Despite the litany of complaints you’ll hear from 20-something year old girls about the woahs of their “Sex and the City” life, research shows being single isn’t a thing to complain about. In fact, being single has its fair share of advantages.     The widespread assumption that living alone is negative is a flawed one, said Eric Klinenberg, author of Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone. There’s a distinction between being single, isolated and feeling lonely.   “People who live alone tend to spend more time socializing with friends and neighbors than people who are married,” he said. “Living alone is not an entirely solitary experience. It’s generally a quite social one.”   Although past studies have indicated married couples were happier and healthier, distinctions are made between happy marriages and bad ones.   “A bad marriage can make a person feel more isolated than being single,” Klinenberg said in an interview with the New York Times.   Until about the 1950s there hadn’t been any society that supported large populations of singles living alone, he said. There are more than 32 million Americans who are single, compared to 4 million in the 1950s.

There are days you wake up and don’t feel like putting much effort into anything so when you need to run out the door, you likely throw on the first thing in sight. This means you’re probably punishing your feet with your beaten Uggs or worn sneakers. As comfortable as these old shoes are, they can also do some damage.

Self-control can be considered a muscle that needs to be exercised to get stronger. If you have low self-control it makes it nearly impossible to complete any big life goals. So before tackling a career overhaul, a major diet or any other massive life goal – beef up your self-control and will power with this exercise.     Come up with a list of 10 small goals, things you want to make into every day habits: taking vitamins, reading to your daughter every night, showing up at work 15 minutes early, leaving work on time, drinking eight glasses of water, meditating, reading a chapter of a book daily, etc.   We have a limited supply of self-control so trying to chase several goals at once is nearly impossible until you increase your reservoir of self-control. That’s why in this exercise you will tackle one small goal before moving on to the next goal. Benjamin Franklin created this character building strategy and CEOs have been using it ever since!   Now, pick one of your ten goals and commit to it for two weeks. You must accomplish this goal every day for two weeks. Draft a chart so you can track … read more