Self-development
Summer Smash Hit: Attitude of Gratitude
At Intelligent Change, gratitude is always top of the charts. So we want to help you make it the smash hit on your own playlist to turn this summer into one you’ll remember – literally. Because gratitude is mindfulness, and mindfulness means stronger memories and prolonged happiness.
Summer of Gratitude Challenge
We are bringing you a big summer re-set with Intelligent Change. This season, we are launching the Summer of Gratitude challenge. With guidance from our team and community, we want to help you start building a life-changing habit of gratitude or keep up with your existing gratitude and self-awareness rituals.
Building Blocks of Self-Love
Loving yourself means being able to rely on yourself and it requires trust and belief in yourself. From this stems self-determination and self-empathy, which gear us towards self-improvement and self-compassion. But how do we learn to love ourselves better? How do we build these self-love pillars?
Sleep, Rest, and Mental Well-being
Sleep and rest are fundamental to our mental health. A plethora of research unequivocally shows that both play an important role in mediating stress and dealing with challenges. Here's how you can boost your productivity, creativity, and happiness in the long run.
Stress, Anxiety, CBT, and Silver Linings
Stress is this fickle thing that, when you think about it, doesn’t really exist, does it? It’s our subjective perception of a situation that makes it stressful in our heads. And this means we could actually control our nerves with the right mindset. Here's how.
On Being Authentic
Being authentic is all about recognizing and accepting how we feel about ourselves and the world without letting outside judgments detach us from our own truth. It’s the process of understanding who we are and what we need from life to live more vibrantly.
Balancing Act: Five Pillars of Well-being
Here, we look into concrete pillars that will support our well-being and emotional health. And did you know that well-being is a skill? Read our tips on how you can balance your life, take action, and be well.
Tips for Staying Hydrated
Staying hydrated is one of the main cornerstones of our health. Learn how to make regular hydration a habit and how to track that habit to success.
Taking a Mental Health Day
Knowing when and how to ask for a mental health day off can play a crucial role in maintaining your emotional well-being and preventing a drop in your personal and business relationships, overall health, and happiness. Here's how.
Mental Hygiene: Why Do We Need It
Mental health is about living a fulfilling life and unleashing your full potential. In this article, our goal is to shed light on what mental hygiene is, explain why it’s important, and give some advice on its maintenance.
Guide: How to Find Your Hobbies
From film photography to baking, research has shown that having an enjoyable hobby can reduce our stress levels, improve our mood, and help us combat depression. It also gives us an increased sense of purpose and belonging, both of which are essential to inner peace.
Idea Showers
Have you noticed that some of your most brilliant moments happen while you are in the shower? You are not alone there. Many of us experience this strange phenomenon. Read more in our article to find out what idea showers are and why they work.
The KonMarie Method for Deep Cleaning a Daily Routine
If your productivity planner is bursting at the seams and your habit tracker can’t keep up with you, it’s time for a deep clean of your daily routine. Have you heard of the KonMarie Method?
Minimalist House Tour: Why Less Is More Than Enough
To help you make room for minimalism in your life, we’ve created a structured representation of its most important assumptions. Welcome to our minimalist house tour.
Make Your Own Power Space
Just like having a dedicated workspace can help reduce distractions and make you feel empowered for a productive day in your home office, a power space is a spot at your home that’s filled with good energy, joy and items that inspire you.
Get out of Your Head and into Your Body
When feeling overwhelmed, we need to get out of our heads and get into our bodies. In other words, we need to adopt a more holistic approach to life and reconnect our body to our mind.
Move the Body, Calm the Soul
A sound mind lives in a sound body. A sound body is a result of a sound mind. The best place to maintain a healthy mind-body connection? The forest.
It’s a Good Day To Be Still
Stillness is a state of steadiness and inner quietude that allows you to act without frenzy regardless of what’s happening around you. Filtering through the noise, it creates room for an ever-expanding sense of inner peace. Here’s how to embrace stillness every minute of every day.
Mental Health vs Mental Strength
The three main elements that actually construct our entire mental system are also the elements involved in building mental strength––feelings, thoughts, and behaviour. In this article, we explore how to build your resilience and become mentally strong.
New Ways to Find Happy
In this article, we deepen and enrich the discussion around happiness by focusing on answering the two questions: How to restore happiness? How to find it anew?
In Celebration and Appreciation of Women
Today we celebrate women in all their might and glory. We see you, we love you, and we thank you.
How to Not Get Overwhelmed by the News
Everything we read and consume leaves an emotional footprint. By employing the simple mindful strategies, you can counterbalance news that are heavy on your heart and mind and resist the negativity bias.
How to Stay Sane During a Crisis
Life is neither designed for suffering nor for eternal, never-ending joy. Life is not black and white, it is what you make out of it. Every challenge is a new opportunity for growth and strength.
10 Habits for Inner Peace
In this article, we’ll describe several behaviors designed to bring you closer to achieving inner balance and calmness–habits for peace.
