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Planning Your Meals: The Key to Losing Weight

Do you plan your meals ahead? How can the simple act of planning your meals in advance help you lose weight? John Walker, the author of The Hacker’s Diet, claims that you can lose weight by eating the exact same foods you already eat, just in smaller portion sizes. Walker says that the easiest way to ensure you’re not overeating is to carefully plan your portions and to consider the happiness/calorie ratio of foods. Here’s how planning your meals in advance can help you lose weight and keep it off.

Types of Financial Advisors: 4 You Should Know

What are the different types of financial advisors? Which types are more effective? According to economist Burton Malkiel, there are four main types of financial advisors: investment advisors, standard advisors, automated advisors, and hybrid services. Understanding the different types of financial advisors and what services they offer can help you make the right choice. Learn about the different types of financial advisors below.

Retirement Investment Strategy: Planning Your Future

What is the best retirement investment strategy? What advice will help you plan effectively for the future? If you want to have a comfortable retirement, it’s important to have a financial retirement plan. Knowing the different options available, including lifecycle funds and annuity will help you build an effective retirement investment strategy. Keep reading for the best retirement investment strategy.

The Dangers of Feeling Disconnected From Nature

Why does being disconnected from nature lead to depression? Why are modern humans less connected to nature? Humans have an innate desire to stay in touch with nature because we evolved outside, doing the physical work of hunting, building shelters, and connecting with the natural world. Depression can set in when we start feeling disconnected from nature. Read on to learn more about the dangers of feeling disconnected from nature.

What Is the Link Between Depression and Obesity?

What is the link between depression and obesity? Why is it so difficult for depressed people to shed weight successfully? Establishing the link between depression and obesity requires an understanding of why depressed people put on weight. They put on weight as a subconscious effort to protect themselves from feeling vulnerable again. Shedding weight becomes very difficult because they will lose the sense of safety that comes with it. Read on to learn more about the relationship between depression and obesity.

The Efficient Market Hypothesis: Beating the Market

What is the Efficient Market Hypothesis? Is it possible to beat the market? What are the three forms of the Efficient Market Hypothesis? According to the Efficient Market Hypothesis, all share prices reflect all available information. As a result, it’s not possible for anyone (without inside information) to determine whether a stock is valued correctly. There are three forms of the Efficient Market Hypothesis, with each coming to a different conclusion about the efficiency of the market. Learn more about this hypothesis below.

Why a Materialistic Lifestyle Can Lead to Depression

How to Give up Your Materialistic Lifestyle

What are the dangers of a materialistic lifestyle? How can you escape materialism? A materialistic lifestyle leads to lower self-esteem and a lack of meaningful connections which causes depression and anxiety. Escaping materialism starts with acknowledging the short-term satisfaction that comes with material things, and filling the void with activities that bring you joy just for the fun of it. Read on to discover how to curb a materialistic lifestyle.

Nassim Taleb: Fooled by Randomness—Book Overview

What is Nassim Taleb’s Fooled by Randomness about? What role does luck or randomness play in success? Fooled by Randomness is the first work in a five-book series exploring randomness by bestselling author and former options trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb. In this book, Taleb examines the outsized role luck plays in success, how and why people don’t generally understand luck, and how we can accommodate randomness in our lives once we’re aware of it. Below is a brief overview of the key points.

How to Be More Resilient: The Best 4 Strategies

Are you constantly analyzing yourself? Do you try to avoid or repress negative emotions? Do you feel powerless in your life? If you answered yes to these questions, you need to learn how to be more resilient. In her book The Gifts of Imperfection, Brené Brown offers four strategies for building resilience that will lead to a better mental state and more happiness in your life. Continue reading for Brené Brown’s advice on how to be more resilient.

Mark Manson: To Be Happy, Learn Responsibility

Do you feel helpless or victimized when you’re faced with problems that are out of your control? How can learning to take responsibility for any situation change your mindset? In The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson says that you need to learn responsibility in order to be happy. Only when you accept your ability to make choices, even in the worst situations, will you be happier and feel more in control. Keep reading to learn what Mark Manson has to say about learning responsibility.