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September 18, 2011 1:39 PM
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En moyenne, ceux qui se lèvent tôt (plus exactement avant 6h58) sont plus performants au travail et ont moins de chances de devenir dépressif, d'être stressé ou en situation de surpoids. «Les personnes du matin ont tendance à être en meilleure santé et plus heureuses, et leur indice de masse corporelle est plus faible», affirme le docteur Joerg Huber, un des auteurs de l’étude, qui s’appuie sur les réponses de près de 1.100 adultes sur leur bien-être, leurs angoisses, leurs habitudes alimentaires et temps de sommeil. Motivés pour vous lever plus tôt? Le Huffington Post relaie les conseils de la coach Sophia David. Au menu de vos bonnes résolutions devraient figurer: un coucher avant minuit, régler votre alarme pour un réveil quinze minutes avant le moment où vous devez vous lever, un peu de sport ou de vélo avant d’aller au travail, vous persuader au réveil que vous allez passer une bonne journée et quelques minutes de méditation.
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September 4, 2011 10:18 AM
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First, we should not denigrate the value of economic progress. When people are hungry, deprived of basic needs such as clean water, health care, and education, and without meaningful employment, they suffer. Economic development that alleviates poverty is a vital step in boosting happiness. Second, relentless pursuit of GNP to the exclusion of other goals is also no path to happiness. Third, happiness is achieved through a balanced approach to life by both individuals and societies. As individuals, we are unhappy if we are denied our basic material needs, but we are also unhappy if the pursuit of higher incomes replaces our focus on family, friends, community, compassion, and maintaining internal balance. As a society, it is one thing to organize economic policies to keep living standards on the rise, but quite another to subordinate all of society’s values to the pursuit of profit.
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September 1, 2011 10:55 AM
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Dans toute relation, certains sujets sont tout simplement difficiles à aborder. Mais vous retenir de lui parler ne vous rapprochera pas de votre conjoint. Voici comment soulever un sujet délicat avec une personne qui vous est chère. Visionnez ce diaporama pour savoir comment parler à votre conjoint de ce que vous préféreriez taire, afin de renforcer votre lien.
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August 10, 2011 8:12 AM
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Vous êtes évidemment trop malins, lecteurs chéris, pour avoir imaginé une seconde qu'il existait une recette miracle du bonheur au travail. Alors parlons du plaisir. Mère de toutes les émotions positives - devrais-je dire père? - le plaisir nous transmet un message simple: que ce que nous faisons est bon pour nous, que ce que nous faisons répond à nos besoins. ... Dans cette vidéo, il (Stefan Sagmeister) propose ses 7 ingrédients pour une vie professionnelle heureuse. ... 1- Avoir des délais confortables pour réaliser ses missions 2- Voyager 3- Avoir un travail varié 4- Travailler sur des projets qui tiennent à coeur 5- Le travail bien fait 6- Avoir des retours de la part de ceux qui nous voient travailler 7- Travailler sur des projets qu'on maîtrise seulement à 50%, avec 50% d'inconnu.
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July 30, 2011 10:27 AM
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Vacations may be fun in the moment, but they don’t have much lingering stress-reducing, or happiness-raising benefits, according to a study from the Netherlands, published the Journal Applied Research in Quality of Life.
According to the study, after the vacation, happiness quickly drops back to baseline levels for most people. Vacationers were no happier than those who hadn’t taken off (as an aside, the greatest boost in happiness came from anticipating and planning the vacation). Post-vacation happiness was affected by how much stress or relaxation a traveler experienced on their vacation. If vacationers described their trip as neutral or stressful, there was no post-trip happiness benefit.
Vacations can reduce stress while you’re away, and may improve your life over the long term if you allow yourself to relax. “Many people have epiphanies when they travel because they can view their life back home from a detached, outsider’s view and give you a clearer sense of who you are and how you really want to live your life,” says Bryan Robinson, Ph.D.
So how do you take a vacation, de-stress, and have the effects linger more than a day or two?
