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.
Achieving prosperity according to Andrew Carnegie
110 years ago, journalist Napoleon Hill, the author of Think and Grow Rich, set down with steel baron Andrew Carnegie for a series of interviews aimed about the principles of his success. For Carnegie mindset was the critical component: the problem most of us face isn’t that our goals are too Read More...
Auditchain: welcome to real-time accounting and reporting
Shareholders want to know how the business they invested in is doing. These snapshot reports they periodically receive seldom satisfy them. What if accounting became a real-time effort that all stakeholders in a business can continually evaluate? Welcome to Auditchain, a new blockchain-based Read More...
Open your heart: for others and for yourself
There are always annoying people around us and most of us follow the same strategy: we close off with feelings of apprehension, resentment, or disdain. But here’s the point: closing your heart ultimately hurts yourself. How can you commit to living with an open Read More...
How one simple question can make you feel a whole lot better
A sweet story about a reporter discovering that a simple question from a teenager in rural India can lift one out of self-obsessed anxiety, stress and depression. Connection is all it Read More...
Think Global, Eat Local (Part I)
By Sadie Wilbur, Editorial Intern, July 2018 “A garden is a solution that leads to other solutions. It is part of the limitless pattern of good health and good sense." – Wendell BerryDirty Hands, Happy Heart My love for all things green began when I was a young girl. I grew up alongside a Read More...
As the Bay Area becomes too expensive, a new tech capital is emerging: Toronto
A 500-worker company requiring 75,000 square feet of office space can expect total annual costs in the San Francisco Bay Area of more than $57 million. These costs are becoming prohibitive for tech companies. They are looking for new markets. That’s why Toronto in Canada was the hottest tech city Read More...
Science confirms what pet owners already know: dogs go out of their way to help
Dog owners know this: their dogs want to help. But how can you prove that their intuition is right? Scientists put a cohort of dogs to the test by placing their owners on the other side of a clear door and having them either hum Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star or cry. The dogs were able to see and Read More...
The first long term study shows that standing desks help people feel better
Sitting is the new smoking. And it doesn’t help much when you sit at your desk for a long day and then spend an hour at the gym. You need to get off your chair regularly. That’s where sit/stand desks come in. The first study following sit/stand desk users for over a year shows that people feel Read More...
These photos prove that iPhone photography has become an art
For most people, their phone has become their camera. And even with the tiny lenses, digital photography is getting better all the time. Here are the highlights of the 11th annual iPhone Photography Read More...
Embracing diversity, welcoming insight
Seeing in a new light When France won the 2018 World Cup in Moscow last week, it was hard not to notice the diversity of the team and the abundance of African surnames on the jerseys. The majority of the 23 French team members, 16 to be exact, are immigrants or children of immigrants from Read More...