Lifestyle
Alongside taking care of other people and the planet, make sure you take good care of yourself. The Lifestyle section at the Optimist Daily has solutions for everyday wellbeing on topics like food, beauty, fashion, and the latest trends. Curious about caring for houseplants, eating plant-based, or parenting tips? It’s all in there.
Study: Long-term meditation practice can prevent age-related mental decline
In one of the longest studies on meditation to date, researchers found more evidence suggesting that meditating has the potential to prevent age-related mental decline and increase one’s attention span. As the study explains, age-related cognitive decline typically includes the inability to Read More...
These are the most walkable cities in the world
City lovers and urbanists know a good city needs to be walkable. Amenities need to be close by, cars need to have a minimal presence, and most of all, pedestrians must be protected. Combined with functional transportation systems, and you have yourself a walkable city. Here’s what people are Read More...
29 tiny changes that will make your home more eco-friendly today
Here are 29 little things you can do tonight, or tomorrow, or this weekend to make your home a more eco-friendly Read More...
How a community fund could actually generate financial returns for its members
If investing in the community would also provide a financial return, more people would surely do it. That’s why a startup has created a new community-based fund that allows neighbors to invest a small amount in a fund, which can be used to invest into parts of the community such as housing. As Read More...
Study: Productivity and focus soar when working from home
When a Stanford researcher set out to study how productive people could be when working from home, he expected the positives and negatives to offset each other. But he was wrong. Instead, the nearly two-year study showed that workers benefit from an astounding productivity boost when working from Read More...
Mobile money is the key to growing Africa’s banking sector
Africa is a global leader in mobile money, with telecom operators embracing innovative practices that allow customers to not only pay bills but also access services including loans, insurance, and Read More...
The process of building trust works in the opposite way that you think it does
Wharton psychologist and author Adam Grant recently sat down with Daniel Coyle, author of the new book The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups, to talk about the surprising truth about how trust works, and how we can build it in groups large and Read More...
The new social networks you should join instead of Facebook
The past two weeks have been rough for Facebook. Some are deleting their accounts in protest of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, while others are decrying the death of social media, likening its effect on us to sugar or Read More...
8 surprising things ultra-productive people do every day
When it comes to productivity, we all face the same challenge — there are only 24 hours in a day. Yet some people seem to have twice the time; they have an uncanny ability to get things done. Even when juggling multiple projects, they reach their goals without Read More...
What is mindfulness and how does it work?
It is readily arguable that the single most significant development in mental health practice since the turn of the millennium has been the widespread emergence of mindfulness-based approaches. They are popping up everywhere you look. Type “mindfulness” into Google and you get 27 million Read More...