Lifestyle
Alongside taking care of other people and the planet, make sure you take good care of yourself. The Lifestyle section at the Optimist Daily has solutions for everyday wellbeing on topics like food, beauty, fashion, and the latest trends. Curious about caring for houseplants, eating plant-based, or parenting tips? It’s all in there.
An antidote to holiday overload - Give gifts with meaning
People, Planet, and Purchasing Power By the Optimist Daily Editorial Team The holiday jingles playing on repeat these days remind us ‘tis the season to show our family and friends how much we love them. Traditionally, this includes giving them presents. Yet, the whole experience of holiday Read More...
How exercising regularly can make you feel young for most of your life
Exercising is definitely an essential component to living a long and healthy life, but the key is to do it on a very regular basis. A study found that people in their 70s who have been exercising regularly for decades seem to have put a brake on the aging process, maintaining the heart, lung and Read More...
How to foster empathy in children
As the year’s end approaches, most Americans get bombarded by emailed and snail-mailed requests for donations to all manner of charities, A to Z. I’m an easy target, a softy readily seduced by impassioned pleas to help improve the well-being of people, animals, and the environment, and I often Read More...
This interactive map will help you choose your next travel destination
If you’re looking for a 2019 getaway but can’t settle on a destination, engineers at MIT have developed an interactive map that could help you narrow down those countless options. The interface, called Escape, asks that you enter in your origin city and your dates to show you how much it costs Read More...
At this new online banking platform, customers are the owners
In a given year, the biggest banks in the U.S.–Wells Fargo, Citi, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase–rake in billions of dollars in fees that their customers pay to the bank they are with, and money they have to turn over if they overdraw from one of their accounts. Often, the banks then Read More...
Researchers found one way that long-term marriages get happier
It turns out that a long, happy marriage resembles a slow-moving rom-com, one that plays out over decades. The first few years of a marriage are rife with conflicts, but the emotional weather eventually changes, according to a new study by psychology researchers at UC Read More...
For a happier, healthier world, live modestly
Gibran Vita makes every effort to get rid of the dispensable. He lives in a small home and wears extra layers indoors to cut his heating bills. He eats and drinks in moderation. He spends his leisure time in "contemplation," volunteering or working on art projects. "I like to think more like a Read More...
Men and women experience happiness in different ways. Here's why
Who’s happier, men or women? Research shows it’s a complicated question and that asking whether males or females are happier isn’t really that helpful, because essentially, happiness is different for women and men. Women’s happiness has been declining for the past 30 years, according to Read More...
Still have vacation days left? 3 ways to use your time off for a good cause
Despite the well-documented benefits of vacation, it’s no secret that Americans aren’t great at taking their paid time off (PTO). A new study from travel booking website Priceline found that a quarter of Americans still have more than nine vacation days left on the table through the end of Read More...
Cafe in Tokyo lets people with paralysis control robot waiters
A cafe in Tokyo offers people with disabilities the opportunity to become more independent by employing them as remote controllers of robot waiters. The robots can be told to move, observe, talk to customers and carry objects, even if their operator can only move their eyes. The project aims to Read More...