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How can you assess market position to earn more money? Is it possible to beat the market? As an investor, you can tilt the deck in your favor by taking the market’s tendencies into account when positioning your portfolio. Howard Marks illustrates how to do so via two steps: Correctly assess the market’s position in the cycle, and adjust your portfolio accordingly. Here’s how to beat the market in only two steps.
How does negative thinking affect your health? Do unhealthy thoughts make you more vulnerable to illnesses? Unhealthy thoughts become larger and more powerful when you fail to process them because you continue to pour metaphysical energy into them. When they become too powerful to handle, they can leave negative effects on your body. Discover how negative thinking takes a toll on physical health, according to Dr. Caroline Leaf.
What are the benefits of positive thinking? How can neurocycling change your life and brain for the better? Dr. Caroline Leaf has a program called neurocycling that can detoxify your mind and brain. In Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess, she explains why this program could help you overcome mental toxicity. Let’s discuss the theoretical basis of neurocycling and then explore Leaf’s research on neurocycling.
Do you struggle with negative thoughts? What is neuroplasticity and how does it work? Mental toxicity leads to poor brain health, therefore, treating mental toxicity via neurocycling improves brain health. Dr. Caroline Leaf describes this strategy as “directed neuroplasticity.” Find out how neuroplasticity can improve your mental health and strengthen your mind.
What’s the neurocycle process like? How does journaling about your mental state help improve it? Mental toxicity results from repeated failures to process unhealthy thoughts. With the neurocycle’s steps, you remedy that by giving yourself opportunities to do that processing. Check out the six steps of the neurocycle below.
What’s working capital in a business? Do you want more cash for your business? It’s not hard to imagine how a business might paint a rosy picture of itself by tweaking an assumption here or there. However, by managing working capital, you can use financial numbers to help your company improve its actual performance without increasing sales or bringing costs down. Discover how to manage working capital to improve financial stability.
What’s the importance of return on investment in business? How can you determine if a business is a good investment? Perhaps the most basic question anyone who invests in a business asks is, “Will this be a good use of my time and money?” To put it simply, the return on investment (ROI) answers this by measuring how profitable an investment is compared to its cost. Let’s look at how to calculate ROI and how to read the numbers you get back.
What’s neurocycling? When should you practice neurocycling? What are the steps for performing it? Neurocycling can help you clear out any mental toxicity in the brain, which also improves your mental health at the same time. Dr. Caroline Leaf describes the six steps of the neurocycle, explains when to practice the neurocycle, and discusses four ways the neurocycle could help you live better. Keep reading to learn everything you need to know about neurocycling.
Do you want to improve your accounting knowledge? Are you in charge of your business’s finances? In Financial Intelligence, Karen Berman and Joe Knight explain how to calculate important numbers that reflect your business’s profitability, efficiency, and potential to attract investors. They also discuss how to manage your working capital to increase how much cash your business keeps on hand. Read more to learn how to understand accounting better so your business’s finances can soar.
How can you measure profitability in business? What makes a business profitable? A return on investment statement measures how profitable an investment is compared to its cost, but many business owners may want to know how much their company is worth overall. To determine this, you look at three financial ratios: gross profit margin, operating profit margin, and net profit margin. Keep reading to learn about these margins.