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.
What scientists say your nightly routine should look like
If you really think about it, all the decisions you make on a daily basis, from the amount of coffee you choose to drink to whether or not you should wash your sheets, has an effect on your sleep quality. Fortunately for you, scientists have found all the decisions you should choose to make or Read More...
'The happiest man in the world': you can learn to meditate in 5 minutes at a time
"Mindfulness" may be a buzzword and meditation a fad across both Wall Street and Silicon Valley, but that certainly doesn't mean they are worth ignoring. We recently spoke with Tibetan Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard for Business Insider's podcast "Success! How I Did It" around the launch of his Read More...
Self-care strategies for a New Year
Self-Care Definition: Engaging in an activity (or non-activity) to preserve, protect, maintain or enhance one’s mental/physical/spiritual/emotional health. Self-care can also include setting specific boundaries and declining various non-essential obligations. Self-care can be as simple as taking Read More...
Meditation is common across many religious groups in the U.S.
In popular culture, meditation often is associated with Eastern spirituality and its secular offshoots, such as mindfulness. But substantial shares of Americans of nearly all religious groups – as well as those who have no religious Read More...
Walk With Me: Cumberbatch narrates quiet documentary about mindfulness teacher
It is a relief, and a palate cleanser, to watch a documentary concerned with quietness, stillness and contemplation. Yet however slowly paced, a film’s grammar and rhythm will perhaps never truly approach the structure of solitude and contemplation that is the point here. Walk With Me is a study Read More...
This digital bank is being called the Facebook of banking
In its first round of crowdfunding, a smartphone-only “challenger” bank raised £1m in 96 seconds, making it the fastest crowdfunding campaign. The bank has already brought in nearly half a million UK customers, and has a six-week waiting list with over 66,000 people on it. So why are people so Read More...
Neuroscience reveals the secrets to success
We’ve been taught that if you dream big, work hard, have a positive mindset, learn from your mistakes, and persist, you can be anything you want in life. But brain imaging has shown that it takes some help from a healthy, sharp brain to achieve Read More...
The successes of 2017 in 99 stories
As a regular reader of The Optimist Daily, you already know: the world experienced a vast number of victories concerning global health, living standards, conservation, and much more that has been overlooked by most media outlets. However, here's a list of 99 stories that will illustrate the point Read More...
The minimum wage of 18 states just increased with the start of the year
For 4.5 million US workers, the start of the new year meant an increase in wages. Calls for increasing the minimum wage in eighteen of America’s fifty states were finally answered last year, with the starting date being January 1, 2018. Ten of those states saw great increases that were the result Read More...
How blockchain technology could transform the food industry
The technology behind Bitcoin can also help make our food system more Read More...