Dealing With Grief and Loss
In this article, we’ll explain what grief actually is, share some common myths and facts, and, most importantly, share tips on how to deal with it in as healthy way as possible.
How to Feel Grateful When Life Gets Hard
Practicing gratitude when life is hard should be both about acknowledging the suffering and taking action towards a positive change. In this article, we share five tips for feeling more grateful when going through a rough patch.
Guide: Make Your Habits Stick
Cultivating good habits will pave the way for you to become who you want to be and reach the heights you’ve always dreamed of. In this guide, we share what are habits, how they are built, and how you can make positive, life-changing habits stick.
How to Improve Your Self-Control
Learning self-control is crucial for achieving your goals, as it keeps you on track for a longer period of time. It can also help you improve your well-being and take ownership over your emotional health.
Self-Love Defined
Self-love is the beginning of every other love. It’s so multidimensional that it escapes explanations and definitions, but here’s our attempt at putting everything we know about this heart-shaped feeling into words.
The Five Languages of (Self) Love
The quality of our relationships with other people and ourselves is a direct result of the quality of work we invest in building and developing them. In this article, we analyze five love languages to help you understand the inner mechanisms of your relationships.
The Power of Accountability
In this article, we explore the true meaning of holding yourself accountable and taking responsibility for achieving your goals in life.
Guide: The End of Year Review
By reviewing your past year, you get the opportunity to learn from your lessons, notice certain patterns, and get a better understanding of what makes you happy. Here's how to do it.
To Anyone Who Is Struggling Right Now
Today, we come to you with as much light as we can send in this short letter. You are enough and you are loved. Keep persisting. Keep persevering.
Alone for the Holidays? Here's how to Celebrate
How we celebrate the Holidays is largely dictated by the people with whom we spend it. Yet, what if we find ourselves alone at the Christmas table? Should we cancel the festivities? Not necessarily.
Intelligent Change: Mindful Gift Guide
Ideas for responsible and meaningful gifts that can impact the lives of your loved ones in all sorts of positive and intelligent ways.
The Real Meaning of the Festive Season
Beyond the indulgence of holiday parties, sumptuous meals, and material gifts, we question what the winter holidays are really for and how we can create more mindful experiences––all about deeper connections and enriching conversations.
How You Can Spread Joy This Holiday
As we open our minds, prioritize well-being, and embark on a journey of intelligent living, we look deep into ourselves and find other––more mindful and genuine––ways to express our love and appreciation.
5 Tips for Mindful Gift Giving
In this article, we want to share with you five tips that will help you embrace mindfulness during the holiday season and discover joy of meaningful gift giving from the heart.
Is Your Life Limited by Your Beliefs?
Beliefs are a choice and we can choose wisely, we can choose better. Leave the old patterns behind. Bid them farewell and release them to whence they came. We’ll show you how.
Board & Card Games: New Way to Connect
Do you feel like you could spend more time with your family? Are you looking for new ways to improve relationships with your friends? Would you like to establish new meaningful connections? The prompt card and board games may be the answer. Here's why.
Vision Boards: How Do They Work?
Vision boards offer a blank canvas from which to consciously design your life on your own terms. Here, we look at tips on how to use vision boards, alongside other mindfulness tools, to turn abstract dreams into a 3D reality.
The Rebirth Manual: Make Yourself New
It’s impossible to step into the same river twice. Thus, with the constant flow of life, the perfect moment to reinvent ourselves is whenever we want it to be. And the new you can be born in a matter of minutes.
How to Cultivate Vitality
Vitality is the process of self-growth, creativity, awakening, and well-being. In this article, we share how you can cultivate vitality and stay present on your journey to unlocking the fullness of life.
How to Ease Seasonal Affective Disorder
Noticing lack of energy throughout the day? Having sudden cravings for comfort food? Experiencing seemingly inexplicable feelings of sadness? Most probably, you are dealing with SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder. Here's how to deal with winter blues.
Improve Your Mood in 5 Minutes
Even if you’re short of time or facing a high-pressure period at work, there are quick and easy tools to help you feel revitalized and in tune with yourself. Here we look at some of our favorite, short-and-sweet mood boosters.
Energy Boosters for Colder Days
With the change of seasons outside our window come all sorts of inner adjustments parallel to meteorological swings. Feeling low in energy? We might know a few tricks that should boost your vitality in no time.
Which Values Make Us Happy?
It is of immeasurable importance to acknowledge cultural differences in values and happiness. However, while there are some cultural universalities, there are also individual differences we need to rely on in shaping our happiness.
Two Days, One Rule – Success Guaranteed
Rules can be either useful or restrictive, yet if you choose the ones that work best for you, magic will happen. Incredibly effective, the two-day rule will surprise you with its simplicity. Opt for this one.
How to Meditate: Guide
Meditation is a great way to combat stress, become more grounded in the now, and achieve mindfulness and happiness. Here, we offer some simple steps and basic techniques to help you make meditation a part of your routine.
