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June 26, 2025
Is your Body Clock Out of Whack?
Do you wake up feeling tired and groggy even though you’ve had a full night’s sleep? Your internal body clock / circadian rhythm might not be working properly. The circadian rhythm regulates your level of sleepiness or wakefulness throughout the day. When it’s working properly, you should wake up feeling energized and ready to conquer the world! An out-of-whack body clock doesn’t just make you tired. It also disrupts your brain’s wave patterns, hormone production, and cell regulation. This disruption has been linked to depression, obesity, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Thankfully, it is possible to reset your circadian rhythm as long as you can figure out what is throwing it off. Do you have a regular sleep schedule? Do you go to bed and get up at around the same time every day? An erratic sleep schedule throws off your body clock. If you want to wake up feeling refreshed, you need to pick a bedtime and a wake-up time. Don’t just go to bed whenever you feel like it. Having a fixed bedtime also helps you wind down. You might not always go to bed on time, but the realization that it’s “past your bedtime” helps you to relax and get ready for bed. Do you wind down before bed? How do you prepare for bed? If you work or watch TV up until the minute you fall asleep, your brain doesn’t get a chance to wind down. To sleep better, you need to find a way to let…
5 Ways to Simplify Your Life In 2023
William James said, “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” Let’s resolve to be wiser in 2023 by letting go of everything we can that doesn’t add meaning to our lives. Let our motto be, simplify, simplify, simplify! Trying to keep up with everything is exhausting and wastes time….
Learn More7 Tips For Making The Most Of Your Mistakes
Eleanor Roosevelt said, “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” Everyone makes mistakes. But only a fool keeps repeating the same ones. It’s not that we make mistakes that matters but what we do about them. Mistakes can either break us or build us; block our…
Learn MoreEnjoy A Quiet, Peaceful, And Cozy Holiday
Some places on earth are known for their long, cold winters. Denmark is one of those places with cool summers and notoriously long, dark winters. Hygge-Living After a while, living in icy darkness wears on a person. Maybe that’s why the Danish people are known for a concept called Hygge living (pronounced Hue-gah). Hygge is…
Learn MoreLead & Inspire With Kindness
When was the last time someone was kind to you? There’s an old saying that says, “Kindness is contagious.” Being kind and doing kind things light up the brain’s pleasure centers for the person being kind and the recipient. Kindness triggers the brain to release serotonin and oxytocin. Serotonin makes you feel happier, and oxytocin…
Learn MoreGive Someone A Cozy-Feeling Christmas
John Bunyan wrote, “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” The holiday season is here, and along with it, gift-giving. As lovely as it is to receive a gift, most people say they gain more pleasure from giving gifts than getting them. What better time…
Learn More5 Ways To Cope With Holiday Grief And Sadness
C.S. Lewis, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, describes his grief and sadness after the passing of his wife in his book, A Grief Observed, “Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.” Loss, sadness, and grief affect every part of life and can leave you feeling hollow and empty. The holiday season…
Learn MoreTo Be Thankful, Or, To Be Grateful?
We hear the words “gratitude” and “thanksgiving” so much that I wonder if they’ve become little more than self-help platitudes and warm-sounding seasonal cliches. Have we lost a meaningful appreciation for the true spirit of thankfulness and gratitude? And what do they really mean anyway, aren’t they the same thing? Emotion And Attitude Gratitude comes…
Learn MoreThe Art of Patience
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “To lose patience is to lose the battle.” Dictionary.com defines patience as “the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.” That’s a tall order. Doesn’t it seem like a tidal wave of frustration, irritability, and impatience is…
Learn More5 Ways To Endure Life’s Trying Times
Everybody has “stuff” to deal with. For some, it might be money worries, relationship problems, parenting challenges, etc. You name it; everyone is going through something. Life isn’t easy. Imagine how life would be if we were more patient, gracious, understanding, and kind, and much less critical and judgmental because we’re in this together; everybody…
Learn More8 Ways to Fight Uncertainty & Fear With Gratitude
Have your levels of worry, stress, and sadness been rising? If so, you’re not alone. Negative feelings have been rising since 2011, and, according to Julie Ray, managing editor for world news at Gallup, 2021 the data reveals people are now experiencing more negative experiences and less joy. According to an NBC news poll earlier this year, 87% of people said…
Learn MoreFive Ways To Be More (Socially) Responsible
“A person is called selfish, not for pursuing his or her own good, but for neglecting his or her neighbor’s.” — Richard Whately. It might seem silly to talk about “social responsibility” in an era of narcissism, blame, and irresponsibility. But the Golden Rule still matters: “Treat others how you want to be treated.” How…
Learn More9 Tips To Stretch Your Grocery-Shopping Dollars
Eighty-two percent of Americans are cutting back on groceries because of higher food prices due to inflation. Although food frugality is seen across all income brackets, Gen Xers are the most likely to buy fewer items as they are among the hardest hit in the current economic climate. People are increasingly concerned that their food will…
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