Tag: Self-improvement
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Last Saturday, my wife went to a farmer’s market with her friend. As her friend loaded up on yummy veggies, my wife noticed something: she was paying $40 for a small bag of vegetables while we pay $26 for twice as much. And ours is 100% organic, whereas the farmer’s…
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+ Health+ Cooking, Diet, Food, Frugality, Healthy lifestyle, Organic, Produce, Saving money, Self-care, Self-improvement+
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As someone who makes a living from investing, I have watched the Gamestop/Wallstreetbets events with interest. Today, I decided to venture into the belly of the beast and try to find out what these traders are all about. I noticed two common patterns: 1) Us-vs-them thinking. The individual trader versus…
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+ AMC, Day trader, Gamestop, Investing, Meditation, Mindfulness, Self-improvement, Stock Market, Stocks, Wallstreetbets+
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Yesterday, my wife gave me a gift that will keep on giving: a sleep mask. She recently started using one and noticed the quality of her sleep improved enormously. I observed her, intrigued. Just before dinner, she presented me with a sleep mask of my very own! I took it…
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+ Health+ Books, E-commerce, Healthy lifestyle, Lifehack, Online shopping, relaxation, Self-care, Self-improvement, Sleep+
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Tell me why can’t this be love? This fall, I bought what might be the strangest anti-COVID device yet…a humidifier. Two, actually. I set them up in the living room and bed room and then went to work turning my dry apartment in the chilly New York area into a…
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+ Coronavirus, COVID-19, E-commerce, Essential oils, Home, Home goods, House, Humidity, Medicine, Online shopping, Research, Self-improvement, Sleep+
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Six years ago, I did something people say is almost impossible. I quit smoking, and I haven’t touched tobacco since. Here’s a secret: it’s very, very possible. I smoked about a pack a day of cigarettes for over 7 years, and as I was about to get married, I thought…
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+ Habits, Longevity, New Year's Resolutions, No smoking, Quit Date, Quit smoking, Self-improvement, Smoker, Tobacco free+
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For 11 years through college and most of my 20’s, I cooked little more than toast. Every meal I ate, I ate at the cafeteria and later, once I had a real job, an actual restaurant. I had many a scrumptious dinner, but I also had an anemic bank account…
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Sometimes, we all miss the mark. When I do, I have the tendency to yell at myself in the most hectoring tones imaginable. Maybe you do too. Most of us would never talk to a friend that way. If we did, we wouldn’t have many friends for long. Enter Kristen…
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If I want to bring about positive change during these turbulent and polarized times, then first I’m going to have to deal with the turbulence and polarity within me. Swami Asokananda I have a lot of friends and family whose political views are quite different from mine. In normal times,…
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