<ol><li>Smile</li><li>Exercise</li><li>Get plenty of sleep</li><li>Eat with mood in my mind</li><li>Be grateful</li><li>Give a compliment</li><li>Breathe deeply</li><li>Acknowledge the unhappy moment</li><li>Keep a journal</li><li>Face stress head-on</li><li>Declutter</li><li>See friends</li><li>Plan your week</li><li>Ditch your phone</li><li>Get into nature</li><li>Explore meditation</li><li>Consider therapy</li><li>Find a slef-care ritual</li><li>Give back</li><li>Take yourself out</li><li>Create a thought list</li><li>Take time to reflect</li><li>Reevaluate your goals</li><li>Take care of your body</li><li>Let go of grudges</li></ol>

Summary

Happiness can feel impossible, but it's always within reach. We'll break down 25 science-backed habits to help you get you mood on track.

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Personal Development

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Health

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Habits

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Mental Health

How to Be Happy: 25 Habits to Help You Live a Happier Life

Our birth is out there in space-time. Our death, too, is in space-time. Every moment of our lives is out there, somewhere, in space-time.So says the block universe model of our world.According to the block universe theory, the universe is a giant block of all the things that ever happen at any time and at any place. On this view, the past, present and future all exist — and are equally real.

Everything Everywhere All at Once

How can this be?The block has four dimensions: three spatial dimensions — say length, height and width — plus a fourth temporal dimension, or time. Or let's make it easier, by visualising the block model of our world as a three-dimensional rectangle, or cuboid.

The Block

Two of that cuboid's dimensions (let's say height and width) represent two of the universe's three spatial dimensions.Leave out the third spatial dimension in the above diagram (the length) —and replace it with time. At one end of the cuboid is the big bang. At the other is the very last moment of the universe. Maybe it's a big crunch.The cuboid is filled with every event that ever happens. Where these events are in the cuboid represents their location in space-time. All events, including your birth and death, and this very moment as you read these words, exist somewhere in the block.

*All* Of Time And Space

It often seems as though where we are "today" is present, and "yesterday" is past, and "tomorrow" is future.It also seems the present moment changes too — after all, tomorrow it will seem as though tomorrow is present, and yesterday it appeared yesterday was present!So from our perspective, it appears that time flows or passes. But in the block universe model, time doesn't flow.In other words, in a block universe, there is no specific present moment, and "past" and "future" moments are relative.

In The Block Universe, Time Doesn't Pass

Think about the idea of "here". I am here. You, while reading this, can truly say "I am here", even though your "here" is different to mine.On the block universe model, talk about the "present" or "now" works just like talk of "here".Remember last week when you said to your friend, who was late arriving for coffee, "now you're here"; or when, long ago, Caesar said, "I am now crossing the Rubicon"?These claims are both true. That's because all it means to talk about the present, or now, is to talk about the place in time where you happen to be.

The “Now” And The “Here”

Since we are always located wherever we are (that's trivially true), everyone is located in the present, just as everyone is located at the place they call “here”.According to the block universe view, time or temporal relations of “earlier than” and “later than” exist. These relations hold regardless of where anyone is located.So, suppose Bert the dinosaur is located earlier than Sally the dog. That relation between Bert and Sally holds, regardless of whether we are located earlier than Bert or later than Sally.

“Earlier Than” And “Later Than”

Bearing this in mind, it is possible to see how to make sense of the idea of past and future. Just as on this model “now” picks out whatever time I happen to be located at, “past” picks out any time (or events at those times) that are earlier than my location, and “future” picks out any times or events that are later than my location.

Location, Location, Location

If time is just another dimension, a lot like the spatial dimensions, does that mean we can travel in time?The short answer is yes.Of course, things are way more complicated than that. Travelling in time is clearly much more difficult than travelling in space. It might be very technologically costly to time travel, so perhaps it's not really something that, practically speaking, we can do.But it's certainly possible.

Does That Mean We Can Travel In Time

We already know that travelling very fast will result in time dilation, so we know it's possible to travel into the future just by travelling very fast.We can travel quite a way into the future if we can travel at some reasonable percentage of the speed of light. We also know how to travel into the past. We can do that by using wormholes, which are short cuts through space-time.

