12 Alarming Signs You Need To Take a Break from Work

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Alarming Signs You Need To Take a Break from Work

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Most people find fulfillment and personal satisfaction when they are able to be the best in their chosen field. Some would even confidently assert that focusing on work and spending your physical and mental energy solely on your career goals should be the only way to be successful. However, they fail to mention that to make this possible, you have to take other aspects of your life for granted – especially your health.

Workaholics agree that they spend a larger percentage of their day meeting deadlines and beating their personal records on the number of hours they spend at the office. As ideal as these may sound, many studies proved that working more than what your body can handle is obviously unhealthy not only physically but also mentally and emotionally.

How will you know if you’re working too much? These signs might help you recognize the alarming indications that you are failing at the work-life balance department.

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10 Motivational Tips to Discipline Yourself to Save Money

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Motivational Tips to Discipline Yourself to Save Money

 

Motivational Tips to Discipline Yourself to Save Money
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Why is it so easy for other people to save money without giving in to the temptations of spending their entire month’s salary on things that don’t really matter? Why are some people willing to starve themselves just to follow the latest fashion and gadget trends? Does the former know something that the latter fails to identify and live by? These questions may sound simple but for most people, finding the answers can dramatically improve their lives financially for both the present and future.

To help you get started, we have collected some motivational pieces of advice from people who tried and succeeded to discipline themselves to save money. If you think that you are in the wrong direction financially, it’s not yet too late to follow these money-saving tips to turn your life around. Let’s start:

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9 Exciting Reasons Why Travelling is Good for You

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Exciting Reasons Why Travelling is Good for You

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Millions of people around the world spend a good amount of time and money just to hit the road and travel either around the country or abroad. Stories of people leaving their corporate careers and dropping everything just to travel have become common online and although there are others who think that these decisions are irresponsible and show a complete disregard for the future, the people who have actually experienced going away to strange and wonderful places for the first time would agree that traveling, even with all its financial and physical requirement, will always be worth it.

If you’re still hesitant to plan out a trip this year or in the near future, this article will give you exciting reasons why you should finally book that ticket and why the experience is good for you, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

So what are the benefits of traveling?

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Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, and Insight: What are the Differences?

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Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, and Insight

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding are all great qualities that every human should possess to live a more noble life. We go to schools to gain knowledge, hold on to our conviction to achieve wisdom, and reflect on our own doings to achieve understanding. We might be familiar with the meaning of knowledge and wisdom, as …

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8 Signs that You’re Ready for a Long Distance Relationship

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Signs that You’re Ready for a Long Distance Relationship

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Most of the time, couples face challenges that can either make or break their relationship. Unfortunately, some of these circumstances make trying to be together emotionally taxing and impractical – and both can lead to devastating breakups.

Perhaps one of the most significant trials that any couple can bump into is to be physically apart, living in different cities and sometimes, in different countries. There are several reasons they face this reality, for instance, work or family, and others like pursuing studies in another city or abroad.

Now, if you are one of these poor souls, you came to the right place. Here, we will try to find out if you and your significant other are ready for a long-distance relationship.

Let’s say you just found out that your partner needs to move to another city (or country) for work or further studies. The intensity of emotion that one could feel about this significant change depends on the level of relationship you have with your partner. If you are new in the relationship, you could feel betrayed or uncertain about the future, but long-term lovers can feel secure yet anxious about what lies ahead. Either way, you feel a damaging surge of emotions such as anxiety and the most often than not, trust issues may dominate the scene.

The most important questions that you should be asking are: are you ready for a long-distance relationship? Is it worth the risk? The following signs can hopefully answer these questions.

According to relationship experts, you are ready for an LDR if:

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How to be Kind and Warm to Others

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How to be Kind and Warm to Others

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Isn’t it amazing to be surrounded by kind people? Being kind is a vital way of bringing meaning to your own life as well as the lives of other people. Warm-heartedness is indeed a key factor that allows you to smile and be happy even if you’re with a stranger.

To be kind and warm helps you feel better inside, and it also helps others to feel better with your presence. It starts with a decision, once you have the right attitude, the rest becomes quite a bit easier. A kind heart is like a fountain of gladness, it makes everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. Sometimes, you just have to be nice to other people not because they are nice, but because you are.

Thus, kindness has its true source deep within you, and while some people are naturally kind, it is something that everyone can cultivate by choice. So, if you are willing to know how to be kind and warm to others, I listed down 12 tips that might help you.

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How to Control Pride and Overcome Arrogance

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How to Control Pride and Overcome Arrogance

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Perhaps, one of the hardest things to recognize in ourselves is our pride. Pride can lead us to be only concerned with ourselves, seek recognition to exalt ourselves, and speak constantly without listening. You might as well have seen many arrogant people around you. They are always preoccupied with their ego, and probably, you’re struggling with the same trait.

Many people don’t realize what awaits them if they just let go of this attitude and move forward. Instead of looking at yourself as “wise in your own eyes”, let yourself be humble and willing to learn from other people.

Thus, if you are struggling with pride and arrogance, here are 12 tips that might help you control your own pride and overcome that irksome quality of being arrogant.

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12 Tips to Improve Self-Awareness and Develop Your Potential

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Tips to Improve Self-Awareness and Develop Your Potential

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Before knowing anything else, you need to know yourself first. You need to know your weaknesses, strengths, beliefs and desires in life. Keeping in touch with your emotions means, you have to be self-aware.

