My morning routine was in need of a serious overhaul. I went through a phase where I rolled over and checked my phone before I got out of bed. I just had to know what I had missed while I slept. You may be able to relate. Many of us start our days by checking our emails and social media, but this might not be the best thing for us....
Manage Threads Better- If you know and can easily reference who you owe WHAT in terms of time, deliverables, cash, and otherwise, it helps you reboot your life faster. For instance, if I wanted to “drop everything” right now, I’d have to stop working on my (soon to be too late) Father’s Day project, stop working on a picture refinishing project, kill my household tasks, stop writing for 5 or 6 blogs, etc, etc....
We ALL know what this feels like. The Monday morning (and sometimes afternoon) blues suck. If you’re already in the midst of a depressive episode, then the emotional upheaval of Monday morning is amplified exponentially. The Monday Morning Blues Will Be Conquered Here Here’s a quick set of hacks to jump-start your Monday. Get ready to remove any psychic glue that keeps you stuck to your bed. Follow these five simple steps, each of which takes anywhere from 20 seconds to a minute, except for Step Four which takes a whopping three minutes or so....
It’s not easy for us to admit that we’ve been winging it health-wise. We get busy, lazy, and easily distracted and ignore the fact that we need to make a desperate change for the better. We become submissive to our willpower, succumb to temptations, and end up eating what we shouldn’t. We make unremarkable excuses, then delve into laziness, simply because we have no plan of action to get us started or better yet, a plan to keep us going!...
These days, in western culture, love is all about the heart and how we choose to follow it. We can choose anybody we like, so long as we know ourselves and know what we want. So when we head into the world of dating, how do we recognise the scholars from the shrews? The heroes from the horrors? With a million different kinds of hearts and souls wandering around us, how on earth do we define what exactly it is that we might be looking for?...
This isn’t true. Firstly, there are free blogging options that allow you to paste advertising code. WordPress.com doesn’t, but Google’s Blogger.com does. Blogger.com even includes it as standard procedure meaning you don’t even have to paste any code, just sign up to Adsense. There are other options and I would like to open up the comments section for suggestions similar to Blogger.com. One thing that you will want to do, however, is register a domain name....
If you’re troubled by the ill effects of long term-viewing, but need a reminder to look away, Martin Brinkmann from Ghacks recently review an app you should check out. EyePro is a free Windows program that, once configured, pops up to remind you to give your eyes a rest. At the time intervals you specify, a pop up will cover your screen and caution you to look away. It even suggests a few ergonomic exercises to help out your hands and wrists....
How Anger Can Be Positive There are good reasons why we tend to subdue emotions like anger, because it can be difficult to harness and harmful in its full effect. Yet anger is a good example of how we can take negative emotions and consider their full use. While we are taught that anger is largely detrimental and inhibiting to our daily lives, this may not always be the case. Studies have shown that when fuelled by anger, we are less likely to think in systematic ways and we have high-powered cognitive ability compared to people who feelsad or depressed....
But it is not just patrons of the arts who believe this. A plethora of recent studies have demonstrated what everyone from Albert Einstein to Taylor Swift knows to be true: Music is excellent therapy. A study released in the Music Therapy journal published by Oxford University in 1983 certainly confirmed this hypothesis. The study included 50 patients who each suffered from cancer. The ages of the patients ranged between 17 and 69....
This infographic from Britannia Living takes a look at what fruits and vegetables are in season in winter, spring, summer and autumn. Eating seasonally can have a positive effect on your mind and body. Food that is in season is more likely to be fresher and consuming foods closer to harvesting can be higher in nutritional value. When foods are stored for a longer time, their vitamins and anti-oxidants can also decline....
Provided you’re in the camp who were willing to abstract the premise from history, please by all means, check out this interesting viewpoint regarding sales. Learn to sell the end result and not the features and you won’t spend as much time on each sale or worse, as much time lost on not selling. Sell Like a Pirate – [Simplenomics]
Did you know that all states require caregivers to report suspected child sexual abuse. Caregivers, babysitters, nannies and even teachers are the first line of defense to protect our children. Careful screening of those in contact with our kids is step one. Education is step two to address this age-old problem, not just for adults who care for kids but the kids themselves. Lives are literally on the line. Nobody wants to tell their kids that someone they know might try to touch them in a way that is inappropriate....
Got a new gadget? Maybe it’s a beautiful new iPod, Blackberry, or camera. We’ve seen a lot of debris from these gadgets in our organizing work… empty boxes, drawers and bins full of old cords and cables, and files full of obsolete manuals. Here’s my 7-step checklist for making sure your gadget has the best possible life! Look at the return policy. Right when you get home with your new toy, make sure you notice on the receipt what the return policy is for that store....
Sometimes, the best way to be happy is to learn to let go of things you tried hard to hold on to that are no longer good for you.
Find yourself drifting off mid-sentence? Struggle to focus on the person you’re speaking to? It doesn’t mean that you’re boring, but it could mean that you’re inadvertently using common conversation killers.These are phrases that can bring almost any conversation grinding to a halt. While you might not realize it, you could be the one making your conversations dull. Luckily, that’s easy to fix. Read on to find out more about what kills a conversation, and how you can put some life back into your communication....
Then you pick up the phone and make a call to your doctor, explaining that you are not feeling well and that you need help. You are fortunate enough to be able to set up a quick appointment with your doctor and you go in to see him right away. After the doctor’s appointment, you start feeling better. Your doctor gave you a bunch of pills to cure your stomach pain and you begin to feel relieved and satisfied....
About two thirds of Americans say they do not get a good nights sleep during the week, according to a survey taken by the Sleep Foundation. The lack of sleep is caused by many different factors, especially amongst different generations. Many people feel like it is simply not possible to get enough sleep, and that they function fine without the requisite 8 hours – but what long term impacts could this have?...
This was a finding that was and wasn’t surprising. Girija Kaimal, EdD, mentions to Drexel Now:[5] The Experiment 39 Students (33 women and 6 men), between the ages of 18-59 were included as part of the study. There was a diverse representation of race: 18 students reported limited prior experience with art making, 13 some experience, and 8 extensive experience. The study involved an hour session of which 15 minutes were used for consent and data collection prior and after the session....
Summer’s almost over, folks! I don’t know about you, but my summer was go! go! go! the whole time. Between the kids being off school, writing a ton (here and elsewhere), finishing up and self-publishing a book, keeping the house in order, looking for a new house (looks like we found one!), and of course, working my day job, I’m bushed. Time to relax! Ah, but how? It can be hard to find your way to relaxation bliss when you’re on the run all the time....
Take stock of your situation This is the scary part! The first step is to face reality, look at the bank balances and see what the damage is. How much did you spend specifically for Christmas? Would you do it again? If so, divide this amount by a weekly/fortnightly amount (depending on your pay cycle) and make it part of a regular savings plan for the New Year. Next Christmas you can enjoy guilt-free spending and no Christmas hangover!...