Make sure it’s relaxing
Create a vacation that fits your personal style
Balance activities
Take several mini vacation
Take vacations during major holidays
Delegate work before you leave
Buffer your vacation
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July 22, 2011 3:52 PM
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Tendance à remettre une tâche à plus tard assortie d'un sentiment de culpabilité, la procrastination concerne tout le monde à des degrés très divers. Pour ceux qui sont affligés de procrastination aigue ou chronique, elle est une source terrible d'anxiété, d'actes manqués, d'opportunités ratées. Encore assez taboue, associée à tort à de la faignantise, la procrastination est souvent réduite à un problème de perfectionnisme ou de gestion du temps. Ces explications simplistes sont aveugles à la souffrance qu'elle peut engendrer. Mieux connaître ce comportement, c'est déjà commencer à le comprendre et à l'apprivoiser.
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July 7, 2011 7:23 PM
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Malgré leur faible teneur en calories, les boissons gazeuses diète - sucrées à l’aspartame, par exemple - sont associées à une augmentation du tour de taille et du risque d’obésité, selon une étude1 américaine.
Des chercheurs ont suivi, durant 9 ans, 474 sujets âgés de 65 ans à 74 ans. Ils ont constaté que les participants qui consommaient de 1 à 10 boissons gazeuses diète par semaine voyaient augmenter de 40 % leur risque de devenir obèse par rapport à ceux qui n’en consommaient aucune.
Bien que le tour de taille de tous les participants ait augmenté au cours de l’étude, les chercheurs signalent que les sujets qui buvaient des boissons édulcorées montraient une augmentation de 30 % supérieure en moyenne par rapport à ceux qui n’en consommaient pas. Les données indiquent que l’augmentation était proportionnelle aux quantités de boissons gazeuses diète absorbées. Chez les grands consommateurs, on a observé une croissance du tour de taille de l’ordre de 500 % plus importante que chez les sujets qui ne buvaient aucune boisson diète.
Cet effet des boissons diète sur le tour de taille demeurait significatif même après pondération des résultats en fonction des principaux facteurs de risque connus pour l’obésité : âge, diabète, sédentarité, etc.
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July 4, 2011 7:16 AM
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L'OCDE a mis au point l'indice "mieux vivre" comme alternative au PIB. Une initiative qui illustre la difficulté de l'exercice... CE QUE L'ON PEUT EN RETENIR : "Le produit Intérieur brut (PIB) n'a qu'à bien se tenir : il a un nouveau concurrent : l'indice "mieux vivre", mis en place fin mai par l'OCDE, le club des pays riches. Cet indicateur qui regroupe 19 variables, est destiné à mesurer le bien-être des habitants des 34 pays développés, membres de l'OCDE. Le PIB qui mesure la somme des valeurs ajoutées produites en un an par l'économie d'un pays, est devenu l'indicateur phare sur lequel se focalise la grande majorité des décideurs politiques et économiques." Mais le PIB ne dit rien du bien-être individuel et collectif au sein d'une société. Il est donc urgent de se doter d'autres lunettes pour apprécier ce qui compte vraiment... Quels sont donc les pays où il fait bon vivre, selon l'OCDE ? " L'organisation a fait entrer dans son indice de nombreux indicateurs concernant le logement, l'emploi, la santé, la satisfaction vis-à-vis de la vie... Mais l'OCDE ne s'est pas mouillée : le site Internet dédié à l'indicateur "mieux vivre" ( www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org) propose en effet aux internautes de pondérer à leur guise les dimensions qui leur semblent les plus importantes. Si on donne un poids équivalent aux onze catégories proposées, le résultat peut paraître surprenant : les pays anglo-saxons font en effet jeu égal avec les pays nordiques en tête de classement. Ce sont l'Australie, le Canada et la Suède qui tiennent le haut du pavé, tandis que les Etats-Unis arrivent en 7ème position et la France est tout juste dans la moyenne (18ème sur 34)...
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June 24, 2011 12:09 PM
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More than anything else, becoming a Great Finisher is about staying motivated from a project's beginning to its end. Recent research has uncovered the reason why that can be so difficult, and a simple and effective strategy you can use to keep motivation high.
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When we focus on progress made, we're also more likely to try to achieve a sense of "balance" by making progress on other important goals. This is classic Good Starter behavior — lots of pots on the stove, but nothing is ever ready to eat.
If, instead, we focus on how far we have left to go (to-go thinking), motivation is not only sustained, it's heightened. Fundamentally, this has to do with the way our brains are wired. To-go thinking helps us tune in to the presence of a discrepancy between where we are now and where we want to be. When the human brain detects a discrepancy, it reacts by throwing resources at it: attention, effort, deeper processing of information, and willpower.
