Yet, it is. I remember back when I first started working out, with an obsolete, rusty barbell at my friends place. I was sixteen years old. Back then I told my friend: “I don’t want to get any skinnier. I just want to convert my fat cells into muscle cells!” I was being serious. Me and my friend both thought it was a reasonable goal. It wasn’t. I’ve wasted countless of hours on trying to build muscle mass while simultaneously losing fat....

Before deciding that creating the website yourself is wise, review the following four tips regarding some of the most common mistakes lawyers make when creating their websites. 1. Choosing the Wrong Domain Name Your domain name is one of the first impressions you make on the web, and it is directly connected to your site’s search engine ranking. When choosing a domain, it is best to stick with a combination that is known to work....

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So many things in life can knock you out of plumb. As you roll on, focused on your life, along comes some crazy thing that slams you – and suddenly you find yourself askew. Many traditions of meditative practice use the term “centered” to describe the state of presence, peace, and stillness. Another that I have found useful is that of being plumb. When something is plumb, it’s in perfect alignment – inline, perpendicular to the ground....

Knowledge of hoarding was very minimal at one point, and was not considered a disorder of its own until the New DSM-V (Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – Fifth Edition) came out. If someone you care about is showing signs of hoarding, let them know you understand. Embarrassment can play a key role in Hoarding Disorder, and feeling the need to hide from their family or loved ones will further increase symptoms....

A woman who is overly impressed by a man’s status, possessions and bank account will be blinded to his true nature. Men spend money to impress and seduce women. Women spend time and money on their hair, clothes and makeup to attract a first-string man. It’s normal for men and women to want to date and marry a mate who is reasonably attractive and financially stable. However, some men flash cash to charm women during the courtship phase and once the relationship is cemented, they will use money to exert power and control over the woman....

I was having a conversation recently with a guy who was telling me about his nephew, a high school senior. “He should be an engineer,” the guy told me. “Engineers make great money. The job market for engineers is good. My nephew should definitely become an engineer. Don’t ya think?” “No,” I said. (That’s when he stared at me, stunned). “What?” he replied. “No,” I repeated. “I don’t know your nephew....

Throughout the centuries, humans have incorporated social learning into their lives as a major learning approach. The fact that human behavior is learned has made this possible. From initially being the only way to learn, it is now the fastest and most comprehensive learning method. In this article, you’ll find out how you can make good use of social learning and observed behaviors to help you learn faster and easier....

Assertive people actively listen and share their point of view in a way that does minimize or shame the other person. Assertive people know they don’t have all the answers and are open to hearing different perspectives to learn where other people are coming from. In this article, we will look at a few scenarios with both assertive and pushy language. Soon you will see a pattern that the pushy responses are often emotional, selfish and dismissive while assertive responses are calm, open to hearing different points of view and clear in their communication....

Every day our brains try to process 34GB of information, and every day our brains have about 50,000 thoughts.[1] It’s enough to make your head spin. Even if you believe that you have a good memory, you’ll still be unable to remember everything you see, hear or think. It’s not humanly possible. For the vast majority of us, our brains are unreliable for memory tasks. Just try thinking about what you did yesterday....

The question is – how do you develop good habits and make them stick? The reason we often stop ourselves from changing is that we like to stay where we are. Call it inertia or what you may want, but you need to give yourself a push to get things started. To be successful, do more in life and have a sense of fulfillment, you need good habits. And it doesn’t come easy....

Once you plan a long-term goal, you get to know which short-term and mid-term goals you should achieve to reach that long-term goal. The first step is, take a notebook and a pen and start to create a 10-year planner template. What to Add to the 10-Year Plan Template Now the question is what should we add to the 10-year planner template? To answer this question, here are some most important points that should be included in the 10 years plan....

Budgeting is the key to proper money management. Most people don’t create a budget because they think it’s tiresome and limits how they spend their money. In reality, budgeting is useful for tracking your income and expenses. How would you like to hack your finances with a killer budget? It would put an end to most of your problems and improve your financial situation. Forget the bad rap you might have heard about budgeting....

Fast forward to 2 pm the same day. The work seems a lot more rushed, and you barely had a chance to take a lunch break. You start to feel a bit stressed and tired because of the busy schedule. Besides, it seems that you have to go back to certain tasks and fix them because you didn’t have time to focus on them properly. You wish you’d find a reset button so that you could start your day from all over with a different strategy....

I’ve often had to deal with difficult people at work throughout my career. Sometimes it’s been my supervisor, other times it’s been my fellow associates and even other times, it’s people in other departments. Then there are our families. I know it’s not just my family that can be extremely difficult to deal with. I’ve heard enough stories from friends to know that a lot of people’s families drive them to the brink from time to time....

But the truth of the matter is love finds you instead of the other way around. Real love is about genuinely giving someone compassion, comfort, trust and most of the time telling the truth. These are some of the core principles of real love, but superficial love is a mortal enemy. It masquerades itself as true love, and will discuss in the next sections ways to possibly identify it....

Pick up a biography of any successful person, and you’ll quickly learn that there’s one thing they all have in common: they’ve all had mentors—people who came before who taught and championed and supported them, people who helped shortcut their path to success in their given field. Mentorship Isn’t Exactly New The recorded history of mentorship dates back to at least Ancient Greece.[1] In the Middle Ages, most skills and crafts were learned through apprenticeship....

Awilda prefers to work for herself & Awilda needs to be engaged in work that she is both passionate about and stimulates her creativity. In the milliseconds after this information was received, I had a choice to make: would I reject this information as a baseless passing thought or would I integrate this new information as self-knowledge and use it to help change my trajectory? I chose to accept the information because the realizations were based on the feeling that I was no longer capable of going on as I had....

The first thing we do as firefighters when we arrive on a scene is size up the situation. We deploy signs to tell motorists that there is an emergency scene ahead. As we drive up, we assess the number and type of vehicles involved — the 9-1-1 calls are not always accurate — and immediately radio for additional resources if we can tell we will need more firefighters or ambulances on the scene....

Complete concentration on a task Clarity of goals and reward in mind and immediate feedback Transformation of time (speeding up/slowing down) Intrinsically rewarding experience Effortless and ease Balanced between challenge and skills Actions and awareness are merged, losing self-conscious rumination A feeling of control over the task Let’s be honest: have you ever felt this way? Most people haven’t, probably because they’ve never been in a peak state of “flow” that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes in his research on attention and peak productivity....