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Conscious Bookkeeping: Transform Your Relationship With Money
Determined to take charge of your finances? Having trouble sticking to a budget — or balancing your checkbook? Try Conscious Bookkeeping.
When Something’s Gotta Give
How do you choose between all the good things going on in your life? By clarifying your values and learning to let go.
You Snooze, You Win: The Health Benefits of Sleep
Getting enough sleep is essential to health, happiness and productivity. Here’s how to give your slumber the priority it deserves.
Discover Your Strengths
When we stop focusing on our weaknesses and start playing to our strengths we can transform our lives.
5 Steps to Getting Things Done
Tired of making lists and then losing them in a pile of other lists? Try this proven, five-step approach to getting closure on the daily things that matter most.
How to Take a Sabbatical From Work
An extended break from work can improve your health, happiness – even your career performance. And it can be done.
How to Navigate Fitness Priorities in a Busy Life
In the context of other life priorities — such as career and family — sometimes our workout plans have to give a little. But how much, and for how long?
How to Stop Emotional Shopping
Do you have the urge to splurge? Emotion-induced shopping may seem harmless, but letting your feelings take over your wallet could end up costing you more than money.
How to Overcome the Busy Addiction
Life in the fast lane might be exciting, but are you living quickly at the expense of living deeply? Learn how to say no to busyness and yes to what really matters.
The Long View: How to Plan for the Future
Planning for the next month is one thing. Planning for 20 years down the road is entirely different. Here’s why shaping your chosen future is most definitely worth the stretch, and how you can get started, now.
Why Taking Time Off is Essential for Your Health and Happiness
Think time off is a waste of time? For the sake of your health and happiness, you just might want to reconsider.
How Your Media Intake Affects Your Well-Being
The images, sounds and words you absorb can influence your well-being and alter your view of reality. Is it time you reconsidered your media-intake habits?
What Is Socially Responsible Investing?
Ever worry that your investments in certain stocks and mutual funds aren’t meshing with your personal values? Socially Responsible Investing offers an alternative — and surprisingly good returns.
Rethinking Wealth and Happiness
More than a decade ago, authors Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez helped launch the voluntary-simplicity movement with their ideas for living more richly — by spending less. Today, for many, that penny-wise approach seems smarter than ever.
Measuring Meditation
For centuries, proponents of meditation have hailed its potential for healing body and mind. Now, science is backing a growing number of those claims.
How to Find Your Tribe
Many Americans rely on friends, neighbors and coworkers for the support that family members once offered. Even if your own family is close-knit, you may benefit from cultivating a family-like circle of friends.
The Problem With Affluenza
Our obsession with the trappings of success too often eclipses our essential priorities. Are we passing this affliction on to the next generation?
Putting the Spark Back in Your Relationship
Without a clear vision, even a strong love can lose its luster. Here’s how to reframe your relationship for a better future.
Considerations for Owning a Pet While Working Full-Time
You’re working like a dog. But how is your work schedule working out for your faithful friend?
The Real Cost of Overwork and Embracing the ‘Take Back Your Time’ Movement
Feeling the pinch of time poverty? Join the club. Better yet, join the growing national movement striving to reclaim those lost hours.
Discover Your Relationship Type — Are You a Buyer, Renter, or Freeloader?
When it comes to relationships, are you and your partner looking to stay put or still shopping around?