The most important characteristic of a leader is self-awareness, the ability to monitor one’s own emotions and reactions. Learning how to be aware of yourself might not be easy, but if you can master this skill, it will help you become a much more effective leader. Many of us are not fond of spending much time on self-reflection. And even though personal feedback is presented, people are not always open to it because honest feedback isn’t always flattering. Thus, many people indeed have a low level of self-awareness.

However, self-awareness can help you identify opportunities for professional development and personal growth. If you want to improve your self-awareness and develop your potential, I listed down 12 tips that might help you.

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How to be a Jolly Person: 12 Tips to be Fun to be With

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How to be a Jolly Person

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People who are jolly tend to live a healthier lifestyle compared to those who are lonely. Being jolly and funny is not about telling jokes or someone who’s behaving like a clown either. A jolly person is someone who is genuinely happy at heart. If you are not that fun but want to get funny, there are things you need to keep in mind. Trying to be fun means changing your whole personality and becoming more charming in the eyes of people around you.

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12 Tips to Overcome Boredom and Loneliness

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Tips to Overcome Boredom and Loneliness

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I am like a knot tangled in a grim circumstance were to loosen it,  is not easy. Deep down in my thoughts, I want to get out of this muddled situation, but something is preventing me from unraveling what I used to have. I want to untangle every link I had and free myself from everything that keeps me doing things I badly want to do. I want to fix each tousled situation in my own peculiar way. But, how? If I don’t even know where to start?  If I can’t even secure my thoughts from thinking all the glumness I feel within this tanked-up heart of mine? I am like a mislaid cat looking for its path, worn-out and lost in the dark,  didn’t even know where to go. My life is indeed full of conundrums I don’t even know how to fix and handle.

You probably feel the way I do, but it is just a complex mental and emotional phenomenon that has survival value for people, especially those teenagers that suffer from depression, loneliness, and boredom in life. All of us, probably have experienced some degree of abandonment or all the painful and scary feeling that goes along with it. This can be a bit of confusing and can put off your game if you don’t know what’s going on and how to handle it. However, there are some exciting tips where you can follow in order to overcome boredom and loneliness.

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12 Ways to Make a Sad Friend or any Person Happy

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Ways to Make a Sad Friend or any Person Happy

The most important thing about happiness is that you’re able to share it. There’s a special feeling when you make somebody happy, it is not how much you have but how much you enjoy sharing the happiness you feel inside. Imagine the world how beautiful it would be if everyone could spend more time sharing …

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15 Ways to Show Your Friends that You Care

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Ways to Show Your Friends that You Care

Walking with friends during the dark days is better than walking alone in the light. When I am asked about my happy thoughts with friends, I always say that no matter how big the fight is, I will always have the best friends in the world – the ones who will stay with me when …

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100 Inspirational Quotes for Your Facebook Status Updates

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Inspirational Quotes for Your Facebook Status

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I do search for some inspirational quotes online to keep myself motivated. It helps me to encourage myself and think positively despite all the struggles I experience in life. Reading inspiring maxims from successful and inspiring people motivates me to keep moving no matter how down I am. Those sayings might only be composed of words, but their impact is powerful enough to change anyone’s way of life. That’s why I am fond of sharing those bits of wisdom on Facebook to spread some positive vibes that will help other people ease their struggles in life.

If you are looking for inspiring words for your Facebook’s status updates, I listed down 100 Inspirational Quotes that will surely draw “likes, awes and love” from your Facebook friends.

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10 Ways to be Smarter and More Confident

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Ways to be Smarter and More Confident

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You might not feel confident about your intellectual capacity, but if you put a small value on yourself, the world will surely not raise your price. The best way to build your self-confidence is by broadening your life experiences. Thus, if you want to become smarter and more confident in yourself, increase your knowledge, skills, experiences and understanding.

Confidence and intelligence are something you have to work on it and thinking about the hardest thing to do with it, is probably the reason why only a few engage in it. However, you can always work for it if you have perseverance and determination in life. So if you want to have more wit, intelligence and confidence, here are ten ways to get them.

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15 Tips to be More Mature and Responsible

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Maturity and responsibility are not measured by age – they are built by experience. It is not when we start speaking big things, but rather when we start understanding small things. You may not be able to control the situation, but you can always control your attitude and how you deal with it, that’s when maturity and responsibility occur.

Being mature and responsible may be challenging, but you will see how much better you’ll feel about yourself in no time with a bit of effort and motivation.

Life does not prepare you for the responsibility that comes along with being an adult. Well, who would be ready to plunge into the adulthood stage where you have to pay your bills, fire up another workday, or drink some coffee and pretend that you know what you are doing.

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12 Ways to become Wiser

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Ways to become Wiser

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Why do there are people who excel with intelligence and wisdom? Is it because of the structure of their brains or is it because of how they use their brains? Every person is born with an innocent and empty mind, but not all people grow with a great mind. Wisdom is earned through time, experience, reflection, and consistent practice. If you want to sharpen your brain and mind further, here are 12 ways you may follow to become more intelligent and wiser.

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12 Simple Tips to Have a Healthy Life

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Simple Tips to Have a Healthy Life

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Health is wealth because it gives us more strength to work harder, to earn more, and to be persistent in achieving our life’s many goals. It also protects our personal finance, as it prevents us from spending money on medical expenses caused by sickness. Health is wealth because when we are healthy, we have more time to cherish good times and moments with our family and friends. If you care for your well-being, here are 12 simple tips to be fit and have a healthy life.

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