Speed: Light. Route: Wormhole. 

No. That would create a contradiction, and there are no contradictions.Remember, on the block universe model, the past is no different than the future or the present.Everything is relative: what is past to us, will be future to someone else.

So, If We Can Travel In Time, Can We Change The Past?

We’ll get out of our time machine and start walking around. We’ll breathe the air and chat to people.Obviously, this will have effects on the time we travel to. We’ll tread on ants; we’ll talk to people from that time; we’ll pat horses, and feed donkeys and so on.We’ll act, in the past, in the sorts of ways we act in the present. But we won't be changing the past. Just as when we eat cornflakes instead of toast tomorrow we am not changing the future, we’re just making the future the way it is, when we travel to the past we don't change it, we just make it the way it is, and always has been.

What Will Happen If We Travel To The Past?

Let's recap.What we do tomorrow makes tomorrow the way it is, and the way it always has been. What we do in the past makes the past time the way it is, and always has been.If we travel to the past, we are part of the past. Importantly, we were always part of the past.The events in the block are there for all time: they do not change. So, as a time traveller, it's not as though we suddenly appear at a past time. It's always been the case that we were located at that past time.

Confused yet?

Nothing a time traveller does changes anything in the block. Instead, what the traveller does at any time makes that time, and later times, the way they are.That means that we know that some things we attempt to do in the past, fail. We know that Hitler rose to power in the 1930s, so we know that if our time travelling future selves try to prevent this from happening, they fail.But that doesn't show that our time traveling selves don't succeed in doing lots of things in the past. For all we know, the reason the past is the way it is, is in part due to the presence of time travelers.

Making The Past, The Past. Keyword: *Making*

Would you time-travel just to make things as they are, if you could not change things as they are? Not really a question. 

The block universe theory says the past, present and future all exist — and are equally real — in a four-dimensional block where the passing of time is an illusion.

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Motivation & Inspiration

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Space

The Block Universe Theory, Where Time Travel Is Possible But Time Passing Is An Illusion

Life is all about how we deal with circumstances, how we act and react to the corresponding situations. For a better life we need to work upon our skills and that seems not easy at all! For a better life here are the 8 rules that you must follow for a happy and a successful life.

8 Short Of Rules For A Better Life 

Being calm in every situation is not as easy as we think, having a calm nature is the most rare thing that one can have. Being calm in every situation makes you wise, mysterious helps you in making wise decisions, makes you more attractive among others. One of the major benefits of being calm is that it helps you in taking quick and wise decisions.  In a world that's Full of negative energy, anxiety and depression it's important to take care of our mind as well as of our body.

1. Always stay calm

Second most important rule for a better life is not to compare yourself with others. I often see many people on social media comparing their life with others. Comparison is just an illusion ; everything lies within our brain and being compared with someone is the worst thing. Stop comparing yourself to others, it's your life, it's you vs you not you vs others.

2. No comparison with others

Motivation can't lead you where discipline can, it's the biggest changing asset that can change your life. Being <a href="https://inspirationalblogs45.blogspot.com/2022/03/Discipline%20-vs-Motivation%20.html">disciplined </a> can lead you a great and a successful life.

3. Be disciplined

Everything has a price whether it's a material or a non material thing. We work because we want results, we work because we want success, that's actually our main motto. But this doesn't work every time, success comes with sacrifices and struggles and believe me when you forget about success while working for your goals then note that you are successful. Don't think about what will happen next, just think about what you can do now.

4. Forget about result just focus on process

We all have been taught to just focus on success, how to achieve our goals, how to be rich but nobody has taught us about failures. Failures are life lessons, failures indicate that we are trying.  While working for goals don't be afraid to fail, don't be afraid of failures, just learn from them and bounce back once again. Life is meant to rule the world not be a slave of this world.

5. Don't be afraid to lose

Sometimes it's not between you and others it's between you and you. Sometimes we have to make quick decisions during tough times.  If you are in a situation where you can't decide what's the perfect option then listen to your inner voice. Listen to what your inner voice says because it will never disappoint you.

