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    Anouare is a seasoned writer, coach and consultant passionate about living authentically and helping others do the same. Whether she's writing about lifestyle, personal development or leadership and management, she aims to tell stories that will elevate your life, career and relationships. She is the author of "The Vulnerability Workbook: Embrace Fear, Set Boundaries, and Find the Courage to Live Greatly." In her free time, you can find her discussing existential ideas, preferably over a nice glass of wine and a good meal in an exotic destination.
This Anti-aging Serum Is Responsible for Jennifer Lopez’s Youthful Glow
Celebrities

This Anti-aging Serum Is Responsible for Jennifer Lopez’s Youthful Glow

At 53, Jennifer Lopez just doesn’t seem to age. What’s even more mystifying is that she claims she’s never tried Botox. Want to have what she’s having? You can now get your hands on the anti-aging serum that she swears by, That Jlo Glow Beauty Serum. That Jlo Glow Beauty Serum: Jennifer Lopez’s Magic in a Bottle Credit: jlobeauty.comAfter being pestered about her beauty routine for years, Lopez finally launched her own skincare line in 2021 to share the secrets behind her youthful glow with the world. "Everywhere I went, I felt like everybody was always asking me about my skin. And as I got more mature, the questions came more often," Lopez told PEOPLE. "It was actually very nice, but I realized that it was almost like an obligation. Like I had to put out a skincare line for everybody who was asking."RELATED: Jennifer Lopez Experienced A Major Change After Having KidsThe hero ingredient of the line is an all-natural staple that the women in Lopez’s family have been using for generations: olive oil. Lopez spent over three years developing the formulas in her product lineup, as she didn’t want to put her name on anything that didn’t work. Her favorite multi-tasking product is That Jlo Glow Beauty Serum, which she has raved about on social media. "It is the magic ingredient, the secret sauce, the fountain of youth, the vitamins for your face," she said in an Instagram video. "There's not a day; there's not a morning; there's not an evening; there's not a moment where I'm not putting this on."The Benefits of That Jlo Glow Beauty Serum Credit: Getty ImagesAn eight-week clinical study revealed that That Jlo Glow Beauty Serum visibly lifts and tightens skin, improves the appearance of skin firmness and elasticity, and boosts radiance and luminosity.The formula is packed with antioxidants and super hydrating thanks to the JLo Beauty® Olive Complex, a four-part olive blend of squalane, fermented oil, extra virgin olive oil and leaf extract. Japanese rice sake and yeast-derived ferments leave skin feeling silky-smooth and glowy. Even though the product boasts long-term benefits, you will be able to feel its tightening and lifting effects upon application. And since Jlo is a big fan of natural skincare, the serum is also free from parabens, phthalates, mineral oil, dyes and fragrance. How to Apply Jlo’s Glow Beauty Serum for the Best Results - And Where to Buy It For best results, you’ll want to apply That Jlo Glow Beauty Serum to clean and dry skin, both in the AM and PM. Make sure you let the product absorb completely before following it with a moisturizer. At $79 for a one-ounce bottle, it’s not exactly cheap, but a little goes a long way. BUY IT: $79 at Amazon.comGoalcast may receive a portion of revenue if you click a link in this article and buy a service or product. The links are independently placed by our Commerce team and do not influence editorial content.

How F1 Star Lewis Hamilton Handles High-Pressure Situations and Maintains a Winning Mindset
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How F1 Star Lewis Hamilton Handles High-Pressure Situations and Maintains a Winning Mindset

Four-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton is no stranger to extremely high-pressure situations. He's been driving with Mercedes since the age of 13, after all, as he shared during a Q&A at a Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Night event in Montreal the night before the Canadian Grand Prix race. "The pressure from 21 races from February to the end of November -- it's so hard to come out and deliver for your sponsors, for your team, for your mechanics, and also for yourself. But, you've always just got to stay positive," he said. And positive he stayed, despite the challenging day on the track that followed: But you don't need to be a racing driver to adopt this type of winning mindset. Here are three lessons to learn from Hamilton: 1. Don't get too comfortable... Despite the fact that Hamilton is the highest-paid driver in the world and has shattered records -- at 23, he became the youngest world champion in Formula One history, and he is the only black driver to have won a Grand Prix and a championship -- he still aims to continuously improve. "I've been driving, now this is my 11th or 12th season, I think it is, and every year you're always trying to up your game, you're always trying to improve in so many areas," he said. 2. ...but do know when to let go When asked how he spends the day before a big race, Hamilton had a surprisingly laid-back answer: "Tomorrow is such a heavy, busy day, there's so much pressure on it. You can't even imagine how much pressure is on tomorrow, every single point counts. I'm leading the group by 14 points. The guys I'm competing against, he's on hold, so, I've gotta minimize that loss, if not convert it to a healthier lead," he said. "So, tonight I'm gonna have good meal, relax, watch a movie, and then hope it comes through tomorrow." Remember that you can't ever fully control the outcome of a situation, but if you worked hard and you are prepared, sometimes the only thing left to do is to kick back, get some rest and have faith. 3. Don't let yourself feel threatened by the competition “In any sport if you think ‘I might lose this’ you have already lost. Doesn’t matter where I start on the grid I don’t look at any driver and think: ‘I might lose to that person.’ I think: ‘How can I better them? How can I be better?’ I am going to keep doing that," Hamilton told The Guardian. The same can be said about life situations that don't involve a race track. Take, for example, the idea of gunning for a promotion. You may know that some of your other coworkers are talented and deserving. But if you start feeling intimidated, you will lose focus. Once again, the only thing you can ultimately control is how hard you work at being the best version of yourself.