8 Lessons to Learn From Nature
In search of valuable lessons in life, we ask for wisdom, experience, knowledge, and intuition. And who’s been around in this world longer than mother nature? Here are 8 takeaways and insights we can learn from it.
Hearing Versus Listening
If you want to master the skill of mindful listening and build strong, deep relationships, you should learn the difference between hearing and listening.
What’s Your Emotional Attachment Type?
Today we want to tell you the story of human emotional attachment, its types, and how to use this knowledge to enrich your life and your relationships.
Coping With Mental Illness: Guide
Here’s a beginners’ guide on how to cope with mental illness, overcome the stigma that surrounds it, provide support to those coping in your environment, and shed some positive light on this difficult topic.
7 Types of Rest to Recharge Your Batteries
Rest may be effective and ineffective in equal measure. Hence, it’s important to correctly determine and interpret the undertow of our tiredness to be able to rest accordingly. Seven types of rest should do it.
Avoid Burnout by Taking Breaks
Routines, structure, and mindful breaks can help you create healthy balance and essentially avoid burnout in the long run. In this article, we will explain how you can prioritize your well-being and prevent burnout with minimal effort.
8 Steps to Lower Your Stress in 5 Minutes
While digging for the underlying reasons for why we’re so stressed out is useful and highly recommended, sometimes all we need is to get through the day. Try some of these 8 techniques for quick distressing, keep calm, and carry on.
3 Words That Deserve More Attention
How could we harness the potency of words to positively influence our success? We propose: word minimalism, a simplification tactic to recenter your focus on efficiency, three letters at a time.
Do You Know Who You Are?
Who we are is a spectrum that forms under many different circumstances. While learning to identify who you are takes time, in this article you’ll find several ways to speed up the process.
The Art of Negotiation
Mastering negotiations requires grit, resilience, and an array of softer skills like empathy, mindfulness, and gratitude. Here we look at how you can bring those qualities into your negotiations and come up with the most value-adding, win-win solutions.
Gratitude Letter to My Former Self
The process of thanking ourselves puts into perspective how much we’ve grown over a certain period and helps us highlight the most important qualities and milestones we’ve reached along the way.
The Benefits of Positive Language
Communicating positively is about being intentional. As a leader, a parent, a partner, or a friend, we can all choose to use our words to do a little good. Here we look at the differences between positive and negative language, and offer immediate solutions.
The Journey to Financial Freedom
Taking control of your financial future is a big part of leading an intelligent, conscious lifestyle. Here we look at both practical tips and mindset shifts you need to adopt to bring in financial abundance into your life.
Which Support Language Is Your Element?
Have you heard of the four support languages yet? In today’s article, fire, earth, air, and water serve as representation of our differing wishes and needs. Which force of nature are you?
The Role of Imagination in Projecting Your Future
Imagination is not only for escaping reality, it’s for creating it. You can never have a dream come true unless you have a dream and whatever you want to create, you need to first imagine. Your future lives in the projections of your mind.
A Tale of Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a journey—one of acceptance, of loving yourself, of knowing you are enough and worthy. Forgiving ourselves is one of the most extraordinary acts of compassion we can extend to ourselves, and here’s how you can do this.
How to Get Unstuck
Getting unstuck from a certain pattern of thoughts, beliefs, or emotions requires inner work, mindset change, and determination. Here, we guide you through the process of letting go and replacing negative beliefs.
3 Simple Gifts that Don’t Cost a Penny
We’ve decided to inspire you to make some mindful investments this year that are different from gift buying. Here are three gifts that have great impact and don't cost a penny.
An Ode to Autumn, the Season of Change and New Beginnings
Autumn resets our inner clocks, inspiring us to reevaluate our dreams, goals, intentions, plans, habits, and every other element on which we build our realities. Change is the only constant and fall carries it with style. Let it transform you, too.
9 Ways to Commit to Your Gratitude Practice
Look at your gratitude practice as a self-development tool that helps you unleash your full potential and unlock the fullness of life. In order to help you commit to this habit, we have prepared these 9 tips to successful gratitude journaling.
Think Less, Think Better
The more inessential information is cluttering our mind, the more we fail to stay present, connected to our inner self, and focused on our well-being. Here is how you can improve your creative thinking by practicing mind-calming activities.
The 1% Revolution: How to Make Habit Journaling a Habit
Our habits shape the quality of our lives. If you’re in need of a system that will help you stay in the game for the long haul, make habit journaling… a habit.
How to Develop Patience
Practicing patience can transform your career and personal life. Here, we talk about mindful living, patience, its benefits, and how it can help you achieve your goals and dreams in life.
10 Healthy Habits of Happy People
We've prepared 10 happiness-boosting habits that seem to be universal for all people who generally feel content and passionate about their lives; people who follow their purpose, live their dream life, and have a positive attitude.
What to Look For in a Mindfulness App
As creators of the 5 Minute Journal app that thousands of our customers have downloaded, we’re happy to share a few tips on what to look for in a mindfulness app for a thoughtful and rewarding experience.
