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This Digital Nomad Couple Sold Everything to Travel the World in a Sailboat—Here’s What They’ve Learned About Life, Goal Setting and Relationships

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They met on Tinder in 2015 while living in Sweden as expats: Ellison, an aviation sales director from Des Moines, Iowa, and Darsy, a human resources systems specialist from Paris. Other times, it looks like booking a flight home to spend time apart so both can come back refreshed. For Ellison and Darsy, the key is extreme flexibility.

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4 New Year’s Resolutions You Should Make (and Keep) to Guarantee Your Success

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As the year comes to a close, people are naturally going to be talking about their New Year’s resolutions and setting goals for self-improvement. Back in the days of my first big keynotes and my first book, Crush It , I began to get obsessed with the time period between 7 p.m. Become a deep practitioner in something. Audit your 7 p.m.

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Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk on Designing a Space—and Life—That Makes You Happy

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His new book, Right at Home: How Good Design Is Good for the Mind , offers readers tips for making a space into a sanctuary. A guiding principle behind the book was that he didn’t simply want to create an expensive design book that would limit who could learn about design. “I I want to democratize design,” Berk says. “I

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5 Strategies for Making Your New Year’s Resolutions Work

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The new year can be an opportunity for a new beginning, a new chance to reach your goals. Perhaps because the goals can seem too big, the fear of failure stops us or we’ve simply decided resolutions just don’t work. What can I do right now, this month, to move toward reaching my goal of spending more time with my family?

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I Gave Up Drinking for Lent—and Here Are the 5 Things I Learned

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I saw plays, read more books , spent more time at the gym , tried new restaurants around town and jammed out at karaoke. So I stayed committed to my goal through parties, bars and happy hours. This article was published in April 2015 and has been updated. In only one night, I saved $40. I started doing new things.

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The Negative Side of Positive Thinking

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These are some of the questions he sought to answer when he wrote his best-selling book Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy. So what’s a wise approach for embracing the whole self while still moving toward goals with kindness, compassion and responsibility? This article was published in December 2015 and has been updated.

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A 4-Question Guide to Unlock Your Creativity

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One 2015 study from Northwestern University found that, in regards to sensory processing as a predictor of creative achievement, divergent thinking did not correlate with real-world creative success. You may hear a new song, for example, that reminds you of that book you read that the guy you met on the train recommended.