Self-Help Basics: Ditch Bad Habits and Start a Healthy Life

Starting a healthy lifestyle begins with ditching bad habits and downsizing your life. Developing emotional detachment and a healthy self-image can lead to long-term happiness.

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10 Bad Habits to Ditch for a Happier You

You know the drill: Brush your teeth, eat your veggies, exercise and be nice to people. Yet, as hard as we try, some bad habits somehow manage to sneak their way into our lives at times, often without our awareness.

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8 Things Holding You Back From True Happiness

In this age of glorifying busyness and increasing productivity at all costs, the key to removing this obstacle to happiness lies not in adding items to our to-do lists, but in eliminating them. Here are eight things you should release in order to live a truly happy life.

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9 Self-Love Tips That Won't Make You Roll Your Eyes

Self-love can help boost resilience and confidence, decrease stress and improve relationships, experts say. And you don’t have to turn up the cheese factor to do that. Instead, try these surprising self-love practices.

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9 Tough-Love Tactics That Will Help You Reach Your Goals

Discipline. What a terrible word, right? It brings to mind images of a little kid being scolded by his mom or forcing yourself to wake up at 4 a.m. for a workout you’re dreading. Many people believe that a disciplined life is too hard because you have to maintain a strict schedule. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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10 Ways You May Be Shortening Your Life

How many of your daily activities are shortening your lifespan? It’s not something many of us think about. That’s why you might be surprised to learn that some seemingly benign everyday occurrences are associated with a shorter life.

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How to Start a Healthy Lifestyle

Establishing a healthy lifestyle is a common goal, but it's not always clear where to begin. The first step is to believe you can make any change you want. Then start making small adjustments in diet, outlook and exercise, and you're on the way to a healthy lifestyle.

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How to Get Elmer's Glue Out of Hair

Getting Elmer's glue in your hair is a typical rite of passage for most children. It's not very difficult to remove the glue from your own or your child's hair, even if it has become a sticky mess. You most likely have the tools at hand to resolve the problem in less than an hour.

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