Enjoy this week’s curated round-up of articles, podcasts, and more from the web to help you live a healthier, happier life.
Just For Fun:
Featured Thoughts:
Stop Letting Free Food Ruin Your Diet—Here’s How
Takeaway: This is one of my favorite psychology hacks to reduce temptations around free food.
I call it the “Assignment Strategy.”
In using this strategy, you leverage existing societal norms to immediately reduce cravings and the drive to mindlessly eat free food that might be offered at work, parties, or elsewhere.
Published This Week:
Why Food Logging Feels Like A Hassle (And How To Make It Work For You)
Takeaway: Food logging may feel like a hassle, but it saves you from the stress and guesswork of trying to manage your nutrition blindly. By logging meals in real-time, pre-logging, and using shortcuts, you can make tracking easier and more consistent.
Read the full article for all the tips you need to make your food logging habit stick.
40 Unconventional Life Success Tips
Takeaway: I love reading lists like this because it almost always leads to come self-reflection. Also, as many of you know I’ve been building my own personal list of life rules since I was 16, so I enjoy seeing what other people value.
Here are a few of my faves:
Don’t expect anyone to make the first move. Never wait. Go out and create what you want, even if it feels a little icky.
Caring too much about what others think will hold you back til the grave — Unless you learn to let go of the false belief that other people are a threat to your self-esteem.
You will be perpetually miserable when you expect others to treat you right. Forget yourself and turn your focus on making others happy. You’ll get so much more satisfaction that way. Too many of us are lost, waiting for approval, love and respect. Forget that sh*t. Go out and give it. When you do, you may just find love coming your way anyway.
Pique Your Curiosity:
An Anthropologist Explains How Has Our Definition of “Work” Has Evolved With Civilization [Video]
Takeaway: From sustenance to self-actualization. This nine minute video is quite interesting!
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