I don’t feel the need to tell you all about the important of clear, SMART goal setting. The purpose, point, and benefit have all been stated about a billion times throughout different media, so if you’re unclear, I know plenty of people will clear it up for you. I don’t even feel the need [...]
Fun fact: I deal with depression. It started when I was 13, became worse over time, and for the last few years, it’s been damn near omnipresent. It culminated not too long ago with some relationship issues. Things became miserable and I turned inward to fix them. It didn’t work. Here’s why: [...]
Sometimes, in life, things just don’t go the way they are expected to go.
Most people you will encounter will be generally good. Everybody has a few unfortunately negative moments due to stress, worry, or a lack of awareness, but most people will successfully become positive influences upon you, whether you realize it or not. Unfortunately, there are some people around who are toxic. Many of us end up [...]
There are few things in life that come for free and the vast majority of those that do are completely worthless. Whether something costs money, energy, or time does not matter, only that there is some marginal cost for a benefit. Such is the law of responsible consumerism: something should only be bought if its [...]
In adopting a new lifestyle, we also shed old activities and adopt new ones. Taking from Stephen Covey’s self-help series, I am here to address the six habits of balanced people – what they do daily to strive for their goals and maintain a happy and healthy life. They plan ahead Balanced people know where [...]
Yesterday, I was having a conversation with a dear friend of mine about what it means to be healthy and what one must do to live a balanced life. She is a Christian while I am nonreligious, though I am closest to Buddhism if it matters. We both have worked very hard over the last [...]
Image via Wikipedia According to popular psychology, there are nine types of intelligence and people can be people-smart, music-smart, language-smart, and more. In Ancient Greece, people commonly learned everything from philosophy to exercise. Any businessperson will tell you EQ is just as important as IQ for networking. But what are the nine types of intelligence, [...]
Image by Pink Sherbet Photography via Flickr The main goal of this blog is to teach small business owners working from home and college students alike the art of living balanced lives. Personally, I define living balanced as being happy with progress and continuing personal growth without limiting or becoming obsessed with professional growth. A [...]
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