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How Exercise Affects Your Mood?
"It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigour."- Marcus Tullius Cicero What is wellbeing? Wellbeing is defined as ‘a positive physical, social and mental state’. In this article, we are focusing on mental wellbeing. Mental wellbeing does not have a single universal definition, but it does encompass several factors such as: The sense of feeling good about ourselves and being able to function well individually and/or even in relationshipsThe ability to deal with the ups and downs of life, such as coping with various challenges and making the most of such opportunitiesThe feelin...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 5, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Trishna Patnaik Tags: featured health and fitness motivation philosophy self-improvement exercise improve your mood pickthebrain Source Type: blogs

23 Lessons for the Journey Called Life
The toughest journey on this earth is not to Mount Everest and back! It is the journey of life itself. The reason that it’s so tough is because no one teaches us how to traverse it. It’s not taught to us in schools and colleges and it’s hardly ever taught to us at home. It is my strong belief that we can avoid a lot of heart wrenchingly painful experiences if we learn from other people’s mistakes along with our own. I guess that’s the reason so many of us read autobiographies and self-help books. I do too! And in this article, I am sharing with you some of my own life lessons! These life-lessons are also share...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Moushumi Dutia Tags: featured happiness motivation philosophy self-improvement life life lessons pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs

4 Steps to Financial Independence
Most people want financial independence. Financial independence means that you do not have to rely on your day job to pay all your bills. You can take time off of work if you want to without worry about finances. Often, people assume that this means that you are looking to retire early, but that isn’t necessarily the case. Many people choose to become financially dependent when they have no intention of retiring. A lot can come up in life. You never know what is going to happen next. What happens if you or a loved one has an illness that you need to take care of? Not only will you have medical bills to account for, bu...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: IndySummers Tags: career featured money and finance self-improvement budgeting financial independence self improvement Source Type: blogs

My Journey from Fear to Love
"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end." – John Lennon January - 2012 I remember sitting in a small dark room waiting for the surgeon to arrive. My son had just had major surgery, and it had taken much longer than expected. My stomach felt tense as the surgeon sat in the chair opposite us. He looks at the floor as he started to speak. "it's not good news," he said. "We think he has a week left to live." After that, my mind switched off. I felt my wife's head on my shoulder and heard her tears. Was it a bad dream? June – 2017 My feet feel heavy as I am ne...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Thomas Westenholz Tags: creativity family featured happiness relationships self-improvement fear love self improvement Source Type: blogs

7 Tricks To Effortlessly Improve Memory Power
Lack of memory or difficulty in remembering information is rarely linked to diseases of the nervous system such as Alzheimer's, a common problem also in young people and adults. However, it is possible to improve memory power and ability to compile information by using techniques that facilitate access to memory and increase the number of connections made by the brain, which facilitates learning and increases performance in studies and work. Our brains are exceptionally flexible. This is in contrast to what people have long thought. Scientists are talking about the 'plasticity' of our brains. In the course of evolution,...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 28, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Swayne Tags: featured health and fitness self-improvement exercise memory pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs

Why Practical Skills Matter More Than A College Degree
Conclusion Apart from objectifying results and requirements, practical skills also help in developing social skills and improve the interactions of students with other people. While books and curriculum may at times, isolate students from what is actually out there, the practical application takes them closer to a real-world scenario where they themselves can acquire knowledge and realize how it is implemented. I hope this post was able to offer you some meaningful insights regarding how practical skills matter a lot, not only in your daily life but also when it comes to your career and professional circle. For more ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claudia Jeffrey Tags: career featured philosophy self-improvement success college degrees life skills pickthebrain productivity Source Type: blogs

How to Foster Change in Kids ’ Behavior after Quarantine
COVID-19 has impacted lives across the globe. Whether it's the loss of someone close to you, mental health challenges, or a reduction in your household income, the pandemic one way or another has affected us all. Children are not an exception. They may not communicate their worries with us or express their feelings like adults, but they are also going through a difficult time. They have missed out on valuable learning time at school and have been unable to socialize with friends as they usually would. They may even be scared of the virus due to the snippets of information that they've overheard.  But being force...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Maria Kennedy Tags: family featured productivity tips psychology self-improvement working from home covid kids pickthebrain quarantine school Source Type: blogs

