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5 original gift and date ideas to surprise your valentine

5 original gift and date ideas to surprise your valentine

It’s almost that time of the year again: the shops are turning red and pink, and the hallmark card racks are packed with sappy declarations of love. It’s time for Valentine. Whether you’re a fan or a hater (commercial BS): with the tips from this blog you’ll surprise your partner on February 14th, or any other day of the year!

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How to Deal With Advice That’s Not Right for You

How to Deal With Advice That’s Not Right for You

Whenever you make plans and discuss them with others, you’ll almost certainly get tons of advice. Those handing out the advice do it with the best of intentions. They want what’s best for you. And sometimes, they’re older. Or more experienced. But what if you don’t feel that their advice is right for you?

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Improve Your Relationship Communication With These 2 Tips

Improve Your Relationship Communication With These 2 Tips

Every relationship is unique. And though we all crave love, mutual respect, trust, and happiness, most relationships fail for surprisingly similar reasons. While you can’t control them all, you can definitely improve the odds of your relationship being happy and fulfilling by working on some personal skills, as well as some practices you can do together with your partner(s).

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How to Pick a Career for Hyperlinkers

How to Pick a Career for Hyperlinkers

Unlike many other brain wirings, hyperlinkers rarely stick with a job longer than several years. Essentially, every new experience or bit of info will have a hyperlinker thinking: “How can I improve what I do based on this new thing I’ve learned?”

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How to Recognize Overwhelm?

How to Recognize Overwhelm?

The trick with overwhelm is that once it gets a hold of you it’s easy to engage in destructive behaviors. To stop yourself from doing so, it helps if you recognize overwhelm for what it is (overwhelm) rather than all of the ways it manifests.

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How Hyperlinkers Deal With Overwhelm

How Hyperlinkers Deal With Overwhelm

It’s great when you actually have the time to process all the new information you’re getting. Unfortunately, a lot of the time you don’t. You’re expected to instantly contribute to a work meeting. In a fight, your partner keeps bringing up new reasons they’re upset. At a conference, every new talk leaves you with more ideas than you can handle…

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