6. Listen what your inner voice says

Better life comes when we urge to do better and that's the point where most of us fail.  Personality development must be your priority. Develop yourself, come up with new skills, focus on your weakness and build new strength. Smartphones must be your biggest enemy while you are working for your goals. You need to be very crucial about your plans. Remember one thing: don't waste your time for just a couple of enjoyment.

7. Say no to smartphone & Yes to personality development

If you want to live a happy life then stay neutral whether you're happy or sad. Being neutral helps you in dealing with situations as you can come up with new responses and can stay calm in tough times.

8. Stay Neutral

Everybody wants a better life but nobody wants to work for it. Believe in yourself, improve yourself, develop new skills and you are ready. That's all  Good day:)

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Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

8 Short of rules for a better life

“In school, you are graded on every test—even if it's your weakest subject.In life, you can choose the tests you take—even if they always play to your strengths.Maintain a baseline so your weak areas don't hold you back, but design your life so you are graded on your strengths.”

“One roadblock almost never ruins you.There might not be 1000 ways to accomplish something, but there is almost always more than one way.Know what you want. Be flexible about how to get there.”

“The gift of a beginner is fresh eyes.The longer you're in a field, the harder it is to perceive new truths. Your mind is biased toward refining what you're already doing instead of exploring fresh terrain.Take your expertise and apply it to something new.”

“There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts.”

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”

What's one decision you can make today that will save you from making ten more decisions in the future? Make the choice that eliminates other choices.

1 QUESTION FOR YOU

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Reading & Writing

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Problem Solving

3-2-1: Playing to your strengths, cultivating a beginner's mindset, and the power of hope

People diet for many reasons, including to lose weight, gain muscle or improve sporting performance. The requirements of these diets can be worlds apart, but there’s one thing they often share: ‘cheat days’.A cheat day is a scheduled break in a diet. The concept emerged around the same time as ‘clean eating’, and is based on the idea that a dieter can ‘cheat’ for one day a week as long as they eat to their diet plan for the remaining six days. Social media has increased awareness of these days off, notably among those dieting to gain muscle.

Diets: The Cheat Day

<a href="https://www.academia.edu/30884726/A_thematic_content_analysis_of_cheatmeal_images_on_social_media_Characterizing_an_emerging_dietary_trend">A study</a> published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders analysed a sample of 600 Instagram images from 1.6 million tagged with #cheatmeal. More than half of these contained “very large quantities of calorie-dense food”, providing an insight into the types of meals considered a cheat. Hamburgers, chips, pizzas and ice cream were commonly featured. The study also found #cheatmeal is often featured alongside muscular bodies.

Cheat Day: The Study

Two main motivations for #cheatmeals are identified. First is the theory that cheat days boost your metabolism, causing you to burn more calories. The logic goes that when you restrict your calorie intake, your body eventually adapts and resets your metabolism to your new lower intake. Second is the theory that cheat days help you stick to your diet. Your levels of leptin fall when you diet, and this can make it harder to resist eating. The theory goes that cheat days help keep your leptin levels up.

The Two Theories Of Cheat Meals

Both these ideas suggest that cheat meals should be planned into a diet rather than being a spur-of-the-moment thing.Big cheat meals may not be a big deal for the Rock, as he is an ex-wrestler who has built up a diet and exercise routine over decades and is already in the shape he wants to be in. But that does not mean they’re not a big deal for the rest of us.

Planned Meals

A cheat meal can be more of a psychological tool than a physical one. It’s something to look forward to.Can cheat days actually keep your levels of leptin up and therefore suppress your feelings of hunger? Whether leptin has a role to play in controlling body weight is still a subject of debate among scientists, and the evidence that leptin actually increases after a cheat day is inconclusive.Wanting a cheat day can also be a “reflection of a very restrictive and unenjoyable diet. The more you restrict some foods, the more you’ll think about them.

