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.
How to break your addiction to work
For many of us, working simply feels good. But just because it feeds your ego or makes you feel important, that doesn’t mean it’s actually good for you. How do you break the cycle of working long hours at the office and constantly checking email at home? How do you persuade those around you Read More...
You can’t reach your goals if you can’t forgive yourself for failing at them
Many of us will start out the New Year by making a list of resolutions—changes we want to make to be happier, such as eating better, volunteering more often, being a more attentive spouse, and so on. But, as we know, we will often fail. After a few failures we will typically give up and go back Read More...
This app helps the world’s largest minority group to communicate
In 2007, Carlos and Aline Pereira welcomed their daughter, Clara, into the world in Recife, Brazil, but their world would never be the same. “The day my daughter was born, a medical mistake induced her with cerebral palsy,” Carlos says. “She wouldn’t walk or speak. From the Read More...
Indian social entrepreneur of the year gives rural women access to banking
Social enterprises aim to improve communities and help society benefit from their profits, so what could be more enterprising or more social than a bank for illiterate village women? This is what the unassuming Chetna Sinha has set up: an Indian cooperative bank for 310,000 rural women, doing Read More...
French law requires companies to grant employees “right to disconnect” at night
Laptops and smartphones allow us to do work efficiently, but what they have also done is blur the line between work and home life. We carry our phones everywhere, and it's created a "forever on" culture that leaves little time to disconnect and reboot. That's why France has passed a law that Read More...
Angela Merkel: Jihadists, terrorists need love and compassion
Angela Merkel, Germany’s leading lady who’s responsible for opening the country’s doors to tens of thousands of Muslim refugees, said in New Year’s Eve remarks that the likes of ISIS terrorists and Islamic jihadists need more love and compassion. Say what? From the Express: Read More...
Bitcoin jumps above $1,000 for first time in three years
Digital currency bitcoin kicked off the new year by jumping above $1,000 for the first time in three years late on Sunday, having outperformed all central-bank-issued currencies with a 125 percent climb in 2016. Bitcoin - a web-based "cryptocurrency" that has no central authority, relying instead Read More...
The clowns bringing laughter to refugee camps: ‘Happiness matters like food’
An adorable six-year-old in a pink top reaches up to me, her bright green eyes pleading for a hug. Next to her a slightly older girl, with curly brown hair and laughing dark eyes also reaches up. I lift the first child on to my back and bounce her around for a few moments before gently setting her Read More...
Blockchain app helps migrant workers send money home
Migrant workers often send at least half of their pay to their families in their home countries. In the process, they have to pay for transfer fees and currency exchange rates which may run above 10 percent of the transaction amount. Everex is a startup aimed at solving that problem. Everex is Read More...
How to brag about your vacation without alienating people
Social media is a fickle beast. It’s tough to toe the line between over-sharing, bragging, and boring, and nowhere is this line more blurred than when traveling. This dilemma is at the heart of a recent study in Psychological Science, which contends that while your experiences may be epic, no Read More...