A healthy and positive attitude to have in life is “leave it better than you found it.” It can apply to almost anything too, whether it’s a relationship we’re involved in, a business we work for, the home we live in, or just how we treat nature and the environment. The idea is based on (more…)
We often think of video games as a way to escape reality, but according to researcher and game designer Jane McGonigal, we can learn a lot of valuable lessons from video games that we can later translate into the real world.
There is a big difference between “working hard” and “staying busy.” Working hard is when you spend your time and energy doing things that help move you toward your goals. Staying busy, on the other hand, is when you waste your time and energy on an activity that isn’t effective toward reaching any goals. However, (more…)
There’s always tomorrow – except when there’s not. Here is a list of the 50 most common things we tend to procrastinate on.
A popular piece of advice in psychology is to “fake it ’till you make it.” In other words, if we fake happiness (such as creating a “fake smile”) then eventually it actually becomes real and genuine happiness. I believe this is true to some degree. I often write about the importance of acting in new (more…)