Sticking To Your Diet

A moderate weight-loss diet that doesn’t leave you craving cheat days is likely to be more beneficial for physical and mental health than a very restrictive diet with cheat days.One version of the ‘cheat day’ is the ‘treat day’, which sounds more positive, but it still alludes to some foods being good and others bad. No one food is bad, it is how much and how often you eat it that counts.Some foods are more nutritionally dense than others but food isn’t just good or bad. It needs to be “repackaged” to add other elements, such as enjoyment.

The Treat Day

The most effective strategy for long-term weight-loss and heart health is a healthy dietary pattern that’s compatible with what you like to eat and your lifestyle. It’s about finding what works for you. Cheat days can have a psychological effect, and it can be positive or negative – for some people it can be easier to stick with a restricted diet if you have a cheat day to look forward.

To Cheat Or Not

The experts take a look at the popular cheat day and discuss whether it is a good idea on a diet.

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Food

Are diet ‘cheat days’ ever a good idea?

Every building needs a sturdy foundation. Your daily habits are a foundation on which you are building who you are—your values, goals, personality, etc.If you track your daily habits, you may be surprised to find a collection of suboptimal habits: you may not be reaching your full potential.One of those suboptimal habits is being easily distracted.Distraction erodes your day-to-day life and diverts your resources toward things that don’t really matter. If you’re not equipped to manage distraction—if you’re not indistractable—your brain will be manipulated by time-wasting diversions.

Habits and Distractions

<ul><li>Mastering internal triggers</li><li>Making time for traction</li><li>Hacking back external triggers</li><li>Blocking out distraction</li></ul>Remember: Distractions are things that push us away from what we want most in life.

The Four Pillars to Becoming Indistractable

All behaviours, both traction and distraction, are prompted by triggers, both internal and external.Internal triggers cue us from within. When we feel our belly growl, we look for a snack. When we’re cold, we find a coat to warm up. And when we’re sad, lonely, or stressed, we might call a friend or loved one for support.External triggers are cues in our environment such as the pings, dings, and rings that prompt us to check our email, answer a phone call, or open a news alert. External triggers can also take the form of other people, such as a coworker who stops by our desk to chat.

Internal And External Triggers

Distraction, it turns out, isn’t about the distracting thing itself; rather, it’s about how we respond to it.Resisting, ruminating, and finally giving in to the desire perpetuates the cycle of distraction and quite possibly drives many unwanted behaviours.While we can’t control the feelings and thoughts that pop into our heads, we can control what we do with them. We can manage distractions that originate from within by changing how we think about them.

Mastering Internal Triggers

Step 1: Look for the discomfort that precedes the distraction, focusing on the internal trigger.Step 2: Write down the trigger.Step 3: Explore your negative sensations with curiosity instead of contempt.Step 4: Be extra cautious during liminal moments when you transition from one activity to another.

Handling The Distraction

We can change the way we see ourselves to get rid of self-limiting beliefs. If we believe we’re short on willpower and self-control, then we will be. If we decide we’re powerless to resist temptation, it becomes true. If we tell ourselves we are deficient by nature, we will believe every word.

Adjusting Our Vision

Being indistractable is largely about making sure you make time for traction each day and eliminating the distraction that keeps you from living the life you want—one that involves taking care of yourself, your relationships, and your work.Planning your time with intention is critical, even if you choose to spend it scrolling through celebrity headlines or reading a steamy romance novel. After all, the time you’ve planned to waste is not wasted time.

Making Time For Traction

Unwanted external triggers hamper our productivity and diminish our well-being. While technology companies use cues like the pings and dings on our phones to hack our behaviour, external triggers are not confined to our digital devices. They’re all around us—from cookies beckoning when we open the kitchen cabinet to a chatty coworker keeping us from finishing a time-sensitive project.

Hacking Back External Triggers

<ul><li>Work interruptions</li><li>Email</li><li>Group chat</li><li>Meetings</li><li>Smartphone</li><li>Computer desktop</li><li>Online articles</li><li>Online feeds</li></ul>These interruptions lead to mistakes and steal your time from what you should be focused on. It’s time to block out those distractions.

The Top Contenders

The last step to becoming indistractable involves preventing ourselves from sliding into distraction.To do so, we must learn a powerful technique called “precommitment,” which involves removing a choice in the future to overcome our impulses in the present.Precommitments are the last line of defence preventing us from sliding into distraction. You should only use this after the other three indistractable strategies have been applied.

