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.
Popular trading platform Bunz launches its own cryptocurrency
Bunz Inc., a fast-growing Toronto-based online-bartering market, is getting into the hot cryptocurrency game. The company is touting BTZ, which is pronounced “bits” and is short for Bunz Trading Zone, as the first Canadian cryptocurrency to launch to an already-established community – its Read More...
Mindfulness and difficult emotions
I have heard some wonderful explanations of mindfulness. The writer and teacher Sylvia Boorstein calls it “awake attention to what is happening inside and outside so we can respond from a place of wisdom.” The Vietnamese Zen teacher and poet Thich Nhat Hanh says, “I like to define Read More...
Save money at the grocery store by avoiding these 16 items
Groceries cost more than $4,000 a year for many people, but there are plenty of ways to save money at the grocery store. To start with, there’s probably a whole list of items you buy on a regular basis that you don’t need to be putting on your grocery list. If you want to stop wasting money at Read More...
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...