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An advisory board, a planned fitness routine for the week and even limiting your cooking to Sundays can make life a lot easier.

Use these three strategies to follow up on business contradictions that make you uncomfortable.

How do you keep your business flexible and efficient at the same time?

Our days are filled with a constant stream of decisions. Most are mundane, but some are so important that they can haunt you for the rest of your life.

Here are ways to stop stalling and start doing the work you were meant to do.

The employee you have to keep the closest eye on is yourself.

Make following your passions less scary by following your instincts.

Six years after New York City's mandate that calories be listed at chain restaurants, researchers have found that these labels, on their own, do not reduce the overall number of calories ordered.

Smart, successful people are by no means immune to making mistakes; they simply have the tools in place to learn from their errors.

Here are proven strategies you can use to improve the quality of your decisions when your emotions are clouding your judgment

The strategy is called shoshin, meaning 'beginner's mind.'

The practice of mindfulness has a vast amount of research to support it, and any insight that improves your day-to-day life, work, and relationships within your organization is worth leveraging.

Here are the mental errors that show up most frequently in our lives.

Financial savings startup Qapital just named Duke psychology professor Dan Ariely its chief behavioral economist. Here's how he plans to help the company change users' spending and saving habits.

Becoming an entrepreneur means accepting that you might fail. At some point, you've got to shut off your brain, and make a move.

It's often easier to fix a struggling company than it is to create one from scratch.

Because entrepreneurship has been so heavily glamorized over the past decade, many people feel surprised and guilty about the fact that it can actually be a pretty tough choice to make.

As a society, we often overvalue unimportant things and undervalue the ideas and strategies that make a real difference.

Fearful about taking those first steps? Others have felt the same way. They've written whole books about it.

It's not an easy decision, but sometimes circumstances dictate it's the right thing to do.

Major losses force entrepreneurs to make hard decisions. These decisions almost always turn your life to a new chapter where the stakes are higher and the wins are bigger.