How to Overcome Obstacles to Mindfulness
Mindfulness takes hard work and there are numerous obstacles. Knowing about those barriers make you less self-judgemental and more prepared to tackle them head-on. Here, we collect 10 most common obstacles to mindfulness and offer our suggestions on how to overcome them.
Mood Tracking: The Simplest Method for Monitoring Your Happiness
Tracking is a brilliant method of monitoring your evolution. Being able to see the nuances of the process makes you more aware of how much work you still need to put in to obtain your preferred results. Mood enhancement is no exception.
Understanding and Boosting Your Self-Esteem
What does it truly mean to have high self esteem and to respect yourself? In this article, we identify what self-worth really means and look at all the different ways you can learn to love yourself and your life.
How to Spend Time by Yourself and Feel Less Lonely
Alone time is a gift to yourself from yourself. The magic of intentional solitude gives us access to social life without forcing us into it, yet while loneliness is you craving connection with other people, aloneness is you craving connection with you. Still getting jitters? Read this article.
4 Ways to Improve your Inner Dialogue
Everyone has an inner critic instilling doubt and fear, so how do we learn to silence that voice and take back control of our inner dialogue? We look at easy but highly effective tips by mental health experts to help you improve the way you talk to yourself—and consequently your quality of life.
Your Ultimate Sustainability Dictionary
We’ve all heard about sustainability by now, but what is it really about? Here we break down the key terminology and values you need to understand to live sustainably and feel empowered to join in the global discussion.
Risk Assessment: What You Need to Know Before Taking a Leap
Anytime you leap, you extend the limits of your life by choosing to sacrifice one incarnation of yourself for another. You take a risk to gain eye-opening and horizon-broadening wisdom reserved for the brave ones. With the right attitude, it’s a priceless experience that can never be replicated.
Five Ideas to Make the World a Better Place
It’s not just world leaders and people of power who can change the world. Small consistent habits and individual actions can have just as much, if not more of, an impact. Here’s how you can start making a difference today.
How 30-Day Challenges Can Boost Our Inspiration
If you’re looking for a fun and exciting way to instill a new habit, 30-day challenges can be a good start. While one month is not enough for a new habit or behavior to stick, it is a great way to get inspired and make a positive change in your life.
12 Books to Elevate Your Vacation Reading List
We selected 12 reads that will add the most value to your leisure time. From eye-opening memoirs, through compelling fiction, to enlightening self-help – we’ve got you covered. Enjoy!
Start a Digital Detox this Summer
The summer season–and the extra downtime it usually comes with–is the perfect opportunity to take a break from the screen, be more present, and engage in more productive activities. Here’s some practical advice on how to get started.
The Art of Packing Light
We’ve prepared these practical tips and tricks on how to pack light for your vacation to prevent you from feeling weighed down by too much stuff and allow you to focus your energy on what matters most––the experience you’re having.
How to Stay Present and Mindful on Your Vacation
It’s time to let go of expectations and control when it comes to vacations. Discover some practical tips on how to enjoy every moment as it comes, appreciate the unexpected, and enhance your holiday experience.
News Flash: Doomscrolling Is Harmful To Your Health
The endless news cycle we consume takes its toll on our mental and physical health. Binging online negativity – doomscrolling – may be the most harmful way to stay informed. Choose news abstinence to live a longer and happier life.
How to Sleep Better
For anyone looking to live a mindful and intelligent lifestyle, sleep is a fundamental part of the success recipe. Here we look at simple, practical ways to prime your body for sleep and improve your wellbeing.
Body Neutrality: The Healthier Alternative to Body Positivity
Love and cherish your body, you only have one. Respect it for dealing so well with everything you put it through on a daily basis and appreciate it for keeping you alive. Your anatomy is so much more than its appearance.
Time to Celebrate: 8 Tips for Writing and Delivering a Compelling Speech
Your speech is a gift to your audience. With the right approach and enough preparation, it can sweep your listeners off their feet. Whether it’s a wedding toast, commencement speech, or eulogy, keep our guidelines in mind and you will never again lose sleep over the stress of a live performance.
Tear Up: Overcoming the Stigma of Crying In the Workplace
Even though crying is a natural human reaction, it makes people uncomfortable. Despite the high levels of stress, anxiety, and pressure that accompany us in a typical work environment, crying remains a frowned-upon reaction, yet it is the quickest attempt to defuse the tension.
75 Journaling Prompts
Don’t know what to write about in your journal? Here are 75 journaling prompts that we’ve prepared for you to boost your inspiration, reflection, and self-discovery.
How to Pick Up the Pieces and Rebuild Your Life
After a big personal or collective shift, coming back into life is both daunting and equally full of opportunity. Here, we look at how to start a new chapter with better habits, more mental strength, and brighter perspectives.
Come, Take a Gratitude Walk with Us
Gratitude is a gift that keeps on giving. In combination with walking, it’s pure magic in motion. One step at a time, walk your body and mind into well-being, and your dreams into reality.
