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How Monotasking Can Help You Reach Your Flow State

Multi-tasking is hurting your productivity, which is why experts recommend monotasking—or focusing on one singular task at a time—to achieve a flow state. Your flow state is the mental state where you’re most creative and efficient. Monotasking requires practice and patience, but by eliminating distractions, building a habit, and starting small, you can achieve it. […]

The Best Productivity Framework for You, Based on Your Astrological Sign

Want to learn how to be more productive but not sure where to start? Look to the stars. Astrology can offer a guiding light when it comes to choosing a productivity framework and finding productivity hacks that work for your personality. Maybe you’re coming out of a slump and want to kick it back into […]

Want to Be More Productive? Try a Sunday Reset

Dealing with the Sunday scaries? Doing a Sunday reset can help by setting you up for a productive week ahead. Below, experts explain why doing a Sunday reset can boost your productivity throughout the week. Let’s face it: The workweek is long and often draining, so anything you can do to get a leg up […]

How to Use Your Sleep Chronotype For Better Sex, More Energy, and A Boost of Productivity

You probably don’t need science to tell you if you’re a night owl or an early bird, but it turns out that your sleep personality, or chronotype, is actually more nuanced than just being a morning person or not. “A chronotype is your body’s natural disposition to be awake or asleep at certain times,” explains […]

How to Make Your Home a Social Distancing Sanctuary

Whether your space is stressy or messy, here are six quick ways to transform it into your very own social distancing sanctuary. To say that things are strange right now is an understatement. In between the stress and uncertainty, a lot of us are gripping at silver linings however we can get them. If there […]

Here’s Why I Quit Social Media & What I’ve Learned

I’ll be honest: I’m more wary of technological innovation than most. After all, I wrote my college thesis on futuristic dystopian fiction, and think we’re dangerously close to living in Black Mirror‘s social-ratings-driven “Nosedive” society. Curious to discover if going offline could lighten my load, I decided to embark on a 30-day social media detox. […]

Why Box Breathing Is Your Best Friend Against Stress

For those naysayers who feel that breathwork is too “woo woo,” it’s time to bring your thinking outside the box… or rather, in it. Box breathing is essentially controlled breathing in four easy steps of four counts each. (Hence, it’s square nomenclature.) This practice gained recent fame after Navy SEALs touted its many benefits during […]

Read Up on Your October 2019 Wellness Horoscopes

Hear ye, hear ye: Your October 2019 wellness horoscopes are in! I’ll be honest—it looks like this month may present real challenges for most of us, culminating with 2019’s final Mercury in retrograde. This all may sound scary—and fitting for Halloween, no less—but don’t run for the hills just yet. Trust that a bit of […]

Here’s What You Need to Know About Burnout

PSA alert: Burnout is more harmful than you may think. Here are the major signs and symptoms of burnout, as well as how to successfully recover from it. Ever heard the saying “I’ll sleep when I’m dead”? How about “The dream is free, but the hustle is sold separately”? It turns out that this go-getting, […]

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