Gretchen Rubin is a published author who wrote 'The Happiness Project' -- a memoir about how test-driving every principle, tip, theory, and scientific study she could find -- whether from Aristotle or St Therese or Martin Seligman or Oprah.
We all know marketing is key to small business survival and success, but it can be overwhelming to know what to do to be an effective marketer.
If you want to be an effective entrepreneur, you should have at least 10 good friends who are already successful entrepreneurs. Few entrepreneurs succeed in isolation, because, business is a social game.
Do you ever have one of those days when you just can’t seem to find focus?
When people feel they’ve hit a roadblock in reaching a personal goal, such as losing weight, a change in perspective...
It's often said that women can have it all - motherhood and a career. But a study suggests that women who rule the household have less energy for or interest in being a rising star in the workplace.
Some people claim they work well in a high-stress environment. I'm not one of them.
It's a huge limiting belief to assume that going faster means you’re doing something wrong and creating too much stress.
How does someone else’s success mean anything bad for you?
I make a living doing what I love, and doing what you love for a living is fantastic.
If you don’t believe you’ll succeed, then some parts of you will resist your goal, and your progress will be frustratingly slow.
You know what it's like: No focus, lots of stress, lots of mental exhaustion without really getting anything done.
Does your small business maintain a Facebook page? Are you thinking about venturing into social media with a presence on this ever-growing social network?
Sometimes you need to become unbalanced in order to get things done. If you’re working on a book, launching a business or trying to overhaul some part of your life, you can probably relate.
Do you have dreams you want to pursue, but never seem to have the time because of the twin demands of work and family?
The paradox of happiness is that chasing it may actually make us less happy, a Stanford researcher says.
Let’s say you have an agenda, and every time one of you wandered off the agenda, you forced yourself to get back on it. Would the conversation be better or worse, with a set outcome?
Timeboxing is a simple time management technique you can use to take control of your time.
For some people, neither the carrot nor the stick will serve as a motivational tool
What is a mind map? Put simply, it's a type of diagram, used to help you outline information in a visual format. But really, a mindmap can be anything you need it to be.
When people consider a particular goal, they often worry about the time commitment: 'If I start a business now, it could take years to make it profitable.' Such thoughts reveal a total misunderstanding of the nature of time.
What an extremely tough thing for teens to figure out: What should you do with your future?
As an increasing number of freelancers depend on the virtual workplace, how can they make themselves more attractive to potential employers?
To truly tap into your creative nature, you only have to realize one thing...
It seems really simple: If you want to achieve something, set a goal and then make specific plans to implement it.
A big part of self-discipline comes from social pressure. This is how people in the military can become very disciplined, particularly in special forces. They don’t want to hold their team back, so they have to do their best.
A common mistake people make is that they’ll spend 500 hours creating a product and then 20 hours promoting it. Then they wonder why no one is buying.
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.
When a problem is large or complex and the optimal solution is unclear, here's how to begin making progress towards a solution even though you can’t visualize the entire path.
Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.