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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. The stress-reducing power of assertiveness. I apologized.

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

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It means making a schedule that will turn waking up from a groggy bore to an exciting and efficient part of your day. Remember: According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of routine is “a regular course of procedure,” meaning don’t change it up. Gradually adjust your bedtime and wake-up time so the change doesn’t feel unnatural.

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18 Signs You Have High Emotional Intelligence

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This creates the tendency to get right back up every time you fall down. For example, you might have an interesting conversation with someone about a book, and when you see them again a month later, you show up with the book in hand. The negative emotions that come with holding onto a grudge are actually a stress response.

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How You Can Combat Collaboration Overload to Improve Company Performance—and Your Own

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A 2016 Harvard Business Review article found that over the past two decades, time spent by leadership and employees in collaborative activities has grown by more than 50%. If you automatically say “yes” to every request, you could end up working too many late nights and heading toward the verge of overwhelm.

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

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I’d have to end whatever great dream I was having, put on clothes I didn’t like, go out into the world bleary-eyed and stand in a cramped train with a hundred other people who would also rather be anywhere else. We would often stay up into the early hours working on our projects, chatting, watching movies, you name it.

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What Happened When I Avoided the News for 30 Days

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Things happen in this world— many of them stressful and polarizing—even if we make an effort to ignore them. So normally, I’ve taken on the stress and anxiety that come with consuming the news. This is your mind when you avoid news All that to say, even when you take your mind off the news, it’s still trained to think the same way.

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Employee Perk or Productivity Secret? Corporate Wellness Programs Deliver on Both

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They are in abundance as developers jump on the corporate wellness train: there are mental health apps with therapists in your pocket. In fact, in 2016 the Harvard Business Review compiled data from leading experts on the topic. All eyes are on workplace stress, as burnout numbers have peaked in recent years compared to the past.

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