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Why Meat is on the Way Out
You may have heard of the idea of a sugar tax to combat our weight gain, but this week I heard about another radical food idea – a tax on meat! An international research company, Fitch Solutions Macro Research, says meat could be a target for higher taxes because the world’s farmers are contributing to
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The Best Way to Respond to an Ethical Dilemma
How do you cope with ethical dilemmas? Do you run and hide or just blunder in hoping to do the right thing? And what do I mean by ethical dilemma? Well, how would you respond if you suspected someone was stealing at work? Or you knew a friend’s spouse was having an affair? Do you
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Can We Learn From Our Mistakes?
Do you learn from your mistakes? Or do you continue making the same mistakes again and again? For example, you may be too trusting, or you may be too cautious. You may have the bad habit of telling total strangers your life story. What lessons have you learnt in life? Have you managed to amend
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The New Language Replacing English
The New Language Replacing English What do you think of corporate speak? Do you know what I mean by that? There are a few words that get thrown around frequently in the business community. They are often used but have almost meaningless – words like buzzworthy, paradigm and expressions like “fully integrated” and “matrix-driven”. What
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Should Our Health Records Be Shared or Private?
Do you remember how angry people were when the federal government tried to introduce its new way of storing people’s health records – My Health? The Federal Government had to make changes to reassure people that their privacy was protected. The health minister Greg Hunt said last year that he was introducing ‘additional reassurances’ to address privacy
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How to Improve Our Mental Health Thanks to Robots
I’m going to begin this blog with a contentious statement – people are stupid! What I mean is that we do not always act in our best interest. We eat too much and get fat. We fail to exercise and our health suffers. We make poor professional decisions. We sabotage relationships with people we love.
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Why Do People Get Obsessions?
Today I want to write about obsessions. I am not just referring to obsessions with ex-lovers or teenaged romantic crushes. People become obsessed with all sorts of things. They can become obsessed about getting even if they feel they were aggrieved. They can become obsessed about their looks and become convinced that they need plastic
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How to Easily Tame an Obsession
We can become obsessed with getting revenge, looking gorgeous, winning back an ex-love, achieving a goal … pretty much anything! However obsessions are exhausting and stop us from enjoying the here and now. They strip us of energy. You cannot overcome an obsession immediately, so I suggest you think about first taming your obsession rather
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The Serious Risks of Social Media and How to Avoid Them
Instagram, the social media website where you post photos, is trying something new. It is looking at what happens when it hides the number of likes on photos and other posts. If you have an Instagram account, you’ll get to see the numbers but your followers won’t – at least, not automatically. They can count
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What is Love?
Who do you love? What do you love? Do you love your cat, your kids, freedom, nachos with cheese, Fiji, your partner? According to the Good Therapy website, love is a complex set of emotions, behaviours and beliefs associated with strong feelings of affection, protectiveness, warmth and respect for another person. The Greeks identified seven
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How Turning Your Passion Into Profit Leads to Better Mental Health
For a couple of years I’ve been encouraging people to be courageous and turn what they love into a money-making venture. I say if you are a passionate writer, mentor or even jewellery creator, why not explore becoming an online content creator, a life coach or even online jewellery dealer? Do it, turn your passion
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Men and Mental Health – The Surprising Truth
Did you know that depression and anxiety are much more common in women than men? Around one in six women in Australia will experience depression in their life, compared to one in eight men, and one in three women will experience anxiety, compared to one in five men. Men do beat women when it comes to alcohol
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