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40 Tips for a Better Life
Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It is the ultimate anti-depressant. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Buy a DVR and tape your late night shows and get more sleep. … Continue reading
Living Without Clutter: Freedom from Junk
In any given year, you will spend 150 hours looking for lost household items. This is more time than most people have off from work for vacations. This is almost a full week of time, including sleeping time. Worst of … Continue reading
Whatever Your Problem Is, You Can Change Your Life
Making a change in your life is a lot easier to talk about than to actually do. We’ve all heard about how people will get involved in various addictions or bad habits, and kind of let their life fall apart … Continue reading
Pelman Day THIRTY: The Secret of Concentration
Concentration is the art of thinking about a subject or a fact in its intimate associations, to the exclusion of other and unrelated subjects or facts. It is a free movement within the circle of connected ideas. Mind-wandering is straying … Continue reading
Pelman Day TWENTY-SEVEN: Conscious vs. Subconscious
First, as to the terms we shall use. The word subconscious means that which is below the conscious level; but the word unconscious often conveys the same idea; and there are cognate words like co-conscious, subliminal, supraliminal, and several others … Continue reading
Pelman Day TWENTY-SIX: Reading
English Literature The same method is employed in Literature. If a close acquaintance with a period of English, Literature is desired, the only true plan is to study the actual books of that period, not summaries or analyses written by … Continue reading
Pelman Day TWENTY-FIVE: The Conditions of Personality
We now come to a study of the conditions which make the expression of personality possible; and we shall find that they are of two kinds; (a) states of mind, and (b) forms of action. By a state of mind … Continue reading
Pelman Day TWENTY-FOUR: On Personality
What Personality Is The subject of Personality is confessedly difficult, partly because the several meanings of the word are often confused, but mainly because in the last analysis personality is itself inscrutable. In this lesson, however, we shall confine our … Continue reading