How To Make Next Year Your Best Year
Darius Foroux · 4 minYou're in control so decide how you want to improve, set a goal, and get to it.
You're in control so decide how you want to improve, set a goal, and get to it.
And how you can develop these traits if you don't have them.
“Tracking my time has changed how I think about my time. Knowing exactly where my hours go has helped me feel like I can slow time’s ceaseless ticking.”
If you only focus on the task, there’s always an easier one. But the pestering task often has the greater reward.
We all have a silent side to us; opportunities not taken, feelings never expressed. It’s important not to dwell on what could have been but also not to ignore those traits that make us who we are.
I love them so much. Just don’t tell them I said that.
A quarantine facial-hair experiment led me to a deep consideration of my Blackness.
“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.”
Find out what triggers happiness hormones and how to make the most of them.
The seemingly rational answer to fixing your major problems would be to declare victory. You’re done! Strangely, few people seem to respond in the rational way.
Instead of changing your thinking, change your environment.
Deprive people of interactions with peers, and their social skills will atrophy. This is yet another side effect of the pandemic. Ms. Murphy is a journalist.
It depends on our willingness to be bad at our desired behavior.
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Vaccines to block COVID-19 that are in development by Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and others, and that are currently in Phase III clinical trials, may not do as well covering people of Black or Asian genetic ancestry as they do for white people, a study released Wednesday by the Massachusetts Insti
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My dad was in the military. I can’t count the number of times he said these words to me when I was a kid. Regardless of the warnings, like a lot of people, I still spend an extreme amount of time in my head either ruminating over past decisions or worrying about future ones.
He walks too slowly, a languorous Hawaiian ambler. She’s a get-to-the-point woman, in gait and gab. He’s a politician. She has no use for the type. He gets tangled up in fancy talk. She cuts through the fluff. He smoked. She loathes the smell of cigarettes.
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Tesla isn't the only upstart auto industry player having a big year.
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Danny is online weekly to chat live with readers. Here’s an edited transcript of this week’s chat. Q. Not a laughing matter: My boyfriend of three years has been dabbling in comedy since we started dating. For years his friends told him to do something as a comedian, even as just a hobby.
Am I morally bound to confront friends who support President Trump or to stop speaking to them? I find it untenable that anyone could support such a deficient person. He is xenophobic and a liar. He admires authoritarian rulers, lacks self-control and is an inciter of division in our country.