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Sometimes, you can lose interest in studies, if it seems like there is too much to do, if you don’t like a subject, or if you just find school boring. | Create Interest in Studies |
Adversity brings out the best in human beings. We each face adversity in our own ways, but the people who are ultimately successful in their endeavors are often those who find ways to create opportunities out of their adversity. | Create an Opportunity out of Adversity |
Balancing caregiving and one's own needs can be difficult Seniors and disabled people who are physically or mentally vulnerable may require a good amount of attention and round-the-clock monitoring to avoid any mishaps. | Take Care of Caregivers |
Mad again? Stressed? Headaches and migraine causing you to be grumpy? Sleepy and tired, but need to stay awake? Don't worry, we can take care of it all. | Take Natural, Mood Enhancing Baths |
You sat down and thought about it. You are in absolutely no control of your life. It seems like everyone else is. Well, it's time to take your life back. | Take Back Your Life |
Nasal mucus is a clear, sticky, liquid that works as a filter to prevent unwanted particles in the air from entering your body through your nose. Mucus is a natural part of your body’s defenses, but sometimes it can be produced in excess. | Get Rid of Mucus |
The field of Psychology had long been dominated by disorders. Since the 1990s, however, a new breed of psychologists, led by Martin Seligman, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Jonathan Haidt, among others, launched the "positive psychology" movement, focusing their research and projects on human flourishing - how to develop our values, strengths, virtues, and talents, and find meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in our lives. | Use Modern Psychology to Live a Happy Life |
While it is impossible to group people into rigid categories, it can be helpful to identify general trends in your personality. Knowing your personality type can give you valuable information about yourself, like what motivates you the most or when you are most efficient. | Understand Your Personality |
Feeling emotional is normal. It's human nature to experience hurt and pain. If you're a sensitive person who gets hurt easily or has trouble moving on from emotional rough spots, you're not alone. | Toughen up Emotionally |
Switchwords are powerful poignant words used to connect directly to the subconscious mind, giving it direction for drawing the essence of the Switchword to you. | Use Switchwords to Clear Negative Thoughts |
"When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness." - | Use Modern Psychology to Live a Miserable Life |
A cold is a very common type of upper respiratory infection that can be caused by a variety of different viruses. There’s no cure for a cold, but there are things you can do to help a loved one with a cold feel better. | Nurse a Significant Other's Cold at Home |
Reye's (or Reye) syndrome is a fairly rare but serious medical condition that leads to swelling in the liver and brain, confusion, seizures and eventually loss of consciousness. | Tell if You Have Reye's Syndrome |
A fever is the body's natural response to a virus, infection, or other malady; it creates an inhospitable environment for the bug, which usually dies off within a matter of days. | Tell if You Have a Fever |
A flu (influenza) pandemic is an outbreak of a new flu virus that spreads around the world from person to person, mostly through coughing and sneezing. | Stop the Spread of a Pandemic Flu Virus |
Bibliotherapy is a way to use reading books as a way to solve personal problems and guide personal outcomes in a therapeutic way. [1] While bibliotherapy cannot replace therapeutic intervention, it can be helpful for specific uses such as dealing with personal issues and medical diagnoses. | Use Bibliotherapy |
When it is cold season, there are plenty of things you can do to prevent a cold — including washing your hands frequently, making sure you get adequate rest , staying hydrated and eating healthy — but sometimes, despite your best efforts, you may still get sick. | Stop a Cold when You Feel It Coming On |
Frequent blowing from allergies, colds, or cold, dry weather can painfully irritate your nose. The delicate tissues around and in the nose become dry and chapped from the constant "micro-trauma" of blowing and wiping. | Soothe a Sore and Irritated Nose After Frequent Blowing |
A cold is a viral infection that causes discomfort in the nose and throat, congestion, sneezing, and fatigue. [1] There's no fast cure for a cold, and the symptoms sometimes linger for over a week. | Sing With a Cold |
When you're sick, the last thing you want to do is toss and turn all night. Unfortunately, with the combination of medicine and congestion, you may do just that. | Sleep With a Cold |
To relieve head congestion, you'll need to unblock your sinuses so mucus can drain properly. | Relieve Head Congestion |
There is no real cure for the common cold , but there are things you can do to temporarily alleviate some of its symptoms. Hot toddies, in particular, are a common home remedy for colds. | Use Alcohol to Treat a Cold |
Influenza, commonly called the flu, is a viral infection that mainly attacks the respiratory system (your nose, sinuses, throat, and lungs). [1] Although in most people the illness may last only a week or two, [2] the flu can be very dangerous, especially for children, the elderly, and people with weakened immune systems or chronic medical conditions. | Treat the Flu |
Elderberry is a highly effective herbal remedy for colds and flu. It has been used in medicines for a long time and contains bioflavonoids that significantly boost the immune system. | Treat Colds With Elderberry |
The flu is a highly contagious respiratory infection is caused by the influenza virus. According to the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), 5 to 20% of the population get the flu every year. | Use Supplements to Treat the Flu |
