5 Investment Tips for Beginners

Institute Editorial Team 10/17/2022

Today we are breaking down 5 common investment terms you need to know in order to know what options you have when investing your money. A STOCK IS A PORTION OF A COMPANY. Think of it like a pie! If the pie is cut into slices, stocks are the slices. If the company grows, your slice gets bigger and you can sell it for more than you bought it! If the company does poorly or shrinks so does your slice, and selling would actually lose money. Losing or making money on a stock depends on the company and how they do over the course of you owning the stock. A BOND IS BASICALLY A LOAN. It’s essentially saying “I will loan out my money in exchange for interest. I expect to get that money back over a period of time, but with interest.” This…

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Student Loan Mistakes to Avoid

There is a lot to talk about when it comes to student loans, so today I’m just going to speak from experience. I’M GOING TO UNWRAP ALL THE MISTAKES I MADE AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT THEM, AS WELL AS HOW TO DO IT THE RIGHT WAY! When I graduated high school, I could attend college for free. I lived with my mom and fell under her W2s. My biggest mistake was getting married 2 years later. This pushed me under my now ex-husband’s W2 and I was no longer eligible for free school. I had to take out a loan to finish my degree, so I took out $25,000 to cover my last 2 years of school. When I graduated, I got a job…

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Institute Editorial Team 11/07/2022

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Mental performance and you: 10 things you need to know

Our mental performance, how we think, analyze, and perceive the world, influences how we work, tackle challenges, relate to others, manage stress and more. Where we choose to put our focus has a tremendous impact on how we feel and perform in our day-to-day lives. Julie Jones, Mental Performance Coach and Institute instructor, specializes in helping people boost their mental game, and in teaching them how mental training, positivity and self-awareness can help us do better in our jobs, our personal lives, as leaders, as athletes, and as members of the community. As a former Division I softball coach, Julie specializes in training athletes in mental performance techniques. The same brain strategies that can help a softball player improve her swing can help us all…

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Institute Editorial Team 08/02/2021

Meditation for beginners

We live in a demanding world — with hyper-connectivity and constant digital overload putting us under more pressure than ever before. For many of us, our stress levels have heightened as a result. Nowadays, trivial experiences, such as a traffic jam or work deadlines, can trigger our anxiety almost instantly, with one of the worst-case scenarios being a full-blown panic attack. Meditation is a powerful skill that can reduce stress, lessen symptoms of anxiety, and calm a panic attack. With practice, meditation can become a power switch, allowing us to turn off our non-stop lifestyle for a much-needed break and a chance to recharge our mind and body. The key to medication is practice. If you’re meditating for the very first time, you may find…

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Institute Editorial Team 01/24/2021

5 Exercises for Practicing Self-Compassion

Have you ever beat yourself up or said unkind words to yourself? If you’re like most of us, your answer is probably “yes.” Especially as women, we tend to be our own worst critics, and we usually treat ourselves in cruel ways that we’d never treat other people!But there’s a different way. Self-compassion is the practice of being kind and understanding with ourselves — not only when we succeed, but when we fail, too. Here, we’ve compiled 5 exercises you can use to start practicing self-compassion. These practices are based on extensive research by Dr. Kristin Neff, a psychologist who specializes in self-compassion. Try to incorporate them into your daily schedule as much as possible. You can use these 5 exercises at any time, day…

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Gina Messina, Ph.D. 02/28/2022

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Resolutions: How to Actually Follow Through With Yours This Year

We all set resolutions this time of year, but how can you actually stick to them? The new year is here, and many of us are thinking about what we love about our lives 一 and what we want to change. With that said, if you’re like most people, your resolutions probably lay forgotten around February 1st or so. The daily tasks of life have a way of getting in the way of our long-term goals, and it’s easy to put your New Year’s resolutions 一 and all of the hope and optimism that went with them 一 by the wayside. But it doesn’t have to be this way. There are ways to set, and work towards, resolutions that may make you more likely to…

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Saya Des Marais 01/02/2023

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