December 2009
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Mental-Wellness Wednesday, 12/30/09
Welcome to Mental-Wellness Wednesday!! I hope everyone had a great Christmas if they celebrate it and a great few days off even if they don’t. I just flew home after spending Christmas and my birthday in Chicago and I’m super-excited to go see the one and only Harlem Globetrotters tonight! I feel like a little kid!
Today’s challenge is fairly difficult, but it can be solved. If you hate...
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New Year's Resolution's: 2010
While the focus of this blog is on 30 day challenges and the importance of taking a small chunk approach to self-development, the New Year is a time for focusing on larger goals for the future. Millions (billions?) have pondered the question of how to stick to a New Year’s resolution beyond the first few months, but I believe that the secret is in setting the appropriate goals. New Year’s goals...
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30 Days to Financial Success
Confronting personal finance issues can be terrifying, overwhelming, and confusing. But fear not, the 30 Days at a Time approach can help you slay your financial beasts, exorcise your financial demons, and minimize your financial anxieties.
There are so many facets of personal finance that it can be difficult to know where to start, so let’s begin by coming up with a good way to classify the...
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Mental-Wellness Wednesday, 12/23/09
Welcome to Mental-Wellness Wednesday!! Today is the special Christmas 2009 edition of Mental-Wellness Wednesday, so our feature will have a special Christmas flair. If you’re looking for the solution to last week’s challenge, scroll down to the bottom. This week’s challenge is similar to last week’s, though I promise they won’t all be like this:
Reindeer Rescue
Whilst delivering Christmas...
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2009 Year in Review
Another year has come and gone (almost) and it’s time to reflect on the last 12 months. What a difference a year makes! My impression of 2009 coming in and my reflection coming out are about as distant as possible. Here are some of the highlights:
·I watched the NFC Championship Game with the mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter. This was officially the closest I’ve ever been to a...
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Weekend Links and Musings
Each weekend, I’ll be posting some links to interesting articles and blog posts I came across throughout the week, as well as offering my own thoughts on issues from time to time.
This week, Life Optimizer offered some ways to deal with depression, Start Being Your Best Self focused on fitness, calling it “the toughest part of self-improvement,” and Productive Flourishing discussed the key to...
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30 Days to a Healthy Diet
Nutrition is the driving force of physical health. Many people say that nutrition is responsible for dictating 80% of your physical makeup (pdf). Furthermore, nutrition can affect exercise recovery, sleep (pdf), gene expression, skin and hair quality, and even mood. So if you’re serious about improving your life, feeling your best, and/or making good impressions, nutrition is an important thing...
Mental-Wellness Wednesday
Hello everyone! Welcome to Mental-Wellness Wednesday!!
This weekly feature will advance the cause of mental-wellness in two ways, but first let’s discuss the reason I am including it in this blog.
By creating 30 day challenges and pursuing goals, it becomes easy to fall into a routine. Now, while routines are often demonized, I strongly believe that routine can be a powerful habit-forming...
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The Perfect Time to Start
You’ve heard it said I’m sure, “The best time to start is right now.” Whether it be the best time to start your business, the best time to start exercising, or any other pursuit, people always like to motivate you by saying there’s no better time than the present to begin. Well, they aren’t wrong, per se, but they aren’t right either.
The best time to begin the pursuit of any goal is when you...
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Building a 30 day challenge
There is nothing magic about 30 days, except for everything.
While there is some argument about how long it takes to form a habit, most people seem to put the range in the 3-4 week area. From experience, 21-28 days to build a habit seems about right, and really, does it matter when the behavior really becomes habitual, as long as it persists?
Additionally, 30 days is the average number of days...
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What's the point?
Welcome to 30 Days at a Time, where we will explore the subject most familiar to, yet most often misunderstood by, all of us: ourselves. There is nothing magical about making personal progress, but often it can seem overwhelming. There are so many aspects of life that many people are not sure where to start, or what to do. Even the process of self-diagnosis can be difficult, but progress is...