Garlic is a vegetable rich in antioxidants, vitamin B6, vitamin C, and manganese. A recent study on the antibacterial and antiviral properties of garlic shows that it can help boost the immune system. | Use Garlic as a Cold and Flu Remedy |
Sometimes life is unfair. Assessing the cause of life’s unfair moments is the first step in dealing with life being unfair. Figuring out what you do and do not have control over, changing things that are within your power, and accepting those things you cannot change will help you move forward and realize that unfairness is unfortunately something everyone experiences. | Deal with Life Being Unfair |
As many single women know, finding a husband can be a difficult task. You can, however, improve your chances of achieving marital bliss by searching for the right kind of guy in the right manner and in the right places. | Find a Husband |
Watching your baby suffer through a cold can be both nerve-wracking and heart-wrenching, especially if your child demonstrates obvious signs of discomfort. | Treat an Infant Cold |
It’s hard to figure out who you are and where you fit in. You might look around and see people who look like they have it all figured out, but feel totally lost yourself. | Find Who You Truly Are, Inside and Out |
Everyone needs advice every once in a while, and sometimes it can be challenging to decide who to ask for it. The right answer for you will depend on the nature of your question, who you know, and who you are comfortable talking to. | Find the Best Person to Get Advice from on an Issue |
Are you and someone you know interested in being reality TV stars? Would you like the chance to compete for a grand prize while traveling to exotic locations? | Get on the Amazing Race |
There are multiple reasons you may need to find someone currently in the federal prison system or convicted offenders who have now been released. This might be for your own personal safety or to write letters or visit an individual in prison. | Find a Federal Prisoner |
While setting ambitious goals can be a great way to realize your full potential, there are limits to how much you should use your imagination. Sometimes, a goal you set is simply too far out of your reach to achieve. | Get Rid of Unrealistic Goals |
Worrying about a problem can be distracting, frustrating, and stressful. While some problems are more concerning than others, there are ways to find solutions to your problems. | Get Over a Problem |
That's it. It's a new year, it's a new dawn, it's a new day, and it's time to make some improvements! Luckily, it's just about as easy said as it is done -- even the smallest things can feel like giant leaps to becoming a better you. | Improve Your Life |
Wanderlust hits some people harder than others. If you have a passion for traveling and cannot imagine living out the rest of your days in one place, consider looking for work that will pay you to travel. | Get Paid to Travel Around the World |
Along the road of life, you make many decisions. The decisions you have made will range from the trivial to crucial. What you decide can determine the kind of person you become later. | Make Better Decisions |
Can you impact, change events for the better in important arenas -- in work, play, beliefs, business services, profit/nonprofit, create jobs , or engage in local politics and beyond -- now and for the future ... Do this for you, your interests, abilities , skills, talents, beliefs and views? | Impact Important Events |
There may come a time in your marriage where your husband feels as though he lacks passion in his life, and that likely has little to do with you or the marriage. | Help Your Husband Find His Passion |
Please be advised in the first place, that it is widely known that we do not manifest from the brain, from the mind alone. Since the brain naturally has a positive and a negative side and that also is nature of thoughts, if our manifestation is successful (and I wish for everyone that it will be) that we are automatically attracting the equal negative side with it. | Manifest Anything |
If you've ever had to struggle to achieve a significant goal without the support of others, you know how difficult it can be. Whether it's quitting smoking, losing weight, saving money, or finding a new job, striving for a goal can be overwhelming on your own. | Help Someone Reach a Goal |
Have you ever wanted to be able to do everything you ever dreamt of or wished for? Planning to make your wishes come true is an easy and revealing way to get to know yourself better. | Make Your Wishes Come True |
So often in life we have to make tough decisions. Making a decision to do something new usually involves giving up something else. That's what makes it hard—there's a loss to deal with as well as the uncertainty of the future. | Make Tough Decisions for Yourself |
Want to spice up your To Do list and feel just a little more satisfaction as you cross tasks off? Turn your list into an Accomplishment Chain. With a simple setup, you can create a fun, easy chain of tasks and goals you need to do, and remove links from the chain with every one you accomplish. | Make an Accomplishment Chain |
Whether it is finishing your homework, calling an old friend, applying to college, or pursuing a life-long dream, you might find it hard to act. Procrastination tends to be based on emotions like fear and low self-esteem, encouraging avoidance and even reinforcing doubts about one’s abilities and worth. | Persuade Yourself to Do Anything |
Taking control of your life is a big step. You can decide what you want, find out what’s important to you, and create a plan to follow so you make the most out of your life. | Plan Your Life |
When you get to the point where you've done everything you know how to do and your life still isn't working out, it might be time to "hit the reset button." | Reset Your Life |
Most people get up five days a week and go to a job they don't like. And worse yet, they think the only option is to be miserable for 40+ hours a week and delay true enjoyment of life until retirement. | Quit Working |
