What the Studies Found Two separate studies, one from Washington University and one from Harvard, both found a link between regular, moderate alcohol consumption and a healthy body weight. In the study out of Harvard, scientists looked at almost 20,000 women who were of a healthy body weight for 13 years and studied them for factors like weight gain, physical activity, and alcohol consumption. Researchers concluded that “compared with non-drinkers, initially normal weight women who consumed a light to moderate amount of alcohol gained less weight and reduced their risk of obesity....

A Test To Try At Home To Determine If You’re An Introvert Or Extrovert: What you will need: A lemon or concentrated lemon juice Cotton swab/Q-tip with a short piece of thread tied exactly in the middle of it The Lemon Experiment: Place one end of the cotton swab on your tongue and hold for 20 seconds. Next, put five drops of lemon juice onto your tongue and swallow the lemon juice....

Here’s a list of just some of the changes: New user interface Teamly’s new interface allows users to now see their top priorities, tasks for later and also leftover items — all on one page. In addition, they can see them using separate views for the day, week, month, or quarter. The Overview feature lets you look at everything on one page, which helps you plan. — although users who preferred the Classic view can still use it....

Back in 1908, psychologists Robert Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson ran an experiment to see if they could motivate rats through a maze using mild electrical shocks. The results found that if the shocks were overbearing and too strong, the rats would lose motivation and instead try to escape. The conclusion of the experiment was that increasing stress could have an impact on focusing motivation, as long as it was only up to a certain point....

Maybe you have a thumb drive you keep your work on; now all you have to do is find a PC that can read your files, and hope you remembered to backup the files you need right away. But advances in web technology over the last couple years have given us another way to work from anywhere, no matter what computer we have access to, as long as we have access to the Internet: online word processors....

You can’t rush something that you want to last forever.

What exactly do you need to consider before agreeing to walk down the aisle? Perhaps the two key considerations are where the two of you will live and whether you will have children. If you want to live in an urban area for most of your working life but your fiancé yearns to live in the countryside, you may have to accept that you want to lead opposing lifestyles. This will require that one or both parties compromise if the relationship is to survive....

11 Reasons Why You Don’t Have Many Friends

Check the following list to see if you are secretly an introvert!

Sitting in your office for an extended period has many implications for your health. It causes a back pain or relatively increases an existing strain. Prolonged sitting in an inert posture leads to increase in the level of stress at the back and shoulders which leads to the damage of spinal structures. An all-rounded helper to help you improve your sitting postures The name Darma is obtained from the father of meditation and Zen called Bodhidharma....

That’s it, now you’ve learned the best, most efficient way to peel a kiwi, mango, or even an avocado! Watch the video below to make sure you’ve got the technique. Featured photo credit: DaveHax via youtube.com

It’s amazing what you can find out about a person through these things, and you should be weary of that, because employers do the same thing. Are you weary of your online persona? The Blog is the New Resume – [Bokardo]

We’ve covered the basics of productive email use with Gmail. By now, with an average email load, you should be able to power through it all within 15 minutes. But that doesn’t mean you can’t cut down on even more time, or make Gmail an even more powerful application, with the help of a few browser extensions and even some desktop applications. To quickly recap: in part one we looked at consolidating your accounts....

The Inbox is Sacred You must learn to see your inbox as an almost sacred place: the worst sin you can commit against it is leaving messages in there to rot. I’m not talking about days or weeks. You’ve got to deal with each message in your inbox during your email processing session. It cannot be in the inbox once you’ve finished. Since we’re using multiple email accounts, we have them filtering into a variety of labels....

This one comes from InspirationBit.com and has grouped 37 entries from those giving their 2 cents on what inspires them. Many are written for a particular job, photography, blogging etc.; so have a look at what might inspire you. Group Writing Project Results: 37 Sources Of Inspiration – [InspirationBit]

I need a forgiving synchronization method — something that doesn’t require me to initiate back ups or juggle versions. Dropbox seems to be that method. I’ve actually been using it for over a month now and have encountered an impressive lack of problems. Wikis and Security I use a wiki (TiddlyWiki, to be precise) to handle a lot of my projects in progress. No matter what system I use to keep files in sync across computers, I have to have reliable access to my wiki....

Since the ‘cloud’ has become such an integral part of many lives, it’s important to be able to wrap you head around how it works and what it can do for you — especially interns of productivity. So, I’ve put together another of my videos for you to check out. In this video I give you: An overview of Dropbox How to use Dropbox on multiple devices (particularly the iPad) How to implement a workflow with Dropbox How to share large files and back up your data using Dropbox...

Employers and recruitment agencies alike have seen many horrors of the CV malfunction. Whether you are ready to move on or there have been signs that you may be losing your job, keeping your CV up to date and ready to rock and roll when you see a fabulous job is all part of the process. We all want to be adored and employed for our talents and skills, don’t we?...

We might not master the art of cooking, but this quote reminded me that life works the same way. Sometimes things go awry and yet we still have to go along with it. We are the ones expected to find a way to fix it and to make it “taste” better. This is not something easy to do but we can always find solace and comfort in the sweetness of words....

Smart and Stupid at the Same Time I’ve spoken before about human intelligence being a multi-dimensional thing and today I thought we’d take a brief look at, what I believe to be, one of the most important and valuable components of overall intelligence: Social Intelligence. Some people are very intelligent (capable, competent, efficient) when it comes to completing certain tasks but surprisingly inept (dare I say, stupid?) when it comes to others....