Why We Stink At At Taking Breaks

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October 6, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. - Alan Cohen - Why We Stink At At Taking Breaks "I've been curious to understand why so many of us are so awful at taking breaks. What is it about our cultural conditioning as adults that prevent us from stepping away from our seemingly-important tasks in order to briefly recharge? Certainly, we're presented with adequate opportunities to pause when we don't want to: red lights, traffic jams, lines at the grocery store and at the bank. For many of us, however, when given an opportunity to take a break at a time when a break would improve our energy level and our concentration, we don't do it. It becomes just too compelling to continue doing what we're doing. Maybe it also feels too difficult to change our momentum in order to pause." { read more } Be The Change This fun poster offers up 50 different ways to take a break. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Three Parables to Regain Perspective The Third Side of a Conflict The Way of the Peaceful Parent 27 Non-School Skills Children Need The Dash Between The Years 7 Must-Read Books on Education Advice as an Art Form A Lost 5-yr-old Finds Family 25 Years Later DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 121,109 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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9 Simple Steps to Improve Your Health

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October 5, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace The part can never be well unless the whole is well. - Plato - 9 Simple Steps to Improve Your Health "Ask a centenarian the secret ingredients to a long and healthy life and you aren't likely to hear "doctors, drugs, and fad diets." We all know that there's more to our overall well-being than treating symptoms or the occasional replacement of a part. The good news is that scientists in various fields are discovering ever more ways we can keep ourselves healthy without expensive medication and complicated workout regimens. Here are nine simple, scientifically proven-- and sometimes surprising--ways to empower yourself to make the right choices for your body and health." { read more } Be The Change Try implementing three or more of the steps from the above article in your own life. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Offbeat Graduation Speech Gets Standing Ovation How We Can Change Our Minds The Power of Introverts 7 Habits of Mindful Eating How to Transform Negative Emotions What the Internet Does to Your Brain The Mathematics of Being Nice 8 Weeks to a Better Brain DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 121,069 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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A Schoolbag Full of Love

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October 4, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - A Schoolbag Full of Love "My daughter, Emma (in 7th grade), started back to school last week. There is a young boy in her class (call him Jake) who is quite overweight. He is treated very badly by other kids and even by the teachers. For several nights this week Emma came home from school upset about the fact that Jake gets picked on so much. She also mentioned that he had no school supplies as his family could not afford them. He was constantly asking to borrow paper, which just gives kids even more reason to pick on him." What follows is a heart-warming real-life story of a young girl's compassion and the difference a kind gesture can make { read more } Be The Change Next time you notice someone in need, try finding a small, meaningful way to serve them. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Secrets of the 100-yr-old Marathoner Mystery Knitter's Olympic Masterpiece The Impossible Floating Village Football Team Compassion Caught on a Late-Night Train A 15-Year-Old's Bucket List Goes Viral A 21-Year-Old's Solution to Homelessness Today You, Tomorrow Me Dalai Lama: A Professional Laugher? DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 121,042 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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In Praise of Melancholy

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October 3, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. - Kahlil Gibran - In Praise of Melancholy "Eighty-four percent of Americans claim to be happy, a statistic that Wake Forest University English professor Eric G. Wilson finds "strange at best, troubling at worst." With a litany of self-help books, pills and plastic surgery to feed an addiction to happiness, he says, "It's now easier than ever before to live a trouble-free life, to smooth out the rough edges, to hide the darkness." In his recent book Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, Wilson --a non-recovering melancholic by choice --praises sorrow as the muse of many writers and songwriters, warning that to rid life of it is to rid life of a vital source of creativity." { read more } Be The Change Instead of pushing it away, experiment with embracing natural sadness as it arises in your own life. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Top 5 Regrets of the Dying Offbeat Graduation Speech Gets Standing Ovation How We Can Change Our Minds The Joy of Quiet A Change of Heart Changes Everything The Power of Touch 8 Weeks to a Better Brain How To Trick Your Brain for Happiness DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 121,006 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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