Category Archives: Health

10 Tips for Sleeping Well

Every time you sleep fewer hours, perhaps in conditions that prevent you from resting and recovering your energy. Worse yet, your bedroom has gone from being the place where you slept, to being a room to study, work, watch television, listen to music, and more. Wrong. You have to sleep well. When we don’t get enough sleep we wake up tired, irritable and distracted… we won’t be able to work well, we’ll forget about things and we may become sick more often than normal. In the following a few tips to improve your sleep experience:

  1. Keep a regular schedule, try

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Self-Esteem, Loneliness and Fatigue

Discipline is key for success. Nevertheless, above being disciplined, remember to always be gentle with yourself. Self-esteem is not static. Our sense of well-being naturally fluctuate within certain limits, depending on the high and low tide of our lives. However, many of our difficulties have less to do with the specifics of a particular problem and are more related to our approach to cope with such problem. Obviously, there are some fears we cannot totally control: for instance, if some time ago we suffered some severe burns, it’s likely that could show exaggerated reactions to fire. However, fear … (Continue Reading)

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7 Tips to Overcome Fatigue

Fatigue (tiredness) is a state of physical or mental weakness. Fatigue diminishes our productivity and alters our well-being overall. In the following, I’ll present 10 simple tips to beat tiredness:

  1. Sleep well. Sleep may seem like a waste of time. You could instead be doing productive chores. However, it’s obvious that a tired person won’t be able to perform as efficiently as a rested one. Your body needs sleep in order to recover and fight entropy. Try to keep your sleep hours regular and uniform. And make sure your bedroom is a place for sleeping only, a relaxing, dark

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7 Tips for Controlling Anger

Getting angry is normal. However, an out-of-control rage is not normal, and will hurt you and those around you. Furthermore, anger can alter the normal functioning of the body… anger might lead to stress, heart disease, insomnia, digestive problems, and headaches. So for controlling anger, follow these tips:

  1. Breathe. Take a deep breath. Inhale slowly through your nose, and count to five in your head. During this process, let your abdomen expand outward, instead of raising your shoulders. This is a relaxed way to breathe, which will help your lungs to function at their best.
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15 Qualities of Successful Leaders

In this post we will highlight the traits of successful leaders. As I’ve commented previously in The 7 Attributes of Leadership, when I have to evaluate someone for hiring, I always try to identify leadership qualities, because people with such traits perform and coordinate a lot better than simple people. In short, what I look for is people with potential, people who is hungry for more, people able to grow and evolve. And these people can be identified because they have the traits or characteristics of leaders. Besides, as time goes by, these traits will also strengthen the … (Continue Reading)

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Fighting fears

We should know that worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear generate fatigue. People who has learnt how to control their fears will find that their fatigue is substantially lowered. Fear, in its most dangerous form, appears when we feel there is some danger which we are unwilling to face. Almost everybody has some kind of fear. One might fear illness, economical failure, ignorance, jealousy, and so on. And how do we fight our fears? If, whenever we are assaulted by our fears, we try to distract our mind by thinking of something else, well, … (Continue Reading)

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10 Tips for Overcoming Shyness

1. Acknowledge your fear and accept it as a specific and particular feature of your personality. Do not try to get rid of it immediately: even if you think you’ve succeded at first, the fear will likely return. The issue here is not to eliminate fear, what we have to do is assimilate fear, understand it, point it out, handle it. Fear vanishes only when it realizes of its inability to distress us anymore.

2. Talk about your fears and share your experiences with others. This way, you will get accustomed to your fear and will handle … (Continue Reading)

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7 Essential Tips to Lose Weight the Healthy Way

In this post I’ll give you 5 tips to lose weight the healthy way. Start by noticing that our bodies like slow, gradual changes in terms of calorie intake and exercise. Avoiding overweight is important: remember that women who lose between 10 lb and 25 lb halve their risk of developing diabetes and for men the risk of suffering heart problems reduces noticeably. Begin to learn how to lose weight by following these guidelines:

1. Lower your stress levels: too much stress acts as an important and pernicious factor for overweight and your overall health. This occurs because, when … (Continue Reading)

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10 easy tips to cope with stress

  1. Know yourself: Learn to recognize your reactions to stress and think of them as a warning: some stressors are bothering you.
  2. Research about such stressors: A cornerstone to cope with stress. Take a few minutes to elaborate a list of people, activities, events, things that bring in stress to your life. Specify the more immediate stressors: work, family, money? Is it possible to diminish the effect of the stressors?
  3. Put things in right context: Maybe you are stressing about relatively small things which will be soon forgotten. No matter your stress, worries, results, your failure or your

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The Fortress of Fears

The biggest fear is fear itself. No human is without fears; even in the deepest recesses of our souls, some fear is lurking. And this is not bad, quite the opposite. Fears mean limitations of the mind. Just as our body is a limitation of physical matter, our mind also means an unknown territory, a frontier to our capabilities. When these boundaries are not imposed by a disease or a syndrome, that is when it is purely and exclusively a fear. The problem with these limitations is that they may get to function as a constraint. Sometimes fear becomes a … (Continue Reading)

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