habits
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Achieve A Personal Goal Before Letting Yourself Make A Big Purchase
We’ve all set up reward systems for ourselves. Maybe we tell ourselves that we can order a pizza if we spend all day cleaning the house, or maybe we tell ourselves that once we finish this task at work, we can spend a few minutes checking social media. (And then if we find ourselves checking…
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Learn To Love Any Food With These Strategies
1Certain food aversions are very inconvenient when you’re out in the world. Writer Amanda Mull, for example, wishes she didn’t hate cucumbers. So she talked to dietitian and therapist Ellyn Satter.
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Go Ahead And Break Your Streak
We’ve tried lots of techniques over the years to solidify a new habit. Tying up your ego in a daily streak is just one of those, and it’s not for everybody. And yet it seems every app wants you to care deeply about keeping up a consistent streak. Screw that. It’s OK to break your…
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Jumpstart Your Solo Meditation With A One-Shot Class
Photo by Be Time I’ve meditated maybe four times in my life: once on a couch in therapy, once on a bench in Central Park, once in bed trying to sleep. I’m one of those people who’s been saying “I should really try meditation” for years. And maybe I will, after meditating for the fourth…