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The Most Important Risk Factor for Mortality Globally
Having a good diet not only helps you maintain a healthy weight, it can also prolong your life. A new study in Lancet has found that one in five deaths in the world is linked to bad diet, particularly eating too much salt and not enough fruit and whole grains. ‘The Global Burden of Disease’
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The Effectiveness of Nature Experiences on Well-Being
When I talk to people about living a prosperous life I always advocate saving money, loving, being spiritual and taking good care of your body. Taking care of your physical self means exercising but also spending time in nature. Yet again I have found that what I’ve been recommending for years is now being backed
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What Makes a Real Friendship?
Have you had the experience that you meet someone, they are great fun, you have heaps of laughs together, quality talks and then over time the relationship changes and spending time with the person becomes hard work? Often it is when your friend hits a rough patch, and rather than being a joy to be
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How to Keep Promises
What is the value of a promise? It is a question that preoccupies lawyers and ethicists. Do you think you should keep a verbal promise in business? The corporate world is all about making money. If a promise gets in the way of profit, shouldn’t it be discarded? Some executives would argue yes, others will
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How to Master Small Talk
Have you ever been trapped with a group of strangers and needed to kill time? I’m not talking about physically trapped, more confined to a space and time – ie recently I got a ride to a function with a group of people I didn’t know. The car trip was longer than anticipated and I
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What the Key Drivers of Happiness Are
I read just recently that Australia has dropped out of the world’s list of the top-10 happiest countries for the first time ever. The United Nation prepares a World Happiness Report every year. Australia is now sitting at number 11. It has moved down two places since 2016. Finland is number one for a second
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What to Do When Someone Constantly Steals Your Glory
Are you an incredibly hard-working person, but you feel your efforts go unnoticed? Meanwhile your boss is in the good books with his or her supervisor, and frequently presents your efforts. Nothing upsets workers more than a boss who takes all the glory, while not acknowledging the efforts of staff. According to a Human Resources
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How The World is Neglecting Young People
As you know I like to read widely, and only recently was looking at Lancet, which is the world’s oldest and most prestigious medical journal. It has an article on new research into the health and well-being of young people. Would you believe this research was led by Australian doctors and made for sobering reading?
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The Importance of Trust and How to Build It
Do you remember that old Billy Joel song, ‘It’s a matter of trust’. The lyrics go: “Some love is just a lie of the heart The cold remains of what began with a passionate start And they may not want it to end But it will, it’s just a question of when I’ve lived long
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How Whingeing Undermines Emotional Intelligence
I love it – a new study has taken a detailed look at the personality of whingers compared to the personality of happy-go-lucky types. Do you know any whingers? Sometimes they are called high-maintenance. Nothing is ever quite right for them and everything is difficult and complicated. Their coffee isn’t hot enough, they have a
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How to stand out in this crowded world
One of my daughter’s friends has recently begun an online business. It runs events for small to medium businesses and organises conferences. The young man behind this venture came to me for some tips on attracting attention to his new website. A few days later I was having a chat to the granddaughter of a
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The Secrets to Becoming Less Sensitive to Anger
I love reading about new studies on human nature. According to a new article published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, the way people read emotions changes as they age. The paper is called ‘Emotion Sensitivity Across the Lifespan: Mapping Clinical Risk Periods to Sensitivity to Facial Emotion Intensity’. The research was carried out by
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