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

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So as Lent approached, I tossed around the idea of giving up alcohol. I didn’t need to give it up, but I was curious as to what would happen if I did, just for a few weeks. What I gained by giving up alcohol for Lent These are five perks I experienced from giving up alcohol for 47 (long) days: 1. Probably for the best.

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Lifestyle Entrepreneur Lewis Howes on the Power of Vulnerability and Authenticity

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Howes realized he’d been leaning on football to harness the limited range of emotions he learned to express as a young man: stoicism or anger. It was here that he opened up about his childhood sexual abuse for the first time. “I All the men in the event came up to me afterwards, one by one, and shared their story.

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Joshua Becker’s New Book Explores Everyday Distractions Becoming a Lifestyle—And How to Refocus on the ‘Things That Matter’

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An email preview pops up in the corner of your screen. Our newer tech- and media-based distractions are actually just add-ons to many of the old diversions that have plagued humanity for countless generations, like having mixed-up priorities or viewing ourselves and other people in unhelpful ways. Few distractions begin as a lifestyle.

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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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Ellison and Darsy learned that the most challenging (and rewarding) parts of being liveaboards in a relationship had little to do with the logistics of sailing and a lot more to do with life, interpersonal dynamics and developing self-awareness in roughly 350 square feet of space. There are no shortcuts for that.”.

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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.”. Best practices for standing up for yourself. I apologized.

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What I Learned from Keeping a Gratitude Journal

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Usually after the oldest heads to the bus stop, the youngest will bobble downstairs, hair frazzling out in about 40 directions, rubbing sleep out of his eyes with balled-up fists and looking as if he’d ask me for coffee if he wasn’t 5. The seed of the idea—to shut up and give thanks more than once every few months —is planted.

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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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My 10-year-old brother loved hotels, and nothing made him as happy as relaxing on a big comfy bed and cranking up the TV. And my youngest brother was only 6 at the time, and was mostly content hamming it up for photos (and actually, that hasn’t changed much). Looking back, I resisted growing up at nearly every turn.

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