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The Power of Process
To create positive change, don’t obsess over specific goals. Focus instead on problem-solving strategies you can adjust as you go.
Seeing the Bigger Picture: A Conversation With Neil Blumenthal
The cofounder and co-CEO of Warby Parker shares how his eyewear and lifestyle brand is aiming to transform the optical industry and do good in the world.
A Path to Greatness: Lewis Howes
After an injury ended his promising pro-football career, Lewis Howes changed his life’s direction. Today, his greatest victory lies in teaching others how to win big in their own lives.
7 Workplace Communication Challenges and How to Overcome Them
Workplace communication challenges can undermine our equanimity, sap our satisfaction, and hurt our success. A renowned mindfulness teacher shows us how to build stronger, more successful relationships — with our colleagues and ourselves.
How Introverts and Extroverts Can Talk to Each Other
Introverts and extroverts often struggle to communicate effectively. Here are some strategies that can help them connect.
Coffitivity: Bring the Coffee Shop to Your Cubicle
Grab your headphones — and possibly spark your creativity — to plug into the latest app that allows you to customize your office-space ambiance.
How to Stop Playing Small
Ten ways to overcome short-term limitations in the service of long-term satisfaction.
Creativity: It’s Not Just Your Imagination
A new study is the first to link the cerebellum to the creative process.
How to Create Fearlessly
Resistance and doubt are just part of the creative experience. Here are 10 tips to help you get past them.
14 Strategies to Help Break Free from Workaholism
For many Americans, the world of work feels a bit like an endless ride — one that’s spinning too fast and feeling more than a little out of control. But just how and why did we get strapped into this craziness? Understand the machinery of your own workaholic tendencies and you’ll be one step closer to switching gears — and maybe even putting on the brakes.
How to Make a Vision Board
Clarify your direction for this year (and beyond) with this inspiring art project.
How To Reinvent Yourself: 10 Tips for Transformative Change
Want to move beyond your life’s current limits? Shift your motive from self-presentation to service.
How to Shift from a Judger to a Learner Mindset
The questions we ask can lead us down paths of discovery and delight, or down corridors of doom and gloom. Unlock the power of questioning with Marilee Adams’ transformative tool, the Choice Map, and decide which path will you choose.
The Desk-Dweller’s Repair Plan (Video)
Follow along as our fitness editor, Maggie Fazeli Fard, shows you how to undo the damage of too much sitting with these eight exercises.
8 Moves to Fix Computer Slouch
Tired of hunched shoulders, a sore back, and tight hips? These six moves are a great cure for the common computer slouch.
6 Strategies to Take Back Your Schedule
How to stop overcommitting your time — and start doing what matters most.
Peace Through Personality
The Enneagram can help us understand why each of us deals with conflict differently — and how we can find common ground.
Does Biking to Work Boost Happiness?
Commuters who bike to work are the happiest — and have the highest sense of overall well-being — compared with those who drive cars or use public transportation, according to a Portland State University study.
How to Beat the Self-Employment Blues
Self-employment can bring some unique sources of stress. Business coach Barbara Winter offers strategies for handling them.
Game On: The Spirit of Competition
Discover the keys to bringing your A-game to anything you compete in — on and off the field.
Walking Your Talk: The Path of Personal Integrity
Do you walk your talk? Say what you mean and mean what you say? Or does your language take you down roads you’re not willing to follow? Taking a closer look at how your words and deeds connect — or don’t — can help you see where you really stand.