On this episode of GHY, Lisa brings back her favorite "old person" magazine to share some action-packed (and research backed) life tips from The Bottom Line magazine, including:

• Why Dissatisfaction with life is normal
• How overtraining leads to lower moods
• Extreme heat is linked to more mental health emergencies
• Women are both happier and sadder than men
• How a consistent sleep schedule protects your heart
• How to use tea bags to freshen the smell of your car
• The love language myth
• why “happy wife, happy life” doesn’t hold up under the scrutiny of research
• Why planned sex is just as fulfilling as spontaneous sex

Okay, Bottom Line!

We also reference the following episodes: Why We Sleep by Dr. Matthew Walker, The Paradox of Productivity, and The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman.

If you want to learn more about The Bottom Line, you can do so here.

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On this episode of GHY, Lisa and Misty dive deep into the topic of ghosting in dating. Lisa shares two recent articles: Ghosting Is an Inescapable Part of Dating. Is It Ever OK? and 7 Ways to Respond to Ghosting. This leads to a very lively discussion about the fabric of humanity and brings up the question... are we owed anything by anyone?

We also touch on a previous episode where we reviewed Amanda Seales’s book Small Doses, in which she discusses three types of ghosting:

1. Bread crumbing
2. Stashing
3. Submarining

As Misty would say: ugh.

As Lisa would say: people gonna people.

Boo!

You can also listen to our episode of The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.

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On this episode of Go Help Yourself, Misty shares an article about why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning by NPR. Don't let handwriting die, everyone!

We also mention our episode of How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens.

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In this episode, Lisa and Misty review the Gray Rock method for navigating interactions with difficult people, based on this article from the New York Times.

If you'd like to listen to the Bruce Bryans book reviews we mention, you can find those here:

Texts So Good He Can't Ignore: Sassy Texting Secrets for Attracting High-Quality Men (and Keeping the One You Want) by Bruce Bryans

How To Get A Man Without Getting Played: 29 Dating Secrets to Catch Mr. Right, Set Your Standards, And Eliminate Time Wasters by Bruce Bryans

Don't miss the reviews for the Hutzler 571 banana slicer or this critique of the BIC pen for women.

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In this episode, Lisa and Misty discuss email signature and sign-offs: the good, the bad, and the truly savage (according to survey respondents). Check out the article Lisa shares from The Muse, Bored Panda’s crowdsourced suggestions, or this blog post from Omnisend that has links to the studies we referenced.

Cheers!

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On this episode of Go Help Yourself, Lisa shares an article from Forbes where a psychologist analyzes self-help vs. therapy, as well as how to spot and avoid toxic self-help.

If you want to learn more about the author, the studies mentioned, or to read the article, you can do so here.

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On this episode of Go Help Yourself, Misty and Lisa discuss the paradox of productivity -- how being productive can actually make you more overwhelmed, and the ways to keep productivity culture (and toxic productivity) in check.

Other episodes mentioned:

How to Fight Internalized Capitalism to Increase Your Self-Worth

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

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On this episode of Go Help Yourself, Lisa and Misty are joined by special guest Bill Burke, founder of The Optimism Institute. This conversation covers all things optimism, including the relationship between dissatisfaction and optimism, how optimism contributes to personal resilience, and how (and why) to cultivate optimism as a purposeful act.

About Bill:

Bill Burke founded The Optimism Institute in 2022 after an extensive media and sports career as an executive, writer, and producer. Bill served as CEO of The Weather Channel Companies after several years at Time Warner/Turner Broadcasting System, where he was the founding general manager of Turner Classic Movies before going on to become president of TBS Superstation.

Additionally, for fifteen years he was the co-owner and chairman of the Portland Sea Dogs, the double-A Minor League Baseball affiliate of the Boston Red Sox.

As a writer, Bill co-authored Ted Turner’s top-10 New YorkTimes Best-Selling autobiography Call Me Ted and later co-wrote/produced/directed “Live Another Day,” an award winning feature-length documentary on the bailout of the U.S. auto industry.

Bill is a lifelong optimist (he has to be - he’s a Detroit Lions fan) and launched The Optimism Institute with a mission to inspire people with an optimistic, hopeful vision of the world and its future.

To that end, Bill is also the host of the podcast Blue Sky, a weekly podcast featuring inspiring leaders, authors, researchers, and big thinkers who are taking on some of our world’s toughest challenges with an infectious sense of optimism.

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