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Picasso’s Top 7 Tips for Creating an Exciting Life. “The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.”

Picasso’s Top 7 Tips for Creating an Exciting Life

“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor and creator in many creative fields. He’s perhaps the most well-known painter from all of the 20:th century. He also had some interesting things to say about life. Here are my 7 favourite tips from him. 1. 101 Ways To Live Your Life To The Fullest. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

101 Ways To Live Your Life To The Fullest

Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. 101 Incredible Insights On Life And Work. Sometimes we need a little encouragement, a change in our perception.

101 Incredible Insights On Life And Work

This is achieved by various ways, possibly the most powerful of which is gaining insight from other’s. Here, JD from Sources Of Insight shares an incredible 101 great insights and actions for work and life: 42 Practical Ways To Improve Yourself. Are you someone who likes to grow?

42 Practical Ways To Improve Yourself

Do you constantly seek to improve yourself and become better? If you do, then we have something in common. 50 Ways to Get Your Life in Order. This is an article by guest writer Mark Foo, author of The 77 Traits of Highly Successful People.

50 Ways to Get Your Life in Order

There’s nothing wrong with a little bit of chaos in your life. As Albert Einstein once stated, “Three rules of work: out of clutter find simplicity, from discord find harmony, in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” Unexpected challenges are what make us stronger, so don’t avoid them. Keep in mind the following 50 tips and you’ll be able to streamline your life and get back on track in the New Year.

Recycle old papers that are filling drawers in your house. 120 Ways to Boost Your Brain Power. Here are 120 things you can do starting today to help you think faster, improve memory, comprehend information better and unleash your brain’s full potential.

120 Ways to Boost Your Brain Power

Solve puzzles and brainteasers.Cultivate ambidexterity. Use your non-dominant hand to brush your teeth, comb your hair or use the mouse. Write with both hands simultaneously. Switch hands for knife and fork.Embrace ambiguity. 25 Fun Ways to Pamper Your Body and Increase Vitality! Taking great care of the body relieves stress, increases vitality and feeds the soul. In this article we will cover 25 recommendations will leave your body (and mind) prr-ing like a cat. By integrating the following tips your body will feel loose and fertile, and be on its way to becoming the well-oiled machine you know it can be! 1. Drink at least 30 oz of Water every day. 75 Reminders for Tough Times. 25 Killer Actions to Boost Your Self-Confidence.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. – E.E.

25 Killer Actions to Boost Your Self-Confidence

Cummings By Leo Babauta One of the things that held me back from pursuing my dreams for many years was fear of failure … and the lack of self-confidence that I needed to overcome that fear. 101 Revolutionary Ways to Be Healthy. Do the healthy thing, even when it's challenging, inconvenient or considered weird.

101 Revolutionary Ways to Be Healthy

Take pride in that. Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's smart or good for you. Enlist fellow trend buckers and create a trend of your own. Use your healthy frustration about the unhealthy status quo to spark creativity and determination. Look for signs of progress (beyond pounds lost) and rejoice when you find them. 100 Simple Ways to Change Your Life for the Better.

May 7th, 2008 100 Simple Ways to Change Your Life for the Better No matter how perfect you may think you are, the fact this there’s always some small way you can improve for yourself and others.

100 Simple Ways to Change Your Life for the Better

Whether it’s broadening your knowledge or reducing your impact on the earth, there are seemingly endless little things you can do to make a change for the better and make yourself more attractive to others at the same time. Here, we’ll discuss 100 of these steps, and how you can go about doing them. Health Good health is the foundation of a good life, so make these improvements, and they’ll resonate out to the rest of your life.

50 Ways to Get Your Life in Order. 13 Small Choices That Can Change Your Life In Great Ways. While practicing neuropsychiatry and studying neuroscience for 40 years, my interest expanded from the human brain to include evidence of mind throughout nature—in animals, plants, microbes, and other cells.

13 Small Choices That Can Change Your Life In Great Ways

Amazingly, even plants and cells have intelligence, which means that science isn't all we've been taught to believe. From my decades of research, there are simple important things that I wish everyone knew. 30 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Die. {Via studioflowerpower on etsy} “Rather than money, than fame, than love…give me truth.” ~ Thoreau I woke up this morning and my life clock marked 30.

