How to Understand and Embrace Your Guilty Pleasures

How to Understand and Embrace Your Guilty Pleasures

Do you have any guilty pleasures you’re ashamed of? Why is embracing your guilty pleasures with existential kink the best way to combat them? The premise of existential kink is that the negative patterns—of feelings, behaviors, and so on—we see recurring in our lives are the manifestations of our unconscious desires. The only way to eliminate our negative patterns is to acknowledge, embrace, and take conscious pleasure in our guilty pleasures. Below, we’ll dive into the principles of existential kink to better understand how to embrace your guilty pleasures.

How to Improve Your Focus: 3 Simple Steps to Do & Create More

How to Improve Your Focus: 3 Simple Steps to Do & Create More

Do you tend to work in fits and starts? Do you let notifications, emails, and squirrels grab your attention? Manage Your Day-to-Day is a collection of essays by some of today’s best-known creative minds. They advise that, to improve your focus, you must be intentional, manage distractions, and stop multitasking. While the advice is directed at creative professionals, it applies to anyone intent on boosting their focus. Continue reading to learn how to improve your focus with tips from several highly-successful people.

Finding Motivation for Getting Fit: Your Mindset Is Half the Battle

Finding Motivation for Getting Fit: Your Mindset Is Half the Battle

Does your enthusiasm for nutrition and exercise tend to wane over time? How clear are you on your reasons for wanting to be healthy? Inconsistency equals zero. If you’re going to make any meaningful, lasting change, you have to stick with it. When it comes to your fitness journey, your mindset is half the battle. Enthusiasm and willpower will help you keep the commitments you make to yourself. Find motivation for getting fit with the following tips from personal trainer Michael Matthews.

Have a Frustrated Child? How to Build Their Frustration Tolerance

Have a Frustrated Child? How to Build Their Frustration Tolerance

Is your child easily frustrated with themselves? Do they have perfectionistic tendencies? Parenting is hard. That doesn’t mean that you’re a bad parent or that you have a bad kid. Dr. Becky Kennedy provides strategies that help you get to the root of your child’s behaviors so that you can effect lasting change while keeping your relationship positive. Here’s her advice for building up frustration tolerance in an easily-frustrated child.

How to Be Selfless in Everyday Life (+ the Benefits)

How to Be Selfless in Everyday Life (+ the Benefits)

Do you want to help people who need it? How can you be selfless and kind to others? Humans are naturally selfish beings due to our evolutionary need to survive, but there are ways to grow out of this selfishness. Whether it’s performing random acts of kindness or actively listening, unleashing your altruistic side is a great way to give back to others while expecting nothing in return. Keep reading to learn how to be selfless and make somebody’s day.

How to Overcome Creative Blocks: 5 Challenges & Solutions

How to Overcome Creative Blocks: 5 Challenges & Solutions

Do you feel like you don’t have enough time for creative work? Are you stuck on a project? How can creative blocks be turned into creative opportunities? Whether you’re a creative professional, an entrepreneur, or anyone seeking to reclaim their creativity, Manage Your Day-to-Day inspires you toward reaching your full potential. In the book, Mark McGuinness addresses five creative blocks and provides strategies to help you lean into these challenges. Keep reading to learn how to overcome creative blocks and break through toward success.

Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott: Book Overview

Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott: Book Overview

What is Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott about? Do you want to talk about your feelings without fear of backlash? In Fierce Conversations, Susan Scott argues that everyone should be comfortable making courageous conversations. These types of discussions are ones where you let your true feelings and issues out there, and the results are better relationships and alignment with your goals. Read below for a brief overview of Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott.

How to Talk About Your Problems: 4 Steps for Opening Up

How to Be Persuasive and Always Get What You Want

Do you have an issue that needs to be resolved? How should you prepare to talk about problems? Whether the problem is with yourself or others, preparing for the discussion is a great way to get organized. No matter who you’re talking to, Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott says you should clarify all the important details so you can contextualize and clearly explain the topic to others. Here are easy steps for talking about problems.

How to Stay Creative: 4 Ways to Maintain Your Inspiration

How to Stay Creative: 4 Ways to Maintain Your Inspiration

Do you make time for unstructured creativity? Do you tend toward perfectionism? How often do you unplug from technology? According to many creative professionals and productivity experts, creativity is the result of consistent work habits coupled with a creative mindset. You can foster such a mindset by prioritizing unstructured creativity, rejecting perfectionism, leaning into challenges, and taking opportunities to unplug. Keep reading to learn how to stay creative by following this recipe.