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Week 47 Roundup: Why We Read, Why We Laugh, Flow

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Danbo with a kiwi on his head

Hope all my fellow yanks had a good thanksgiving. If you pay attention to the media messages, you might think that Thanksgiving is just a pre-shopping fueling session for the Black Friday consumer orgy, but the real message is one that can truly benefit people: give thanks for what you have. (Even if you have [...]

5 Simple-Yet-Powerful Tools for Defeating Resistance

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Fire on water

Resistance, like fire, manifests in diverse ways. Left unchecked, Resistance will spread, consuming much and leaving nothing but the burned-out frame of abandoned dreams. This article offers a few simple ways to counter this vile foe. Read more…

What To Do When You Can’t Concentrate

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Contemporary political ideologies are confounding things

I know plenty of people struggle with maintaining concentration and focus, so I thought I’d share a few methods for improving concentration.

7 PhD-Approved Ways to Increase Your Happiness

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the smiling, winking statue in Luxemborg

Your level of happiness is kind of like your body weight. Both have base levels set by genetics. Over a long period of time, both are affected to some degree by the choices you make. To see 7 PhD-approved ways to increase your happiness, click here to read more…

The Happenchance Guide to Overcoming Laziness

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overcoming laziness

Laziness is a habit, but it’s also a choice. Fortunately, most people can overcome laziness by taking responsibility for themselves, making a plan, and developing good habits. This guide tells you how. Click here to read more…

Creating Conditions for Creativity

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Cool post-it note collage

People create for a thousand highly individualized reasons. They desire self-expression, an emotional release, or maybe some monetary reward. But beyond the desire to create something, what are the necessary conditions for creativity? How can we consciously create and foster those conditions? Click here to read more…

8 Reasons to Slow Down

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Creativity doesn’t like to be rushed. Creativity likes to have ample time to explore new angles, ferment new ideas and concepts, and allow the intuition and undermind to run amok. Read more…

The Importance of Active Leisure

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What is active leisure? Why is it so important? Why do people piss this time away? Read more…

Removing Physical Barriers to Creating Amazing Things

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Lazy Goat

The less barriers you face encounter to working on a project, the more likely you are to work on that project. This post looks at ways to remove those barriers. Click the title for more.

16 Easy Ways to Increase Focus

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Focus is as elusive as a ghost and slippery as a sturgeon, here one minute and gone the next. We all want to be focused on whatever we’re working on, but emails, cell phones, and the repo man all beg for our attention like neglected children.

This post details sixteen ways to increase focus, attention, and mindfulness.

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