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Motivating ourselves to go to the gym, eat healthier, or wake up earlier can be difficult. But motivating someone else to do better can sometimes feel impossible.

A question a lot of us are struggling with these days is “how to focus.” There’s a reason . . .

Author Peter Drucker wrote, “unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.”

So it used to be scribes got ten pages to pique a reader’s interest … Not any more! You gotta hit the ground running and kick it off from page one – or bust! Sad maybe, but true … The good news is, you can do this ANY WAY YOU WANT!

But you don't have to go to extremes to get focused. Here are some science-backed ways to help you stay focused throughout your day:

But don’t strain your brain trying to remember how many pixels go where or scour each site’s help section for the information — instead, bookmark this page and use the infographic below as a cheat sheet for creating all your social media images.

Baader-Meinhof is the colloquial name attached to a quirky, though simple, psychological concept that we've probably all experienced at one time or another.

Selecting the right typeface makes all the difference to effective design and communication. But with over 100,000 font families to pick from it can be a daunting task. There are some excellent guides on how to choose a typeface and helpful methods for pairing typefaces but in order to apply these principles it’s important to be familiar with a broad range of quality typefaces.

Here are some ways to get your mind to relax and return to a productive state.

Born two decades before the beginning of the 20th century, what kind of mind was his that could come up with ideas that would have to wait until the second decade of the 21st century to be proven correct?

The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for It Every Time. By Maria Konnikova. Viking; 321 pages; $28. Canongate; £12.99. HONOURED for his charitable works, Mervyn Barrett was ready for a change.

Check out this list of former secret agents turned writers. You might be surprised to see who shows up!

Because I devoted myself to this simple idea, it made me a millionaire by age 24. In my personal life, I've found that there were 10 strange secrets about millionaires. Once you see these common trends, you'll be able to leverage all your current opportunities.

Regardless of the destination, this will help you get there.

Think dijon is just for sandwiches? Think again.

Your home should be your sanctuary, a place for you to retreat from the world and feel at ease.

We have sold millions of books and spoken to thousands of audiences, but none of it would have happened without the help of our tremendous friends and customers.

All it takes is bad letter spacing to cause some serious confusion (and laughter). The businesses and individuals pictured below were caught with poorly spaced letters resulting in some unintentionally risqué signs and messages.

How many times have you dreamed of a day of pampering and then thought "Oh that’s too expensive!" or "I need to use that money to pay my ____ bill?"

Here are 8 websites that as an entrepreneur or not you are certain to find useful, no matter what your line of business.

“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.” – Nikola Tesla

History has no shortage of disastrous rulers; this list could easily have been filled with the Roman Emperors alone. Rulers have been homicidal, like Nero or Genghis Khan; incompetent, like Edward II; completely untrustworthy, like Charles I; or amiable but inadequate, like Louis XVI of France or Tsar Nicholas II.

Laura Vanderkam studied the schedules of high-achievers. What did she find? Almost all have a morning routine.

Larry Ellison, founder and chairman of international mega-giant Oracle, is one of the most interesting figures in tech.

We all have one thing in common: every night we all go to bed and every day we all wake up. Each day we have the opportunity to start again, seize the day and create the life we want. It is such an amazing opportunity that we should all be jumping out of bed every morning with total excitement to start our day. Alas, I know that is not the case for many people.

"Half Empty: Life in America's Unhappiest City," written, produced, and directed by independent filmmaker Kenny Luck, is based on a 2014 study that the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Metro Area was ranked the "unhappiest region in the United States."

Are you broke? Don't lie to us, of course you are! Everybody is! And it's not just because of your crippling addiction to Boom Beach, it's because you're letting yourself get taken for a ride literally everywhere you spend money.

When people encounter someone with a strong personality, they don’t understand the kind of person they are dealing with.

The next time your boss catches you watching a compilation of cat videos, don't minimize your browser window; just explain that you're maximizing your productivity.

Please welcome to the podcast James Kahn, author of the novelizations for The Goonies, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Poltergeist, and Return of the Jedi, writer/producer for television series Star Trek: Voyager and Melrose Place, as well as his new crowdfunded independent film project, Wrongside Bob. James discusses with us in his words what it takes to conquer the white whale and reinvent yourself with creative career changes shifting between emergency room medicine and creative writing.

This is a collection of TV fonts, which are identical or similar to the fonts used in the titles of TV series.

Marrketing books online can be a time-consuming task for authors and publishers alike, especially these days when there’s so much noise online. Not only do you need to break through the clutter, but you need to make sense of it yourself so you can keep up with the latest trends. Fortunately, there are tools available that will let you add more creativity to your book marketing and save you time without a huge learning curve.

While the infographic below is satirical, the basic idea behind some of the silly suggestions really hits the nail on the head: Sometimes, proving yourself is more about appearances than it is about substance.

This is my humble offering of five strategies that have worked for me to become a happier and healthier human. Perhaps they will work for you as well.

A quick crash course video on how to land a 737 airplane if both pilots become incapacitated. Hopefully you will never have to use this life saving information.

There are four principles I try to stick to whenever I’m building a new habit. Through everything I’ve tried, these are the principles that seem to work every time.

These books will teach you how to protect yourself from malicious manipulation, detect lies and deceit, become more charismatic, engineer persuasion, and, perhaps most importantly to anyone who wants to keep a healthy, open mind: develop a level of skepticism that will give you a sixth sense for detecting bullshit.

These rags-to-riches stories remind us that through determination, grit, and a bit of luck anyone can overcome their circumstances and achieve extraordinary success.

How to sculpt an environment that optimizes creative flow and summons relevant knowledge from your long-term memory through the right retrieval cues.

In order to stay on top of your game and reach the level of success you want, you need to follow a certain set of self-induced rules. Success is not something that happens by accident; if you want it bad enough, you will get it. Learn the habits that successful people have given up in order to reach their own success.

The flashy producer behind House of Cards, The Social Network, and Fifty Shades of Grey is one of the most controversial figures in show business. Evgenia Peretz gets to know the man behind the braggadocio—and his three Ferraris.

To ensure your new product or service will succeed, says Flynn, you need to validate whether your audience wants it and also whether you’re the right person to do it, or what Flynn refers to as the “idea-to-self fit.”

Here are vintage campaign buttons from animated presidential bids. Did you ever spot someone wearing one?

These tips make Disneyland a place where any family, regardless of budget, can visit and have a wonderful time.

I applied to Stanford University because I wanted to refine my clinical understanding of lucid dreaming: the ability to become conscious during dreams and affect their content.

Small helpers that allow you to create social media images fast and easy are in high demand.

Auberon Herbert (1838–1906) was a 19th-century British political philosopher and member of Parliament, who recognized that each individual has inalienable rights to direct his own mind and body, and to keep and use the product of his own effort.

Bookmark this post so that you can always look back at this great list that can help you succeed.

In my career, I’ve had the fortune of coming in contact with bestselling authors, successful entrepreneurs, investors, executives and creative people. Some I didn’t meet, but I found their thoughts in book form. Whether they knew it or not, I cased all of them and took from them what I thought were their best ideas on productivity.