Reading teaches us a lot, but it’s in the actual doing of things that we do our real learning.
Research led by a leading expert on the positive benefits of napping suggests that Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep enhances creative problem-solving.
It’s very simple: your MIT is the task you most want or need to get done today.
Science has shown that even a brief sleep - a power nap - can significantly improve your ability to remember what you've learned. Here's how.
Our attention is often pulled in too many directions, leaving us feeling overloaded, distracted, chaotic, spread thinly, without focus. So what can you do?
Life would be grand if we only did what our fleeting hearts wanted to do, each moment of the day. Unfortunately, the laundry, taxes and difficult conversations would never get done.
Procrastination is in all of us, and one of the best ways to procrastinate is to do all the busy-work that makes us feel like we’re doing stuff -- while not doing the stuff we know we should be doing.
Following this method, you can process your inbox in less than 5 minutes if you’re quick.
The urgent desire for a successful business -- and the fear of losing business -- drives many a good person to do sleazy things.
We all have days when we’re just not very inspired, when we need passion and creativity breathed into us.
Some people claim they work well in a high-stress environment. I'm not one of them.
Little research exists in the area of self-talk, although internal dialogue often influences the way people motivate and shape their own behavior.
Backpackers scored 50 percent better on a creativity test after spending four days in nature disconnected from electronic devices, according to a study by psychologists from the University of Utah and University of Kansas.
When people feel they’ve hit a roadblock in reaching a personal goal, such as losing weight, a change in perspective...
Do you ever have one of those days when you just can’t seem to find focus?
Students, athletes and performing artists are often advised to imagine themselves performing successfully. But is that motivation influenced by what perspective they take when imagining their performance?
Writers who use long words needlessly and choose complicated font styles are seen as less intelligent than those who stick with basic vocabulary and plain text, according to research from Princeton University in New Jersey.
Too often we get stuck in inaction -- the quagmire of doubt and perfectionism and distractions and planning that stops us from moving forward.
Just being in the same room as greatness can inspire you to new levels of the possible.
I've been working online full time for almost 10 years, since age 19. I've had a lot of failures and a lot of successes. There is no better way to learn how to succeed than to learn from someone who has already done it.
I'm often asked how you can start doing work you love - how you can make a living doing something you’re passionate about.
Impulse and determination: Those two are probably the most important keywords of my life.
If you're setting up a business bank account or need a business license, there will probably be a space on the form for your EIN. Fortunately, it's simple to apply for your own business tax ID number via the web.
I had a friend ask me if I ever run out of ideas of things to write about, because my...
Here is list of 27 traits that distinguish successful people from ordinary people. If you take the commitment to apply every day each principle in your life, you’ll start to see amazing results in no time.
The tendency of our lives, businesses, art, is to keep adding: more furniture, clothes, gadgets, tasks, appointments, features to websites and apps, words to our writing.