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Gives Motivational Speech to Lakers, Inspires All of Us to Get Off the Couch
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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Gives Motivational Speech to Lakers, Inspires All of Us to Get Off the Couch

What keeps Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson motivated? Remembering the hard times."Before a big movie comes out, [...] I just remind myself: I was evicted when I was 14, we were kicked off the island, we couldn't live in Hawaii, had no place to live, a lot of shit happened when I moved to Nashville, I was arrested multiple times before I was 16 years old," he told the Los Angeles Lakers at an event for the basketball team's “Genius Talks” series. "I remember that."In the speech, The Rock explains how this thought process keeps him in the present moment. "Holy sh*t, the stuff I have around me right now, this is the stuff I dreamed of as a kid."When he played football for the University of Miami, one of his teammate wanted to take his spot on the field. They battled, and Johnson lost the spot he wanted. It crushed his dreams during his senior year. He moved to the CFL, barely making ends meet, and was then cut from the Canadian league. He ended up broke, with literally $7 in his pocket.Staying motivated when you've reached comfortable levels of success"What helps me is to keep the hard times in the front of my mind because it allows me to go into these big moments that I worked my ass off to get with a different perspective," he said in the speech."What it also does for me is that I keep my back against this motherf*cker [points to wall] because it's what I believe in. And when my back is against this motherf*cker then there is nowhere else to go but [forward]."The Rock likes to use the wall analogy because as a successful Hollywood actor, he is not struggling anymore. And putting himself in the mindset where he feels he has his back against the wall keeps him on his toes and encourages him to keep moving forward."It doesn't mean you don't smile, laugh and joke. But when it comes to business, and when it comes to executing, it's up against [the wall]. And I've gotta go [forward]. And I don't [care] who is in front of me, they're not gonna stop me."Watch the full speech here (it starts at 02:20):

How This Famous Time-Management Rule Can Help You Reach Untapped Levels of Success
Productivity

How This Famous Time-Management Rule Can Help You Reach Untapped Levels of Success

Google famously implemented a time-management rule allowing employees to use 20% of their work week for any project. And it's during this "fun" time that revolutionary products like Gmail and Google Maps were born. Yes, the email service provider we use so often was pretty much someone's passion project. So why not take this "20% time" concept beyond corporate culture and implement it to manage your own time in a more powerful way? The hidden reason behind the success of Google's famous productivity rule Mashable just broke down the genius of the rule in a new animation video series based on the award-winning "Masters of Scale" podcast and produced in partnership with the WaitWhat content incubator. Here is an important idea narrated in the video: "The tendency of high-performing employees to use their 20% time productively is the well-documented genius of the program. But there is also a hidden genius of 20% time: It allows reasonable employees to defy unreasonable managers." Defy the "unreasonable managers" of your own life So how is this relevant to you if you don't own a business? It's all about using it as a time-management tactic to focus on the projects that energize you and might actually inform life-changing outcomes such as changing careers or deciding to start your own company. We all have our own "unreasonable managers." Who in your life is currently making you feel emotionally drained? Do you have a way to limit your time with these people and free up 20% more time for yourself? Are you your own unreasonable manager? Do you push yourself to pursue things you don't actually have to do or want to do just because you think you should? Could you say no to certain things? Do you feel swamped with family-related responsibilities? Could you ask for help? Once you've identified the unreasonable demands competing for your energy, you can start pushing back in order to carve out 20% of your week's time to dedicate to personal projects you feel passionate about. This can be broken down in small daily chunks of time. The important thing is to block it in your schedule as a priority. Once you've carved out your 20% time, spend it pursuing things you actually LOVE doing. Before you know it, you'll find yourself feeling more energized, creative and inspired -- all ingredients necessary for reaching untapped levels of success.

