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Healthy Habits: Experts Reveal Five Tips to Get Back into Fitness After a Christmas Break

Motherhood Moments

Whether it’s weightlifting or cardio, doing too much exercise can lead to overuse injuries including muscle strains and tendon injuries, thus making you a lot less capable of meeting your fitness goals. Having a partner can also keep you accountable to stay on track of your fitness plan, and recognize any goals that are yet to be met.

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Healthy Habits - Gamification Apps for Healthy Habits

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A Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School report underscores research detailing why gamification is proven to work, noting, “The most prominent categories of persuasive feedback involve goal setting, overcoming challenges, providing feedback on performance, reinforcement of positive behaviors, comparing progress and social connectivity.”

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Amazing Apps: Health-Seekers Level Up Self-Care with Gamification Apps

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A Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School report underscores research detailing why gamification is proven to work, noting, “The most prominent categories of persuasive feedback involve goal setting, overcoming challenges, providing feedback on performance, reinforcement of positive behaviors, comparing progress, and social connectivity.”

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How to Save Money Fast – My Top 20 Tips

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Whether you are looking to save extra money for your emergency fund and potential unexpected expense, a new kitchen, or your kids’ college tuition—you name it—you will require self-discipline and a plan to reach any financial goal. You can even use a budgeting app if you need a little more support reaching your financial goal.

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How To Get The Holiday Gifts You Really Want

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

It is so easy to accumulate stuff and sometimes so hard to get rid of it (sell it, give it away or even throw it away). Wouldn’t it be great if everyone who will give you a holiday gift this year could just find exactly what you want or need! Even more importantly, should you nudge people to give you want you really want or need?

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Money Matters - How to Build Healthy Financial Habits and Prevent Future Debt

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Start by evaluating your needs versus your wants, and make sure your spending aligns with your goals and values. If you want to know how much you need to tuck away for retirement, some online calculators can help give you a ballpark figure based on factors like your current age, salary, and desired lifestyle.

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Why We Seek Happiness

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Darwin agreed, according to Psychology Today article Happiness: ultimately it’s genetic! Likewise, giving to others, makes us happy. The Wall Street Journal article Hard-Wired for Giving reported on this saying: “…two complex schools of scientific thought have emerged. ” Accomplishing goals.