At The Crossroads of Should and Must, Which One Will You Choose?
Every act of decision-making is a crossroad. The most common paths laid before us are should and must ― two very different energies, one tinted with a sense of duty, the other loaded with pure potential. Make sure you choose what is right, not what is easy.
Connecting to Your Intuition
Living life on your own terms means being able to tap into your intuition, often referred to as your "gut feeling." Here, we look at what some of the greatest modern-day thinkers have to say about tapping into your inner wisdom and living authentically.
Connecting the Dots of a Clear Life Vision
Since we only have one life, we might as well live it to the fullest. Create a vision for yourself. Use your freedom, dare to dream, devise a plan with utmost specificity, and keep going. Clarity comes from engagement.
The Importance of Giving
Being able to give makes us feel like we’re making a big impact on someone’s life, encouraging us to do more good and uncover a different perspective of happiness.
Design Your Reality with Five Questions from Seth Godin
Reality can be successfully influenced, designed, and shaped to our liking with decisions, actions, and their consequences. Asking questions, five of them to be precise, provides guidance on the way to greatness.
Here and Now: Staycation and Summer Essentialism
Squeezing the juice out of your current reality can generate the kind of fulfillment that can fortify your mental wellbeing against the monotony of the daily grind. Take a break, focus on what’s essential to you, and believe in the magic of the here and now.
Emotional Diversity: A Deep Dive into Feelings
Emotional diversity is the spice of life. The emotional depth that each and every one of us carries inside is what allows us to keep improving the reality we live in. Are you ready to dive deeper into the ocean of emotions enchanted within you?
How to Support Your Mental Health at Work
Focusing on mental health at the workplace has immense benefits for both the employee and the employer. That’s why we’d like to share several tips with you on how to support your mental health at work.
Gaining Emotional Literacy with Plutchik’s Wheel
Emotions are energy in motion. Adding depth to who we are, they enable us to taste life in all its flavors. Yet, to understand them properly and harness their power we need tools. Enter the Plutchik's wheel.
Is Changing Our Brain a Matter of Changing Our Mind?
The wiring in our brains is not fixed, it’s adaptable. We can harness the power of neuroplasticity and take responsibility for our brains by transforming our minds. It is not easy but it is worth it. Wellbeing is a skill.
Life-Changing Power of Gratitude: From Federal Prison to Enlightenment
Craig Stanland is a reinvention architect. After being sentenced to 2 years of Federal Prison and hitting his absolute rock bottom, he’s spent the past several years rebuilding himself through gratitude practice, journaling, and meditation.
Emotional Intelligence and Its Role in Relationships
The deep understanding of emotions, sensitivity to signals of emotional shifts, total engagement in a relationship, and emotional stability and life satisfaction are the main benefits of developing emotional intelligence skills.
Alone, Not Lonely: Benefits of Intentional Solitude
Intentional solitude is nothing to be fearful of. Au contraire, it’s bursting with potential and possibilities. The freedom in it may provide you with insights you’d never experience in the presence of others and enhance your relationship with yourself in more ways than one.
Intentions vs. Goals
Setting up intentions for your goals can do magic for your motivation, persistence, and your overall satisfaction in the process of achieving your goals.
How to Add More Fun to Anything You Do
The purpose of life is to enjoy it. What better way to do that if not by indulging in more fun. Do more of what makes you happy and whistle your way through what brings you less joy but needs to be done. It’s all about your attitude.
Is It Okay to Not Be Okay?
In this article, we’d like to talk about “being not okay”, with the goal of normalizing this state. We are so deeply conditioned into striving for okayness that we don’t realize we’re missing out on a lot by avoiding the state of un-okayness.
Expectations vs. Reality: Dismantling The Trap
Life is unpredictable and expectations are no guarantee. The only certainty that can live up to your expectation is the blissful freedom from it and the simplest antidote is gratitude.
How to Make Yourself and Your Mental Well-Being a Priority
To show up for your career and community, you have to show up for yourself first. In this article, we explain why emotional health is important and share some steps you can take to prioritize self-care and put mental well-being on your to-do list.
What Is Impostor Syndrome & How to Overcome It
There are certain things we can do as individuals to overcome impostor syndrom stigma and live a rather fulfilling life. But first, let’s get acquainted with the phenomenon, as it’s the first step towards overcoming it.
Understanding and Living With ADHD
We dive into this mental health condition to better understand its symptoms and the lifestyle choices that can help support those diagnosed with ADHD.
Toxic Positivity: In Defense of Negative Emotions
Toxic positivity is forced happiness. It’s the assumption that despite your difficulties and challenges you should be cheerful. But life is a package deal, it comes with both light and darkness and we need an array of emotions to accept and deal with both.
Blessings in Disguise: 7 Lessons on How to Fail Well
Not every failure leads to success, yet success is hardly possible without failure. The more we fail, the more likely we are to succeed. We’ve chosen 7 success stories to prove that defeat can lead to victory.
