Teens and Peer Pressure: How to Protect Your Child from Bad Influences

By |2020-03-04T00:03:29+03:00February 13th, 2019|Categories: Family & Parenting, Relationships & Social Life, Social Life|Tags: , , , , |

As a parent, how can you know when peer pressure has adverse effects on your teen? And most importantly, how to protect them from it? Parenting can be a daunting task with trying to juggle everything in life plus raise children to be good people. Peer pressure and its effects can play an important role in your teen’s present as well as future life. For some of you, the teenage years of your children may just be a small stretch away. And boy has the

Making Good Decisions Is Easier When You Follow These 10 Rules

By |2019-09-24T00:14:26+03:00August 28th, 2018|Categories: Personal Growth, Self-Improvement|Tags: , , |

Making good decisions can be a daunting task. Well, there are specific steps you can take to ensure you make the right judgment. In this article, we will take a look at what rules you can follow to be sure you are making good decisions. 1. Be In Your Best Place When you are making a decision, you need to first ensure that you are in the right frame of mind. It means that you shouldn’t do it when something is affecting you. Of course,

What Are Decision-Making Skills? And 10 Science-Backed Ways to Develop Them

By |2020-04-22T14:35:45+03:00August 17th, 2018|Categories: Personal Growth, Self-Improvement, Success & Money|Tags: , , , , , , |

When you have good decision-making skills, you make better choices in life. How can you develop and improve your ability to make decisions? What is a decision? We’ll take the simplest definition of the concept. This is what the dictionary says about it: a determination arrived at after consideration. The Business Dictionary takes things a bit further: a decision is a choice made between alternative courses of action in a situation of uncertainty. That’s better. So what are decision-making skills? So to make a decision,

A Science-Backed Decision-Making Process and How to Use It

By |2020-02-25T23:14:49+03:00December 13th, 2017|Categories: Personal Growth, Self-Improvement, Success & Money|Tags: , , , |

The decision-making process brings positive results. A scientific-based protocol could make the difference. How long do you think about eating before you get something to eat when you’re hungry? It probably doesn’t take long to grab a snack and go about your business, now does it? Well, decisions like these are simple and almost brainless, but other decisions take a little more thought. Sometimes a scientific-backed decision-making process is the only way to hash out some of those really involved situations. Whether or not you

5 Signs You May Have Decision Fatigue (and How to Deal With It)

By |2019-06-14T23:28:16+03:00December 3rd, 2017|Categories: Personal Growth, Self-Improvement, Success & Money|Tags: , , , , |

What we call decision fatigue is referring to the psychological problem of someone finding themselves increasingly unable to make decisions on a daily basis. This may also be if you make ones which are lacking in quality compared to ones which you could otherwise make. Decision fatigue is being cited as one of the causes of seemingly irrational behavior during decision making and also less favorable decisions. This same fatigue can be used to discuss poor purchasing choices, with many famous people openly admitting to

Why You Should Make Bad Decisions from Time to Time

By |2020-03-19T23:13:28+03:00June 22nd, 2017|Categories: Personal Growth, Self-Improvement|Tags: , , , |

Bad decisions can teach us many important life lessons if we are open to learning from them. People make hundreds of small decisions on a daily basis without even noticing it. It seems like we have to make some kind of choice each time we take even the smallest step, so we get used to it. But it’s somehow different when it comes to big decisions. Important changes in our lives often make us scared and too cautious. Such changes force us to overanalyze and

How to Get Happy with These 5 Science-Backed Rituals

By |2019-08-11T23:56:18+03:00March 23rd, 2017|Categories: Lifestyle, Personal Growth, Self-Improvement|Tags: , , , , |

Want to get happy? Check out these tips backed by scientific studies. What’s the point of work, family, exercise, reading, watching movies, and waking up in the morning? What’s the point of living, anyway? We may be aspiring to career success, family values, or personal growth. The point is always the same: being happy. We all know the basic rules of being happy: don’t worry, manage stress, figure out what you want and work for it. However, the journey towards happiness is never as simple

10 Signs You Are Bearing Your Mother’s Insecurities (and How to Get Rid of Them)

By |2020-02-06T23:59:14+03:00October 26th, 2016|Categories: Family & Parenting, Personal Growth, Relationships & Social Life, Self-Improvement|Tags: , , , , , |

You feel insignificant, unwanted and incompetent. You struggle with self-doubt and are not sure what its source is. And yet, you have grown so accustomed to these emotions that you cannot imagine living in another, better way. Many daughters encounter such maelstroms, thanks to the negative relationships they have with their mothers. You may have such insecurities but are unaware of them. Before getting rid of them, you must first understand their roots. Take time to recognize these repressed, negative feelings. What causes your mother's

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