“You may lose all of those things and many more, but when the worth of your heart outweighs the weight of the risk, you have to go. This is not easy, but it is true. (And no amount of money is worth your heart.)” via The reason she left for Read more…
Shyness or social anxiety is caused by a whole host of biological, environmental, and cognitive factors. Researchers are pretty sure that no one is born shy; there isn’t a “shy gene” so to speak. With that said, biology can make a person predisposed to becoming shy or socially anxious later Read more…
Unfortunately, we live with a slightly distorted view of what education is and how it works. We go to college not to learn, but to get a degree. We get a degree to get a job. We’re forgetting to embrace learning itself and the actual education. via Online Learning: College Without the Read more…
Caffeine inhibits the effects of a regulatory molecule called adenosine. In a healthy person, adenosine circulates throughout the body keeping organs like your heart and lungs in check, and plays a particularly important role in the nervous system. When caffeine blocks the action of adenosine, says Lane, things can get Read more…
So by living a life driving around afraid of missing out, you are in fact missing out on your entire life. Let’s fix that this weekend. via MMM Challenge: Can You go Car-Free This Weekend?.
If you fell and scraped your knee the first time you attempted riding a bike, you wouldn’t say, “Something is horribly wrong with me. I don’t have the willpower and discipline required to ride my bike,” would you? That would be silly. Instead, you’d realize that you just haven’t fully Read more…
How much of your valuable time do you lose parked in front of a screen? Two-thirds of wealthy people watch less than an hour of TV a day and almost that many—63 percent—spend less than an hour a day on the Internet unless it is job-related. Instead, these successful people Read more…
“Here lies Thomas, he would have done great work, but he had to pay the rent.” via You Can Have an Easy Life or an Awesome One. Choose Wisely. – 99U.
Practice #11 – Construct Coherent Plans for Each Goal via How to Become Your Own Life Coach with Fourteen Simple Strategies – The Simple Dollar.
Here’s a great road map to creating new habits and practices. 7 Discipline-Mastering Practices : zenhabits.