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7 Tips For A Strong Relationship When It’s Not Enough Just To Love

Some cases of depression are caused by chemical imbalances and can be treated like a disease. But for many individuals suffering from depression, the form of depression they are experiencing is not best addressed through the use of medication as the primary/sole treatment option. The True Causes of Depression Human beings often become depressed because depression is the logical reaction to the challenges in their lives. Some feel isolated because they have no one to talk to, or hang out with....

The good news is, healthy eating doesn’t mean you have to cut out all the foods you love, even desserts. There are ways to prepare just about any recipe in a much healthier way. You can use alternative ingredients or substitute one ingredient for another to make it healthier. Even desserts packed with sugar and calories, like brownies, can be prepared with fewer calories and a better type of fat....

While the vinegar might make the smell a little less pleasant than the original, the lingering smell of lemon will soon replace the odor and make your home smell just as good as the original Pledge furniture dusting spray, and the olive oil will leave your wood furniture looking shiny and beautiful. Best of all, since the furniture dusting spray recipe only uses a quarter teaspoon of lemon essential oil and two teaspoons of olive oil, making a whole 16 ounce batch of the mixture is incredibly cheap....

‘Empower Your Journey’, a Kickstarter project, has a plan to never let your phone’s battery die when your are journeying. It allows you to charged up to two phones anytime and anywhere you want. Designed with extreme durability in mind, this device will never let your phone die. Whenever your battery is getting low, you can just attach it to the device. With a capacity to store massive power, ’empower Your Journey’ also ensures that your phone gets this energy quickly....

Managing Your “To Do List” with MindManager – [The Mindjet Blog]

The best time to invest is when you’re young, because your money will have more time to grow. An early strategy of consistent investment will give you a nest egg later on in life that you can use for major purchases or, better yet, retirement. Here are some common misconceptions that millennials have about investing. “The Stock Market Is Too Risky” You might think that the stock market is just too risky....

Here are some recipes that will help you prep for the week ahead, so you can eat delicious meals and bask in the glory of leftovers. 1. Spicy Tuna and Avocado Melts Altogether, you’ll be able to throw this recipe together in about 15 minutes. Just preheat the oven as soon as you walk in the door and you’ll be all set to go. You’ll squeeze all five main food groups into these melts, and if you don’t want both servings tonight, save one for tomorrow!...

Feynman received his undergraduate degree from MIT and his Ph.D. from Princeton. During those years, he became known for waltzing into the math department at each school and solving problems that the brilliant math Ph.D. students couldn’t solve. Feynman describes why he was able to do this in his fantastic book, Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman! (one of my favorite books that I read last year). Mental Models A mental model is a way of looking at the world....

But why fight these mental health stigmas? Fear of discrimination and the attached stigmas often keep people and their families from facing mental health problems. This creates a regressive effect. It keeps those in need from seeking help, and to put it lightly, this is very problematic. Mental health is as important as proper physical health. Access to treatment and issues with insurance coverage can also be a barrier to seeking treatment....

Money doesn’t excite me, my idea excite me. Walt Disney

Time is an asset in our life that we should value more than money. Once wasted, we can always earn more money. Yet, time wasted is lost forever. Once we understand the importance of time, wealth seems to follow. So how do we invest our time? And how can we visualize it? We can do this by using a method that was originally developed to calculate an employer’s payroll, a method called Timesheets....

Our body language communicates who we are. In fact, we make sweeping judgements from body language. For example, associate psychology professor Joseph Tecce found that something crazy like a lower blink rate predicted presidential winners. [2] We immediately size someone up when we first meet them, but what are judging them on? Harvard social psychologist and best-selling author of the book Presence, Amy Cuddy says that people seek to answer two important questions when they first meet you....

Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy By Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant Following the abrupt death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg thought she and her kids would never recover from the ordeal. From the immense void that filled her lungs and heart, it felt as if she would never feel real joy again. Thanks to her friend Adam Grant from Wharton Psychology, Sheryl discovered that there are critical steps people can take to get back on their feet following life-shattering experiences....

1) Freebies Credit card companies are experts at preying on vulnerable college students who may be strapped for cash and looking to acquire any free item that they can get their hands on. As the famous quote states, “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” This is definitely true in the credit world, since the promotional offers, which typically include t-shirts, water bottles, or food coupons, are usually distributed in exchange for a completed credit card application....

No wonder so many of us complain of loneliness and isolation. We’ve forgotten how to interact with people outside of our immediate colleagues, friends and family circles. It doesn’t have to be this way, however. Let’s take a look at a simple technique that you can use to engage with strangers. Break the ice with this quirky conversation starter So, picture the scene… You’re sitting next to someone interesting and friendly-looking in a train carriage....

Are you suffering from burnout? Do you wake up every morning feeling lethargic, exhausted, tired, grumpy or simply unmotivated? It could be due to a sleep pattern that is not assisting your body to recover optimally. The Sleep Calculator works on a 90 minute sleep cycle and calculates the perfect time between these cycles for you to get up feeling refreshed. On average, a person ought to experience 5 or 6 of these sleep cycles a night to wake up feeling refreshed and energized....

Why Is It Unhealthy? Granola bars are a huge part of many people’s diets including children’s lunches. Because of the “healthy” ingredients within granola bars such as fruits, oats and even seeds and grains, we consume these bars under the assumption (or the self-denial) that these are healthy foods that are good for us. The truth is, in fact, that there are huge amounts of hidden fats and sugars within granola that, if we actually knew about, we might think twice about consuming granola – or at least about consuming as much as we do....

1. You’ve got to-do-list everywhere. This is usually the result of a Pinterest orFacebook post with awesome ideas, or photos of awesome foods you need to make on your Instagram. So, your brain runs a million miles a minute making to-do-lists for the week, month and year! We all know though, those to-do-lists will never be finished because someone sent you a message about dinner and tacos do sound better than planning your meals for the entire week!...

Organising and Managing your DVD collection – [Flipping Heck!] Once you have decided on the storage, it’s time to move on to top-level categorisation, then once you’ve chosen your categorisation method, are you then going to order by a sub-category (which could be any of the examples above)? What if DVDs are stored in multiple locations? Then it may be better to have no organising as such on the DVDs themselves but rather a list of locations and approximate order the DVDs are in…