In fact, it's the discrepancy that signals that an action is needed — to-date thinking masks that signal. You might feel good about the ground you've covered, but you probably won't cover much more.
Great Finishers force themselves to stay focused on the goal, and never congratulate themselves on a job half-done. Great managers create Great Finishers by reminding their employees to keep their eyes on the prize, and are careful to avoid giving effusive praise or rewards for hitting milestones "along the way." Encouragement is important, but to keep your team motivated, save the accolades for a job well — and completely — done.
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June 13, 2011 9:03 AM
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There is so much in life that we just tolerate. Some of it we have to deal with (taxes, bad weather, traffic). But there’s a good portion of stuff that we tolerate even when we don’t have to. We step around things, overlook irritations, and mindlessly accept energy drains. Perhaps we’ve become so immune to these tolerations that we don’t recognize the negative impact they have on us.
Sometimes just recognizing the things we are tolerating in life gives us a renewed sense of hope and energy. If you don’t know what’s pulling you down, it feels impossible to make your life better. Even small changes and shifts with these life tolerations can result in dramatic improvement in your outlook and mood.
Do you want to walk through the portal to a happier life? If so, here are 12 situations that you should never tolerate if you want to live joyfully. See if you recognize yourself in any of these tolerations. If so, now is the time to clear them away.
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June 12, 2011 8:46 AM
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The proper role for your pre-frontal cortex is to decide what behavior you want to change, design the ritual you'll undertake, and then get out of the way. "It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing," the philosopher A.N. Whitehead explained back in 1911. "The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them."
Indeed many great performers aren't even consciously aware that's what they've done. They've built their rituals intuitively.
Over the past decade, I've built a series of rituals into my everyday life, in order to assure that I get to the things that are most important to me — and that I don't get derailed by the endlessly alluring trivia of everyday life.
Here are the five rituals that have made the biggest difference to me:
. Abiding by a specific bedtime to ensure that I get 8 hours of sleep. Nothing is more critical to the way I feel every day. If I'm flying somewhere and know I'll arrive too late to get my 8 hours, I make it a priority to make up the hours I need on the plane.
. Work out as soon as I wake up. I've long since learned it has a huge impact all day long on how I feel, even if I don't initially feel like doing it.
. Launching my work day by focusing first on whatever I've decided the night before is the most important activity I can do that day. Then taking a break after 90 minutes to refuel. Today — which happens to be a Sunday — this blog was my priority. My break was playing tennis for an hour. During the week it might be just to breathe for five minutes, or get something to eat.
. Immediately writing down on a list any idea or task that occurs to me over the course of the day. Once it's on paper, it means I don't walk around feeling preoccupied by it — or risk forgetting it.
. Asking myself the following question any time I feel triggered by someone or something,: "What's the story I'm telling myself here and how could I tell a more hopeful and empowering story about this same set of facts?"
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June 11, 2011 9:46 AM
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May 29, 2011 10:33 AM
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FOR more than 70 years, economists have been fixated with measuring economic ouput. Their chosen measure, gross domestic product, has limitations—it takes no account of natural-resource depletion and excludes unpaid services such as volunteering. On May 24th the OECD launched its alternative measure of well-being which includes 20 different indicators across 11 sectors in its 34 member countries, from life satisfaction to air pollution. It has produced an interactive tool which allows users to change the weight of each sector according to their own view of its importance. The chart below shows the results of its headline Better Life index (which is equally weighted) plotted against GDP per person at purchasing-power parity (which adjusts GDP for differences in the cost of living across countries). Money may not buy you happiness. But it can buy a strong correlation with a fancy new index that aims to put a number on contentment.
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September 7, 2011 8:54 AM
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For many people (especially those of us in the northern hemisphere) September is the beginning of fall, and with the fall months come the winter blues, or worse, Seasonal Affective Disorder. The time to start prepping for those dark and gloomy cold-weather days is now, before the sun and warmth are gone completely. For most of us, the fall and winter months may mean a little gloominess and a cold-weather funk that we'll just have to work a little harder to shake. For others though, that funk can balloon into Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD,) which is much more serious. Regardless of how you experience the cold weather months, here are a few tips to help you stay energized and in good spirits
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September 2, 2011 7:50 AM
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I’m a big proponent of slowing down, simplifying, doing less, and being less busy … but what if you can’t? What if your life can’t be made less busy — are you doomed to a life of anxiety and unhappiness? No. I’m going to share with you a very simple tool that might just transform your life. It’s something I’ve been trying in the last few months, and I can attest that it works brilliantly. This one little method will help you to: + Be more present, so life doesn’t rush past you without you noticing. + Enjoy every activity you do more, so life is better all the time. + Feel more relaxed, so every day is as good as a vacation. + Be ready to handle anything that comes your way. Not bad for a very tiny method, no? Let’s dive in.
