Are you looking to make positive changes in your life to improve your health, emotional well-being, daily habits, productivity, or relationships?
We all have areas where we want to improve and become a better version of ourselves and better cope with life challenges. You are a wonderful work in progress, and we want to help you reach your self-improvement goals. On this page, you’ll find articles on a variety of self-improvement topics with actionable steps and ideas you can use.
When was the last time you took inventory of all the things to like about yourself?
If you’ve never done that, now’s the time to try.
Or why else would you be here?
After all, real humility is impossible without self-love.
You can appreciate all there is to love about you without being arrogant or blind to your weaknesses.
So, what are positive things about yourself?
And how long a list can you make?
Some of the best conversation starters are “what would you do” scenarios.
Ask a hypothetical question with friends, and you’re guaranteed some interesting answers.
The goal here is to enjoy each other’s company while letting others see more of the way your mind works.
To that end, enjoy our hypothetical questions list.
You’ll see them grouped into subcategories according to the general mood or your particular preference.
You want to be happy with yourself and your life. Who doesn't?
Maybe you're here because you're unhappy right now, and you're seeking some ideas to improve your happiness.
There's good reason to look for ways to be happy.
A growing body of research tells us happiness isn't just a lovely feeling — it's also quite beneficial for you.
It's been linked to a load of life benefits including a higher income, a stronger immune system, and even a boost in creativity.
Psychologists Ed Diener of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Shigehiro Oishi of the University of Virginia conducted a happiness study of more than 10,000 participants from 48 countries.
They discovered that people all over the world rate happiness as more important than other highly desirable personal outcomes like meaning in life, becoming rich, and getting into heaven.
People who are happy with themselves also make for a stronger, healthier, more productive society.
Do you ever find yourself in that dreaded situation where you're face-to-face with an acquaintance or stranger, and you're forced to make some kind of conversation?
Whether or not you were expecting to be with this person, you're now stuck in the moment trying to come up with small talk topics and struggling to know exactly what to say.
How was your weekend? What do you think about the weather?
Do you have any plans for the summer?
The prospect of having these short conversations can lead to anxiety, as you try to straddle saying enough while not saying the wrong thing.
Let's review some small talk topics you can bring up in these uncomfortable situations that will seem neither forced nor awkward.
All emotions have their appropriate place and time, but positive emotions are the ones most of us prefer to have more frequently, with maybe a light scattering of negative ones to prove we’re still human.
And yet, we often find ways to make ourselves miserable, and then we wonder why we catch every bug that’s going around.
It’s no longer a leap to see the connection between our emotions and our physical (as well as mental) health.
In essence, the more time we spend with positive emotions that are in congruence with our core truth, the healthier we are.
And because what we feel is tied to what we believe and to the words we use to express those beliefs, we can make more room for positive feelings by eliminating the beliefs and the language that are hostile to them.
First, though, we need to know what emotions are and why they’re so powerful.