Q: How do I start motivating myself to get organized? A: Great question! The short, real answer is if you’re waiting to feel motivated or have a belief that motivation is necessary in order to get started with something, it’s just not true. You can choose to start getting organized…
I’m sorry to do this to you, but we probably can’t analyze the date of your birth without frankly discussing your parents’ sex life. What influenced their sexual behavior roughly nine months before you were born? Peak birthday season (August and September) just ended. If you were born during those…
If my to-do list could talk, it would say, “You didn’t finish me yet!” I know I’m not the only one ignoring my to-do list because I can’t stand the idea of one more task. Many of us are drained these days, but time off isn’t always feasible. Even if…
Q: I’m struggling with discipline across many facets of my life. Lack of discipline in healthy eating, being active, completing my work or tasks at my job, and keeping any sense of routine. Are there activities or methods I can use to stop waiting for motivation and to start building…
Every single day, you get emails about it. You open Facebook and see your friends talking about it. You pop onto twitter and it’s the number one trending hashtag. You’re on aisle D14 in Target and the woman looking at curtains next to you is talking about it. You, quite…
Due to COVID-19, many of us are forced to stay at home for the foreseeable future either alone or with a couple friends or family members. In either case, we’re struggling with social distancing as we adjust to a new normal; feelings like anxiety and loneliness overwhelm us. Many of…
Amid COVID-19, many of us are experiencing feelings of loneliness, as we’re spending significantly less time with our friends, family, and others—and video chat only goes so far. Overcoming these lonely feelings is crucial to the state of your mental health, but doing so during social distancing is tough; this…
In 2008, as the crowd celebrated a successful campaign speech, Barack and Michelle Obama gave each other a fist bump. As many things surrounding the Obama family do, the fist bump went viral. Fist bumps quickly became the new handshake. And according to some, this type of handshake could function…
Even when we feel like nothing can bring us down, life can become challenging. It’s hard to enjoy life without being mentally and physically healthy. Taking care of yourself includes monitoring not only your physical health, but your mental health as well. If we feel under the weather, we make…
Often, we’re motivated to learn when we’re just entering school, but we lose that motivation as we grow older. Fortunately, we can make some changes to our daily routine to enjoy learning again and become motivated again You should reward yourself for performing well at school: celebrate that test score…
Many of us struggle to find the motivation to work out, especially in the winter; however, it is possible to implement an effective plan for working out during this cold season. First, you should build your exercise plan into your schedule—instead of loosely saying you’ll exercise today, block out a…
We all get distracted at work, but if we don’t nip this problem in the bud, it can become more frequent and more difficult to resolve. You can try remedying this problem by putting and keeping your phone away: according to recent research, your phone can be a distraction even…
