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  HOW OTHER CULTURES LIVE LONG AND PROSPER. "THE APPRECIATION OF THE VALUES OF BEING YOUNG HAS GIVEN BIRTH TO EXCELLENT ANIME, MANGA, AND GAME WORKS, IN JAPAN THE KNACK OF BEAUTIFUL AGEING IS EQUATED WITH KEEPING YOUR INNER CHILD ALIVE. THAT'S THE SECRET OF JAPANESE CULTURE".   HERE, FRANK OLIVES EXPLAINS THE FIVE PILLARS OF IKIGAI AND HOW YOU CAN FIND YOURS . Pillar 1: START SMALL. People tend to think in big terms, but everything actually starts small. You can discover your IKIGAI by finding little things that you like to do. Doing something even if it's small, activates the brain's motor circuits, reinforcing synaptic connections between neurons, which keeps your brain robust and young. Pillar 2:   RELEASE YOURSELF . If you have too much stress, you can't live a long and happy life. The majority of stress comes from relationships with other people - if you're concerned about yourself too much, you'll be disappointed when other people don...

OLIVES SALONS' TIPS FOR FINDING YOUR FASHION SENSE I'm CONSTANTLY ASKED FOR STYLE ADVICE. I hate to give guidelines because what works for one person won't necessarily work for another But here's what I believe: the worst fashion faux pas is looking in the mirror and seeing somebody else. YOU HAVE TO KNOW YOURSELF BEFORE YOU CAN FIND YOUR OWN STYLE.   If I tell you what to do, it's not your style anymore, it's mine.  Your style has to come from you, style can not be bought or learned - it's in your DNA. You can get help to bring it out, and you can learn how to be better dressed. But in the end, style is inherent. A personal shopper or stylist cant give it o you, either. STYLE IS ATTITUDE, ATTITUDE, ATTITUDE.   It's not about wearing expensive closes. You can have all kinds of money and have no style. You can be dressed in the latest couture, $10'000 shoes and be bubbled to the nines, and look like a Christmas tree. IT...

CONSCIOUS DECISIONS Ⅰ .  Is the most powerful action we can take that lays the total foundation of our life from small to the big decision whether we do it or don't it's an automatic action that happens whether we like it or not, so the choice is ours, to plan what we want to do with our lives, what time we want and when consciously. Ⅱ .  Stop right there and review your life from the time you gained your consciousness to now you obviously can see all your bad and good decisions you made that brought you to where you are now and know that you still have the best chance in your life to change who you aren't to who you want to be but then mind you it's no easy since good/bad decision is the son of your own HABITS .   Ⅲ .  HABITS are our most repeated actions in our daily life that get transformed into automatic actions that we perform effortlessly  and play a big part in our lives and affect everything around us, look around you ( Office, Home, Health) and...