It’s amazing how one simple, easy, positive action can change so much in a person’s life. One of the things that has had the biggest effect on my life is the realization of the power of gratitude. Simply giving thanks.
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Studies reveal that in the dog-eat-dog, look-out-for-Number 1, highly-competitive business world, only the aggressive, risk-taking alpha male can expect to succeed as an entrepreneur.
Happily ever after isn't a given.
Research suggests that overall happiness in life is more related to how much you are respected and admired by those around you, not to the status that comes from how much money you have stashed in your bank account.
With Mother's Day, Father's Day and high school and college graduations upcoming, there will be plenty of gift-giving and well wishes. When those start pouring in, let yourself be grateful -- it's the best way to achieve happiness.
Extraversion does not just explain differences between how people act at social events. How extraverted you are may influence how the brain makes choices -- specifically whether you choose an immediate or delayed reward, according to a study.
A polite act shows respect. But a new study of a common etiquette -- holding a door for someone -- suggests that courtesy may have a more practical, though unconscious, shared motivation: to reduce the work for those involved.
This advice is geared towards small business owners, particularly people who are just starting (or about to start) their own business.
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.
If you think having loads of money, fetching looks, or the admiration of many will improve your life -- think again.
Fame is attention -- and with enough attention you can generate passive income. Monetizing fame is actually pretty easy.
Lying about performance on one task may increase creativity on a subsequent task by making people feel less bound by conventional rules, according to research.
Members of a group or team will work harder when they're competing against a group with lower status than when pitted against a more highly ranked group.
Impulse and determination: Those two are probably the most important keywords of my life.
You might think that a loving partner helps keep you on track -- say, when you want to stick to your jogging or concentrate on your studies.
Scientists have identified for the first time a particular gene's link to optimism, self-esteem and "mastery," the belief that one has control over one's own life — three critical psychological resources for coping well with stress and depression.
Do you have difficulty saying “no”? Are you always trying to be nice to others at the expense of yourself?
Whether bloggers are writing to change the world, or just discussing a bad break-up, they may get an extra boost of motivation from traffic-measuring and interactive tools that help them feel more connected to and more influential in their communities.
These need-to-know basics should help you consider whether a joint venture is right for you and your business.
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.
Happy individuals are predisposed to seek out and undertake new goals in life and this reinforces positive emotions, say researchers who examined the connections between desirable characteristics, life successes and well-being of over 275,000 people.
Contributors get noticed and attract new friends and opportunities easily, and contributing is much easier than you might assume
How does someone else’s success mean anything bad for you?
The trope that the likelihood of an accurate group decision increases with the abundance of brains involved might not hold up when a collective faces a variety of factors -- as often happens in life and nature.
Some lessons that apply equally to getting buff and to building your business
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A reader recently asked, “How can an achievement-motivated workaholic learn to back off, relax, de-stress, and feel good about doing it? I am too driven!”
A researcher has found that the specific colors used in a company’s logo have a significant impact on how that logo, and the brand as a whole, is viewed by consumers.
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