Blocking Out Distraction

You can prevent distractions with effort pacts, which makes unwanted behaviour more difficult to do. You can also make a price pact, which involves putting money on the line to encourage you to do what you say you will. Finally, an identity pact is one of the most effective ways of changing your behaviour since it involves changing your identity—your image of who you are.

The Pacts

We live in a distracted world. Don't Look Up!

Overcoming distraction is the struggle of our time. Here are 4 simple steps to manage your wandering mind.

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Productivity

The 4 Steps to Becoming Indistractable

There's a vital difference between food rules and healthy eating habits: <ul><li>Food rules are rigid: you have strict parameters around how you should eat and feel guilty or worried when you don't eat according to that plan.</li><li>Healthy eating habits are flexible: you prioritise nutritious ingredients but don’t agonise over what to eat.</li></ul> Following food rules can be physically, mentally, and socially exhausting, impacting your overall quality of life.

Food rules impact your well-being

If we think of food in terms of good and bad, and that eating is a bad behaviour, it is easy to believe you are a bad person for eating. Then food becomes a source of stress and shame instead of nourishment and pleasure. Rather than feeling you're a terrible person without self-control because you ate some ice cream, acknowledge that you just ate something delicious because you wanted it. Thinking this way makes it easier to let go and move on.

There are no bad foods

There’s no evidence that a low-carb diet is any healthier than one that includes a balance of all macronutrients. The same for low-fat diets. A 2020 review of 121 previous trials found that none of the diets limiting certain macronutrients is more effective at improving health than a regular, varied diet.

Don't demonize macronutrients

We eat food for more than just to gain energy. We connect with our culture through food, we connect with others over a meal, and we eat for pleasure and nostalgia. Trying to compensate with exercise when you feel you’ve eaten too much can have a significant negative impact on your quality of life. It could also set in a cycle of overeating, compensating, and overeating again. Instead, just let your body do its thing. Most importantly, don't be rigid or punish yourself for eating too much.

You don't need to burn anything off

If you're working toward a healthier relationship with food, a good first step is to identify your own food rules and then challenge them

There Are No Rules for Healthy Eating

According to the Mayo Clinic, laughing has short- and long-term effects on our health. As we bring in more oxygen, it stimulates our heart, lungs, and muscles. Laughing increases the endorphins that are released by our brain, and it cools down our stress response. Over a longer period of time, laughter can improve our immune system, relieve pain, and increase personal satisfaction.

Laughter Can Be Good Medicine

While it’s easy to laugh at something funny, the ability to laugh at yourself can help you address the challenges that could be holding you back in your career and life, says Dr. Brian Kaplan, author of Almost Happy: Pushing Your Buttons with Reverse Psychology.“To laugh at one’s self is an excellent thing,” he says. “Humor can be a very powerful way of helping people, proving that helping doesn’t have to be a solemn experience.”

Helping Doesn’t Have To Be Solemn

Kaplan studied the work of Frank Farrelly, an innovative therapist who founded Provocative Therapy in the 1960s. Provocative Therapy uses humor and reverse psychology to provoke people to change. With the person’s explicit permission, you repeat what you hear their “sub-selves” saying and you do it with humor, warmth, and affection.

Provocative Therapy

Provocative Therapy is a system of psychotherapy in which the therapist plays the devil’s advocate, siding with the negative half of the client’s ambivalence toward his life’s goals, his relationships, work and the structures within which he lives. The provocative therapist also plays the Satanic role by facetiously agreeing with the doom and gloom feelings and expectations of the client, and “tempting” him to continue his “sinning,” his self-defeating attitudes and behavioral patterns.

Whose Side Are You On?

“We all have sub-selves, or sub-personalities, such as our inner child,” says Kaplan. “That’s a nice use of a sub-self. But we also have sub-selves that dominate us. They’re loud, grab the microphone, and dominate the whole personality.”For example, you may relate to a sub-self of the workaholic. You could justify that you need to work 15 hours a day because you’re paying for your children’s education, a new house, or a vacation home.

