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Strategies for Cultivating a Healthier Mindset With Work-Life Balance
If job-related thoughts dominate most of your waking hours and energy, it may be time to rearrange your priorities and give the other aspects of your life some room to grow.
Monitor Your Media Intake
Pilar Gerasimo on why it’s important to reflect on your media choices lately.
The Places That Scare You
Insight and wisdom from Pema Chödrön’s transformative guide to cultivating fearlessness.
How to Overcome Immunity to Change
Two prominent researchers share a step-by-step plan that can help you break through old patterns, and finally make the shifts that matter.
The 6 Pillars of Self-Esteem
In his pioneering book, The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, Nathaniel Branden outlines the practices that are necessary to feel truly good about yourself.
Understanding the Emotional Toll of Keeping Secrets
Whether it’s hidden debt or a family skeleton, carrying around secrets can take a heavy toll on your happiness. Here are real-life stories that show how coming clean can set you free.
COMING CLEAN: Home-State Happiness
Midwest winters can be brutal, and this season has been particularly long.
How to Reclaim Your Mornings
Start the day on your own terms, and change your life for the better.
Behind the Scenes With Bert Jacobs (Video)
Life is good co-founder Bert Jacobs on creating a global brand around simple optimism.
The Now Habit
Overcome procrastination with help from Neil Fiore’s transformative book.
Order Out of Chaos: The Home Office
Low-cost improvements yield big returns in a cramped home-office space.
6 Steps to Getting Things Done
Six powerful strategies for accomplishing more of what really matters.
Want to Reduce Stress? Eliminate Annoyances
Resolve to fix, change, organize, replace or otherwise deal with anything that has been driving you bonkers.
Exchange Willpower for Willingness
We’ve been taught that following through on new year’s resolutions is all about willpower. But it turns out that willingness may be a far more valuable ally.
Being Healthy Is a Revolutionary Act: Renegade Perspectives for Thriving in a Mixed-Up World
You want to be healthy? Well, hey, that’s wonderful! This article is designed to help you succeed.
A Manifesto for Thriving in a Mixed-Up World
Ten Truths We Hold to Be Self-Evident
How to Stop Overreacting
Do you fly off the handle at the slightest provocation, or mount a major defense to even the slightest criticism? Here’s how to ditch the drama—and manage a more measured response.
A New Earth
My favorite insights from Eckhart Tolle’s wisdom-packed book about present-moment awareness.
Change Agent: Shiva Rea
Acclaimed yoga teacher Shiva Rea uses movement to transform lives.
How to Stop Worrying
My favorite highlights from Dale Carnegie’s smart, no-fret philosophy.