Tools & Tips To Improve Yourself
How to Increase Your Ability to Concentrate
Posted on April 19 2020
Being able to focus your attention on a single task through to its completion is essential. This ability helps you avoid mistakes and achieve more in your life. Studies show that when you focus your attention on one thing at a time you solve more problems, experience more success, and work more efficiently.
Exercise More
If you need to concentrate more effectively, exercise more often. Exercise improves your overall health and supplies more oxygen, as well as endorphins to your brain, which ultimately helps you focus on the task at hand.
Eat Right
Another aspect of good health is your diet. Find out
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Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones - through practice
Posted on April 17 2020
How Are Ethics and Morality Related?
Posted on April 17 2020
Most people believe that there is no difference between ethics and morality. But the truth is, one is defined by someone else, and one is defined by you and is based on your internal belief system.
Groups, Communities, and Organizations Define Ethics
Your ethics are often guided by what is deemed as ethical within your social environment. Your morals are intrinsically based on your internal ideas of right and wrong. Sometimes they’re the same, but sometimes they’re not.
Your ethics are often rooted in your culture and family background. Your morals define how your behavior will manifest. Ethics tend to be more fluid
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I am commited to finding something positive to focus on, even in negative situations
Posted on April 11 2020
Kindness, compassion tolerance and forgiveness are the cornerstones of unconditional love
Posted on April 7 2020
The Keys to Teamwork Regardless of What Type of Team
Posted on March 31 2020
Whether you’re helping your family create their mission, or you’re coaching your soccer team, or you’re a team leader at work dealing with teams and building effective teamwork is essential to success in life. No one is self-made, and everyone works with others in one way or another.
Create a Common Purpose and Vision
If you’re a family creating a family mission statement is invaluable in helping move everyone to the same page. It creates a united front that every member can get behind. Plus, the mission statement also serves as a guide to follow when making decisions on a value or
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Steps to Unleashing Your Creativity
Posted on March 30 2020
Being creative is about being innovative in a way that is original and effective for generating the result you desire. Most people think of creativity in terms of art, but you can be creative in every part of your life because all it requires is that you work toward solving problems in a unique way.
1. Set Up Your Environment for Creativity – You need to know how you work best but also inform yourself about the science of creativity. Most people can be more creative if they are in a comfortable, safe environment that is void of distractions.
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How Words Affect Your Whole Life
Posted on March 28 2020
From the time you can hear words formed, even before you know what they mean, your mind can differentiate between negativity and positivity. Part of that is due to the way we say negative words versus the way we say words that are positive in nature. What is clear about these words is that negative words can affect your whole life in a bad way.
Acknowledge the Past
If you’ve experienced or spoken a lot of negative words in your lifetime, it’s possible that today, you have issues that are still affecting you today. Childhood is very powerful and can affect your
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How Can You Become a Good Mentor?
Posted on March 26 2020
When you agree to become a mentor to someone, you’re agreeing to advise them in the thing you’ve already done and are an expert on. For example, you can mentor someone new at work, a student training in your field, a friend through weight loss, and others. The idea is to help them make good choices based on their stated goals. It can be personal or work-related.
Establish Expectations
When you first start working with someone as their mentor, it’s best to be as formal about setting up the expectations and rules as you can. That way the time you spend mentoring
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10 Tips for Improving Your Work-Life Balance
Posted on March 24 2020
Defining a work-life balance is something you must do for yourself. Keep in mind that balance will look different to you than to someone else. Regardless of how you define balance the best way to ensure you get what you want is to plan for it.
1. Plan and Schedule Everything – Create realistic plans that have steps that you can schedule in your calendar. Don’t just schedule work-related events, schedule everything from dinner with your love to game night with your kids. In fact, schedule the things you want to do first, then schedule work around it when
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9 Effective Ways to Boost Wisdom
Posted on March 22 2020
Wisdom comes from experience and allows you to have the right insight or judgment to make better choices and decisions that help you meet your life’s goals and objectives. You can boost your wisdom by taking decisive action toward educating yourself about the world and about your own mind.
Travel More
There is nothing as useful as traveling the world to find out how small your frame of reference is about life. For many people who travel, they’re shocked at how much beautify there is in the world both in nature and in technology.
Study Different Cultures
When you study cultures, you can find
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8 Ways to Understand People Better
Posted on March 20 2020
One way to become a more effective and productive person is to become a better communicator. Excellent communication is key to delivering your message to the world. You can become better at communication by learning to understand people better. This requires that you let go of judgment and learn more about the world.
Withhold Judgment
Every one of us has preconceived notions about different individuals and groups of people. It’s in our DNA and is hard to fight. We know what we know due to being around people who are most like us. When you find that you are going to be
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