Ryan Reynolds Gets Vulnerable About Suffering From Anxiety, Inspires Us with the Way He Manages It
Mental Health

Ryan Reynolds Gets Vulnerable About Suffering From Anxiety, Inspires Us with the Way He Manages It

Whether he's portraying the quick-witted Deadpool on the big screen or entertaining the Twitterverse by savagely trolling his wife Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds seems like a cool, confident guy.But behind those charming, effortlessly laid-back vibes, Reynolds is battling the same type of mental illness as 40 million adults in the United States: an anxiety disorder.“I have anxiety, I’ve always had anxiety,” Reynolds told The New York Times. “Both in the lighthearted ‘I’m anxious about this’ kind of thing, and I’ve been to the depths of the darker end of the spectrum, which is not fun.”He told the reporter who interviewed him that he still gets nauseous before every talk show appearance, and the build-up before interviews with journalists makes him jittery.How Ryan Reynolds manages his anxietySo how does he manage to deal with it and, you know, actually face the situations he dreads?First, he uses humor, a self-defense mechanism he developed as a kid, growing up in an environment made volatile by the mood swings of his father.He also likes to do a lot of his Deadpool promotional interviews in character, as putting himself in the shoes of the superhero allows him to relax. “When the curtain opens, I turn on this knucklehead, and he kind of takes over and goes away again once I walk off set,” he said.And if you're not an actor and can't really apply this advice to real life, know that Reynolds also uses one surprisingly relatable and accessible method to manage his anxiety symptoms: the Headspace meditation app.Overcoming self-sabotage and toxic coping mechanismsBut he didn't always manage his anxiety in the most healthy way. Now 41, the actor struggled with toxic coping mechanisms in his early 20s, a period of time he called his "unhinged phase.""I was partying and just trying to make myself vanish in some way," he said, sharing that he frequently woke up in the middle of the night, feeling paralyzed with anxiety about the future. Self-medication was his answer, but he moved away from his partying lifestyle when a few of his friends passed away from overdoses.

Bill Gates Says You Should Be Reading This Often-Ignored but Extremely Important Type of Book
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Bill Gates Says You Should Be Reading This Often-Ignored but Extremely Important Type of Book

Even if you love reading, it's natural to gravitate towards specific genres or authors. But we should all seek to challenge ourselves and read things that are out of comfort zone, according to Microsoft co-founder and self-made billionaire Bill Gates, an avid reader who loves to share his favorite book recommendations. "A lot of people lose curiosity in their 20s or 30s," Gates told Harvard students in a Q&A. "So if you hand them a big, thick book, they're like, 'What? Am I going to read that?'" Why we should read academic books Gates thinks that people don't take the time to read "what's fairly academic and super profound" even though those reads are the most important ones when it comes to developing new ideas, broadening your horizons and rethinking your relationship with the world. In a world where our attention spans are drastically shortening and digital content aims to be as digestible as possible, it's normal to feel slightly uncomfortable at the thought of tackling such complex, intense reads. But growth does happen outside of our comfort zone, and it's a concept that should also be applied to the information we consume if we don't want to end up in a self-limiting bubble. Bill Gates reveals two of his favorite educational reads So, what does Gates like to read to stimulate his mind? He is a big fan of renowned psychologist and author Steven Pinker, who regularly studies optimism. Gates recently shared that Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature is his new favorite book of all time. He also loves Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, which he called one of the most educational books he's ever read, according to CNBC. The book challenges the misconceptions we have about society and human progress because of our own subjective nature, and focuses on replacing them with actual facts.

Apple CEO Tim Cook Might Have Resolved Our Search for Purpose with One Powerful Statement
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Might Have Resolved Our Search for Purpose with One Powerful Statement

What is the meaning of life? This sometimes agonizing question keeps a lot of people up at night, inspires entrepreneurs, and has the power to either kickstart a self-improvement journey or push someone into a spiral of depression. It's a question that's tough to answer. But Apple's CEO Tim Cook might just have addressed it once and for all. A couple of weeks ago, he participated in a town hall-style interview for MSNBC's "Revolution: Apple Changing the World" special at Chicago's Lane Tech College Prep High School. One of the lucky attendees -- it's not every day that you get the chance to ask whatever you want to one of the world's most prominent leaders -- asked the CEO what advice he would give to his high-school self. Cook answered with a powerful statement about our relentless search for purpose: “The truth is we all have the same purpose, and so we should all quit looking. Our purpose is to serve humanity.” Wait, what? So we should all just stop looking? Keep in mind that Cook himself mentioned that it took him 15 years to define his purpose in life, which means that he must have been searching for meaning throughout a lot of his career. Though surprising, his advice makes sense if you think about it. First, we are all such different people, but this idea of serving humanity is universal and can be applied in an infinite amount of ways. Second, focusing on serving the collective good actually helps us get a healthy dose of perspective and live a more fulfilling life on an individual level. And it's a concept supported by science. A recent study published in The Journal of Positive Psychology concluded that "a central feature of meaning in life is a consideration of more than oneself." We spend so much time searching for meaning through self-introspection, but perhaps the answer has been in front of us (and outside of us) all along.

