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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.
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.
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.
How to Stay Mindful During an Argument
Through the practice of mindfulness, gratitude, and a growth mindset, anyone can move forward from their basic instincts to controlled reactions and wise approach to handling disagreements.
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 Gratitude Night Routine
With the new colors of The Five Minute Journal, we updated the Night Routine layout to provide you with a fresh and even more rewarding gratitude journaling experience.
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.
Breakups: A Powerful Opportunity to Reinvent Yourself
Breakups can be painful, yet coming out such pain and loss offers a powerful opportunity to reinvent yourself and take your life to new levels. Here we look at expert tips on dealing with the grieving that occurs in the early stages of a breakup and how to reemerge stronger than ever.
Debunking the Myth of Laziness
Is anything less than working your fingers to the bone laziness? Of course not. And yet, the hustle culture has accepted this myth as a sacred truth. Your work is a bicycle, you can only ride it on two wheels – one of them is the grind, the other is rest.
How to Take Your Work Outside
Expanding your office outdoor does take some investment, such as working gear and outdoor furniture, however, spending time outdoors and reconnecting with nature is both healthy and gratifying. Here are some useful tips.
Shifting from Work-Life to Life-Work Balance
Don’t be afraid to take that time for yourself––it’s absolutely crucial that you do so. Become more proactive when it comes to making yourself a priority, taking the initiative to regain balance, and do your best to make your dream life a reality.
Dealing with Return-to-Office Anxiety
Any transition will evoke some feelings of resistance and anxiety. Here, we look at practical tips to combat the anxiety surrounding lifestyle changes, like returning to the office and doing business in-person, and share tips that will make the transition work for you.
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.
How to Create Your Own Spiritual Practice
Spirituality is such an abstract concept, loaded with unknowns and big question marks. But it's also a big part of living a conscious lifestyle. Here, we share an individual experience to help inspire you to create your own.
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.
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.
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.
Why You Need Friends of Different Ages
Having friends of different ages and backgrounds can help you expand your horizons, become more empathetic and well-rounded. In this piece, we dive deep into the topic of friendship and discuss how to draw in friends who will enrich your life—irrespective of age group or social stereotypes.
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.
Productivity Planner & Its Role in Keeping You on Track During Hardship
Once the difficult times are behind us, we come to realize how hard it is to gain our life’s rhythm back. Let’s see what The Productivity Planner has to offer when it comes to staying on track despite the personal crisis.
Stop Being Productive All The Time
Today, we want to present you with a different point of view, one that advocates to stop focusing on productivity all the time and commit time to you instead.
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.
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.
Routines and Their Benefits
Life is a series of routines: they help us function against the chaos of the world and of our minds. They give us extra control and discipline.They bring wellness, harmony and structure into our everyday life.
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.
How to Write a Gratitude Letter to a Friend or a Loved One
Writing a gratitude letter is by far one of the best ways you can surprise someone dear to you. Here are some tips on how to compose a "thank you" letter.
8 Pillars of a Strong Relationship
Here's a list of eight strong relationships pillars. Take some time to assess the strong sides of your partnership first. What is there to admire? What makes you proud about your relationship?
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.
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.
Nurturing Emotional Wellbeing of the Whole Family
Maintaining good family mental health can be done through spending meaningful time together, building family routines, and implementing mindful activities. We’ve prepared a few tips and ideas on how to nurture your family’s emotional well-being.
Creating Gratitude Family Rituals
Implementing the practice of gratitude into your family routine is an excellent way to gear young minds into a state of greater positivity and teach them to cherish and value the things they have.
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.
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.
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.
How to Spend Quality Time with Your Loved Ones
Moments of joy and quality time spent together as a family is what helps us nurture our relationship and deepen our bond. Here’s a list of simple, engaging and mindful activities that facilitate spending quality time with your family.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Be More Productive with Time Blocking
Raising your productivity levels is a process, it doesn’t happen overnight. The time blocking method is an extraordinary tool, but using it requires you to know what you’re doing and why.
Guide to Becoming a Morning Person
Our brains love routines. Here's a step-by-step guide of what you can do in the evening to prepare yourself for a good night sleep.
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.
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.
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.
What is The Focus Time Technique and How to Make It Work for You
The Focus Time technique is one of the simplest time-management methods that could change your life completely: it allows you to work uninterruptedly on a task in 30-minute increments, and then have a mindful five-minute break. Learn more why this technique works.
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.
Choose Gratitude Free Phone Wallpapers
Put your positive vision and affirmations on display with this beautifully designed set of free phone wallpapers. Let the words that motivate us motivate you, too. Keep your phone looking chic, sophisticated and inspiring.
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.
Productivity vs Focus
In this article, we discuss productivity versus focus and answer some of this topic’s most important questions: why do we get distracted and how to enter the focus flow.
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.
Good News of the Week
Students open free grocery store to help Texas families in need; Massachusetts man creates card game to celebrate Black history and culture; and other positive news of the week.
