — Thomas J. Stanley

It contains an incredible amount of wisdom on topics like wealth, health, mental strength, habits, and happiness. “You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

Meditations — Marcus Aurelius

The War of Art is one of the best books on defeating procrastination.“The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.”“I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately, it strikes every morning at nine o’clock sharp.”“The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome."

The War of Art — Steven Pressfield

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We need to be clear about why we are investing. Otherwise, the smallest perturbation – a market up move or down move, or an opinion by an expert with tweet diarrhoea can make us question our choice.

1. Individuality

Once we create an investment plan suited for us, we need to stick to it, rain or shine. Due to the ups and downs of life, we may not invest regularly. We must keep track of the missed investments and make up for them late

2. Discipline

We must recognise that any choice we make in life or personal finance will have an associated cost. Sometimes the cost is immediately apparent, and sometimes it may take decades to reveal itself.

3. Balance/composure

he most important quality, in our opinion, is humility. We must recognise that there are a zillion ways to go from point A to point B, and ours is just one of them. It is rather immature to assume that what we are doing or our choices are the best.

4. Humility

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Scholars, specialists, and medical practitioners have engaged in many debates over the last 10 years about social media use among children and young adults. Although they often use research or their own experiences with patients to ground their views, their ideas vary about whether social media has had positive or negative effects on young people. In this article, you’ll find information on both the benefits and perils of social media as it relates to mental health and on options, some professionals have proposed for coexisting with what has become a mainstay in contemporary life.

Social Media Use and Mental Health in Youth

In youth, social media use can be beneficial and may positively affect mental health, but has potential downsides.

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