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From couch potato to my first Triathlon, how a simple formula changed everything

Today I completed a Triathlon sprint (750m swim, 20Km Bike, 7.5km run) a personal goal I set for myself for this year.I wanted to share how I got here as it is ...

Introducing the Reblog Button

http://www.reblog.org/images/logobig.jpg > Reblogging (or, in Twitter parlance, retweeting) is the mechanism in blogging which allows users to repost the conten...

Positive News Magazine #5 - Stories from Pakistan, United States, Costa Rica & Australia

Good news from around the world, worth sharing. (I'd love Steemit to have a donate button so any proceeds of these kinds of articles would automatically be...

Positive News Magazine #4

Good news from around the world, worth sharing.  (I'd love Steemit to have a donate button so any proceeds of these kinds of articles would automatically b...

Steemit - We need a 'donate' button (as well as a 'promote' button) where any money made from a post gets automatically donated to a charitable cause

There seems to be a good number of people on Steemit who aren't just motivated by personal financial gain.   They often want any Steem Dollars that are mad...

These extraordinary teachers, tailors, and carpenters have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2016

 A story of hope shining from one of the darkest corners of humanity In the deadliest conflict of our era an unlikely group of heroes has emerged. Former t...

Positive news magazine #3

Good news worth sharing. The food sharing revolution Olio is the best idea if you want to help others (and hate food waste). While the focus recently has been o...

Black eyed peas update 'Where is the love' featuring the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsRMoWYGLNA All artist royalties, and Interscope Records proceeds from the sale of “WHERESTHELOVE” will be donated to the i.am a...

Positive news magazine #2

Homeless people are reconnecting with their loved ones thanks to this startup Social media for social good.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8GKZMBIfJM Yo...

Positive news magazine #1

Polish Olympian sells Rio medal to save three-year-old battling cancer Piotr Malachowski. Photo: Reuters Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski, who took silve...

How Martin Luther King succeeded - the power of small groups

Most people know of Rosa Park's simple act of bravery which catalysed Martin Luther King's civil rights movement. She simply bravely refused to obey the bus dri...

Der Spiegel breaking report: Closest star to our sun may have an Earth-like companion

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Der Spiegel reported The yet unnamed planet is presumably Earthlike and moves apparently so favorable distance to Proxima Centauri, that ...

The Dalai Lama's impact on science and where its leading...

The Dalai Lama recently challenged Professor Davidson ‘You’ve been using the tools of modern neuroscience to mostly study anxiety, depression and fear, all thes...

Astronauts are coming back changed in a beautiful way

Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, once described the emotion that occurs as you look at Earth from space. He called it“interconnected euphoria”. It's an expe...

Professor Richard Davidson says the Dalai Lama gave him a profound wake up call

The Dalai Lama recently challenged Professor Davidson ‘You’ve been using the tools of modern neuroscience to mostly study anxiety, depression and fear, all thes...

Improving focus, brain plasticity and your power to change

Developments in neuroscience are gradually uncovering brain states related to high performance and what cultivates this. This approach also helps identify busin...