Self Improvement

Mindfulness can help lower stress levels, improve concentration, and provide more meaningful connections with the people, places, and things that surround us. Discover simple and effective ways to build more mindfulness into your everyday life.

The secret to creating objectives that you want to work towards and can actually envision yourself accomplishing is to make them both aspirational and feasible.

These are small and totally doable actions that, with a little practice, can help you focus and get more done.

The self-help phenom’s new book is all about letting others do as they may. Can she follow her own advice?

Discover 10 plants that benefit from being pruned or cut back during the winter months.

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I used to plan out every day, hour by hour. I would sit down the evening of the day before and write out an activity for each hour of the working day in an Excel spreadsheet. I have since moved on to a better alternative—task batching—which requires less effort and better fits my working habits.

If the idea of curling up with a good book this holiday season sounds appealing, Bill Gates has some recommendations for you. The billionaire, an avid reader himself, published his latest list of book suggestions for the holidays on Tuesday.

It’s been some time since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, with Google's Gemini and Claude also released a year later. The era of AI chatbots is here, and it has really shown us a new wave of possibilities, and we’ll go into five creative ways to explore their potential.

After four long years of study, I wrapped up a medical degree this year. It’s been an adventure, and the downturn in activity post-exams has made me pensive.