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Wondering How to Become a Morning Person? Try These 8 Techniques

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Put down your phone. This stress hormone can prevent you from falling asleep. Try putting your phone to bed at least one hour before your bedtime. Is your alarm on your phone? Once your phone is in your hand, there is a temptation to check social media or email. Try These 8 Techniques appeared first on SUCCESS.

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How I Became a Morning Person (and How You Can, Too)

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The first thing that helped me get up faster was by not having my main sources of entertainment around me in the bedroom: phone not next to the bed, laptop not in the same room as the bed. It was incredibly easy to hit the snooze button when my phone was within arm’s reach. The bedroom is for sleeping. Run into another room.

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18 Signs You Have High Emotional Intelligence

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The negative emotions that come with holding onto a grudge are actually a stress response. When the threat is imminent, this reaction is essential to your survival, but when the threat is ancient history, holding onto that stress wreaks havoc on your body and can have devastating health consequences over time.

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Why Success Doesn’t Mean You’re Living a Fulfilled Life

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When I started working for Bell System—the universal phone monopoly at the time—a manager told me I could have a job for life supporting the payphone business. One of the respondents said every day was a max-stress event, eventually leading to a near breakdown. This article was published in November 2016 and has been updated.

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How I Lost $3 Million in 24 Hours and Bounced Back

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And then the phone rang. As the words “We have a problem…” came through the phone, the blood drained from my face and a sharp pain pierced my stomach. Even though I was constantly stressed and hated what I was doing, I was making too much money to step away from it, to care or to realize that I didn’t feel fulfilled.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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The stress-reducing power of assertiveness. He suggests trying things like calling your cable company and asking a phone rep to waive a late fee. When you decide to speak up about an important matter, is phone, email or face-to-face best (assuming you have options)? That was nine years ago, and Fanning has never been the same.

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Use Subtraction to Add Happiness to Your Life

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We vow to run a marathon in 2016 (even though our new Nikes have been in the box for six months). We promise to stop relying so much on social media to make connections, and instead will have more one-on-one conversations (even though we can't put down our phones long enough to do it).

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