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August 16, 2011 5:22 PM
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Ten great studies from 2010 that can improve your life. By Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. ...
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August 9, 2011 5:04 PM
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Mauvais temps et baisse de moral sont liés Quand il pleut ou que les températures sont en baisse, il n'est pas rare d'avoir un moral en berne. Normal, il y aurait une corrélation entre le mauvais temps et notre humeur. Selon le psychologue canadien Pierre Faubert, en cas d'intempéries le corps produit plus de cortisol, une hormone qui influence le niveau de stress. D'où les réactions d'agressivité et d'impatience exprimée par certains par un temps morose. Nos conseils : Par temps d'orage, il y a comme de l'électricité dans l'air. L'air lourd nous met sous tension et nous énerve. Mieux vaut éviter d'aborder les sujets qui fâchent. Sinon c'est la tempête assurée! Par temps de pluie, mieux vaut relativiser ces aléas météorologiques, sur lesquels nous n'avons aucune prise, pour éviter de se laisser envahir par la nostalgie ou la mélancolie. Ne restez pas à vous morfondre ! Essayez plutôt de compenser le mauvais temps en trouvant des alternatives aux activités prévues par beau temps et soyez entouré.
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July 25, 2011 7:19 AM
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How happy are you right now? Content? Satisfied? Anxious? Crucially, who else feels the way you do?
The Office for National Statistics was ordered by the Prime Minister David Cameron last November to find out - or at least to work out how to find out. National Statistician Jill Mathieson, head of the ONS, has been in charge of the £2m a year wellbeing project, which reported for the first time today after a 10 month-long consultation. That is a crucial difference: happiness is one intangible thing; wellbeing is - they say - measurable in the same way our economy is.
Says Mathieson : It is essential that the set of measures of well-being is relevant and well-based in what matters to people, both as individuals and for the UK as a whole
So, how will they do it? The study has been split into a search for two types of indicators - subjective ones about how we feel and objective measures of things that affect our wellbeing.
On the subjective front, work started in April, with four extra questions to the 200,000 people in the Integrated Household Survey (IHS). People were answer the following questions, on a scale of 1 to 10:
• how satisfied are you with your life nowadays?
• how happy did you feel yesterday?
• how anxious did you feel yesterday?
• to what extent do you feel the things you do in your life are worthwhile?
The first results are expected back in July next year.On top of those subjective questions, the ONS is planning to measure four major areas. It just hasn't decided how to measure them yet:
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July 20, 2011 8:41 AM
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La recherche en psychologie sociale montre qu'une société qui valorise à l'excès le matérialisme dans son acception pouvoir, possession, consommation, favorise l'insatisfaction et l'anxiétéen chacun de nous. En d'autres termes, plus nous nous soumettons au dieu de la réussite matérialiste, plus nous avons de chances d'être mal dans nos godasses.
La société de consommation nous fragilise en nous éloignant de nos vrais besoins, par exemple en prétendant les combler par l'accumulation et remplissage. Ainsi la publicité vend l'illusion de la reconnaissance sociale par la possession, et nous voil prêts à croire que la consommation peut remplacer le lien social ou affectif, prêts à croire que nous pouvons en combler les manques en se vidant le porte-monnaie.
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Alors comment se protéger des aspects psychotoxiques de la société?
Concrètement, cela signifie en garder les bienfaits (le progrès scientifique, la technologie etc.) sans tomber dans des excès de consommation qui nous garantissent "de l'avoir plein nos armoires" comme dirait Souchon, et un placard à estime de soi tout vide.
Cela signifie prendre du temps juste pour soi, prendre le temps d'entendre et d'écouter ses émotions et derrière, ses besoins relationnels, environnementaux, ses besoins d'évolution et d'accomplissement, ses besoins physiques et physiologiques etc...de façon à avoir moins recours à la compensation par la consommation.