Our Sub-Selves

Laugh at yourself by reaffirming the workaholic’s devotion to work. For example, you can tell yourself, “You should definitely spend all your time focusing on making more money and acquiring more businesses or investing in the market. Your children will be judged by their clothes and vacations. They don’t need you; they need your money.”

Self-Subversion How-to

“When you can laugh at that side—especially when it’s a bit over the top—then you can laugh at that part of you that’s sabotaging yourself,” says Kaplan. “That moment of laughter provides a window of opportunity to recognize what’s holding you back and prescribe your own solution. And laughter and the warmth of it is like a medicine that allows you to deal with something that’s often quite painful.”

Laughter And The Warmth Of It

In his book, Kaplan identifies more than 100 sub-selves that could be holding you back. For example, you may be a procrastinator. In this case, you can talk to yourself by saying, “Never underestimate the power of tomorrow!” “Always make magnanimous resolutions on your finest night, New Year’s Eve.” And “Meditate on the many horrible consequences of most impulsive decisions and actions.”

Sub-Self: The Procrastinator

Another sub-self is the grim executive, which Kaplan calls “the stone-faced men and women of big business. Anyone feeling the burden of being held responsible for profit and loss.” In this case, you can call out the sub-self by saying, “It’s a badge of honor to look ten years older than you are. Don’t forget your annual visit to the cardiologist.”Other sub-selves include being a people pleaser, robot, doormat, critic, and ego maniac.

Sub-Self: The Grim Executive

“Mark Twain once said, ‘Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand,'” says Kaplan. “Once you’re laughing at the sub self, you’re acutely aware of it. Normally, you don’t think of the trait as a sub-self. When it takes you over, you think ‘I’m angry’ or ‘I’m under stress,’ because the sub-self has taken your whole personality there. When you can identify it as a part of you and not your entire being, you can quiet it down.”

A Part, Not The Whole

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

We probably all know what it’s like when others push our buttons and drive us crazy. What if we pushed our own buttons and drove ourselves happy? 

The ability to laugh at yourself can help you address the challenges that could be holding you back in your career and life, says Dr. Brian Kaplan.


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Mindfulness

How (And Why) We Should Learn To Laugh At Ourselves

<ol><li>You’ve made or kept a character commitment.</li><li>You’re slightly embarrassed at your past.</li><li>You question your sacred beliefs.</li><li>You’re a net-positive in your relationships.</li><li>You take responsibility for most of your mistakes.</li><li>You explore your curiosities.</li><li>You’ve given up on conditional happiness.</li></ol>

Seven qualities that define an extraordinary life

If you’ve pledged to do something you love or something that produces some good in the world, and you’ve kept at, no matter the outward success, you deserve a trophy.

1. You’ve made or kept a character commitment.

If you’re prouder of your past than your present, then you haven’t recognized your mistakes, you haven’t gotten better at what you do, you haven’t grown as an individual.If you look back on the old you and cringe at your immaturity, assholery, or undeserved arrogance, then congratulate yourself. You’ve grown up, matured, and bettered yourself. Some people never do.

2. You’re slightly embarrassed at your past.

You probably know family and friends who cling to outdated views long since proven untrue, yet they lack the maturity and courage to admit they’re wrong. An extraordinary person sees these situations as opportunities to grow. They accept that some of what they believe today will be superseded by what they learn tomorrow.People who admit they’re wrong and give up ideas that fail the truth test show they possess open-mindedness and humility. If you’re one of those people, you’re part of the elite minority.

3. You question your sacred beliefs.

Some folks act as a drag on others, sapping people of energy, and infecting them with toxic negativity.Most of us aspire to inject joy into our interactions and leave people in a better state than when they first encountered us.We may even have a few bad days. That comes with the territory of being human; But if you can make others feel joy, inspired, or grateful some of the time while remaining neutral the rest of the time, you’re a net-positive. That makes you an asset to the world.

