The Layla blog

This article explains how everyone has a natural decision-making style — whether you tend to decide quickly or take your time — and how understanding that style can help you make choices with greater calm and clarity. It offers practical tools to help you avoid impulsive decisions or excessive overthinking, so you can make better, more values-aligned decisions in life.

This article defines Emotional Intelligence (EQ) as the ability to recognize your own emotions, understand where they come from, and choose thoughtful responses — while also tuning into and empathizing with the feelings of others. It outlines four core skills (self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management) and gives practical, gentle steps to improve EQ over time.

This article explores how small adjustments in posture, eye movement, and other aspects of body awareness can significantly boost memory and learning. It offers practical, science-backed strategies to help readers study more effectively and retain information with greater ease.

Busy days can leave your mind feeling scattered, but focus becomes easier when you prioritize what matters, move your body, and reshape digital habits. This guide shares three science-backed strategies to help you regain clarity and use your energy more intentionally.

Worry is a common human experience, but it can drain mental energy and overwhelm the brain’s natural systems for focus and decision-making. This guide explains the neuroscience of worry, debunks common myths, and shares practical strategies to help you create space, clarity, and calm.

Hard work doesn’t have to feel draining—research shows that self-discipline is a skill you can strengthen through meaning, practice, and small daily habits. This guide explores how effort can become energizing, purposeful, and even rewarding when you learn to work with your brain, not against it.