Beginning a Year of Raw Foods
For the first time ever, I’m doing back-to-back one-year challenges. Yesterday I completed my one-year daily blogging challenge (and wrote a retrospective of the experience on the final day). Today I’m rolling into Day 1 of an entirely different kind of challenge, which is to be a raw foodist for the 2021 year.
While 30-day challenges can be good for building self-discipline, I don’t normally think of one-year challenges like that. The framing tends to be different. There may be some discipline involved for the first few weeks to get into a good rhythm, but once you’ve established the new habits,...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - January 1, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Relational Goals
A nice way to identify goals, especially for the New Year, is to clarify how you’d like to upgrade your relationships with different aspects of life. Then identify and commit to action-based goals that you expect would improve these relationships.
For example, you have a relationship with:
moneyyour bodyeach key person in your lifeyour workyour habitsyour daily routineyour exercise routineyour dietsleepliferealityyour skillsyour emotionsyour past selfyour future selfyour websiteyour homeyour workspaceyour lifestyle
You could start by rating each of these relationships on a scale of 1-10. Which of your most i...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - December 31, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Lifestyle Relationships Source Type: blogs
The Real Link Between Screen Time and Mental Health: How Your Device Impacts You
With the introduction of mobile phones, computers, TVs, and a wealth of additional electronic devices, unfortunately, comes a rise in screen time!
Whether an adult or a child, our reliance on such devices increases with each passing year. Therefore, it's not much of a stretch to say most of our usual screen time extends to several hours a day.
But, though most of us find such gadgets an essential addition to our lives, it’s getting harder to dispute the links between screen time and a decrease in mental health.
The Draw and Power of the Screen
With every piece of data you can imagine available from the comfor...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - December 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: olivaster Tags: featured health and fitness internet culture psychology self-improvement mental health phone pickthebrain screentime Source Type: blogs
How to Commit to a 365-Day Challenge
One way to pick a good 365-day challenge is to think about what would permanently transform your relationship with some aspect of life if you live that one year of your life a bit differently.
Even though you’re just doing some specific action or behavior each day, keeping that up for a full year will change you, often in ways you don’t expect. When you complete even one 365-day challenge, your life will never be the same again. Even if you only do one of these in your entire life, it changes you forever. You won’t be the same person on Day 365 that you were on Day 1. You also won’t be the same p...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - December 26, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Lifestyle Values Source Type: blogs
How to Commit to a 365-Day Challenge
One way to pick a good 365-day challenge is to think about what would permanently transform your relationship with some aspect of life if you live that one year of your life a bit differently.
Even though you’re just doing some specific action or behavior each day, keeping that up for a full year will change you, often in ways you don’t expect. When you complete even one 365-day challenge, your life will never be the same again. Even if you only do one of these in your entire life, it changes you forever. You won’t be the same person on Day 365 that you were on Day 1. You also won’t be the same p...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - December 26, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Lifestyle Values Source Type: blogs
A Growth Heartset
You may have heard about the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset and how important a growth mindset is for self-development. You may not have considered how important a growth heartset is too.
While a growth mindset is wonderful, it’s not enough. There are plenty of people with growth mindsets who struggle, burn out, and give up. And even when they don’t give up, it’s painful to watch sometimes because they invite struggle, struggle, and more struggle. They keep trying to “earn” happiness and fulfillment, and it keeps eluding them. They may work hard and try hard, but th...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - December 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Emotions Relationships Source Type: blogs
Why Are People So Mad at Police?
ConclusionWe started with a simple question:Why are so many people so mad at cops these days? Plainly there are many reasons, and we should avoid the temptation to oversimplify. But it would be a monumental error to dismiss that anger if there is some justification for it, as well as a grave injustice. Police play a vital role in our society, but they cannot do their jobs effectively without the trust and support of the community. In order to hold that trust, they must earn it —including by asking themselves hard questions like whether there are certain laws they have a moral duty not to enf...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 24, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Neily Source Type: blogs
Guaranteeing a Certain Kind of Year
One thing I love about interesting commitments is that they can guarantee that I’ll have a certain kind of year.
This requires that I pick a commitment that’s close to 100% under my direct control, so there are no significant risky external points of failure.
This year I guaranteed that I’d do a lot of writing by committing to publishing something new on my blog every day of the year. I guaranteed that it would be a year of high internal reflection and high creative output. I guaranteed that I’d do the equivalent of writing several books through the medium of blogging. These are just the surfa...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - December 24, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Source Type: blogs
Your Relationship With Text Messaging
How would you rate your current relationship with texting on a scale of 1 to 10?
A 1 means you really need to improve how you use this tool. A 10 means you’re using the tool in a way that works very well for you, and other people who text you understand and respect your boundaries.
I feel that I have a healthy relationship with text messaging. It’s generally not a distraction, I use it effectively, and my approach works well for me. Boundary issues are uncommon and easily fixed.
So let me share some tips regarding how I use it. See if any of this helps you reassess your own relationship with texting.
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Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - December 23, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Relationships Source Type: blogs
