Health, Fitness, Mind and Personal Growth

 If your self-confidence is low, you will find it exceedingly difficult to accomplish your goals and achieve success. Everybody, at some point in their life, has suffered from low self-confidence. The key to building your self-esteem in today's world is to be persistent and find ways to build confidence that work for you so that you can do everything you've set out to do in your life. Here are six easy tips for improving your self-confidence.   Tip #1 – Know Your Strengths, as well as Your Weaknesses When building your self-confidence, you must know what you are good at. Taking a skills assessment test is a great way to determine your strengths and weaknesses. When your skill sets are realised, then you can begin to focus on doing those things that you are good at because nobody can be good at everything, Tip #2 – Accept Yourself as You Are You are unique. When trying to build your self-confidence, you mustn't beat yourself up over the things you don't have cont...

 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...

This might sound like the cheesy-kind of advice your parents might have given you, but it really is true that confidence can get you pretty much whatever you want. That and being yourself. If you want to get a date, succeed in your career or otherwise take any aspect of your life to the next level, then boosting your confidence is one of the best ways to accomplish that. Here’s why… What Confidence Really Means If you have ever met an alpha male, or a woman who just seems to have everything under control, then you might have noticed that they are usually very confident. The truth is that the whole reason they appear so successful is that confidence. That’s because confidence sends a powerful signal – it says ‘I consider myself to be a catch’. Speaking in evolutionary terms, confidence suggests that you are a good potential mate, or a superior competitor. Even if someone is short, poorly dressed and unappealing – if they are supremely confidence then it will seem as though they ...

  When we spend our lives merely surviving, life can start to seem a little empty and pointless . Nevertheless, this is exactly how many of us live: we work for eight hours or more a day and then we come home feeling too tired and exhausted to do much of anything with our time. So, we sit and watch TV. The same thing repeats and repeats and the most excitement we have is a holiday once a year to look forward to. Is that really living? Here are four simple changes that can make your life more meaningful: Learning Constantly learning is a great way to give life more meaning and direction. Ultimately, one of the things that the brain craves most is growth. If it isn’t challenged to learn and grow, then it will shrink and we will become set in our ways. Make it your job to constantly be learning new skills and pursuits. That can be related to your career, a hobby, or even a new language! Relationships Likewise, relationships are one of the things that we really need to ...

It is common knowledge that many people live their lives in a constant state of chronic stress. This is a serious problem because it triggers the release of negative hormones and neurotransmitters that play havoc with your health. But it actually goes deeper than that. Chronic stress means that you are constantly being pushed and thus rather than being able to stop and smell the roses, rather than being able to actually enjoy your life, you end up simply trying to survive it. Not only that, but you remain constantly reactive, constantly reacting to events and thereby unable to actually become proactive and to decide the course of your life and the direction you want to take. The Problem We all have different stressors that do this to us. Some of us are struggling with debt. Some of us are overworked in the office. Some of us have problems in our relationships. But no matter what the problem, they all affect the body in just the same way that being chased by a lion would. As far...

  When it comes to changing your mindset in order to change your life, you probably think of things like ‘the gratitude attitude’ or maybe meditation. You’re probably aware of mindfulness and of CBT. But what if you could simply flick a switch and completely change the way that your brain works? What if you could become smarter and cleverer overnight? Wouldn’t that be the ideal? This is what we see in the film Limitless . The main character Eddie Mora takes a single tablet and suddenly gains access to latent power of his brain. He becomes smarter, wittier, more charming, more creative – and in no time at all he has written a best selling novel, made a huge amount of money on the stock market and run for political office. This is what science would call a ‘nootropic’ and the shocking part is that they’re real… What Are Nootropics and Do They Work? Of course, the reality is nothing like the movies. There is no pill that can make you smarter. But what some nootropics claim t...

You might think of your brain as being fairly consistent. You generally have a consistent level of intelligence, your mood is usually pretty steady and on the whole you don’t tend to change all that much. Or so it seems. In reality though, your brain is constantly changing. Not only is it growing and adapting, but it will also change in terms of what it’s capable of and how you feel. The chemical balance is likely to change a huge amount. In other words, our brain goes through a number of states and depending on which brain state you are experiencing at any given time, you can expect very different results. Let’s take a look at just a few mental states and how they have incredible impacts on the way you feel and perform. Flow State A flow state is a much-coveted state that is often described as being the state of ultimate ‘peek’ human performance. It’s a little more complex than that. But essentially, this is a state in which you are completely focussed on a given task, nor...