Reading Time: 6 minutes You have made the dedication to start a business or you are going to be more outgoing. Then again you may have just gone through a divorce. And you are trying to decide what you are going to do next. You are then hit with your first big obstacle. Why isn’t this as easy as people make it seem? Are you just not good at this? Why do some people make what you are trying to do look so easy, while other people struggle? Isn’t starting a new business supposed to be easy? First, you have to understand that nothing …

Reading Time: < 1 minute There are so many ways people like to think they can ruin their lives. Having a rumor spread about them. They may fear having an unfounded accusation leveled at the integrity. The crazy ex girl friend who is set to make your life as difficult as possible. These and more are types of ways we fear that we can ruin our life. Yeah we can do something actively to ruin our chances of life we can be sent to prison or find ourselves on a path of drug abuse. Yet there is only one way where we can passively ruin …

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Leadership by example helps forge a team. Let's see how penguins can lead the way.A few years back, there was a brand new fitness program at the San Francisco Zoo – a program that sort of just

You’ll fly higher without it.

Personality traits, identified as neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness, can predict a wide range of important outcomes.

Spoiler Alert... It's gratitude...

This truth becomes even more true when you become an expert in a field.

Writer and critic Yanyi on the realities of leaving your day job, the complicated relationship between being creative and being truly productive, and the value of sometimes changing your mind.

Being grateful when life is good, is relatively easy, but actively choosing to be grateful in the midst of adversity is a big key to happiness. So how...

Are you a slow reader? Or a fast reader? Either way, here's some tips to help you get better at reading - and take more in.

When considering who gives out the best writing advice in the world, the first name that pops up might not be Arnold Schwarzenegger. But a decade ago, Schwarzenegger presented his “6 Rules of Success” in a now-famous commencement speech at the University of Southern California. And these rules just might hold the key to your success as a writer.

No one is born a master. (That means you.)

The future can be scary, but there are ways to deal with that fear

A guide to making positive and lasting changes in your life, written by Tina Essmaker with illustrations by Qiong Li.

Sometimes, the most productive thing you can do is walk away

Begin paying very close attention to your physical and emotional reactions during your workday or any time you’re doing something for your career. Rethink the phrase, “Go big or go home.” Reflect on the phrase, “Success is a series of small victories.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

Writer Joseph Grantham on moving to a small town, having a space to do your work, and intentionally fucking up your life.

The hot days of summer are about to transform you. To find out how, let's take a stroll down to the Luangwa River and commune with our friend, the hippopotamus.Ahh… the hot and lazy days of summ