Feeling a bit too angry lately? Here are some ways to release anger
It’s no secret that letting anger simmer or having rage outbursts hurts your personal and professional relationships. Beyond that, it also impacts your well-being. Constantly bottling up our frustration can lead to physical and emotional reactions, including high blood pressure and anxiety. The Read More...
5 ways to bring some ease to your anxious teenager
Teenagers are overwhelmed with emotions that they don't understand. Uncertainty and insecurity plague them. Add to their struggles a daily dose of social, sexual, and academic tension, and in a single day, teenagers may experience euphoria, crushing hurt, overwhelming anxiety, or deep despair. No Read More...
3 simple ways to save an extra $250 per month
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Everyone loves to save money, so here are three easy ways you can free up $250 in your budget per month. Cancel subscriptions you don’t use Review your monthly bank statement for recurring charges, like subscriptions you may have forgotten you signed up Read More...
Tips for designing an environment that helps you make healthy food choices
If you were sitting in a team meeting with donuts on the table, you’d likely reach for a donut. But if that same meeting offered fresh fruit or vegetables, you’d inevitably make a healthier choice. The point is the physical space around us can impact the way we make nutritious choices. With Read More...
Need a mood boost? Try these 9 healthy foods
When feeling blue, you may crave calorie-rich, high sugar foods like ice cream or cookies to try to lift your spirits. While this might give you a sugar rush, it's unlikely to help you in the long term — and may have negative consequences as well. Instead, you should aim for wholesome foods Read More...
4 tips that will help you move on from failure
All of us in life get confronted by moments where we realize that our plans have not panned out as ideally as we may have fantasized. In other words, we realize that we failed. It is important to note that the root of failure appears in many different ways. Maybe you realized that your initial Read More...
4 steps to help you leave work at work
Some jobs have very clear lines between when you’re “on” and when you’re “off,” while in others the lines are blurred — or potentially nonexistent. That makes not being distracted by work, especially mentally, a major challenge. If you find yourself struggling to get out of “work Read More...
3 simple ways to promote longevity in your body
On a podcast from MindBodyGreen, Harvard geneticist David Sinclair explained that what drives the aging process is the lack of stress our bodies experience. In order to truly optimize our longevity, Sinclair wants us to add more stress to our lives. That doesn’t mean working more intensely or Read More...
This little tip will prevent you from being scammed in 2020
2020 is finally here, and it's coming with its own set of challenges. Not only do we have to break the habit of writing 2019, when we really mean 2020, but the dawn of a new decade also creates a unique opportunity for scammers, says Ira Rheingold, executive director for the National Association of Read More...