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The New Year Resolutions

Every year as January starts approaching we start coming up with New Year resolutions. Each year we say we will start doing this, or stop doing that. The New Year stands before us like a fresh chapter in a book. What we write in that chapter is entirely up to us. Losing weight, eating healthy, stop smoking, consuming less alcohol, help others more and become a better person are some of the most popular New Year’s resolutions. However, it is really sad that most people fail to achieve their goals. Most promises lose steam around mid- February and it’s back to business as usual. Research shows that only 8% of people make their New Year’s resolutions stick. It’s hard to keep up the enthusiasm months after you set the goals, but it’s not impossible. One of the main reasons why people fall short of their goals is because they focus […]

How to succeed in life?

No matter how old you are, your gender, your nationality or what you do for a living, as humans we all share one thing in common – desire to succeed. Success is a subjective notion. Success means different things to different people. We don’t all want success with the exact same things. What does it mean to succeed in life? Does it mean having a good job? Does it mean having a great relationship or perhaps being filthy rich? Even though we don’t want the same things in life, there are some common themes to what succeeding in life means. Success is not something unattainable, it does not come easy. There are a lot of studies published online which give tips on what it takes to achieve more in life. Find out what you enjoy doing and do it passion: Psychologist Angela Duckworth carried out a study which found that […]

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