My first sleep-deprived idea was to pack a small suitcase, get on the first train, move to another country, change my name, change my hair color (or get plastic surgery if needed), and start from scratch. When I don’t know how to deal with life, I hide sometimes. And others, I fight it. 26 Rules To Live By That’ll Help Ease Your Overthinking Problem. Here’s my advice to you… 1. Smile to strangers. First of all, it makes you appear more confident. And as if this wasn’t reason enough, it also makes you appear more approachable (this is especially true at parties). There was a study that showed that people will perceive you to be smarter if your normal facial expression is a smile, as opposed to a grin. 2. Instructions for life. » The Habit Change Cheatsheet: 29 Ways to Successfully Ingrain a Behavior.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle Our daily lives are often a series of habits played out through the day, a trammeled existence fettered by the slow accretion of our previous actions. By Leo Babauta But habits can be changed, as difficult as that may seem sometimes. 174,203 Things You Can Do Instead of Watching TV. 60 Inconvenient Personal Development Truths. I know you want to be the best you can be. We all do. But sometimes we look for success in the wrong places or we try to achieve it in the wrong ways. 50 Tips From My Year of Change.

71 Things You Can Do. 21 Critical Life Lessons You Didn’t Learn in School. If someone doesn’t take us aside and teach us a few things (assuming we’d listen) before we graduate high school, we are doomed to learn life’s hardest lessons in the real world beyond the classroom. With that in mind, here are 21 non-academic lessons every person should know before he or she graduates high school; if you graduated long ago (as I did), this list represents all the things you wish you had been taught, yet had to learn (or are still learning) on your own.

Love and Relationships 1. Choosing a Mate: Your ability to select a suitable spouse will greatly influence your financial and emotional wellbeing, yet parents and teachers seldom mention it. A few common sense guidelines: pick someone who’s a joy to be around and who makes you happy; know the person well; ensure compatibility beyond the physical because beauty and youth are fleeting, while the mind and heart endure. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Money Management 9. 10. 11. 12 Rules for Being a Human Being. Tackle Any Issue With a List of 100. 10 Things to Remind Yourself on a Daily Basis. Bad days can be extremely overpowering sometimes. When we're having a bad day, everything feels wrong and the day seems to get even worse as we sink further into frustration and despair. By the end of the day, all we want to do is pull the covers up over our heads and block it all out. When I clawed my way out of a depressive phase last year, it was a daily challenge to keep myself from falling back into that phase again. I had to go through a process of re-building my self-esteem and re-evaluating my life. But there were days when I was not very successful with these things and the negative thoughts that stayed with me for so long would interfere again.

It sort of felt like climbing up and over a steep hill and every time I let a negative or discouraging thought sink in, my foot would slip and I would roll all the way back down to the bottom of the hill and have to start all over again. On the bad days, I would feel like it would never end and that I would always be unhappy. 51 personal mantras for empowerment (aka stop talking shit to yourself) 12 Rules for Being a Human Being. 20 Instructions for Life. 95 Questions to Help You Find Meaning and Happiness. 100 Ways to Serve Others. 27 Healthy Habits of Happiness. 60 Small Ways To Improve Your Life In The Next 100 Days.

11 Practices That Will Make You Instantly More Positive - Alycia Hall - Vancouver Life Coach and Coaching Services - Alycia Hall – Vancouver Life Coach and Coaching Services. 25 ideas that will help you live on purpose. 100 Ways You Can Start Loving Yourself Right Now www. 70 Reminders to Help You Break Any Barrier. 101 Ways To Live Your Life To The Fullest. 40 Hilarious Proverbs Every Introvert Lives By. 42 Practical Ways To Improve Yourself. The Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules For Living.

50 Ways To Be AWESOME. 40 Ways to Feel More Alive. 20 Positive Habits to Free Yourself from Negativity. 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself. 100 Ways to Simplify Your Life (and Make Yourself Happier) 43 Simple Ways To Simplify Your Life. 100 Ideas. 20 Ways to Feel ALIVE!!!!!! 77 Creative Ways to Lighten Up In Tough Times. 30 Habits that Will Change your Life. Seven Weird Habits That Will Change Your Life. 70 Reminders to Help You Break Any Barrier. 60 Ways to Get Organized & Take Control of Your Life.

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