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Reduce Performance Anxiety by Challenging Your Beliefs About Change
If success or improvement ever stresses you out, you're not alone. Psychology Today reports that roughly half of us believe that our abilities are fixed—and this false belief can cause great anxiety...
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Embrace Major Life Changes to Grow and Evolve
Most of us shy away from big, risky changes, but Forbes writer Susannah Breslin points out that it's those radical life-altering events that force us to grow and mature the most. Embracing them, she...
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Eliminate Your Excuses by Reframing Them
You can come up with a thousand reasons why you shouldn't do something, but it can be far more difficult to find one good motivational reason to move your forward. Getting past this problem may be as...
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Daily Challenge Presses You To Do Something Good For Yourself Every Day
Everyone's busy, and it's all too easy to get caught up in doing things for work, family, friends, and other people in general that you forget to take some time and do something for yourself. Daily...
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The Most Effective Method for Learning a Language Alone
Interested in learning a new language but don't have anyone to practice with? Multi-lingual writer Dave MacLeod explains the most effective method he's come up with for learning a new language using...
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How to Get a Job in America
Job boards and Craigslist don't work because everybody's already there. Here's where to look, and how to look good, in the (still incredibly rough) job market. More »
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A Sure-Fire Approach to Improving Your Writing (and Getting Over Writer's Block)
No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the...
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How to Overcome Your Fatal Flaw
Trevor Owens has a flaw. So do you. Owens' flaw has held him back for much of his life; instead of letting that continue, he decided to correct the problem as much as he could, and where he can't fix...
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The Difference Between Novices and Experts
If you'd like some confirmation or at least indication that you're growing in expertise, take a look at the kind of feedback you most respond to and look for. One study found that as we go from novice...
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How to Energize Your Career to Continue Growing, Learning, and Improving
You've got meetings to attend. Deadlines to meet. Errands to run. It's hard to grow your career and expand your abilities in the midst of your daily grind, but if you don't take the initiative, no...
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Take a More Realistic Approach to Your To-Do List with the 3 + 2 Rule
Developer Jakub Stastny had a problem with organizing his day for ages. Never-ending to-do lists led to frustration and consequently to procrastination; exhaustion from context switching; the feeling...
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How to Stop Caring About Trolls and Get On With Your Life
You see them everywhere you go on the internet: anonymous users with nothing to say but rude, off-topic, or annoying comments aimed at making you angry. The only cure is to just stop caring, and while...
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I Suck at Photoshop; Except I Don't, and You Don't Suck at That Thing You're...
I suck at Photoshop. For years, I've posted ugly images alongside Lifehacker posts because I'm not a designer, and whenever I put a little effort into composing an image to go along with a post, it...
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"A man's accusations of himself are always believed; his praises...
"A man's accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never." ~ Michel de Montaigne "The Art of Conversation" More »
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How to Identify and Learn from Your Mistakes
It's never easy to admit you've made a mistake, but it's a crucial step in learning, growing, and improving yourself. Writer and speaker Scott Berkun's new essay collection, Mindfire: Big Ideas for...
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Use Your Crappy Boss to Make Yourself a Better Employee
We all know what it's like to have a crappy boss, or at least a boss that leaves a little to be desired as a manager. Someone who never seems to have time to give you feedback, or is a micro-manager,...
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Visualize Concrete Details of Major Goals to Help Realization
Maybe people know vaguely what they want, such as the desire to start a business, make more money, or find work that resonates with their values, but it can be difficult to nail down the specifics....
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Top 10 Easy-to-Keep Resolutions for This New Year
We've shared a number of tips on how to make lasting resolutions during the new year, but if you're at a loss for good resolutions this year, here are some good ones that are surprisingly easy to...
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Differentiate Between Goals and Resolutions to Aid in Personal Achievement
Many popular new year resolutions such as "lose 25 lbs" or "run a marathon" are actually goals, not resolutions. If there is a specific achievement it's a goal, but permanent changes to your life are...
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The Science Behind New Year's Resolutions (and How to Use It to Achieve Yours)
Almost half of all Americans set new year's resolutions every year, yet only 10% of them are successful. Why is it so difficult to achieve personal goals, and how can you optimize your chances for...
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