Lucky for you, there is a middle ground. You don’t have to change your nature to have the friends you want. The Key Is Efficiency Because many of you are introverts, I will only share techniques that produce great results with little effort. So, how do you become efficient in your socializing efforts? You focus on habits and automation, instead of motivation and effort. Here are two life hacks to get you started....

A study by the Pew Research Center found that Americans read an average of 12 books per year.[1] Keep in mind that the average in this case is the sum of all the books read divided by the number of readers in the study. The mean inflates the data because it includes information from a subset of voracious readers. The median number of books that Americans reported reading was 4....

The best part is, you will be working for yourself and not contributing to some big corporation. Before you can start your own business, there are a lot of things that need to be considered, including the benefits of being your own boss and how to succeed as an entrepreneur. Benefits of Being Your Own Boss When one thinks about being their own boss, one of the first things that comes to mind is the freedom they will have to set their own hours and work with no one hovering over their shoulder all the time....

Believe it or not, you have a choice about how to feel. You CAN control your emotions. Here is a plan on how to start. 1. Cultivate the practice of mindfulness into your daily life. To be mindful means to be aware of what you are experiencing in a given moment. In having this awareness, you are conscious of what you are doing, what is happening around you, and who is in front of you....

Here, The Art Of Manliness have teamed up with Combatant Gentleman – which “offers high-quality men’s essentials at prices any guy can afford” – to show us how a slim fit suit should fit! How A Suit Should Fit | The Art Of Manliness Featured photo credit: How A Suit Should Fit | The Art Of Manliness via youtube.com

When we were still children, our thoughts seemed to be purely positive. Have you ever been around a 4-year old who doesn’t like a painting he or she drew? I haven’t. Instead, I see glee, exciting and pride in children’s eyes. But as the years go by, we clutter our mind with doubts, fears and self-deprecating thoughts. Just imagine then, how much we limit ourselves in every aspect of our lives if we give negative thoughts too much power!...

If you want to alter your way of thinking so that you think like a good lawyer, check out the 6 steps below. 1. Be able to see both sides of the argument Some people think it is insincere to be able to see both sides of the argument, but it doesn’t mean that lawyers don’t have a side. It simply means they understand that both sides may have valid points....

About The decision to host a holiday get-together means determining whether or not to throw a theme party, what time of day or night to have the event, menu creation, number of guests and everything else that makes up a fun holiday gathering. Since you’re hosting a Christmas party, you don’t have to worry too much about a theme, as your home is likely decorated for the season anyway! However, you will have to decide whether or not you want to throw a formal or informal dinner, hold a pollyanna or Yankee swap, and more....

Go to all of the tourist places, and Live like the locals. Each has its own pros and cons but the local lifestyle may give you that vacation you have always desired. Let’s break it down to see what each option has to offer. 1. The tourist. You have to see every monument, museum, and park. If it’s marked on a map, you will be there. You are also first in line to get a ticket for the double-decker sightseeing bus....

You feverishly tap CTRL + z (or Command + z for you Mac aficionados) and come to find that your favorite “no frills” text editor has lost your undo history or you aren’t quite sure where you want to go back to. Good for more than just development Git is a piece of software that allows the user to control the versions of files in a directory. It allows the user to ‘commit’ a snapshot of any directory to a ‘repository’ that tracks all of the changes between versions of the files....

While certain things can’t be helped (e.g. new company software, new compliance laws, etc.), there are reasons you might want to take a different approach if it’s necessary to change employee behavior. Sales employees can benefit from small, well-defined resolutions as a means of strengthening performance and company revenue rather than blanket procedural changes. What is a microresolution? A microresolution is an achievable behavior change that employees can use to improve their day....

Move the Alarm Clock If you have your alarm beside your bed within easy reach, the temptation will be to stretch out and either switch it off or hit the snooze button. By placing it on the other side of the room, you will have to get out of bed to turn it off. Once you are out of bed, it’s easy to stay up and get going with your day....

That being said, have you ever stopped to think about why all these people fail to get in shape? Sure, there are some who are lazy, some with legitimate medical issues, and the readily available cheap junk food doesn’t help, but I think there is something more to it. People are pressed for time, scared, and confused. Yep, it’s as simple as that. Most people either can’t make it to the gym, don’t have a lot of money to drop on long-term membership fees, don’t feel comfortable exercising around others, or they simply don’t even know what to do when they do get to the gym....

In these days of email and instant messaging, letter writing is becoming a lost art, and especially the formal letter. I’m pretty sure that formal letter rules are still taught in schools, but very little of it sticks. If you’re an executive or other high-ranking person within an organization, you can probably rely on your secretary or assistant to handle the niceties of letter writing, but for everyone else, knowing how to write a strong letter ourselves is important....

You write what you read. Stop reading the same meaningless, repetitive writing everyone else reads. Quality of output directly correlates to quality of input. Avoid balanced views. When forming an opinion, it is necessary to consider the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives and select the most correct. Style is king. The hearts and minds of readers are won, not by judicious argument, but by force of personality. Unleash your noble scorn....

There are so many things that you can learn from the road, life lessons that nobody can teach you unless you experience them yourself. Traveling is actually an open invitation that urges you to be the best version of yourself you can be. It plays an important role not only in your personal development but can make a great impact on your career journey too. Some people don’t understand the constant need to pack up and head to different places and gain experiences....

Thanks Sean! 16 oz./240 calories Touts: Vitamins B-2, B-3, B-5, B-6, B-12, and C, caffeine, taurine, guarana, inositol, milk thistle. Claims: “Party like a rockstar.” Warns: “Not recommended for children or those sensitive to caffeine.” Tastes: Pleasantly metallic. Like a cross between Coke and pennies. Effects: I drink a can while on deadline. I’m keenly focused, and I’m typing sentences almost too quickly, spitting them out before I finish evaluating them in my head....

As baby Sophia had spent the entirety of her short life in hospital before succumbing to hepatic hemangioma in her liver before a transplant could occur, her parents had no photos of her without medical tubes. So Nathan decided to ask for help on Reddit. He requested that somebody, just one person, photoshop the medical equipment out of this photo of his daughter: “At first there was so many responses I couldn’t even keep up reading them....

1. We aren’t trying to drive you crazy There will be days when we’ve asked you a million times if we just said or did something embarrassing, if our outfit looks bad, or if we look fat. We promise it is not to drive you crazy. How nervous we are about how we appear to others has a lot to do with how insecure we are feeling for the day. If we ask you a million times how we look or if we did something embarrassing, it’s not to drive you crazy- it’s because we’re scared we’re not living up to what we want to be....

You can lift up your mood and feel happier in a matter of minutes just by using those three mentioned earlier. You can do this through the help of dandy music; numerous studies have proven time and again that uptempo music can cheer people up. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Latin, Reggae, or any other genre of music as long as it’s the upbeat kind. What else can you do to have a cheerier disposition?...