It’s possible. It’s not easy, and it takes some sacrifices, but if you really work at it, you can cut your work week in half. It will require you to step back and re-design your work life. It will require some major life changes. But they are worth the effort. Here’s how to do it, in six steps: Become super valuable. If you’re not already one of the top performers in your company, or an expert or extremely knowledgeable in a valuable area, this will be your first priority....

The Memo Pocket features six individual organizer pockets allowing you to keep everything organized. Combining Your Wallet and Hipster PDA With the Moleskine Memo Pocket [The Cranking Widgets Blog]

I want to love my son, and he wants to love me, but all we do is clash with each other nearly every day with the most mundane of things. The one glimmer of hope is that throughout this journey we are able to discuss how we are feeling, once the dust has settled! B. was able to sit down with me this evening to help me with ideas for this article....

With near two years of experience at lifehack.org, I found out there are numbers of big topic that we concern in our life and wanted to find better ways to handle them. We have divided our discussion forum to following topics: Communication: Presentation, Writing, Small-talk, Blogging, etc… Productivity: Motivation, Procrastination, Time Management, Planning… Management: Entrepreneurship, People Management, Self Management, Project Management… Lifestyle: Health, Diet, Exercise, Sleeping… Financial: Money, Investment, Debt… Technology: Tools, PDA, Hardware, Software, Web Apps… Readers, enjoy the new community!...

Resolutions can be wonderful and motivating, but the sad fact is that the majority of them with go unkept. The solution? To get realistic about resolutions, and to choose goals that are both attainable and inspire a sense of enjoyment and hope rather than obligation. The following list contains five of the most common resolutions that people make every January, with reasons why you probably shouldn’t even thing about putting them on your to-do list....

We’ve all been there, but thanks to John Gottman’s pioneering work at the University of Washington Love Lab, you don’t have to be a character in a Wham! video anymore. I’m about to teach you a reverse lifehack that will systematically destroy all longing for the person who broke up with you. Note: this isn’t for the faint of heart; like all those spells from Once Upon a Time, it’s not easily reversed and comes with a hefty price....

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The story begins with an old lady who lives alone receiving a large gift from her son living far away. The old lady feels disappointed when she reads the note telling that her son, John cannot come back to visit her this year. After unwrapping the gift, she finds that there’s a child-like robot inside! The woman then lives with the robot, and they take care of each other like mother and son....

Work-life balance relies on making time for relaxation, and even celebrating it. The theme of Oprah’s latest issue of her popular O Magazine is “The Really Busy Woman’s Guide to Relaxing.” Yes, even the busiest of people need to take time to just chill. (Just Chill is also the name of a refreshing beverage that Oprah recommends which contains amino acids from green tea leaves, purported to provoke feelings of calm....

We’ll focus on the third fact here. So how can you curb the fear of delivering a speech before an audience? Actually, there are several steps you need to do to obliterate this fear. One of the steps is to prepare thoroughly. Go, decide what you really want to talk about. In case you’re given a topic you lack knowledge in, do your assignment. Research about it. If you have done that, next thing you do is to psyche yourself....

Passion Flower – A Simple, Natural Remedy Antidepressants and sleeping aids are available from medical practitioners on prescription. However, some medications can trigger dependency and come with unpleasant side effects. For example, antidepressants can suppress libido and lead to gastrointestinal problems. Therefore, it is unsurprising that people often turn to more natural remedies when suffering insomnia and stress. Over the centuries, numerous plant-based medicines have been used to treat nervous mood states and sleeplessness....

Your short-term memory has a max capacity of seven. Humans have three forms of memory: sensory, long-term and short-term. Long-term memory is like hard-drive space, while short-term memory works like a very small RAM. This short-term memory can hold only about five to nine (average is seven) items at a time. Nine Brain Quirks You Didn’t Realize You Had

This gives me an idea – if we are tracking this passively – through what they write in their blogs and journals – how about if the lifehack.org team contacts them directly and ask them on some quick tips? Hence a new series at lifehack.org is created – called Productive Interview Series, where we will interview some productive people we know throughout my time at lifehack.org. We will reach out other contacts who we are not familiar with as well....

9 things you can check off your list that do nothing but impede your business progress, productivity and pleasure in your personal life. I particularly agree with this one. Must I be available 24/7 just because technology allows me to? What have you been removing from your lists lately? The Not-To-Do List: 9 Habits to Stop Now – [TimFerriss]

Your computer crashes. It won’t start up again. What do you do? Nothing productive. The morning’s wasted, the technician comes and tells you that you need a new hard drive, and your afternoon’s gone too while you go shopping for a new one. There are a million variations of this scenario. We put ourselves in a precarious position when we rely totally and completely on technology to maintain our productivity systems and execute the tasks we set for ourselves with them....

Hi. My name is Dustin, and I’m addicted to notepads. I first realized I was addicted when I found myself prowling office supply stores in the wee hours of the afternoon, trying to score a college-ruled composition book. Pretty soon, I couldn’t go anywhere without my works – a battered red Moleskine and a black Sharpie click-pen. And it got worse. I started thinking, “maybe there’s a perfect notebook out there for this particular project....

If so, you’re not alone. The Destiny Theory of Relationship is characterized by the belief that relationships are either meant to be or doomed from the start. The problem with this theory, as the following relationship graph from Riskology.co shows, is that the results are rarely happily ever after. The destiny theory looks more like a roller coaster than happily ever after. Here are a few clues that you may be at this end of the spectrum:...

In today’s very dangerous times, everything in our lives can change in a split second when we neglect to protect a part of our home. Whether it’s the malfunctioning kitchen appliance, the broken lock, or even our dislocated windows, they should be given immediate assistance before accidents or crime-related mishaps occur. Keeping our homes safe begins with ensuring our security. To that end, one should recognize the importance of maintaining a home with everything sealed with the correct safety measures....

A Simple 7 Step-by-step Guide on Starting a Mediterranean Diet: 1. Ditch the butter and margarine and replace with healthy fats like olive oil. Olive oil is a good source of mono-unsaturated fats and beneficial omega-3 fatty acids. You can spice things up with a quality extra virgin olive oil by mixing it with balsamic vinegar. The mixture is great for dipping bread. By adding a sweetener like honey, this mixture can be transformed from a dip to a salad dressing....