If you happen to work somewhere that offers a flexible schedule, congrats—you have the opportunity to maximize your time and energy for a better life in and out of the office. The only issue? A lot of us don't know what that means or how to do it. If used smartly, a flexible schedule can be your ticket to consistently productive days that are also consistently low stress. The …Continue Reading
9 Ways to Improve Focus in a Distracted Environment
In case you haven't noticed, we live in a distracting world. And that doesn't just apply to the spaces outside of our homes. Just ask anyone who works remotely how easy it is to get sidetracked by laundry, cleaning, or literally anything that isn't work. So if you set a goal to improve focus this year, you know you're up against some challenges. Like the chatter of coworkers, …Continue Reading
How to Get Focused in The Morning
There's a reason the most successful people are up and at it bright and early: Most adults’ focus and alertness peak in the morning, says a body of research. While a 2:30 a.m. wake-up call might not do it for you (even if it does it for Mark Wahlberg), you're probably still functional in the early hours. Or at least need to be. So now the real question: How do we use that time …Continue Reading
These 9 Positive Habits Will Make Your Life Better
Now that we know all about habits, how to create them, and how to break them, it's time to dig into some specific positive habits that are worth building. These positive lifestyle habits are 1) research-backed and 2) designed to slot smoothly into your life. When built the right way, they become more automatic and less effortful over time—and so does your happiness, well-being, …Continue Reading
How to Handle Job Burnout, Even If You Love Your Work
Here in the US, most of us spend more time on work than we do on nearly anything else, which is partially why job burnout exists in the first place. It's also why work burnout is so all-encompassing when it hits—and so hard to overcome. But it doesn't have to be that way. Whether you want to prevent burnout before it happens, wonder what the science says about how to overcome …Continue Reading