From Happiness to Flourishing in Five PERMAnent Steps
Flourishing is a state of sincere positivity and deep fulfillment in which our meaning is bigger than ourselves and our resilience stronger than adversity. Read on to find out how to create flourishing in your own reality.
Goodbye Apathy: Combat Symptoms of Languishing
Mental health is a spectrum and languishing, the peculiar state between depression and wellbeing, is a serious risk factor. After reading this article you'll be well equipped with solid strategies to combat your feelings of emptiness.
The Power of Daydreaming
Traditionally, having your head in the clouds was far from a compliment, but today the positive, constructive benefits of being a dreamer are becoming more prevalent. Find out more about the power of daydreaming and how to use your imagination to your advantage.
Coping with Nostalgia to Rediscover the Joy of Now
At times, we can get so deeply entangled in nostalgia that we start denying the present. We can become attached to the beauty of the past with such intensity that we feel like that kind of happiness will never happen to us again. Here's how to let go of the past
4 Tips to Cultivate Gratitude & Grow Child’s Brain with Positivity
How to raise a grateful child and nurture their positivity? Here’s what you can do as a parent, family member and a friend to nurture gratitude in the kids.
Stop Chasing Happiness and Start Enjoying Your Life
In this article, we’ll cover some of the common misconceptions about happiness and explain the difference between chasing happiness and enjoying your life.
The Effects of Perfectionism on Happiness and Success
Perfection is the absence of flaws. Perfection is a myth. Nobody and nothing can ever be truly perfect and yet so many of us fall victim to the pursuit of the impossible every chance we get.
Expansive vs. Contracted: How Our Body Makes Decisions
The process of making a decision might take anything from a split second to infinity, yet, conscious or unconscious, it’s a complex occurrence in the mind and body.
5 Ways to Start Being More Sustainable
If you’d like to put your daily choices under control, it’s time to get informed and take more sustainable and conscious actions that lead to positive changes.
How to Become a Responsible Consumer
In this article, we’ll guide you through some of the basic principles of sustainable thinking and briefly remind you of some responsible and conscious shopping practices you can implement in your everyday life.
What Is Social Intelligence and Why Should I Develop It?
Understanding social roles, reading emotions, comprehending relationships, or effective listening. These are some of the social intelligence skills. Continue reading to discover what social intelligence is and how you can reap its benefits.
Filtering Through the Noise: Useless Vs. Useful Criticism
The sooner we learn how to distinguish negative from constructive criticism, the richer our lives will become. In this article, we explain how you can do that.
Learning to Identify Who You Are
How to create our identity statement and adopt a set of values that no matter what will always guide us and help us decide which road to take? We answer some of these questions in this article.
Guiding Lights: How to Choose Your Mentors Wisely
Finding a mentor has the life-altering potential to open up a whole new chapter in your journey. Here's how you can choose your mentor.
The One-Size-Fits-All Approach To Motivation
Action creates motivation. Start simple and focus on the process rather than the goal. It will give you a sense of accomplishment that fuels motivation. With the destination in sight, it’s still all about the journey.
Align Your Own Stars: Everyday Ideas for Positive Affirmations
Life is what you make it. If you recognize the power of affirmations as a force that can build you and your reality up, you might become unstoppable. In today’s article we give you examples of different affirmations you can use to attract abundance into your life.
How to Prevent Burnout and How to Heal From It
The best way to prevent burnout is to implement a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Although you can’t always prevent stress from happening, you can choose how you prepare for it and how you react to it.
Learning to Say "No"
With blurred boundaries, we often find it hard to determine whether it’s okay to reject an offer. Is there a way to say “no” without hurting other people’s feelings? What can “no” mean in a broader sense? Let’s explore that topic further.
Free Yourself From Old Narratives and Write a New One
We live by creating stories – from our past, altered memories, false self-beliefs, or someone's expectations. How do we change our narrative? Here's how to start from a clean slate.
How to Hold Yourself Accountable
You can accomplish your goals through consistency, persistence, and motivation. That means staying in the game even when things get rough. Here's how.
The Metamorphosis: How to Get Tougher than the Tough Times
Can we prepare for anything that life throws at us? Not really. However, there are certain grounding mechanisms and strength practices that we want to share with you today to help you navigate challenging times in your life.
How to Make Stress Your Friend
It’s time to make a positive change and befriend your stress. In this article, we explain how to acquire certain skills, change your habits, and take control of how you feel about stress.
How to Draw the Line Between What You Do and Who You Are
Today the ‘border’ between our work life and our personal life is barely visible. It's time to set clear boundaries, redraw the line between who we are and what we do, and redefine our approach to our career.
Inspiration Time: New Ideas for Things to Be Grateful for
We’ve prepared a list of different categories and things you can be grateful for to assist you on your journaling experience and to guide you on your journey to appreciation, mindful living and self-growth.
