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Healthy Living

How to Eat Healthy while Dining Out: 18 Tips

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Last weekend, my friends and I visited Dallas and Austin. We live in different states now, and so a weekend with friends is ever so valuable. What did we do for most of the time? We ate, we talked, and we discovered different restaurants. Throughout the weekend, each of us worked to eat healthfully.
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Purposeful Growth

Ten reasons to practice gratitude

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About a year ago, I started reading about why we should practice gratitude. So, I started a gratitude vase in my bedroom. I set out colorful markers, a stack of small papers, and an empty glass vase on a shelf. Each night, I spent 5 minutes (well, it was more like 3 minutes at first) writing down three things for which I was grateful. Soon, the vase was full of colorful slips of paper, and I had to add an extra vase to hold all the gratitude.
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Creative Productivity, Purposeful Growth

27 Ideas for Your Stay-At-Home Holiday Weekend

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Sticking around for labor day? According to the American Express Spend and Save Tracker, 53% of us plan to get away during 2015’s summer holiday weekends, which means that about 47% of us plan to stay at home.

Staying home doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the time off. In fact, it’s a wonderful opportunity to rest, reflect, and boost your creativity. Continue reading 27 Ideas for Your Stay-At-Home Holiday Weekend →

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Creative Productivity

Make your Commute Better

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According to the US Census bureau, the average American drives 25 minutes to work—that’s an average of 50 minutes per day, 4 hours per week, and over 200 hours per year! Want to maximize your commute time? Try these nine ways to make the most of your commute.

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Healthy Living

Want sugar? 11 Ways to Stop your Cravings

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Let’s face it. Most of us enjoy a sweet treat. Craving sugar is common, and studies have shown that “sugar can have effects similar to a drug of abuse.” 1 There’s a great video post online to explain these effects.

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Notes:

  1. Rada P1, Avena NM, Hoebel BG. “Daily bingeing on sugar repeatedly releases dopamine in the accumbens shell.” Neuroscience. 2005;134(3):737-44. ↩
Creative Productivity

My Key to Creative Productivity

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Four years ago, a good friend of mine proposed that we read The Artist’s Way at Work. She thought that the book might help with our productivity. So, we dedicated four weeks to reading the book and undertaking the practices it recommended. Let me tell you, this book has changed my creativity, my productivity, and my outlook! And, one practice introduced in the book has become my key to unlocking creative productivity.

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Healthy Living, Purposeful Growth

Brighten your Winter Blues with these 9 Strategies

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This year, the Northeast has truly experienced w-i-n-t-e-r. In fact, Boston, Massachusetts has endured a total of 95.7 inches (that’s almost 8 feet!) of snow during the 2014-2015 winter season. Needless to say, there are a lot of folks are cooped up inside.

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5 Minutes Every Day to Inspire Healthy, Purposeful, and Productive Living

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As we kick off American Heart Month this week, I want to introduce a topic that not only addresses physical heart health, but also celebrates the healthy feeling that comes from having heart. And, this particular subject is a personal challenge of mine.

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