Where do you want to be in five years? What are your personal goals, your financial goals? This common question comes up again and again in job interviews for a reason: Knowing how you want to live and grow, and then making an action plan, helps you feel purposeful and…
A best friend is a privilege and one of life’s greatest gifts. True friends are rare and they should be cherished. Throughout life, we get the chance to meet hundreds, maybe thousands of people in person. Nowadays, we can gather a list of 5000 “friends” on social media in no…
Maintaining a childlike curiosity for life can help you feel younger, and studies have shown that those that feel younger tend to live longer. However, if you’re in a slightly different position, and struggling to meet the demands of adulthood, you could be experiencing something known as Peter Pan syndrome.…
Crystal Benes battled obesity since she was a child and knew something had to change when at 25, she was struggling to breathe and get a good night’s sleep. She weighed 376 lbs at the time. “Every choice I made regarding what I fueled my body with and how much…
It’s safe to say that all smokers know that they should stop smoking, and the sooner the better. Tobacco is a major risk to your health, and to the health of your loved ones who are exposed to your secondhand smoke. But even if you know all of this logically,…
Alcohol saturates the fabric of Western culture. Drinking is heavily linked to big life events, both celebratory, such as weddings and birthdays, or times of sadness, such as funerals or breakups. Alcohol is called a social lubricant for a reason. Over 85 percent of Americans over the age of 18…
How often do you make offhand comments about being burned out from, well…life in general? If stress seems never-ending and you’re compounded by feelings of boredom, chances are you’re experiencing burn out. Burnout is a stress condition that zaps all your energy, affects everyday tasks, can hurt otherwise healthy sleep…
If you’ve ever stuck with a fitness regimen that yielded improved strength, endurance, reduced weight, and a more positive sense of self, you might be a biohacker. If you’ve ever implemented a schedule based around your sleep patterns that improved the quality of your slumber and made you feel more…
No one likes to think about their partner being with anyone else. Neither do most people enjoy thinking about their partner’s past relationships, and all the baggage (or potential lingering feelings) that come with them. While it’s normal to have a passing thought about your significant other’s past partner (and…
Benjamin Franklin is quoted as having once said: “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” While the attribution may be apocryphal, there’s a degree of truth in the statement. Because while making you wiser may be beyond the purview of an earlier wake up…