Whether your New Year’s resolution is about moving more, learning more, or having more fun, here are some ways that music can help you reach your goals and make this your best year yet! 1. Music Changes Your Mood Music is intricately connected to our emotions. Movie soundtrack composers know this well when they use big swells …
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We all want to make good habits, whether it’s in business, in our hobbies, or in our personal lives. One popular method to build habits is called the 21/90 rule. The rule is simple enough. Commit to a personal or professional goal for 21 straight days. After three weeks, the pursuit of that goal should have …
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We often think that it’s the big moments in life that matter but really it’s the small steps in the right direction that bring us closer to happiness everyday. Sure, the milestones such as weddings, promotions and births are beautiful, but they come so few and far in between that we shouldn’t solely rely on them for joy. …
When you have a daunting mountain to climb, it is often best to break it into molehills. In his classic paper, “Small Wins,” University of Michigan psychologist Karl Weick argued that large social problems are best broken down into smaller ones with concrete achievable goals. Social problems as enormous as, say, unemployment, can be so overwhelming that solutions …
In 1780, hunched over a table at his home in London, Jeremy Bentham wrote the first lines of the first chapter of one of his most famous works. It read, “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters: pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought …
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How do some people seem to take charge of their lives while others struggle? How are these people always in a productive, easy groove and seemingly immune to adversity? People like this apparently buck the trend of “just getting by,” maybe possessing a top-secret formula for success. Somehow, they found a way around roadblocks to …
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We’ve heard loads about the best time-management skills out there and how they can help everyone from college students to working parents. Several studies have shown that with good time-management, you can improve your career, academic performance and well-being. You’ll get more things done and make the most of your limited time. You’ll breeze through your …
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When we are setting goals and making plans for the future, for what kind of person we wish to be, and what values we wish to live by, psychological barriers can threaten to get in way of taking effective action. Some of those barriers include fear of the unknown (even when it is likely positive), unrealistic or excessive …
From shortening your workouts to factoring in ‘white space’, experts share how to win back time. Don’t check emails first thing “It is too tempting to think, ‘I’ll quickly answer this email,’ which ultimately leads to ‘quickly’ getting back to that colleague and so on. Before you know it, most the morning has passed and your …
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When life gets difficult and unbearable, sometimes your only option is to take things “one day at a time.” You can’t change everything overnight – and you can’t change yourself overnight. Self-improvement is constantly reminding yourself of the power of taking baby steps. A small step forward is better than nothing at all, and how you identify …
