March 2007
68 posts
Four Profound Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
“Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.”
- Don Miguel Ruiz
In his most famous and influential work, The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz offers his apprentices these four simple yet profound agreements as important tools on the path to personal freedom. Anyone can use these wonderful...
How to read with more comprehension
Want to understand more of what you read - even if the material is somewhat above your head? No problem - just follow educator Ann McNeal of Hampshire College’s four-step guide for reading a research paper.
Now, while her tips primarily apply to students trying to slog their way through academia, anyone who wants to read with more comprehension will get something out of this. Basically,...
Cheat Death And Grow Younger With These 44...
“Biologists estimate that the human body has the potential to last 120 years, and how you live determines 75 percent of how far you go.”
Yes, medical advances theoretically make it possible for us to live to the age of 120. But despite what science tells us, the average life span for Americans is just 76 years. So what are you doing wrong? Don’t even think of blaming your parents. Genes are only...
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Dilbert’s Happiness Formula
Scott Adams, creator of the wildly entertaining (and my personal favorite) comic “Dilbert,” gives his take on the formula for happiness. Some of the article is written in jest, however it is still a very interesting read.
I fantasize about writing a book called The Happiness Formula. The idea would be to create a simple formula for troubleshooting your life and improving your happiness. On...
More ways to date on the cheap
These days, dinner and a movie can easily set you back $100. Zen Habits has 15 date ideas that will cost you a lot less—or nothing at all. Some examples:
Festivals. Look in your local paper … you might find all kinds of festivals, from movies to dance to desserts and more. They cost very little, and they are a blast. Walk around, make jokes, sample everything.
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Jott + Gmail = to-do list by phone
A blogger at Studentlinc explains how he combined Jott and Gmail to create a to-do list he can add to just by making a phone call.
Jott, as you may recall, is a free service that transcribes phone messages and sends the text to you via e-mail. The trick here is to create a Jott-specific label in Gmail, then set up your Jott account to send messages to that address. One click of the Jott label...
“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It...”
– Edith Sitwell
Having trouble with GTD? Try WSD
If you find the GTD system to be too confusing, time consuming, etc. give WSD a try. WSD is a simpler form of staying organized which is based on making sure you have a writing utensil and note card on you at all times. After you take notes on your note card, leave the note card in the appropriate location to complete the task. For example, if you are writing notes (or next actions) for...
How to Find Your Passion
If you could do one thing to transform your life, I would highly recommend it be to find something you’re passionate about, and do it for a living.
Now, this isn’t as easy as it sounds, but it’s well worth the effort. If you dread going to your job, or find yourself constantly lacking motivation, or find what you’re doing dull and repetitive, you need to start looking for a new job. Staying in...
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The top 40 blogs
If you’re consistently prowling the web to find great content, like me, stop over at the Frantic Industries weblog. Frantic Industries recently published a list of the 40 most popular weblogs according to FeedBurner. In case you miss us, lifehack.org is rolling in at number 18.
FeedBurner is a popular RSS feed manager, with over 600.000 feeds in their roster. One of the advantages it offers...
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MacGyver Tip: Polish chrome with baby oil
The April issue of Real Simple magazine (the dead tree edition) offers a reason to hold onto that old bottle of baby oil in the bathroom cabinet - for use as quick and easy chrome polish:
Apply a dab to a cotton cloth and use it to shine everything from faucets to hubcaps.
Check out some more DIY household cleaning products here. — Gina Trapani
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Secret Gmail delete keyboard shortcut
Technology blogger Amit Agarwal has posted the mysterious keyboard shortcut for deleting messages in Gmail:
If you are reading a message in GMail, press the # key (Shift+3) and that message will instantly move to Trash. Alternatively, select one or more email messages in the GMail list view, press the same # hash key and all the selected GMail conversations will be deleted in one batch.
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Weekend Project: Fold your own furniture
Need new furniture for the kidlets, and don’t feel like spending some coin on some crappy plastic schlop? Try folding your own carboard furniture instead with free (yay!) patterns from Foldschool.
Now, obviously, this stuff is not meant to last a super long time, but come on - you’re making your own furniture, for Pete’s sake. First, it’s cheap. Second, your kids can draw...
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“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How to transition from work mode to home life
For those of us who have a hard time checking out of work mode when it’s time to kick back and enjoy normal life, the Web Worker Daily weblog posts a few tips for going off the clock when you’re out of the office.
The tips offered include setting up a work-to-home transition period, setting strict limits between the two, planning your non-work evening, and learning to better stop...
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Improve your social tact with What Should I Say?
Web site What Should I Say? lets you ask questions of fellow users within a simple but useful framework: You have a social problem, and you’re not sure what you should say to address the situation.
Once you register, you can either post your own WSIS questions or respond to other people’s questions. What you get in the end is an open social forum, which isn’t really new, but...
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Kemmons Wilson’s 20 Tips for Success
1. Work only a half a day; it makes no difference which half-it can be either the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours. 2. Work is the master key that opens the door to all opportunities. 3. Mental attitude plays a far more important role in a person’s success or failure than mental capacity. 4. Remember that we all climb the ladder of success one step at a time. 5. There are two ways to get...
“Blow me a kiss from across the room
Say I look nice when I’m not.
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– Lyrics from an old song sung by Kitty Kallen
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