6 Ways to Deal With Daily Challenges and Obstacles
This article is a framework for dealing with tough and challenging moments in life. We’ll share some useful tips and additional reading resources that will guide you towards living a happier life and having a lighter approach to daily challenges and obstacles.
The Gift of a Day Off: How to Properly Enjoy It
A single day off has the power to rebuild you, recenter you, and reconnect you with your purpose. Here’s how to spend your free time to regain mental and physical stamina you need in order to become the best version of yourself.
Emotion Management to Help You Deal with Procrastination
Procrastination is an emotional issue that needs resolution by using logic, reason, and emotional investment. In this article, we explain how.
How to Cultivate Gratitude Within a Team
We've prepared this short and straightforward team gratitude guide for all the leaders out there who’d like to make a positive change among their team.
Twilight Rituals: The Power Of A Nighttime Routine
Our evening routine is as important for our success and wellbeing as what we do with our time in the morning. In today’s article we go over the twilight rituals and self-care practices that will prepare you for a good night’s sleep.
Redefining Success
Let’s redefine success. Let’s discover various viewpoints on this universally important phenomenon, gain insights, explore different perspectives, and engage in personal growth.
How to Be Happy
How do we become happy? Where does happiness come from? What is happiness? This is the ultimate guide on how to be happy and find your source of inner balance, joy, and life satisfaction.
You Do You: How to Be Yourself and Own Your Space in the Universe
The moment you discover and accept your most authentic self, you transcend the material world. You become liberated, stripped away of the inessential, and free to fully own your life. In this article, we discuss how you can own your space in the universe.
Proaction vs Reaction: The Art of Taking Control
How often do you feel like your mood and actions depend on external circumstances? In this article, we discuss two terms – 'proaction' and 'reaction' – that influence our behaviour.
How to Find Balance in Your Life
Achieving balance begins with setting up a positive mindset and progresses to better organization and life satisfaction. In this article, we’ll share with you everything we know about finding balance in life.
Why We Sabotage Our Own Happiness
Self-sabotage is engaging in actions that ultimately get in the way of our primary intention and final goal. Continue reading to discover what are the best antidotes for stopping yourself from taking risks and living the life of your dreams.
Flaws And All: Self-Compassion For Beginners
In the event of misfortune, how do we calm our inner critic and at the same time take full responsibility for our lives? Through self-compassion.
The Power of NOW
The truest path to living a conscious and fulfilled life is to be present in the now. How does one achieve the state of presence? How to live your life to the fullest, right here, right now? Continue reading and discover how to embrace the current moment.
How to Stop Making Excuses, Complaining and Judging
Complaining, judging, and making excuses. At a glance, these seem unrelated, apart from the fact that they have destructive potential. In this article, we’re going to tackle all three of them, analyze them, explain, and see what can be done to overcome these behaviours.
12 Pathways To Getting Better At Being Good
As the best-selling author Sheryl Strayed explains, goodness is an act of being and doing. Yet, as challenging and complicated as being good might feel, simple acts of kindness have the power to guide us in the right direction. In this article, we explore different paths to getting better at being good.
Self-Growth Books: 15 Best Personal Development and Self- Improvement Books
In this article, you’ll have a chance to read a short synopsis of our favorite self-growth books on how to improve your lifestyle, find purpose and unleash your full potential.
Outdoor Therapy: Benefits of Reconnecting with Nature
Nature is crucial to our mental and physical wellbeing, and it has healing powers. We are born from the earth and we will one day turn back into it, which makes our relationship with Mother Nature of vital importance. In this article, we explore how we can care for this bond and continue to rely on it.
What Is a Fixed Mindset: How Having a Fixed Mindset Could Be Holding You Back?
In this article, we’ll focus on the opposite concept on growth mindset, the fixed mindset, and give you a new perspective on why and how this way of thinking can restrain you in life, and what are first steps to change.
How to Become More Conscious in Everyday Life
Full presence gives us more control over our lives and makes us more efficient in everyday activities. If you’re looking for ways to be more conscious and present in everyday life, here are 9 habits you can implement into your day-to-day life to live more mindfully.
The Art of Life According to Ancient Stoic Philosophers
The school of thought that is both closest to our hearts at Intelligent Change and has the most practical application of its principles is stoicism. Let's explore bits of stoic wisdom together.
13 Habits of Successful People
The road towards success is a challenging one. We talked to the successful people we know and discovered their routines and habits. Instilling some of these habits of successful people might help you remain in balance while moving closer to achieving your goals and living the life of your dreams
To The Moon And Back: Self-love For Beginners
Self-love is prioritizing your happiness and well-being in a healthy and self-compassionate manner while consciously working towards maximizing your potential to live out your dreams and lead the life of purpose. In this article, you will discover how to practice self-love.
Finding Your Purpose in Life
Do you struggle with finding your purpose in life? Here are some tips on what you can do to find or enhance your sense of purpose in life.
How to Have Your Best Year Ever: Annual Planning Practice
Reviewing your past year and creating a vision for the following year is important if you want to live the life of your dreams. In this article, we share with you tips on how you can plan your next 12 months with purpose and mindfulness.
