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7 Signs of an Unhealthy Gut and 7 Ways to Improve Gut Health

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How to Make (and Keep) a New Year's Resolution

Are you making a resolution for 2018? Warning: More than half of all resolutions fail, but this year, they don't have to be yours. Here's how to identify the right resolution to improve your life, create a plan on how to reach it, and become part of the small group of people that successfully achieve their goal.

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A common problem I have while writing is the urge to google something. It's easy to justify this bad habit as "doing research," but deep down I know it's often just a diversion from difficult work. Bricker advises focusing on the internal trigger that precedes the unwanted behavior, like "feeling anxious, having a craving, feeling restless, or thinking you are incompetent."

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The most important habit I've formed in the last 10 years of forming habits is meditation. Hands down, bar none. Meditation has helped me to form all my other habits, it's helped me to become more peaceful, more focused, less worried about discomfort, more appreciative and attentive to everything in my life.

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"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." Marcus Aurelius Antoninus "Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."

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The 9 Different Types Of Loneliness And How To Deal With Each, According To Therapists

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The modern world has brought us a lot of great stuff. (I, for one, am a huge fan of antibiotics.) That said, we know there are things that were better in the past, ideas we can learn from or reclaim. What's interesting is recently science and experts have validated many of the lessons ancient thinkers knew but could not prove.

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Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read

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Break-ups are never easy, but why do some people fight to win an ex back while others run a mile? The temptation to rekindle an old flame is deeply rooted in our psychology.

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A deeper look at one of the most comprehensive and research-backed theories of how we learn complicated skills.

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