Have you realized that your life isn't anything close to what you want it to be? This article will give you advice on how to recreate your life. Whether your desire to change was spurred by a mid-life crisis, a near-death experience, a shattering epiphany or a painful separation, you still have time to create the life that you want. | Recreate Your Life |
Victim blaming occurs when someone blames the victim of a trauma, crime, or attack for what happened to them. Friends and family may blame you for what happened, or you may feel blamed for what happened by society and the media. | Recover from Victim Blaming |
It is often asked of us to place ourselves into other people's shoes. This is, of course, a request to see the perspective from the other person's side, to try to empathize with their view and see things as they do. | Put Yourself in Other People's Shoes |
It’s a common scenario. You set a goal and get really amped up about reaching it. But, somewhere down the line, life happens, and you get blown off course. | Stay on Track |
At some point, everyone wants to improve or change things in their lives. A personal development plan can help you reach the goals you have been dreaming about. | Start a Personal Development Plan |
Staying focused can help you accomplish almost anything, from studying for a test to finishing your work an hour early. Staying focused can help improve your professional life, help you listen to people better, and also help you come up with a solution to problems at a quicker speed. | Stay Focused |
In today’s busy professional world, great focus can be put on “multi-tasking,” or trying to work on more than one task simultaneously. Although this idea may sound beneficial, in reality it frequently diminishes productivity and increases stress. | Start Single Tasking |
Does your morning involve climbing out of bed at the very last second, dressing in a rush, and scarfing down breakfast on your morning commute? Do you often wish you could feel in control of your day rather than the day being in control of you? | Start Your Day with Intention |
Start what and how? Choose something old or new; here's how to start any process well, and then what's next? Some change is desirable and needed, some even unavoidable, but some things must be accepted as things you can not change. | Start |
Problem solving is one of the most essential skills in life. Regardless of who you are or what you do, you will face obstacles. How you deal with such challenges will often be a determining factor in how successful you are at life. | Solve a Problem |
Have you ever wanted to solve a mystery? Do you dream of observing crimes and deducing the culprit like in the Sherlock Holmes novels? Serious sleuthing is hard work – not “elementary,” as Holmes would say. | Solve a Mystery |
Before you can commit to achieving a goal, you have to define what exactly your goal is. This is much harder than it may sound. It can take a lot of thought and consideration to find out specifically what you want. | Set Meaningful Goals |
It is common to lapse in our efforts to achieve our goals. In order to recommit to them, you should first reconfirm your goals and make sure that they are realistic and not too inflexible. | Recommit to Your Goals |
Some of the most worthy goals are also the most difficult to achieve. Major accomplishments can take a tremendous amount of time and effort, and it is easy to get discouraged and give up. | Reach Your Hardest Goals |
The excitement and joy of a newborn in the family brings with it some heavy doses of reality. These include the challenges of keeping up with everyday tasks, the importance of being a positive parent, and the sheer lack of hours in the day. | Set New Year's Resolutions As a New Parent |
Are you unhappy with how disorganized your life feels? Maybe you have big plans for your life, but have no idea how to achieve them. While writing your goals is important, it's critical to find ways of realizing and achieving those goals (personal development planning). | Set Daily Goals |
Few things are better in this world that setting a goal and achieving it. Just like when athletes experience a type of "runner's high" after a race, so too does completing any goal produce a sense of elation and pride. | Set Goals and Achieve Them |
Most people have goals in life. You may have goals for your business, goals for your health and goals for your finances. You might have goals in other areas as well, such as creative or relationship goals. | Set a Reading Goal That Will Help Accomplish Your Other Goals |
Paying attention is actually not such an easy thing to do. It's easy to get distracted when you're having a conversation, listening to a lecture, or sitting in class. | Pay Attention |
Whether you want to have more successful relationships, a better career, or just be able to turn down chocolate, pushing your boundaries is essential. | Overcome Your Weaknesses |
A 16 week challenge is a strategy for achieving a major goal in a relatively short period of time. Whether your goal is to lose weight, save money, start a new business, make extra cash to take an expensive trip, or to build better relationships with the in-laws, a 16 week challenge might be a good strategy for you. | Reach Your Goals Within a 16 Week Challenge |
Motivation is a combination of a whole bunch of things, usually including some type of fear or intense desire. After all, the motivation battle is nothing but your head telling you "I think I can," "I think I still can," and "I'm doing it!" | Motivate Yourself |
How to never ever let your goal in life go, no matter what it is. | Never Let Your Dream Go |
When someone calls you a "cry baby," they're usually saying that you're not in control of your emotions, or you become upset without a good reason. [1] This isn't a nice thing to say to someone, but don't worry: you can learn to manage your emotions more effectively. | Not Be a Cry Baby |
