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The Ineffable Power of Humor
In the filmed opera Annette, conceived and written by the perpetually-failing-and-suddenly-hip band Sparks (brothers Ronald and Russell Mael), the protagonist, Henry McHenry, is a perpetually failing comedian played by Adam Driver. He’s asked over and over again by his audience “Why did you become a comedian?” He eventually answers “Why? I’ll tell you why. To disarm people. Make them laugh. It’s the only way I know how to tell the truth without getting killed.” In this fraught time, when the US harbors far and away the most armed civilians,* where enough of them are willing to fire their guns on peopl...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: featured happiness philosophy psychology humor Source Type: blogs

Beyond Discipline: The Real Reasons You Don ’t Follow Through on Self-Commitments
The popular self-help culture inculcates in us the belief that in order to become successful, we must have discipline. We are told that discipline is the key to achieving academic success, climbing on top of the career ladder, attaining the body of our dreams, learning a new skill… practically anything. As a result, we believe that we must force ourselves to do whatever needs to be done to make these dreams a reality. However, doing things through force is rarely an enduring solution. We may do it once or twice, but eventually we’ll give in. This can quickly spiral into a vicious cycle of giving in and then berating...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 25, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: daryashortform Tags: career confidence featured motivation productivity tips psychology success commitments discipline Source Type: blogs

How to Interpret and Break through Creative Blocks  
By Ronald Alexander  As a mind-body therapist working with creative clients for more than 40 years, I discovered that blocks to creativity can be rooted in old losses or trauma and can occur unexpectedly.   That’s what happened to one of my clients who was a writer and who had been successful in her craft for many years. But suddenly she developed writer’s block. When she came into my office, she reported that she felt as if she were inside a large block of ice and her arms and hands were frozen. She had no ideas and would stare at her laptop screen paralyzed, unable to type more than a few sentenc...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ronald Alexander Tags: career confidence creativity featured motivation psychology self-improvement creative blocks mind-body therapy writers block Source Type: blogs

Staying Motivated in a Remote World
The world is going digital, and organizations are experiencing what some now call "The Great Reshuffle." Beyond being the newest buzz phrase in the working ecosystem, it is a phrase that refers to how technology is affecting the way employers and employees react to the world around them. Initially, most employees served as traditional workers, having to come into the office every day for work. But. technology has made it possible for the existence of remote workers, hybrid workers and digital nomads, all of whom have changed the way employment is viewed. Since 2020, over 54% of LinkedIn users have changed their job desc...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 11, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Angela-Ash Tags: career communication featured internet culture productivity tips psychology working from home Source Type: blogs

How To Overcome a Fear of Dealing with Money
This article will provide you with some of the best ways to deal with fears around money and how to conquer them for good. Why should you try to overcome your fear of finances? There are many reasons why you might want to try to overcome your fear of finances. For one, money is a big part of our lives. It's something that we have to deal with on a daily basis, whether we like it or not. Secondly, fear can be very debilitating. It can hold us back from achieving our goals and living the life we want to live. Lastly, dealing with your fear of finances can be empowering. It can help you take control of your lif...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephen Rozo Tags: career confidence featured money and finance productivity tips success fear of money finances Source Type: blogs

3 Life Experiences That Lead to Entrepreneurial Success
By Margot Machol Bisnow, author of Raising an Entrepreneur- How to Help Your Children Achieve Their Dreams; 99 S%tories From Families Who Did Entrepreneurs are often asked, “What’s your secret to success?” Answers range from risk-taking and a self-starter mindset to curiosity and imagination.  But where did these traits come from, and what conditions enabled the entrepreneurs to develop them to their full potential? This is the question I set out to answer in writing my book Raising an Entrepreneur- How to Help Your Children Achieve Their Dreams; 99 S%tories From Families Who Did.  I interviewed a ver...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: career featured internet culture self confidence self-improvement success Source Type: blogs

Five Reasons Why Restrictive Diets Do More Harm Than Good
If you’re anything like the vast majority of the population, you started this year with one of these goals as a top priority: “get in shape”, “lose weight”, “get fit” or “get healthy”. I get it. For the longest time my Januarys started with a rigid healthy eating plan to get back in shape and lose the holiday bulge. Having tried almost every diet imaginable, it’s clear that most diets we follow do one of two things, they either restrict calories or restrict food groups. Even so-called it’s not a diet but a lifestyles are still a diet because you cut the amount of food, or food groups (despite th...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: drlarazib Tags: diet featured health and fitness self-improvement Source Type: blogs

How to Ask For What You Need – Without Guilt
By Sonya Jensen — Of all the hard emotions –anxiety, anger, regret, etc.-- guilt can be one of the most difficult to overcome.  Guilt tells us that what we think, want to do or have done is wrong.  We’ve hurt someone or we’ve screwed up a chance at something. We just plain blew it! That’s what guilt tells us but does that really mean we’ve screwed up?  Our emotions can be what we define them to be. For many of us when we first ask for what we need or set boundaries we often feel guilt…but it could also be growth. When we ask for what we need or say no to something, we’re out...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sonya Jensen Tags: communication featured happiness psychology self confidence self-improvement guilt needs Source Type: blogs

