The holidays are always a time of stress. Whether it is cooking, or shopping, traveling, weather issues, or family, stress levels rise during the holidays. Even those of us who work in the field of life and stress management see it and feel it.
But there are ways to hack your way through the stress, forcing yourself to slow down, breathe and enjoy the holidays for the awesome time they are.
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Would you consider yourself to be an unreasonable person? What would your friends, family and colleagues say? Surely you’d want them to answer with a resounding ‘no’. Surely you’d want them to confirm that of all the qualities you possess, being reasonable is one of them, because reasonable is good. Reasonable is likeable and easy to get along with. You’re never going to get any trouble from reasonable. However, reasonable just accepts and herein lies the problem. Continue reading
“Everything that is created in the universe is here already. We are not really creators as much as we are re-combiners of everything.”
“All of us have the capacity to attract to ourselves what seems to be missing in our lives.”
“If you think about shortages, you’re going to attract more shortage! If you think about what’s missing, you’re going to attract more of what’s missing in your life.”
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Have you been trying to find authentic happiness in life, but it isn’t working?
Do you think there’s some magic answer to your problems?
The funny thing is that there is an answer that seems almost magical, yet it is the simplest thing in the world, which is exactly why most people miss it.
In this article, you’ll discover that simple, slightly magical answer, while we go through the 8 big mistakes people make when trying to find happiness in life.
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The saying is true: you can accomplish anything you put your mind to. That is not to say that reaching your goal will be easy, since the task of achieving any goal is usually a difficult one. While the path to get there may be challenging, procrastination and excuse-making will only make things harder. Whether it is in the workplace or your everyday life, you must learn how to stay motivated in order to be productive and successful. Continue reading
For some people, it’s hard to come up with ideas, to think of ways to be more creative, to find time to nurture a passion.
For Pick the Brain readers though, a different type of problem presents itself: how to regulate the output of all those creative processes going on in your head. Make it sustainable. Make sure you don’t go crazy. Corral all those voices in your head before they become a problem. Here’s where borrowing from another discipline helps. You know, like ballet for football players? Continue reading
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