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Here at Cranky Fitness, we heartily endorse whining, complaining, kvetching, griping, and moaning as part of a well-rounded approach to the demands of healthy living.  However, in addition to these techniques, we also occasionally suggest that you get off your butt and get motivated and actually accomplish something.

So every now and then we try to provide motivational tips, often offered in the spirit of "do what we say, not what we do."  And we also like to cover psychological research, even though it frequently annoys us, and tackle other "self-improvement" topics.

Here are a few related posts and an index of relevant post labels--so, help yourself!

Typical Posts

Remotivating
Secret to Success
Can't Stick To Your Plan?
Worst Diet/Exercise Mistake
Show of Hands
Lucid Dreaming for Slackers
How to Get Up Early 
Hypochondria Lite
Bitter?
Listen to Shakespeare
The Healthy Hedonist
Easily Embarrassed
Lifelines
Anatomy of a Food Craving
Top 10 Reasons Not to Exercise
The Seven Types of Nice

Post Labels:

• anger (3)
• anxiety (6)
• Bias (1)
• Biofeedback (1)
• bitterness (1)
• Brain (2)
• Brain Health (3)
• bulimia (1)
• counterclockwise (1)
• creativity (1)
• Defensive Pessimism (2)
• Depression (5)
• dreams (3)
• Early Rising (2)
• Emotion (2)
• Empathy (2)
• Fear (2)
• Foxes and Hedgehogs (1)
• Friendship (2)
• Gratitude (1)
• guilt (1)
• Happiness (9)
• Hemispheres (1)
• hypnosis (1)
• Hypochondria (2)
• imagination (1)
• Individuality (1)
• Indulgence (8)
• inner slug (2)
• Irritation (1)
• Laziness (3)
• Life Hacks (1)
• lifestyle (1)
• Loneliness (1)
• lucid dreaming (3)
• Lumosity (1)
• Meditation (5) 
• Memory (4)
• Mental Health (19)
• Moderation (2)
• mood (2)
• Neurotic (2)
• New Year's Resolutions (4) 
• Office Politics (1)
• Parenting (17)
• personal development (15)
• Personality (3)
• Placebo (2)
• Relationships (10)
• Relaxation (1)
• Runner's High (1)
• Schizophrenia (1)
• self-control (1)
• self-esteem (5)
• self-talk (3)
• Sleep (13)
• SleepPhones (2)
• smart choices (1)
• Sound Healing (1)
• Stress (16)
• Suicide (3)
• Think and Grow Rich (1)
• Tibetan Bowls (1)
• visualization (1)
• Vocabulary (1)
• willful distractions (1)
• willpower (1)
• Zen (2)

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