Melissa Hughes

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Is Your Mindset Sabotaging Your Success?

Your mind is a powerful thing. The way you see yourself and your ability to learn doesn’t just impact your success, but also the goals you set and how you attack them.

Ditch the New Year's Resolutions: Think Monday Aspirations

Did you make a New Year's resolution this year? If so, you're among the millions of folks who set goals for a better "you."  You're also among the millions of folks who will fail miserably.

Ditch the Expectation of Holiday Perfection

Whether you're cooking the perfect recipes, making sure the house is perfectly decorated, or finding the perfect gifts, the holidays are chock full of high expectations.

When "Ho Ho Ho!" Is More Like "No No NO!"

For many people, “Happy Holidays” are anything but. Heightened expectations and the Hallmark version of what the holidays are supposed to look like opens the flood gates of stress hormones that turn...

How Those Late-Night Infomercials Trick the Brain

If you’ve ever suffered from insomnia, then you’ve probably seen those cheesy infomercials featuring bad actors over-dramatizing a tiny inconvenience until...VOILA... introducing a life-changing...

What Those Holiday Songs are Doing to Your Brain

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. C’mon admit it… you just sang that, didn’t you?You can thank me later for putting that song in your head because it’s like treating your brain to milk and...

Success: What We Have or Who We Are?

Everyone desires success in one form or another. Some just dream about it, while others go after it with everything they've got. An important title, a fancy house, an expensive car, a diversified...

Putting Gratitude to Work at Work

What if there was a simple initiative to make your workplace one where people actually want to work, contribute, and belong? And what if it was completely free, required no special training, and...

12 Scientific Benefits of Gratitude

“You may never have proof of your importance, but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.”

7 Brain Hacks to Master Your Mind

We all have the same basic anatomy between our ears, so why are some people able to use the brain more effectively than others? Simply put, what separates the best of us from the rest of us?

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