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.
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.
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.
Good News of the Week
A 10-year-old boy cleans snow off cars of hospital workers to say thank you; and other positive news of the week.
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.
Good News of the Week
Virginia neighbors found a way to show UPS driver how much he is appreciated, and other positive news of the week.
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.
Getting Things Done Even When You Don’t Feel Like It: A Simple Guide
We’ve all experienced those days when rolling out of bed and getting things done seem like an impossible mission. As much as we love our jobs, it’s challenging to be productive and motivated all the time. Here are a few simple tips to help you get started.
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.
Good News of the Week
A woman celebrated her 53rd birthday with 53 acts of kindness; artist from California creates portraits of essential workers; and other good news of the week.
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
Good News of The Week
In the first week of 2021, hundreds of locals in Indonesia have helped to clear 110 tons of plastic off four beaches, and other positive news of the week.
Good News of the Week
A Colombian man opens a free community library after collecting books that were thrown away for 20 years; and other good news of the week.
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.
Good News of the Week
WWII veteran made hundreds of wooden toys to give away to kids; and other positive news of the week.
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.
How to Set Achievable Goals: Step by Step Guide
The metric of your success is you and your achievable goal-list. In this article, we share with you step by step guide to setting relevant, achievable and smart goals.
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.
The 1% Changes To Create Successful Habits
A step by step system for using tiny changes to create long term successful habits.
Good News of The Week
Sprout, a Danish company, launches biodegradable pencils you can grow trees and plants from; and other good news of the week.
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.
The Good News of the Week
After recovering from COVID-19, patient finds and thanks all 116 health-care workers who saved his life, and other good news of the week.
The Art of Interesting Small Talk: 5 Actionable Tips
Vanessa Van Edwards shares 5 actionable tips to take small talk feel like a chore to engaging and enjoyable.
Steal This Simple Tip For a Happy Relationship
Do you make this "mistake" as you first walk in the door? Here is one simple tip for a happy relationship.
Good News of the Week
A woman reunites with 1st grade teacher who taught her to speak English 40 years ago, and other uplifting news of the week.
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.
How You Can Spread Joy This Holiday
This holiday season may differ from last year’s, yet we believe it can be even more empowering, meaningful and mindful. Here are some ideas how you can spread joy.
Why Gratitude Is Important in Business
Practicing gratitude at work makes us happier, more connected to others, and enhances the sense of belonging and respect at work. Here is a list of tips and activities that can help you implement gratitude at the workplace.
Good News of the Week
12-year-old Tommy Rhomberg helps victims rebuild from the massive derecho storm that hit Iowa in August by making baseball bats all by himself, and other good news of the week.
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.
Good News of the Week
Special Olympian Chris Nikic becomes first person with Down's syndrome to complete Ironman triathlon, offering lessons in perseverance and hope; and other positive news of the week.
20 Productive Things to Do When You’re Bored
In this article, we’ll give you 20 suggestions on what to do when you get bored and want to turn that low tide into a high tide. Whether you’re experiencing boredom at home or at work, we believe there’s something here for everyone.
Eight Habits of Highly Productive People
It may seem that success is more about fixed traits like intelligence, personality, or the background you were born in, the reality is quite different. It’s all about building productive habits. In this article, we share 8 of them.
Good News of The Week
In a world first, a Swedish brand Felix opened a grocery store where products are priced on their climate impact; and other good news of the week.
Good News of the Week
The Strand bookstore in New York was saved from closure by its devoted customers and book lovers; a man donates collection of 25,000 baseball cards to 9-year-old who lost all hers in wildfire; and other positive news of the week.
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.
Practicing gratitude as a couple
If you feel like your relationship is going through a rough patch, or you’d simply like to further strengthen your bond, improve communication, and implement a positive change, consider starting a new healthy habit–practicing gratitude as a couple.
Good News of the Week
A 7-year-old-boy makes his life all about positive energy and opens a huge food pantry; Kevin Hart hosted MDA Telethon and raised $10.5 million; and other positive news of the week.
10 Benefits of Gratitude
Imagine waking up and falling asleep with positive thoughts every single day. Sounds awesome, right? In this article, we explain and share the science-backed benefits of gratitude.
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.
10 Productivity Hacks
Having trouble maintaining your productivity levels? We got you. Here is a list of 10 life-changing productivity hacks. We suggest that you take it slowly: one hack at a time.
Morning Routine to Boost Productivity
We’ve prepared a list of productivity morning routine tips to help you get the best out of the brightest part of the day.
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.
How to Stay Focused and Work Uninterruptedly
This article is applicable to any working and studying environment, and it offers a list of advice on how to stay focused and reach a whole new productivity level.
Good News of The Week
Doctors can now prescribe time in nature to help fight anxiety; Greek athlete carried disabled woman to the highest peak of Olympus, and other upbeat news of the week.
