It used to be that career success began at the bottom, in an entry-level position, and that you slowly worked your way up the corporate ladder within a single company, earning new responsibilities and promotions based on hard work. As long as you worked hard enough, someone would take notice, and you would move up. […]
10 Ways to Spend Less on your Nights Out
Is your paycheck and your nights out not in a harmonious relationship? You can easily fix that and spend less on your nights out without having to forego the fun. “All work and no play” is just as bad as its other extreme. So it’s not okay to give up going out with the boys […]
5 Powerful Reasons to Take Food Supplements
Dietary supplements continue to be a debatable issue among health professionals, fitness specialists and nutrition experts. On one hand, there are people who believe that all the vitamins and minerals needed by our bodies can be obtained through diet alone. They have even come up with studies that show the negative effects of these products […]
Sleep – The Often Overlooked Factor in Healthy Living
When a healthy lifestyle is discussed, the most common factors mentioned are the need for a healthy diet and regular exercise, and to stop the smoking and drinking habits. Seldom do we include adequate and sound sleep to maintain our physical and mental wellness. To make matters worse, contemporary society looks upon people who sleep […]
4 Parenting Behaviors that Are Harmful for Your Children
Didn’t we always dream of being the perfect mom or dad, and raising equally perfect children? But truth trumps fiction every time and when our time as parents came, we had to let go of unrealistic and fantastical goals. We learned that we are also guilty of parenting behaviors that are not the ideal. So, […]
5 Reasons to Stop the Bad Habit of Ruminating
Rumination in psychology is the obsessive attention on past painful situations or events and its alleged sources and outcome. It could be some of your childhood experiences or more recent happenings at work or in relationships. Rumination has two aspects -reflection and brooding. Reflection is actually a positive action. You think about the adverse event […]
4 Bad Habits of Millennials That Hinder Their Success
Every generation has its defining characteristics and unfortunately for millennials, quite a few of them are not too flattering, if measured by baby boomer or earlier generations' standards. Since Gen Y, which is another name that millennials go by, comprises the largest component of the workforce in 2015, their habits, good or bad, will have […]