Distinguishing Feeling Overloaded from Feeling Overwhelmed
by Jean Moroney
(July 12, 2009)
When your thinking process feels stopped by too much on your mind, take a moment to distinguish whether your are overloaded or overwhelmed (or both at once).
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Aiding Willpower
by Jean Moroney
(July 5, 2009)
I think willpower draws on a kind of reservoir of emotional energy. Because it is so important to be able to call on willpower when I need it, I do several things to conserve that energy by reducing how often I need willpower.
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Three Good Things
by Jean Moroney
(June 28, 2009)
Once each day, write down three good things that happened in the last 24 hours.
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Setting Standing Orders
by Jean Moroney
(June 21, 2009)
How do you program yourself to always remember something? The process is called "setting a standing order."
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Speed Up by Slowing Down
by Jean Moroney
(June 14, 2009)
Speed up confusing, bogged-down tasks by slowing down your thinking
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The Meaning of New Year's Resolutions
by Alex Epstein
(January 1, 2008)
The solution to failed New Year's resolutions is not to abandon the practice, but to supplement it with a broader resolution--a commitment to a goal-directed life.
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Happy New Year. Happy Life.
by Scott McConnell
(January 1, 2008)
New Year's Day inspires one to work for happiness.
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In Defense of Pleasure
by Michael J. Hurd
(June 18, 2006)
A life well-lived, which includes fun and delight, is full of pleasures at every turn.
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Addiction is a Choice
by Michael J. Hurd
(February 23, 2006)
Most talk of addictions as something over which the individual is helpless. Yet how does this explain that so many end their addictions?
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The Dangers of "Having Faith"
by Michael J. Hurd
(October 11, 2005)
Does it make sense to "have faith" as a way of coping with life?
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