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Email is Where Keystrokes Go to Die

His point was clear: Every keystroke you type is one stroke closer to your last. And because every keystroke counts the same,...

Free Download Mastering Creativity First Edition

These are questions that we don't often ask ourselves, but they are built into our beliefs and actions about many phases of...

Three Simple Ways to Make Exercise a Habit

A lot of people want to build an exercise habit that sticks.  A 2012 survey analyzed the top ten habits of thousands...

Three Ways to Improve Your Sleep

Most people aren't getting enough sleep, plain and simple. But and this is the important thing to realize we don't recognize that...

Lessons on Living a Meaningful Life

It was 1967 and the Civil Rights Movement was at a tipping point. On this particular evening, African, American leaders were meeting...

Photo Essay The Isle of Skye Scotland

I believe that creativity is one of pillars of living healthy and fulfilling life. Because I write about each week and not...

How to Build Muscle and Strength

Nearly 2,500 years ago, there was a man of incredible strength and athleticism roaming the hills of southern Italy. His name was...

What I’m Reading in Fall Edition

For each of the books below, I have assigned a rating and written a three sentence review, which summarizes my thoughts about...

Measure Backward Not Forward

We often measure our progress by looking forward. We set goals. We plan milestones for our progress. Basically, we try to predict...

How to Be Happy When Everything Goes Wrong

In the summer of 2010, Rachelle Friedman was preparing for one of the best periods of her life. She was recently engaged,...

The Downside of Work Life Balance

One way to think about work-life balance is with a concept known as The Four Burners Theory. Here's how it was first...

Achievement can be a good thing or bad ...

However, our obsessive focus on what we're winning can also blind us from understanding how, precisely, people become winners. If you focus...

Do More of What Already Works

Three months after it began, the procedure had cut the infection rate of I.C.U. patients by sixty six percent. Within 18 months,...

The Goal is Not the Points Line

Other areas of the map are foreign to you. These yet-to-be-explored regions are home to the milestones in life that you can...

Tiny Losses Make Big Gains Avoid

In the decades that followed World War II, the manufacturing industry in America thrived. For years, American companies grew in size and...