Our relationships to our spouse, children or friends impact us on a daily basis. We know all relationships come with their fair share of conflicts. And when conflicts overtake with these relationships, we suffer as an individual.
First and foremost, we need these relationships. They give us purpose, reason, motivation and contributes to our neuroplasticity. Yes, I used the word neuroplasticity, simply put neuroplasticity improves our brain health, emotional well being.
Keeping the above in mind, many times we get upset, frustrated, hurt when we feel our spouse is not doing enough for us. We feel being the primary load…
For years I have aimed to eat healthy and exercise regularly. But life got in my way and this goal and aim to achieve a consistent exercise routine never solidified. Actually, this is not completely true, there have been periods in my past where I started going to the gym, but could never keep this routine consistent and eventually gave up. After a while the task of going to the gym seemed like an obligation and I would try to come up with several excuses to avoid the gym.
On the contrary, I have identified tasks or commitments that I…
I find YouTube to be entertaining and therefore have found myself spending hours surfing the channel. The moment I am trying to get off the site, I find myself drawn to watch another video. Please do not get me wrong, there are also many productive videos to watch as well. However, based on my own inventory I probably have spent 70% of the time watching non productive shows on this channel.
Let me get right to the point. My recent aim and goal has been self improvement and to increase productivity. During one of my recent walks outdoors, I was…
A few months ago, I was talking to some of my medicine colleagues about a solution for opiate crisis. One person suggested we need to return to the early 60s or 50s, when mothers used to stay at home and be a parent while fathers were busy making a living. Her thought process was that due to lack proper parent figure and guidance, children in this day and age are getting misguided ultimately leading to drugs and other harmful habits.
Another colleague suggested as a society we have to encourage people to be more independent rather than providing additional entitlements…