What ’s your Enneatype?
Everyone is wired differently. We see the world through a unique set of lenses that have been crafted over time. Things like our genetics, predispositions, families of origin, personalities, experiences, traumas, ages, socioeconomic statuses, ethnicities, and cultures all contribute to the way that we see the world and the way that we operate within it. By the time we’re in our 20s, barring any unexpected trauma, most of us have landed on a way of operating. The problem is that not all of the ways that we have learned to operate are good, helpful, or healthy. Many of our habits are actually coping mechanisms we learne...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Liz Carver Josh Green Tags: confidence creativity featured happiness psychology self-improvement enneagram enneatype personality type pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs

How Fitness Supercharges Your Productivity
Conclusion You need to pay attention to three main factors if you want to increase your productivity, those factors are; financial, emotional, and physical fitness. If you pay adequate attention to each of those three factors of productivity, you will succeed in whatever endeavor you desire. If you find yourself lacking behind in one of those methods, then you should seek help from a professional coach. Productivity requires an inner motivation; as such, you should carefully get rid of whatever is preventing you from being motivated internally. Ben Tejes is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ascend Finance, a platform to help...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 22, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: BenTejes Tags: diet health and fitness productivity tips self-improvement self improvement Source Type: blogs

Creative Ways to Burn More Calories Throughout the Day
When your schedule is packed full, finding the time to exercise can feel challenging or down right impossible.  Between work, family, chores, and whatever else you need to do in a given day you might be lucky to find time to relax let alone exercise. Especially if you work in a job where you sit at a computer all day long, you may be feeling like you just can’t fit in enough activity in your day. However, there are plenty of sneaky ways to add more physical activity into your day.  Use these creative ways to burn more calories throughout your day.  Many of them only take a few extra minutes in you...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: featured health and fitness self-improvement burn calories pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs

The Science of Getting the Most Out of Intuition
Conclusion If you are struggling with working out when to trust your gut, or understanding what it is telling you, consider seeing a therapist. Talking through situations will not only help you process what has happened, but provide you with an objective evaluation of whether you are learning the appropriate patterns and outcomes. People in good spirits benefit from this process just as much as those with mental health challenges! Whether you believe you are a natural intuitive or don’t ever trust what your gut says, learning to use your intuition appropriately can have many benefits across all areas of your life. ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Graeme Douglas Tags: confidence featured psychology self-improvement happiness inner voice intuition self improvement Source Type: blogs

3 Badass Ways to Conquer Your Struggles And Move Forward
Conclusion: Difficulties will knock on our doors time and time again. What we choose next is our responsibility. Teach yourself to see the good in everything! Decide today that you are going to prepare yourself to see your hardship as new possibilities, by breaking loose from a victim mentality and by accepting that nothing is permanent! Hi, my name is Jayne. I'm from the beautiful island of Curaçao. I'm a life coach. I help people that are stuck in a status quo lifestyle understand their potential by changing their mindset so that they can become the best version of themselves. The post 3 Badass Ways to Conq...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jayne Prince Tags: featured motivation productivity tips psychology self-improvement success pickthebrain self improvement strategies struggles Source Type: blogs

Five Rules of Confrontation to Ease that Lockdown Stress
The world is going through a stressful time. Most people are stuck at home, spending more time than ever with family, partners, or roommates, as the case may be. Social distancing guidelines and video calls have changed the way we interact with each other. While social media is full of fun, quirky images of people baking banana bread, doing home workouts, and on family Zoom calls, giving the impression that largely humanity is making lemonade from the lemons life dealt them, in reality all this endless time together at home with others during a time of uncertainty and the fear of the unknown can be more than a little st...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Vijay Eswaran Tags: family featured happiness psychology relationships self-improvement covid lockdown quarantine stress work from home Source Type: blogs

Are You Chasing Fads or Solving a Real Problem?
We are all impressionable to fads. Remember fidget spinners? Just a few years ago, these toys became a craze practically overnight. Forbes once called them "the must-have office toys for 2017", and at one point they were so popular that giant corporations like Toys R Us had to airfreight tens of thousands of them to their various locations just to barely meet consumer demand. But it didn't take long for the novelty to lose its edge. Fidget spinners once accounted for 17 percent of online toy sales, but there's no longer a place for them in the market. The target demographic that once begged to own a fidget spinner have ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Carl Pradelli Tags: featured internet culture philosophy self-improvement success business fads pickthebrain trends Source Type: blogs