Category: Self-Improvement
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How to Get Used to Waking Up Early
For many people, getting out of bed at 5:00 a.m. can be a very unpleasant experience. Higher grades at school, more time to exercise and better quality of sleep are some of the benefits of being an early riser. But how do you develop the habit of rising early and not feel tired? Making gradual…
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Steps to Organizing Your Home and Life
Keeping your home clutter-free and your life organized is a huge part of taking back the control of your schedule. As reported by the National Soap and Detergent Association, removing clutter takes away 40 percent of household chores in the average family home. Decluttering not just free up space and time, it also cuts down…
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Introvert’s Guide to Acing a Job Interview
Job interviews can be unsettling and a nerve-racking experience for everybody, specially for introverted applicants. As an introvert who struggle with constant social interaction, you can use the trait of introversion to your benefit. Practice a good handshake, greet with genuine smile and respond to interview questions with confidence. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re…
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Flowchart: Are you a Good Listener?
Pay attention on the way you approach conversations with other people. Do you think you’re a good listener? Active listening requires concentration, which helps in processing what’s being heard. Not only it’s rude to interrupt, you’ll might miss out on something important your potential customer would have said. Having a good listening comprehension is one…
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Psychological Formation of Bad Habits & How to Break It
Whether it’s overspending, overeating, or wasting time on social media sites, we all have bad habits that we’re either hoping to change or need to change. Old habits are difficult to break and new behavior are difficult to form. But there’s usually a primary cause for your bad habits, like stress or boredom, and if…
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How to Read a Person’s Personality Based on Handwriting
Graphology is a scientific study of how our penmanship can identify our general character traits, intelligence and social behavior. Graphologists, experts on handwriting analysis, examine the writing style of a writer to deduce his or her personality traits. They focuses on many different writing pattern like the appearance of letters, size of words and line…
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18 Edible Plants in the Wild that You can Eat for Survival
Foraging for edible wild plants is an important skill to learn in a survival situation. Indentifying the right plant to harvest and eat will help you survive if you’re starving in the middle of a forest, jungle or wilderness. Native delicacies like dandelion, sorrel, green seaweed, herb robert and miner’s lettuce can be found on…
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How to Tie Knots in Rope
Ropes and knots are some of the oldest and useful technological innovation ever designed by man, much older than the wheel or the axe. Early knot tyers probably get the idea of tying, interweaving and knotting techniques from monkeys and birds. From bowline to sheet bend to fisherman’s anchor knot, here’s an easy-to-follow visual field…
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Cheat Sheet for Becoming a Public Speaking Expert
Even if you don’t regularly do presentations in front of a small audience, there are many various situations where a good public speaking skills will create opportunities for you and boost your career. You don’t have to be a eloquent orator to be a good speaker. And there are ways on how to improve interpersonal…
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The Ultimate Survival Prepping Guide
Every household must have an emergency disaster preparedness plan. Prepping to stockpile nonperishable food, battery packs and first aid kit if a sudden catastrophe should strike will be very helpful to your family. Imagine a serious natural hazards such as earthquake, tornado, winter storm that could cause power grid failure, shortage of gas, water and…