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July 6, 2011 7:28 AM
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A little goodwill goes a long way. Small acts of kindness or shows of support don't take a lot of effort or time, but they do build up a strong "account" you can draw from in the future.
Thomas Sowell, an American economist and columnist, said that "politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back." Do you remember the last time someone did some small, thoughtful thing for you? or paid you a compliment or showed some sign of appreciation? That gesture probably made a very favorable and lasting impression on you.
In both your work and personal life, remember that the little things—a thank you note, an offer of support, a referral—matter a lot in the long run; consideration for others is an investment with a very high ROI.
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June 27, 2011 8:22 AM
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If you spend any time traveling for business, the overwhelming likelihood is you struggle with delays, get to sleep late in your new city, wake up early, and pack your days with as many meetings as possible. If you take any time at all to relax, it's usually over dinner, and you're likely to eat too much and drink too much (especially if someone else is pouring).
My massage last week reminded me how vastly much better I feel — and subsequently perform — when I take time on the road to truly renew. Here are my six key strategies:
1. Do whatever it takes to get enough sleep.
2. Get at least 20 to 30 minutes of physical exercise in the morning, because if you don't do it then, you won't do it.
3. Never, ever take the key for the minibar.4. Breathe between meetings
5. Call home.
6. Don't let airport delays get you down.
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June 21, 2011 4:09 PM
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Il est loin le temps ou la sphère professionnelle se limitait au bureau qui nous retenait quotidiennement entre quatre murs. Dorénavant, on a accès à tout, tout le temps. On est connecté partout, à tout, tout le temps. Notre bureau tient dans le creux d’une main, on ne peut plus le laisser derrière soi, il nous suit à la trace et pire, on se sent démunie sans lui. Ce sournois ennemi, vous l’avez deviné, est notre smartphone.
Grâce ou plutôt à cause de lui, le monde professionnel ronge vicieusement les frontières qui lui sont dévolues et s’invite dans notre sphère intime. Ce temps personnel, bien à nous. Ce temps qui nous est malheureusement le plus souvent subtilisé dans les transports en commun ou dans les bouchons.
La liberté ne connait plus de frontières, internet les a virtuellement abolies
De fait, alors qu’il existe bien des frontières réelles, le bureau, la technologie, quant à elle, ne nous rend pas plus libre si l’on n’y prend pas garde. Au contraire, pour certains d’entre nous, elle nous asservit. On reste accroché à nos mails, à nos conversations privées, à nos dossiers urgents par un cordon ombilical invisible. Puisque virtuellement rien ne nous retient plus de devenir des SBF (sans bureau fixe) il nous faut faire consciemment un choix afin de ne pas devenir un workalcoholic (accro maladif au travail).
Sous la lumière rassurante de son BlackBerry, dans son lit, alors que minuit sonne, se cache peut-être une dépendance bien plus dangereuse qu’il n’y parait car normalement cautionnée par la société : le travail, c’est la santé non ?
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June 13, 2011 8:36 AM
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Want to find the key to happiness? There's an app for that. It's called Mappiness. Two researchers at the London School of Economics's Department of Geography and Environment, George MacKerron and Susana Mourato have created it to help them understand what kinds of environments make people happy in United Kingdom.
Once you download the Mappiness app, it beeps at random times during the day to ask you about your current happiness, as well as get contextual information like where you are, who you're with, and what you're doing. At the Mappiness site, you can see the data presented on a timeline and plotted on a Google map.
MacKerron and Mourato hope the project will help them understand the relationship between happiness and aspects of people's environments such as pollution and greenspace. And anyone—in the United Kingdom or not—can use the app to track trends in their own wellbeing....
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June 11, 2011 11:09 AM
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Every day we get up, go to work, go home, and go to sleep. Maybe our routines aren't quite that dull, but they're rarely perfect. Whether you feel the need to get more done or just feel better in general, we've got plenty of suggestions to help you upgrade your daily routine.
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May 31, 2011 6:51 PM
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Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to make drastic changes in order to notice an improvement in the quality of your life. At the same time, you don’t need to wait a long time in order to see the measurable results that come from taking positive action. All you have to do is take small steps, and take them consistently, for a period of 100 days.
Below you’ll find 60 small ways to improve all areas of your life in the next 100 days.
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