Get motivated to get lean!

Righto Summer is just around the corner and you want to build that beach body. You know the one that makes the chicks/fellas go ‘ahhh’.
Well first off I’m here to tell you that there are way more benefits to having a great body than impressing the opposite sex. The main benefits come from [...]

5 Tips for a Positive Mental Attitude. Part 4 of 5: Social Environment

This entry is part of a series, 5 Tips for a Positive Mental Attitude» Welcome to part 4 of our first multi-video series, 5 tips for a positive mental attitude. We will be releasing one video a day from Monday to Friday this week – each video will be covering a tip to help [...]

Optimistic people live longer – now officially including women!

We talk loads about the importance of positivity and optimism for having a happy and successful life here at Cognicology.com. There is a lot of evidence that suggests that optimists are more successful in what they achieve – be it pursuits in business, relationships or family concerns. It turns out that there has been recent [...]

Book Review: Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman

Optimism is the key ingredient to living a happy and successful life. Or at least, so Martin Seligman says. This message is the ever-present ideal underlying the content of his book entitled Learned Optimism. In this book, Seligman explores the role that positivity and optimism play in modern day psychology as well as the implications [...]

Three demotivating personalities to avoid

As I’ve spoken about in another article, the people you hang around have a great influence  on the kind of person you are and how you view the world. We can’t help it: human beings are social beings, and as such our social interactions dictate a lot with regards to our personalities and world-views. Because [...]

How to stop worrying

How to stop worrying – dealing with habitual worrying behaviour.

To create a lasting positive mindset, there are a few key essential steps. One is an attitude change, to actively and consciously  change your attitude and behaviour to stop negative processes in their tracks.
This is a lot easier said than done. I am not going to [...]

The 80:20 Rule

If you’ve never heard the 80:20 rule, it may seem a little odd at first glance. Sometimes referred to as the Pareto principle, the 80:20 rule suggest that about 80% of the outcomes come from 20% of the causes.

The idea does not only apply to your normal work day but also to pretty much everything [...]

5 tips for developing a positive mental attitude (text version)

Everybody wants to be happy and successful in life. However, many (I would dare say most) are not. A lot of this has to do with the attitude people have towards life, and their attitude towards others and finally themselves.  In particular, a lot of people are of the mindset of being a helpless victim [...]