Kristen Bell Shares Simultaneously Heartbreaking and Inspiring Post on What It's Like to Grow Up with Mental Health Issues
Mental Health

Kristen Bell Shares Simultaneously Heartbreaking and Inspiring Post on What It's Like to Grow Up with Mental Health Issues

Kristen Bell is not afraid to open up about her struggles with anxiety and depression. The Hollywood star has been an outspoken mental health advocate, sharing her own experiences to help break the stigma surrounding mental illness. And now, she has partnered with the Child Mind Institute to appear in the new #MyYoungerSelf campaign, an initiative featuring celebrities who have suffered from mental health disorders giving advice to their younger selves. Bell doesn't need to dig deep to relate to the young people the campaign is geared towards: She started suffering from mental health issues at 18. In the video, a makeup-less Bell looks directly into the camera to address her younger self. Here is her raw message about embracing imperfection, loving yourself and remembering that you are not powerless or alone: What I would say to my younger self is, don't be fooled by the game of perfection that humans play. Because Instagram and magazines and TV shows strive for a certain aesthetic, and everything seems so beautiful, and people seem like they don't have any problems, but everyone's human. Everyone has problems. Everyone feels yucky on the inside sometimes. And you deserve to feel just as beautiful on the days when you wear no makeup, on the days you don't shower, and on the days you feel like you're depressed. And you have an obligation to take care of yourself from the inside out because that's how you can truly feel beautiful. There are resources out there if you're feeling anxious -- people to talk to, doctors to interact with, and there are tons of solutions out there for you. You are not alone. Never feel embarrassed or ashamed about who you are. We can feel how painful growing up with mental illness must have been for Bell through her words. But while emotional, her message ends on an uplifting note of hope and love: You're not alone, and you can do this. According to a 2016 report by the Child Mind Institute, 17.1 million young people will be affected by mental health disorders before the age of 18.

Barbara Corcoran Reveals the Job She Would Do If She Lost Her Fortune, Amazes Us With Her Choice
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Barbara Corcoran Reveals the Job She Would Do If She Lost Her Fortune, Amazes Us With Her Choice

Real estate mogul and Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran is worth $80 million. What would she do if she lost everything and had to start her career from scratch? Work as a waitress, according to a CNBC interview. "You learn more in waitressing than you can in any other job, and I had every kind of menial job you can imagine," Corcoran, who had 22 different jobs before she turned 23, told CNBC journalist Faroosh Torabi. "Being a server is the best way to learn about sales," she said. "It's your charm, it's the ability to have a conversation and get the coffee right away so they don't have to ask for it. It's knowing what they ordered last time." Her surprising answer teaches us two very important lessons about life and growth: 1. Your skills are your most valuable asset Corcoran built her fortune from the ground up, from working as a secretary in a real estate company in her early 20s to borrowing $1,000 from an ex to start her own real estate firm in Manhattan. She became rich when she sold her company for $66 million in 2001, and she negotiated hard for it -- the initial offer was only $22 million. So when asked what she would do if she had to start over, she could have said that she would work in the real estate industry again. It is, after all, what led her to success. But by choosing waitressing as her plan B, Corcoran shows that she values learning before anything else. She knows that even if she found herself with literally zero money to her name, she would be able to rely on a priceless commodity: her acquired skills. Remember the "teach a man how to fish" saying? It pretty much sums this up. 2. You're never too good for a task or a job We all have to start from somewhere, and having the right attitude is what helps propel us forward. The truth is, you're not special, I'm not special, all of us have dreams and fears and needs and wants. Perceiving any task as something beneath you is a disservice to yourself. There is value in every life experience and if you can recognize that, you'll get a lot more out of the opportunities that are presented to you -- and you'll also be able to notice opportunities where others see challenges. Also, Corcoran's reasoning shows that being humble shouldn't stop once you "make it." In fact, studies have shown that humility offers a competitive advantage in business. Think about it: Who do you look up to? And who do you want to be as a person?