Why We Work

For decades, most of us have been conditioned to believe that the primary reason for formal education is to find valuable and lucrative work. Career days, debates, high school personality tests, and choice of subjects all gear toward one goal—preparing us to be excellent professionals who will someday storm the labor market. However, after accumulating…

Beyond Happiness: Eudaimonia

Eudaimonia satisfies that psychological nuance that is difficult to grab with the word happiness by encouraging us to embrace the fact that many of life’s most meaningful projects will at times be at odds with happiness, but they are worth pursuing regardless.

5 Ways to Track Your Expenses.

Keeping track of how your money comes in and where it goes is a crucial step in winning with money. Not only does it improve your accountability and aid with budgeting, but it also reveals spending patterns, making it easy to see areas of your life where you need to cut back, improve, or rebalance.

Food and Psychology: Shopping when Hungry.

Hunger goes beyond the desire to feed. It alters perception and influences decision-making. As such, the mind can easily convert ‘I want food’ to a mere ‘I want’, prompting you to buy things you may or may not need.

How to Beat the Sunday Blues.

Contrary to the tag ‘Sunday Blues,’ this dreadful feeling of anxiety isn’t exceptional to people who have a traditional workweek (Monday- Friday, with free weekends). People who have alternative work schedules also experience the blues.

3 Money tips that do not always benefit you.

when we see something expensive, the natural assumption is that a lot must have gone into its production and the producers are simply trying to recoup these costs. Unfortunately, the concept of price is more complex than this.

How to overcome the fear of missing out (FOMO).

While everyone experiences FOMO, people who have been able to navigate through it successfully know that there is a list of things they are afraid of not enjoying if they do not learn to live in the moment.