Home Sweet Home: How to Create an Atmosphere of Gratitude
Transforming your space into a sanctuary of gratitude is not that hard of a job, although it does require an open mind and a bit of time and dedication. In this article, we share how to create an atmosphere of gratitude at your home.
10 Simple and Powerful Lessons From Famous Thought Leaders
We’ve prepared an inspirational article with simple but powerful stories and productivity quotes from famous entrepreneurs, artists and thought leaders.
How to Plan Your Day, Your Week, Your Year
Learning how to plan your day, plan your week, as well as plan your year can truly change the way you see the world. In this article, we share some best tips on how to do that.
The 1% Changes To Create Successful Habits
A step by step system for using tiny changes to create long term successful habits.
How to Embrace Change in Your Life
Although change is a normal and necessary part of human life, accepting it can be a real challenge. Still wondering how to embrace change? Here is how.
The Five Key Relationships That Will Help You Become the Best You
Relationships we have with others directly influences the level of our happiness and success. In this article, we uncover the five key relationships that will help you become the best you.
Reflective Journal: How to Write One and Prompts
Keeping a reflective journal is one of the most common ways of keeping a diary. Many people use it to write about their experiences, impressions, feelings, or doubts to gain an insight into their inner life. In this article, we give you some tips on how you can keep a reflective journal.
20 Types of Journals to Keep
In this article, we discover why it's important to be a journaler; analyze 20 types of journals that are out there; and explain how you can benefit from keeping each of them.
Four Tips on How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
Getting off social networks can be beneficial temporarily, but it won’t prevent you from feeling bad when you fall into the social comparison trap. So, what do you do then? Here are 4 steps.
Good News of the Week
Cow hugging is a new Dutch way of boosting mental health; Boston Hospital grows "food medicine" in organic farm on its roof; new sustainable initiative from Ikea, and other positive news.
What Is Growth Mindset and How to Achieve It
A growth mindset is an approach to life in which people believe that their talents, intelligence, and abilities can be developed further. Learn how to switch from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset and achieve your goals in every area of your life.
Present Day – How Social Media Detox Helps Restore Your Energy
Mimi Ikonn, partner at Intelligent Change, talks about why it is so important to practice weekly social media breaks; how screen time detox helps restore your energy and declutter your mind; and shares the first steps to take in order to connect with your inner self.
How to Create a Positive Mindset and Attitude in Life
A positive mindset is a game-changer, as it will further elevate and improve your attitude and behavior, and make you a happier person in the process.This article is all about showing you what, how, and why of achieving a positive mindset and attitude in life, so let’s get started.
The Power of List-Making
Lists go beyond the tasks to accomplish or things you need to buy. Lists are an easy and effective way to reconnect with how you feel about what’s going on in your life, understand what truly matters, determine where you’d like to go next. Here are some ideas for list-making.
The Power of Affirmations
The goal of this article is to teach you about positive affirmations and help you turn those self-doubts and negative thoughts into inspiring daily affirmations.
Your Mess Is Your Message
Cathy Heller is the author of Don't Keep Your Day Job sharing wisdom, anecdotes, and practical suggestions from successful creative entrepreneurs and experts. In this post, she details heartbreaking losses and failures of her and others, and yet, still finding success.
How to Navigate Change
Here is an excerpt from Neil Pasricha's new book: You Are Awesome. It's a heartfelt book on cultivating resilience, spending your time more wisely, and becoming a happier human.
Best of 2018 Intelligent Tuesday
The best of 2018 Intelligent Tuesday happiness, productivity, and mindfulness tips from the year.
Elimination Planning: 5 Questions To Improve Your Productivity
The 5-Step Process to helping you become more productive by eliminating what makes you unproductive.
9 Conventional (and Not So Conventional) Mindfulness Techniques of Top Performers
9 conventional and unconventional mindfulness techniques used by top performers in their field from CEOs, authors, artists, and more with descriptions of each.
Best of 2017 Intelligent Tuesday
The best of 2017 Intelligent Tuesday resources on happiness, productivity, fulfillment and more as decided by our 100,000 readers and personal favorites.
6 Findings After Researching 1,000 Self-Help Articles the Last 6 Months
After researching 1,000s of self-help resources, here are 6 key findings.
Intelligent Tuesday: Best of 2019
The best resources on joy, productivity, and self-fulfillment that has enhanced our lives in 2019.
How to set more effective personal goals
Use the habit building buffer zone to set more effective personal goals. Here's how.
It’s Not About Passion, It’s About Your Purpose in Life
Enter Ryan Holiday, best-selling author of the Obstacle is the Way and former marketing director for American Apparel, to talk about why following your purpose in life is much better than passion
Two Awesome Hours by Josh Davis Book Notes
Book notes from the book, "Two Awesome Hours: Science-Based Strategies to Harness Your Best Time and Get Your Most Important Work Done" by Josh Davis
