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Wondering How to Become a Morning Person? Try These 8 Techniques

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Routines help train your body to know when it’s time to shut down, which makes falling asleep easier. This stress hormone can prevent you from falling asleep. This article was originally published in April 2016 and has been updated. Become a morning person by getting a good night’s sleep. Put down your phone.

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18 Signs You Have High Emotional Intelligence

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The negative emotions that come with holding onto a grudge are actually a stress response. When the threat is imminent, this reaction is essential to your survival, but when the threat is ancient history, holding onto that stress wreaks havoc on your body and can have devastating health consequences over time.

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What Happened When I Avoided the News for 30 Days

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Things happen in this world— many of them stressful and polarizing—even if we make an effort to ignore them. So normally, I’ve taken on the stress and anxiety that come with consuming the news. This is your mind when you avoid news All that to say, even when you take your mind off the news, it’s still trained to think the same way.

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How I Became a Morning Person (and How You Can, Too)

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I’d have to end whatever great dream I was having, put on clothes I didn’t like, go out into the world bleary-eyed and stand in a cramped train with a hundred other people who would also rather be anywhere else. This article was published in August 2016 and has been updated. It represented so much that was wrong with my life.

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How You Can Combat Collaboration Overload to Improve Company Performance—and Your Own

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A 2016 Harvard Business Review article found that over the past two decades, time spent by leadership and employees in collaborative activities has grown by more than 50%. If you’re stressed and stretched too thin with collaboration overload, you won’t be at your best. But teamwork isn’t going away anytime soon.

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Employee Perk or Productivity Secret? Corporate Wellness Programs Deliver on Both

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They are in abundance as developers jump on the corporate wellness train: there are mental health apps with therapists in your pocket. In fact, in 2016 the Harvard Business Review compiled data from leading experts on the topic. All eyes are on workplace stress, as burnout numbers have peaked in recent years compared to the past.

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How I Lost $3 Million in 24 Hours and Bounced Back

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Even though I was constantly stressed and hated what I was doing, I was making too much money to step away from it, to care or to realize that I didn’t feel fulfilled. I invested the last bit of my money into a coach training program, and at times, it felt selfish to spend money on education as my family struggled to pay the bills.

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