A concept that comes up all the time in the study of happiness is mindfulness. I’m not a very mindful person (are you? here’s a quiz), and I’m always looking for ways to cultivate greater mindfulness. Except meditation — I just cannot get myself to try meditation. I know, I know, I should.
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I’ve been self-employed and working from home for more than a year now, but even before that, when I worked in an office, I was experimenting with freer models of working, trying to break out of the mold of the 8-to-5-with-a-lunch-break model.
Addicted to book cover design?
Get your fix at The Book Cover Archive, a collection of 1000+ fairly well-designed book covers. Curated by Ben Pieratt and Eric Jacobsen, the site features work by prominent designers such as David Pearson and Chip Kidd.
Several months ago, I wrote an article entitled The Guardianship Question, where I discussed at length the challenges that parents face when making the difficult decision about guardianship in their estate planning. It’s a very challenging thing to think about - who can possibly take care of your children if something unexpected were to happen to you?
“This is no fairy story and no joke; the meat will be shoveled into carts and the man who did the shoveling will not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one.”
— Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
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I have become fascinated by meat in the last several months, after both experimenting with vegetarianism and tracking health data.
By Silicon Valley ...In recent weeks, I've gotten into some great discussions with people about the stimulus bill that was cobbled together by Congress last week. At one point, one of the proposed versions of the package grew to a staggering $900 billion until it was wrestled back to a relatively trimmer $800 billion. I suppose we should thank our wonderful leaders that they were
When I was in grade school, we talked about the future. We watched films about the huge technological advances that were just around the corner. I remember dreaming about the day we would have robots and devices to handle every mundane task in our lives. We would only spend our time on tasks that were either exceptionally important or remarkably enjoyable and fulfilling.
Ronald Wimberly is not only a top-notch illustrator, he also makes us laugh. “Often I have to convince someone to pay for my ideas in order for them to come to light,” he says. “Sometimes it's easy, but when it isn't, lying about my intentions helps.”
Eleanor shows her spiffy apartment. Love the clean lines, but wait, what's that mess of wires? No worries. A hacked Hol to the rescue.
She says, "I have a small loft which serves as kitchen, lounge, dining room and study. I carefully planned the space and I use my iMac as a TV/DVD player, the bit that let the whole space down was my printer sitting in a mess of wires.
the mess
Again we want to welcome guest author Alex Fayle, the writer behind the helpful anti-procrastination website Someday Syndrome.
One of the most frequent questions I ever get asked about organizing is the process. How do you make the decisions to get rid of things? While there are many tips and tricks you can use to ease the streamlining process, it all comes down to 5 easy steps:
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. — Yoda
Last week I did something that scared the hell out of me. I stood in front of nearly 200 financial planners and I talked to them about why financial blogs are a good thing.
Effective cover letters are tailored to an individual job or company. If you email a generic cover letter, you lose the chance to connect the dots for a potential employer. With a customized cover letter, you can highlight specific skills and attributes. You can draw parallels between what you have and what the employer wants.Still, you must respond to job opportunities fast.
Ok, I’m not going to claim that this is the most exciting product in the world, but it is one that caught my eye. The Collapsible Funnel by Progressive International doesn’t need much explaining. It is a funnel. It collapses. It is easy to store.
