Health, Fitness, Mind and Personal Growth

 Self-esteem is how you perceive yourself, and it’s a very cognitive process that can be detrimental to being your true self. Self-esteem is the way we understand or evaluate our worth and is the ultimate belief we place on ourselves. People with high self-esteem tend to be more comfortable with their true selves and demonstrate a lot more integrity. Our fear of being judged often lead us to behave in a way that is not aligned with what our heart wants because we want to feel accepted and loved by others. Here are a few ways you can improve your self-esteem.   Appreciate Yourself Appreciating yourself means that you are OK with who you are and enjoy being by yourself. Have the goal of becoming your best friend. Take some time to hang out with yourself once in a while. It will help you build a level of comfort in being by yourself. Add some self-care during those moments; it will help you increase self-respect. Be Proud of Your Accomplishments We’ve all accomplished...

 Most of us are exceptionally hard on ourselves when we consider our flaws and shortcomings. We can find ourselves easily stuck in some struggle that we know can be solved, but we just don’t know how to begin. We’re so afraid of failure and of getting it wrong that we let negativity crush our dreams. If you tend to let negativity rule your life, you'll never realize your dreams. Here are four practical ways to break the negativity in your life and achieve success in anything you set out to do.   Speak Kindly to Yourself If you don't maintain kind thoughts and loving feelings toward yourself, you'll become run down and won't be able to achieve success. The words you speak to yourself have the power to either build you up or tear you down. Stop allowing your critical inner voice to control your life. Allow yourself to ignore this voice when it is filling your mind with negative thoughts and self-doubt.   Reinvent Your World Your world is shaped by the way you s...

 One of the most admirable characteristics a person can possess is persistence. Without persistence, no great achievement is possible. Everyone can set goals and make plans for success; however, only a few succeed in achieving their goals. Developing persistence is a way to ensure that you will reach your goals and achieve success. Here are four practical ways that you can become more persistent and accomplish your goals.   Identify What You Want Before developing your persistence, you must know what you want in your life. Take some time to think about what you want and write down your answers on a sheet of paper. Really think about how you would like your life to be and what you need to do to get there. Write everything down, no matter how big or small the goal.   Figure Out Your Motivation To build persistence for accomplishing your goals, you have to have motivation. If you know the deep-down, the reason for doing what you’re doing you will have more energ...

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 When you think of becoming smarter, you probably think about studying hard, doing lots of math and generally putting in time and effort. But what if I told you that you could get smarter by eating ? We all love eating, so in theory this should be no hardship at all. But if you choose your foods wisely, you’ll find it can significantly affect your brain function and overall mental performance… So, without further ado, here are some of the top brain foods… Oily Fish Oily fish is absolutely crucial for optimum brain health. Why? Because it contains omega 3 fatty acid. This benefits our brain in two ways. Firstly, omega 3 fatty acid can be used to build cell walls. It is incorporated into their formulation, which means that lesser materials get replaced. In turn, this results in brain cells that are more flexible, more fluid and less likely to become damaged. Better yet, this also increases ‘cell membrane permeability’. In simple English, this means that neurotransmitters, nutri...

 If you want to upgrade your brain like Eddie Mora from Limitless, then unfortunately you won’t find it to be as easy as taking a single pill. Instead, you’re going to have to look at more arduous and lengthy strategies, including such things as brain training or improving your overall health. If you choose to go the brain-training route though, there is one especially effective and ‘easy’ method that you may find helps you to see the kinds of results you’re looking for. That method is to focus your training on working memory. But what does that actually mean? What is Working Memory? The traditional view of memory split out capacity for storing information into three separate categories. Those were: working memory, short-term memory and long-term memory. Short-term memory was described as containing all the information that you remember for a while, but that would ultimately be ‘sent to trash’. This includes such things as people’s names, or what you had for breakfast. Long...