At first, the video is just funny and silly, but when you think about why this role reversal makes you laugh, you’ll realize just how deeply misogyny is ingrained in our ways of thinking. The first step to changing our mindset is becoming aware of it, so funny videos like this may do more than you realize. Before you know it, you could be recognizing sexism in places you never saw it before....

The struggle with PCOS Women who reached the child-bearing age are most prone to suffer from PCOS, which increases infertility. Other symptoms of this condition are menstrual issues, acne, excessive hair growth and weight gain. Depending on the severity of the ailment, you may have one or multiple symptoms. In many cases, PCOS is associated with other health issues, which makes it hard for doctors to diagnose it properly. As a result, there are many women out there who don’t know they suffer from PCOS until they want to get pregnant or they deal with other problems caused by one of the PCOS symptoms....

Congratulations you are pregnant! However, chances are you might not even know it yet. The first two weeks consist of ovulation, which means there is no baby yet. It isn’t until the third week where conception takes place. Hello sperm, meet egg. Once fertilized, the egg will then divide and divide into what will appear as a ball of cells called a blastocyst. The blastocyst begins its journey from your fallopian tubes down to your uterus, it’s new home for the next nine months....

Finding where your motivations lie for a particular task or goal makes you understand your reasons for succeeding. If your motivation is money, then develop a scheme that affects your bankroll. If you’re trying to quit something, make sure you punish yourself monetarily for any lapses. If you’re motivated by recognition, then each attempt you make at getting your name out will be a small success in itself, building towards your larger goal....

The Art of True Authenticity and Sincerity The advice to be yourself isn’t about manipulation, as well as showing your true thoughts and personality at the right times, while taking into consideration and respecting others. It’s a fine balance of keeping your authenticity and using it in an appropriate manner. Authenticity is all about our ability to be self-aware. It’s about knowing who we truly are, as well as knowing our values, emotions, and our competencies....

Even though parents encourage their children to take up a musical instrument, they never really treat music as important as other subjects. The benefits of learning maths and languages have always been greater than music in parents’ eyes, or even in children’s eyes as they grow up. So grown-ups just quit playing music. An even more common phenomenon is that, as people grow up, they put off playing music as it doesn’t serve any concrete purpose in their hectic life in which work, vacation, friends and family times are of higher priority....

Text Version Of Why Online Music Lessons – Top 10 Reasons Online Music Lessons have come a long way in the past decade. Online lessons would be blurry with low quality sound, delayed, unreliable and overall it was just hard to see and hear the instructor / student. Now that technology has caught up the sky is the limit. 1. The Culture With online music lessons it’s very easy to share cultural ideas, music and ideologies....

I spent much of January, 2011 in Costa Rica on a study abroad trip. I returned with many vivid memories, such as staring into a volcano, hiking down hundreds of stone steps to a stunning waterfall, zip lining through misty clouds above a breathtaking rain forest, and eating dinner at a cliff-side restaurant overlooking a starlit valley. But perhaps my favorite memory, the one I miss the most, is the moment I locked my cell phone in the hotel safe—where it lurked for the rest of the trip....

Yet two years later I quit my job. Everyone around me couldn’t understand why after all my hard work and dedication. I was going places on a fast track to bigger and bigger success. But I decided to quit despite all this and a while later, I found Lifehack. The True Courage Behind Quitting Quitting isn’t all about giving up when it feels like you’re failing. Quitting in the face of potential success is one of the most courageous things you can do....

However, the types of goals we set have a huge influence on whether or not they allow us to become happier in ourselves. It comes down to two types of goals – extrinsic and intrinsic. Extrinsic goals relate to external influences such as money, fame, status or anything that requires validation from others. Intrinsic goals relate to yourself; your personal growth, health and relationships with yourself and others. While we would all like to be rich and admired, having these as our sole motivators does nothing for our subjective well-being and happiness in the long-run unless it happens to be an added outcome to your intrinsic goal....

In the next scenario we have Kim. She walks into the room to give a talk and the same thing happens — everyone stares. Kim feels a little nervous but tells herself she’s prepared and ready to do this. She see’s the ladies in the front row whispering but pays them no mind. Kim has done a lot of personal work to get where she is today. Her husband left her but she picked herself up, went back to school, did some counselling, and is making the most of her life now....

In his presentation entitled The Innovation of Loneliness, graphic designer Shimi Cohen says that part of the problem is the fact that we are “expecting more from technology and less from each other.” In this “focused and minimized” 2-D animation Cohen identifies the factors that drive us to social networking and the unfortunate consequences: We can put our attention where we want it to be We will always be heard We will never be alone It may feel as though we are making friends, but we’re actually making ourselves lonelier....

1. You’ll never really be alone Everyone else is solo travelling too, and you’ll find a whole dorm room of people jumping at the chance to book a tour together, to go for a drink, to play Uno. The real challenge will be finding a moment to yourself. 2. You’ll discover more When you go for those walks around a brand new town and stumble upon that cheap local restaurant with the best pho in town, or that hidden staircase up a mountain side just before sunset, you’ll be glad that a hungover friend or a distracting conversation didn’t stop you from finding it....

Depending on what kind of company you keep, mixing bottles of wines may be the worst possible pastime. Those who pride themselves on knowing a good wine will no doubt throw their nose up at the idea of a wine mash-up, but the rest of us love the idea of learning more while having a little fun. My new favorite site, BuzzFeed, put together a little collection of articles about the process, the good and bad of mixing wines....

Complete with great illustrations and step-by-step, author Tim Ziegler helps take some of the chill off your fear of mucking with this incredibly versatile and powerful blog writing software. Get Your Feet Wet with WordPress – [Webmonkey]

Worse yet, many people who use improper form are going to be set themselves up for injuries, which is yet another reason why maintaining perfect form is a must. All it takes is moving out of alignment just slightly for severe pain to become a problem. To help you make sure you are using nothing but the best of form, let’s go over a few common mistakes that you should be avoiding as you perform these popular workouts....

How to Stay Motivated and On-Track When You’re Struggling

Being alone, not having someone to share your worries and hopes with, makes you feel a certain kind of emptiness. It’s actually natural for your body to make you feel that way: our physiology is designed to push us to go and socialize, and stay CLOSE to people. In this article, I’m going to share with you how to deal with loneliness, and start meeting the kind of friends that you need....

Beware…the pictures are far too cute. I hope your hearts don’t melt away like chocolate bars. 1. Lovable Piggy With The Sleepy Tiger These adorable creatures are snuggling with one another. The tiger lays asleep while the piggy lies awake snuggling up with the tiger. Such a cute scenario! 2. The Baby Chick With The Naughty Squirrel Here we have two love birds….ironic how one actually is a bird. The squirrel seems to be in love with the chick…who is all smitten in love....

The Harvard-trained happiness researcher and New York Times best-selling author of The Happiness Advantage Shawn Achor recommends a morning ritual that will increase your positivity levels and give you a happiness advantage. What is the Happiness Advantage? When you raise your positivity level, your brain feels happier. A happier brain, drunk on positivity, is better equipped to handle stress as well as everyday situations. This is true simply because the brain becomes more intelligent with a dose of positivity....