Tag: mental health
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Why Your Social Circle Determines Your Success
We’ve all heard phrases like: Show me your friends, and I’ll show you your future. You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Birds of a feather flock together. Better to be alone than in bad company. Surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you, not…
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How Perception Shapes Your Happiness
Bad drivers, annoying people on the grocery store line, whining children, unappreciative or insensitive others, demanding bosses and customers, richer people, differences in perspectives—along with more serious things like environmental disasters, tragedies, sickness and death—are part of life and always will be. But how day-to-day stuff impacts our sense of happiness is an internal matter…
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Finding Balance: Managing Stress Without Overeating
“A healthy relationship with food means finding the balance between nourishing your body and indulging in the foods you love without guilt or regret. Eating mindfully and intuitively is the key to a healthy, unstressed relationship with food.” Self-image impacts every personal & work relationship we enter. It is built upon perceptions we consciously or…
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How to Stay Mentally Sharp
The same factors that prolong life are proven to keep minds sharp as well. Studies of those who have lived to be 100 show behavioral commonalities among the 25 percent showing no signs of cognitive decline. Also, among these elders, many didn’t exhibit any form of dementia until age 92 or later. Here’s a collection…