4. You’re a net-positive in your relationships.

Nobody escapes life always saying the right words, taking the right actions, and thinking the kindest thoughts. That’s why we admire people who own up to their mistakes and do their best to clean up whatever mess lingers in their wake.There have been times where we’ve screwed up and denied it, deflected blame. As we’ve matured, we’ve become more attuned to the impact our mistakes have on others and ourselves. But it’s the act of taking responsibility that made us better persons.There’s no shame in screwing up; it’s how you respond to mistakes that define you.

5. You take responsibility for most of your mistakes.

Curiosity is the gap between what you know and what you want to know. Taking action to close that gap will fulfill you in a way that external reward never will.All of us harbor curiosities that yearn for exploration. Time will work in our favor.If you’ve dedicated a portion of your life to explore your curiosities, please congratulate yourself on a life well-lived.

6. You explore your curiosities.

Perhaps it’s culture, human nature, or a combination of both. There’s an idea that to achieve happiness, you must meet specific outcomes in life.I’ll be happy only when my income reaches $250,000 or I’ll be happy only when I get promoted to Vice President.The notion of conditional happiness is the shortest path to misery. But to believe it and live it, you need to experience the disappointment that stems from valuing your worth based on life outcomes. There’s a good chance you’ve lived up to some or all of these ideals. And if you haven’t? Don’t fret. You still have time.

7. You’ve given up on conditional happiness.

An extraordinary life has nothing to do with your job title, bank account, or how much fame you achieve.

A former mentor of mine once diagnosed why I felt so disgusted with my life. At the time, my net worth hovered close to zero, but he claimed that money had little to do with my self-loathing. It made…

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Communication

7 Overlooked Signs You’re Living an Extraordinary Life

<h3>Noom is a buzzy weight loss app targeted at young people.</h3> Noom helps you learn how to get in touch with your body and teach yourself not to crave foods that don’t nourish you. Noom's key differentiator is applying psychology to achieve long-term weight loss. But critics say Noom is a deceptive gateway to disordered eating at worst.

Noom - a diet app

The fight between Noom and its critics is part of a larger cultural war of the last decade over how we should think about food, weight, bodies, and health. On one side is the traditional diet culture which holds that weight is a crucial indicator of health. The idea is that if you simply wield a little willpower and use more calories than you take in, you will lose weight. On the other side are the rising anti-diet movements. They hold that the correlation between weight and health is not straightforward and that most diets don't last and damage your metabolism in the long run.

The diet culture war

Noom celebrates No Diet Day on Instagram but in practice, it works like a classic low-calorie diet. After registering, users are asked to set a goal weight and decide how quickly they want to lose weight. Noom will generate a daily calorie budget that users are expected to follow, and it instructs users to log their food. Noom philosophy stated that no foods are off-limits, but it does give users a way to classify their foods. Green foods in large quantities, yellow foods in moderation, and red foods such as desserts and chips are limited.

Critics insist that Noom is just another diet app

At the centre of the anti-diet movement are two scientific claims. <ol><li>The relationship between weight and overall health is unclear. It’s possible to be a healthy fat person and an unhealthy thin person.</li><li>Dieters end up gaining back all the weight they lost.</li></ol> The data on the first claim shows it to be mostly true. A 2014 meta-analysis showed that 6 % - 75 % of those classified as obese were “metabolically healthy.” Studies on the second claim show that it is very rare for dieters to lose weight and maintain that weight loss.

The anti-diet movement has been around since the 1960’s

Anti-dieters argue that dieting can damage the very bodies it promises to heal. <ul><li>Dieting slows the metabolism.</li><li>Frequent dieting is associated with higher mortality rates and increase the risk of death by heart disease in people with coronary artery disease.</li><li>It can damage the mind. Frequent dieting is associated with high rates of depression.</li><li>Dieters can become overwhelmingly fixated on food.</li><li>The boundaries between dieting and eating disorders can become interchanged.</li></ul>

The downsides of diets

<ul><li>Mindful eating is paying close attention to the food you eat and your body’s response to it.</li><li>Intuitive eating is the practice of rejecting all food rules and allowing your body to guide your eating. </li><li>Health at Every Size is the movement that argues that it’s possible to live a healthy life no matter what your weight is.</li></ul>

New ways of thinking about food

Noom is a diet app in an anti-diet moment.

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