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Hard work and discipline are certainly valuable traits when trying to make changes in our lives or attain important goals, however, even diligence and persistence are often not enough to get the results we’re looking for. The lack of an effective strategy is often our greatest obstacle. In our impatience for results, we try to change too much at once, and expect too much of ourselves, and this impatience usually leads to frustration and failure....

The Only Disability in Life is a Bad Attitude.

That being said, how do you pair a wine you’ve never tried with a dish you’re planning to enjoy? Well, this simple cheat sheet should provide you a helpful, though basic, guide. While some of the suggestions, like the notion of pairing red wine with beef and white wine with fish, are a bit old school when given the complexities of modern varietals and our globalized dinner plates, it still can be a useful guide if you’ve never actually tried a particular dish and a particular wine together....

The Truth About How Long Your Aerobic Workout Should Last The World Health Organization recommends up to 300 minutes per week of aerobic workout for most adults. That works out to almost 45 minutes every single day. To put it simply, that’s terrible advice. Effects Of Long Duration Aerobics You see, long periods of steady aerobic training actually create a smaller, weaker heart and less powerful lungs. And it can set you up for just about every disease in the book....

If you’re trying to eat healthy, you’ll find limited options, and expensive ones at that.Leave your days of $12 salads behind by doing meal prep in advance so you can bring your own healthy — and delicious — lunch to work every day. How to Meal Prep Like a Pro The key to getting started with meal prepping is to not try to do too much too fast. If you’re accustomed to never packing a lunch, start with prepping a couple of days a week....

It’s that time of year again. No, not “the holiday season”. I mean, it is holiday time, but for professors it doesn’t start feeling like holiday time until final grades are in and the books are closed on another semester. No, for me, it’s paper-grading time, the time of year when I’m reminded over and over of the importance of good writing skills – and of their rarity. The ability to write well is not a gift....

That’s why the suggestion — keep on improving yourself because this will help you become more productive, is one of the best precepts of work. 33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity

1. The Barcode Building This shopping mall was designed by Vitruvius and Sons. It is located in St. Petersburg, Russia. 2. Basket Building This beautiful basket is the headquarters of Longaberger Company in Newark, Ohio (USA). This unique building is famously known as the world’s largest basket. 3. The Kansas City Library This building is any book-lover’s heaven. Structured like a single book shelf, this beautiful architectural construction is in Kansas City, Missouri (USA)....

Our lives become about everyone else and not about us. We start interpreting ourselves and our lives based on how others are interpreting themselves and their lives. It then becomes a competition on who can externalize themselves the best. You only have to look on Facebook to see this. When you start showing people who you really are, none of this matters. You start to realize that competition is exhausting, boring, and pointless....

We see our favorite characters struggle, and share in their triumph when they overcome. We relate to them as children, and remember them fondly when we reminisce as adults. Yet, no matter how long it’s been, or how vehemently you tried to convince your friends that you “only watched it once,” your favorite cartoons will always be very special to you. Some of them teach us about love, others teach us about acceptance, but the most memorable, remarkable, and beneficial ones teach us how to be fearless leaders....

Meeting someone who knows themselves so well can feel intimidating and make you question what you can or cannot say to them. Here are some things that you really don’t need to tell a strong woman at all. 1. Get over it, it’s been long enough You don’t need to tell a strong woman how long she must spend on the floor after life has knocked her down. She knows that she needs time to process the setback and then make a plan of action to move forward....

Imagine if you could see the connection between how you Think – Look – Feel. Would you see a gap? If so, let me share with you a way to fill this gap — The 24 Hour Workout. Here is what you can expect to find if you read on: What is the 24 Hour Workout? Essentially, The 24 Hour Workout is a routine that provides you the following:...

What do you do when someone, invited by you, flicks your wrist watch right under your nose without you even realizing it? Apollo Robbins, the famous illusionist takes his hosts by surprise when he repeatedly pulls off some fantastic tricks on them. Robbins explains that it’s all about attention, focus and timing. The trick at 0:30 is one that I wanna learn! Source: InfoCare Media Featured photo credit: Apollo Robbins via goo....

Let’s say you’re on a first date, having a great conversation, and you find yourself immediately drawn to her. You might wonder if you should lean in closer, make a move to kiss her, or flirt a bit more to see if she’s into you. Or maybe you have a female friend you’re really attracted to, and are wondering if you should take that risky step of seeing if she’s interested in you, too....

Stress decreases in nature Cortisol is a hormone often used as a stress marker by doctors (too much means you are too stressed) and studies have found that students who had spent time in the forest had a lower level of cortisol than their counterparts that stayed indoors. Office workers who have a view of nature out of their window or through a skylight report higher job satisfaction and lower stress levels and hospital patients who have a view of nature actually heal more quickly....

This is a very simple recipe for a home-made chili sauce. The recipe was given to me by my friend’s father in law many years ago. He lives in Guillin, China, a place famous not only for its natural beauty but also for its cuisine and most of all – its chili sauces! It is an absolutely fantastic sauce to keep in the fridge. The real secret of this sauce is that its taste deepens and improves over time because of some of its ingredients slowly fermenting and infusing their rich aroma in the sauce....

Women’s bodies are no longer a thing of beauty, but rather something they measure their self-worth. If they are reed thin in appearance, they are beautiful and worth it, and if they are plump, curvy or rounded – well then they have no right to feel beautiful. Let’s Meet Megan And this is exactly the kind of vicious cycle that beautiful Megan Jayne Crabbe was caught up in. A self-confessed recovered anorexic and recovered self-loather – Megan now has her website that advocates being body positive and not being too concerned about your appearance or your rolls of belly fat....

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Can You Be Truly Honest?

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. Time to Challenge Your Beliefs