Benefits of Journaling: The Science and Philosophy Behind Keeping a Diary
Why should you keep a journal? What are the benefits of journaling? In this article, we guide you through journaling benefits for mental health, well-being and happiness in all areas of your life.
How to Be More Mindful at Your Work Desk
Is there a way to keep the enthusiasm and feel happy at the workplace in times like these? Of course–the answer is mindfulness. If you’d like to learn how to be mindful at your desk, prioritize your mental health and maintain emotional well-being at work, continue reading this article.
Good News of the Week
New studies showed how gratitude to strangers can enhance our happiness and well-being; for the first time in the 173-year history, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) gave a gold medal to a black architect; and more 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.
Best Time Management Tips
Would you like to become the person who gets more things done in a day? If the answer is yes, you could probably use some good time management tips we cover in this article.
The Ultimate Gratitude Journal Guide
A step by step actionable guide to why and how to keep a gratitude journal.
5 Screen-Free Activities to Create Meaningful Rituals with Children
Family rituals are emotionally meaningful experiences that enhance a sense of belonging and strengthen family-child bonds. Below are 5 activities to do with children, designed to build simple but profound rituals and preserve heart-warming memories for years to come.
A Simple Gratitude Scavenger Hunt for Kids
Download our free, simple and fun scavenger hunt that is designed to focus young minds on good things in their lives, fostering gratitude and creating memories.
Building sustainable future together
This unprecedented time and the current crisis is a defining moment for all of us to build a more resilient and sustainable future. The future of real, positive changes based on fundamental principles of human rights, equality and sustainability.
How Tim Ferriss Uses The Five Minute Journal - 6 Tips For New Journalers
Tim Ferriss, The New York Times best-selling author, admits that taking notes and journaling are two activities that help brainstorm, focus and reduce anxiety. In this article, we reveal 6 ways of how Tim Ferriss does his gratitude journal to gain focus and appreciation.
Our Response to Coronavirus Outbreak
The COVID-19 pandemic has left no human being or business untouched. At the same time, we believe this is an incredible opportunity for all of us to show up and lend a helping hand to those in need.
A Free Guide To Introducing Growth Mindset Concepts To Children
If you're a teacher looking to teach your students gratitude, positivity, and how to use their mind as a tool—this Teacher's Kit will guide you through the lessons, activities, and questions to ask your students.
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.
4 Wiser Questions to Become a Productivity Superstar (for you)
4 "Better" productivity questions to help you save years of agony, false expectations, and a healthier concept of self-worth.
6 “Lazy” Productivity Examples with Great Results
Use these 6 examples to be highly productive on limited time.
11 Celebrity Five Minute Journalers
11 Celebrity Five Minute Journalers from Tim Ferriss to Emma Watson and More.
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.
The REAL reason why you procrastinate
If you’ve ever charted a course toward a goal and quickly gave up, odds are you have an immunity to change. These 4 questions help you overcome procrastination.
The Five Minute Journal Questions
Here are the 5 questions contained within The Five Minute Journal and how you can use them to become happier
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.
1% Gains for How to Increase Productivity: The Ultimate Guide
A complete guide to tiny productivity gains that will help you beat procrastination and become more effective.
The Hidden Reasons Why You Procrastinate and How to Stop
A step by step process for stopping procrastinating and propelling yourself into action. Includes bonus PDF guide.
Use This 7-Column Goals Planner gSheet to Achieve Your Passions
This goals planner spreadsheet will turn your personal goals into tangible, clear next action steps. Get the Spreadsheet Template inside.
How do you complete a three-month project in one day? Parkinson's Law
How do you complete a 3-month project in one day? How do you cut meeting times in half. Hint: Parkinson's Law.
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.
The 4-step time management audit to achieve any goal
A step by step guide for auditing your time management and how you can identify gaps in your schedule to achieve any goal.
Intelligent Tuesday: Best of 2019
The best resources on joy, productivity, and self-fulfillment that has enhanced our lives in 2019.
Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done Book Notes
Jon Acuff’s book Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done is one of the great productivity books we’ve read. Here are book notes we compiled to be actionable for starting and sticking with a goal.
4 Ways to keep a gratitude journal practice fresh and useful [PDF]
4 Actionable tips to keep a gratitude journal fresh and useful.
How to make your goals in life suck less
Your goals in life and habits can quickly become routine and stale. Here is how you keep them fresh.
How to set more effective personal goals
Use the habit building buffer zone to set more effective personal goals. Here's how.
How to REALLY do The Five Minute Journal
Actionable tips on how to get the most out of The Five Minute Journal
Is Masculine or Feminine Energy Your Strength?
Use this post to identify your masculine or feminine energy and how you can harness it to your advantage.
How to Stop Procrastinating and Become More Productive
What if you could solve your procrastination issue today? Use these actionable tips for how you can stop procrastinating and get into action.
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
The power of keeping a daily morning routine [VIDEO]
What does the first hour of your day look like? Do you have a powerful morning routine that sets your day up for success?
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
