Relationship goals

  In 1977, George Lucas changed my life. It was a classic transformational experience: something that changed the way I thought about myself and my world. Star Wars opened a virtual world of fun and adventure that I took with me everywhere. I trained with a flashlight as my lightsaber. I couldn’t wait for the next adventure with my friends. It was an endless world of role-playing, imagination and fun. And this relationship with the Star Wars brand has endured for 41 years. Yes, I secretly love the Rebels series and read the endless books that have become part of the Star Wars Universe even today. My Star Wars experience helps me produce transformational experiences for our clients and their audiences. These are experiences that go beyond influencing customers to buy a certain product or service. As Seth Godin once said, “People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.” This statement couldn’t be truer. If you wa

We often talk about how it feels to be in an unhealthy relationship, but we give less thought to how toxic relationships affect your health . Like any prolonged stressful experience, it's bound to have some physical and mental effects, right? After all, we all know that staying with a toxic partner is bad for your heart figuratively , but is it possible that it's bad for your heart literally , too? According to Clarissa Silva , a behavioral scientist and relationship coach, the answer is yes: Being in a toxic relationship can , in fact, be bad for your actual health. "Settling for a toxic relationship creates a false sense of intimacy, hope, trust, and disillusionment in the relationship," she says. "Over time and because these feelings are often unexpressed, [a toxic relationship] can result in creating anxiety and/or depression, which can manifest themselves as other chronic illnesses further down the line." As it turns out, protecting your

The National Eating Disorders Association estimates 30 million Americans, 20 million women and 10 million men, will suffer from an eating disorder at some point in their lives. Of those individuals, only 10 percent receive treatment. Organizing to Make a Difference Justine Reel, who is an associate professor in health promotion and education, came to the University of Utah in 2001. As she familiarized herself with the school, she couldn’t help but notice how students would interact with their food. In 2002, Reel and four students researching destructive eating habits formed the group Students Promoting Eating disorder Awareness and Knowledge (SPEAK). “SPEAK’s mission is to promote eating disorder awareness and a healthy relationship with food, exercise and self,” Reel told U News in a 2011 article . Eating disorders do not discriminate, a video produced by SPEAK for Love Your Body Week 2015 explained. People of every age, sex, class and location are vul

Margaret Paul Do you see your beautiful essence and deeply value who you are, or do you often judge yourself, telling yourself that you are not good enough or not "something else" enough? Do you loathe yourself instead of value yourself? Do you tune into what you want and what is most loving to you and say yes

  “Our results suggest that friends process the world around them in exceptionally similar ways,” said lead author Carolyn Parkinson, director of the Computational Social Neuroscience Lab at the University of California in Los Angeles. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to compare which regions of the brain lit up as 42 volunteers watched short clips from news reports, music videos, comedy skits and documentaries, researchers were able to identify who among them were friends. We are a social species and live our lives connected to everybody else Thalia Wheatley The closer the relationship, the more alike the neural patterns in parts of the brain governing emotional response, high-level reasoning and capacity to focus one’s attention. “Friends had the most similar neural activity patterns, followed by friends-of-friends,” the authors sai

As Congress and the administration barely recover from the government shutdown and move to address challenging policy issues in a short-term funding extension, the importance of re-establishing strong, across-the-aisle relationships, which have historically allowed government to function, is clear. Bad relationships on Capitol Hill not only paralyze sound policymaking, they're also creating a truly unhappy environment: Witness the number of lawmakers retiring

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Her mom always smiled – except when the family made its annual summer drive to visit the grandparents in Magnolia, Arkansas. “The smiles were gone while we were traveling,” said Gloria Gardner, 77. It was the 1940s, and traveling to her parents’ home town was not approached lightly after the family moved to Muskegon, Michigan, during the Great Migration. Stopping for food or bathroom breaks was mostly out of the question. For black families, preparing for a road trip required a well-tested battle plan in which nothing could be left to chance. There were meals to cook and pack in ice. Sheets were folded and stacked in the car to use as partitions if they were left with no choice but to take bathroom breaks roadside. And there was another item that Gardner recalls her parents never forgot to pack: the Negro Motorist Green Book. While her dad drove, her mother leafed through the pages to see whether there were any restaurants, gas stations or

You or I could go to any marketing conference, anywhere in the world, and we’d hear about sales funnels. How to build them, how to measure every inch of them, how to use the data we’ve squeezed out of them to surge our way to success. Sales funnels are seen as a fundamental marketing tactic; if we don’t use them, we’re missing out — big time . And according to Google Trends , our interest in them is steadily increasing. I bought into this notion for a while, following the craze like a hawk, learning everything I could about converting strangers into paying customers. I was 99% convinced. Then I joined Ahrefs as CMO , and suddenly, I had enough time, money and resources on my hands to test these theories for real. Want to see the funnel at Ahrefs that helped us grow our 8-figure ARR by +65% last year ? It’s just one introductory email: That’s it. Done. “But Tim! If you’re only sending this basic email to your leads, you’re missing out!

A secret credit card might not feel like cheating. But it can still destroy your relationship. Dishonesty about money can lead to problems that last longer than a broken heart Jan.28.2018 / 10:58 AM ET It's time to cut out a few bad relationship habits. Chemistry / Getty Images Financial infidelity in relationships is a serious transgression: It erodes trust, increases tension and is deeply unsexy.  Study   after study  has found that money and sex are two of the main reasons relationships fail, and that communication about each person's financial problems, needs and fears — or even just their lack of money — is the way to defuse conflicts. People know this: A recently released report from  CreditCards.com found that 31 percent of respondents consider “financial infidelity” to be worse than cheating romantically and almost half also wonder whether their partners are totally honest about money. And yet, some  15 million  American adults in live-in relation