The past is a memory that has happened already. Although it can sometimes be difficult to move on, such as after a painful event, you're wasting your life when you spend too much time living in the past. | Move on in Life |
Everyone has tasks that are particularly challenging to tick off the to-do list. Maybe they are boring, they take a long time, or you would simply prefer to be watching your favorite TV show. | Motivate Yourself to Do Something Unpleasant |
There is no greater time than now to begin to live your dreams. You can make your dreams come true if you put in the effort and make a reasonable plan. | Make Your Dreams Come True |
Everybody wants to be successful in life. Whatever efforts you put in to succeed, you can determine your progress in a number of ways. How you measure success will depend on how you define it. | Measure Success |
How do you make the Law of Attraction work every time? The secret is to discover one’s unconscious thinking in relation to what one desires to create consciously. | Make the Law of Attraction Work Every Time |
It may be January 1st and you're committing to a new you with the new year. Or, maybe you have a birthday coming up and you're doing a thorough examination of your life up to this point. | Make This the Best Year of Your Life |
Our lives are cyclical and repetitive naturally in cycles of birth, seasons, and death; and culturally in schedules and routines that we establish to help organize our days. | Make Life Feel Less Repetitive |
Do you find yourself always breaking your New Year's resolutions? Do you aim too high? If so, then you might be a culprit of setting your hopes too high. | Make Suitable New Year's Resolutions |
There are several steps you can take to identify specific things that need to be addressed, organize your thoughts, and prioritize your tasks. These steps can help increase your productivity on your own and in cooperative environments. | Make Things Happen |
Kids have a natural tendency to want to avoid taking responsibility for the actions they've taken. No one likes to get in trouble, particularly kids. | Teach Kids to Accept Responsibility for Their Actions |
Many people have experienced how frustrating it can be when you are at home doing nothing, either because you can't get into school or you can't get a job. | Make It Work |
When you are confronted with a new or stressful task or situation, you may begin to doubt your talents, strengths, or abilities. Underestimating yourself can cause anxiety or stress, and it may prevent you from trying something new. | Stop Underestimating Yourself |
This rules might help you to enjoy even a rainy workday in November. If you want to be good at something, you start to train it. Emotional self-determination is something, that can be trained also. | Survive the Daily Grind |
In a busy working environment, time is precious. Meetings can waste time by lack of clarity with regard to goals to be achieved. You can work smarter in your meetings. | Support Others to Set Goals |
Worry is absolutely ineffective, unproductive, and a total waste of time! It avails nothing! Did you know that God wants us to transfer our problems to Him through prayer: to bring to Him our cares and worries? | Transfer Your Problems to God Through Prayer |
As Bill Gates said, “It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” [1] Everyone has failed at something, whether it be a failed relationship, fitness goal, business, or examination. | Turn Failure into Success |
There are many things in the world out there that are worth trying. So, how do you put yourself into the right frame of mind to go out and have a go at netball, or try your hand at cooking? | Try Something New |
Most transformations take time, but many see New Year's Day as a fitting moment to get started with resolutions to change their life for the better. | Transform Yourself for the New Year |
An objective is a basic goal that needs to be achieved. Program objectives are goals set up by the organization that allow the group to measure progress. | Write Program Objectives |
A work plan is an outline of a set of goals and processes by which a team and/or person can accomplish those goals, and offering the reader a better understanding of the scope of the project. | Write a Work Plan |
There are many different ways to write a personal mission statement. Despite this there are also some commonalities and good guidelines you can follow when writing your own. | Write a Personal Mission Statement |
“What am I doing with my life? What do I want? Where am I going?" These are common questions people ask themselves. Usually, such visionary thinking starts the process of making and writing goals. | Write a Goal |
Autosuggestions are positive words and sentences used repeatedly to change your perception. It is a self-development method used to create new, positive beliefs about yourself as well as an effective method for ending bad habits. | Use Autosuggestion |
Problem solving and posing is an educational theory that demands thinking process, data analysis, evaluation, and reflection. Problem solving process consists of several steps which was first outlined by George Polya in 1945. | Use Problem Solving and Posing Strategies |
It is possible to get what you want simply by focusing on specific intentions (focused intention). Even when you have demonstrated this method to yourself, you'll still be bemused that this little magic trick works. | Use Focused Intention to Achieve Your True Purpose |
Each of us has unique skills and abilities to contribute to humanity. Despite knowing this, it can be difficult to realize what those skills are and how to use them well. | Use and Improve Your Abilities |
Life transitions or changes can be stressful and cause a disruption in your life. Although having supportive friends and family can help, you may need to talk to someone outside of your family to help your work through your feelings about your life changes. | Use Counseling to Work Through Life Transitions |