The Power of an Infrared Sauna
Years ago, I co-created a show on Youtube called The Wellness Experiment for my old company LEAFtv. In each episode we would try out a new, and sometimes controversial, (hello V-steams!) wellness treatments. I remember, vividly, one of my favorite episodes, by far, was the cold plunge followed by an infrared sauna, episode. In fact, of all the varying practices we tried out, the way I felt after this treatment stuck out as the most impactful - my body just felt different. More alive? energetic? I’m not sure what, but I just felt good.  Despite promises to myself to keep up with this practice, as life does, I let ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: depression Erin's Things featured happiness health and fitness Recommended Products self-improvement infrared sauna wellness Source Type: blogs

How to Build Self-Confidence to Start a Business or Side Hustle
Failure. Humiliation. These are the anxious feelings that creep up the spine of many of us when considering starting a business. Triumph. Pride. These are the feelings we need to focus on instead! It’s easy to say just flip the switch from fear to courage. So let’s turn those words into practical actions!  As someone who has started businesses that have resulted in “learning moments” as well as successes, I’ll give you the exact keys to unlock your self-confidence to get started! True Confidence Comes From Prior Success No “fake it ‘til you make it” mumbo-jumbo here. Think of what you’...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 24, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: touchdownmoney Tags: career confidence creativity featured productivity tips self-improvement success side hustle Source Type: blogs

Sugar and Mental Health
Sugar tastes amazing and is in so many products that most people aren’t even aware of how much they are consuming daily.  Most people are aware that sugar isn’t a healthy food, but may not realize how detrimental sugar is to your overall health.  More recent research is showing a strong link between mental health and diet, suggesting that there is a two-way street between our bellies and our brains. What has sugar in it? When people talk about sugar, the first thing that comes to mind is the white, granulated stuff that the Brits pour into their tea.  However, there are many forms of sugar...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: diet featured happiness health and fitness psychology self-improvement sugar Source Type: blogs

5 Mental Habits of People Who Thrive Under Pressure
Dr. Beau A. Nelson, DBH, LCSW Some people seem to deal with difficult situations better than others. Maybe they’re the only one in the room who keeps a cool head when everyone else gets upset, or the person who seems able to focus on solutions rather than getting mired in the problems. Sometimes they’re the people we go to in a crisis: We trust them to give us wise and level-headed advice when we most need it. What’s different about these people? Are they super-human? What about them allows them to succeed in times of stress and even thrive under pressure? One answer might be personality—and to be sure, pe...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: communication confidence featured productivity tips psychology self-improvement success mental pressure stress Source Type: blogs

How To Lead with Curiosity To Fall Back In Love With Your Job
Are you feeling a bit bored at work? Are you missing the growth and challenge you felt when you first started your role? If you have been in the same role or industry for a while, these surges of lethargy are completely understandable. Your connection with your work is similar to your personal relationships. Both require energy to keep the relationship exciting and stimulating.  How can you fall back in love with your job and your work? Lead with curiosity to invigorate what excites you most. Here are three questions to initiate your discovery of falling back in love.   Question #1: What interested you about your rol...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rebecca Ahmed Tags: career confidence creativity featured motivation productivity tips self-improvement success inspiration work Source Type: blogs

3 Tips to Start the  Process of Writing a Book
“I have a book within me just waiting to be born.” “I keep notes of these phrases that come to me.” “I’ve tried over and over and haven't been able to write it.” As a book-writing coach, I hear these types of comments a lot. There are so many talented, smart individuals who have a book living inside them, but for myriad reasons — time management, writer's block, fear of failure — they have trouble getting it onto the page. The process of writing a book is complex, time-intensive, and filled with obstacles, some mental and some physical. Every journey starts differently, yet the path ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - April 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: career confidence creativity featured productivity tips success writing tips how to write a book Source Type: blogs

10 Gender Narratives Women Can Break to Bloom
Have you ever felt like you were playing by the wrong “rules”, but didn’t know the right ones?  Are you experiencing the awkward “ick” vibe at work, in a relationship, or in life? Do you sometimes feel like you just don’t fit? Throughout our lifespan there are times when we simply outgrow our circumstances. When we find ourselves trying to fit into a job, relationship or lifestyle that no longer serves our needs, desires or values, it’s an inauthentic move. It can feel suffocating, anxiety-provoking, uncomfortable, irritating or just plain wrong. This is the feeling that signals to us that it’s t...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - April 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Gianna Contini Tags: career confidence creativity featured philosophy productivity tips psychology self confidence self-improvement success gender narratives Source Type: blogs