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How to Reduce Your Kid’s Screen Addiction
Every parent I know complains that their children are spending too much time in front of screens. The truth is that many parents are responsible for their child’s addiction to screens. Why, because we were all guilty of using the television as a babysitter at least once in a while when they were tiny. You
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How to Be More Organised
If you’ve previously read articles on how to be more organised you know they basically suggest things like writing everything down, setting deadlines, putting things back where you found them and so on. This is all great advice and I will expand on some of those ideas later, but I also think you sometimes need
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Should You Invest in a Self-Improvement App?
Do self-improvement APPS work? The answer is that like any self-improvement instrument, be that an app, a book, a blog, a seminar, or life coach, the key to success is not the tool but the commitment of the person wielding the tool. The aim of self-improvement instruments is to help you reach your goals. But the
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Understanding Happiness Chemicals
If I asked you what makes you happy, you may say spending time with close friends, disappearing into a good book, perhaps a spectacular sunrise, but what really makes you happy is four chemicals released into the brain, namely dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin and endorphins. Of course the release of these chemicals is triggered by different
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The Challenges of Growing Up in the Developing World and How to Help
The truth is that it’s easy to become focused on our own problems, but sometimes it pays to think about the challenges facing others, especially in low-income countries. I recently saw a segment on SBS television explaining that little money is spent on keeping young people healthy in the third world, and I wanted to
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Is There a Method to Grieving?
Today I want to write about grief, because I know someone who is dealing with a bereavement – the death of a parent, but we grieve for all types of losses. We grieve for the loss of relationships (romantic and friendship), we grieve for lost jobs, lost opportunities, lost ways of life. We grieve when
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The Secrets to Finally Loving Your Body
I think it’s incredibly sad that young people develop eating disorders like anorexia. Beautiful young people get this notion into their head that they are ugly and fat and then begin the process of starving themselves. This insidious disease has claimed the lives of too many young people, but it’s not just the young who
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How to Manage People Who Put Us Down
Have you ever been attacked or insulted by a family member or someone in your social circle or even someone at work? Why do people put other people down? The answer is simple. Because they do not feel good about themselves. Well-balanced confident people do not need to attack or criticise others, but people who
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How to Eliminate Any Fear
Do you remember how brave you were when still a child? You thought you could battle dragons, take on tigers and fight pirates. When you grew into a teenager you were still full of gung-ho believing you could do anything and be anything and then something happened to you as an adult and you lost
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How to Improve Our Multi-Tasking Skills and Make Better Use of Our Time
Can you remember those one-man bands – those guys with a drum strapped to their back, a piano accordion in their hands, a mouth organ in the mouth and cymbals taped to their legs? That is multitasking at its best. My female friends tell me I can’t multitask because I’m a man, and multitasking is
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How to Effectively Deal With Losing possessions
A friend of mine lost his car keys five days ago and I swear the experience almost sent him mad. It wasn’t just one or two keys; it was a big heavy clump of keys. He lost the keys to his home, car, wife’s car, his work, his garden sheds, the garage and even to
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What Regrets Really Are and How to Eliminate Them
I’m going to return to a subject I write about frequently, because I believe it is a major impediment to happiness: regrets. When you think about it, regrets are all about how you perceive the past – what you should or should not have done in the past. Regrets and withholding forgiveness are also closely
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