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Setting Up Your Account Signing up for Etelos Projects is a little burdensome and somewhat non-intuitive. As far as I can tell, the only place you can sign up from is the “features” page, by clicking on the “Free Trial” button at the bottom. That gets you a standard account setup page, after which you are sent a confirmation email with your username and password, and a link to login. You need to use that link, since a cursory look at the website revealed no clear place to log in to your account....

Perhaps early in life you were told you’d be happy if you walked a certain path. Follow that path and the happiness would flow forevermore, but deviate from that path and your happiness would cease to exist. But what if someone with a successful career and extraordinary wealth told you otherwise — would you listen? According to Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group and multi-billionaire, happiness doesn’t come from success or money....

My first swing at this: Social Media. Blogs are a Platform Use blogs to communicate with a community about what interests you. If you’re a corporate blogger, write about the good and the bad about your subjects. If you’re just writing about yourself and your passions, great, but try to make the posts relevent to people outside of yourself. Be real. Be fresh. Communicate in both directions. Enable comments. And write back to those who comment....

Despite the fact that many of us believe the holiday season will inevitably result in a family row if we spend too much time together, it’s actually been scientifically proven that eating together as a family makes us happier. According to this infographic from Happify, studies show that 90% of people believe that eating together as a family is more important than the preparation of the meal or where the meal came from....

Finland may be on to something very big. You could be seeing the very beginnings of using silence as a selling point as silence may be becoming more and more attractive. As the world around becomes increasingly loud and cluttered you may find yourself seeking out the reprieve that silent places and silence have to offer. This may be a wise move as studies are showing that silence is much more important to your brains than you might think....

Mark encourages artists to post their three drawings side by side to detail their progress. Their results are absolutely stunning. The message behind the project is also incredibly powerful: everything starts small. What is that famous quote about getting started? “The journey of a million miles begins with a single step.” What this project shows is that in order to draw a masterpiece, you have to begin with a single stroke....

Figure out what you need The first thing you must do is figure out what tools you need in what context and then create a separate user account that contains those tools. For example, if you are a writer you may want to have a “writing account” where all you have access to is a simple text tool (or whatever writing tool that you prefer) and everything else is locked down....

Why does it matter? Let’s be honest—being tired stinks. It feels terrible and leaves you vulnerable to many health risks that well-rested people aren’t as susceptible to. Not only that, but it can also wreak havoc on your relationships and quality of life. The good news is that there are plenty of ways to help manage this, and you can start trying them out today! Some of the solutions may not be what you expect....

The main difference between Generation Y or Millennials, is that they appear to march to a different drum, their own. “With over 63% of Millennials having a Bachelors degree, they are the most educated generation in America — but, that doesn’t mean that they’re conforming to traditional learning tactics. In fact, 50% of Millennial college students say that they don’t even need a physical classroom, with 53% believing that online colleges are reputable, and 39% viewing the future of education as being more virtual....

For those that do want to see whether getting back together with your ex is a good idea, there is some good news. You can predict your chances of getting back with your ex fairly accurately by looking out for signs that you and your partner still stand a good chance together. Here is a list of those 8 factors to consider: The reason for your breakup Why did the two of you break up?...

I want to suggest entrepreneurship as an alternative, but I realize that it isn’t a great option for everyone. I’ve been putting together a list of pros and cons in an effort to decide whether starting up a business is really a good idea for some people, especially in the middle of ongoing financial problems. I’ve tried to stick to financial and business issues while it’s nice that many small business owners can spend more time with their families, I don’t think that’s the biggest issue for many folks considering entrepreneurship right now....

Speak to any specialist, and you’ll hear words like ‘do what you love to beat stress.’ Stress is basically our reaction to changes in or around our lives. It is also related to overthinking, so the best solution is to do or think about things we love. If we spend a while focused on something not stressful, our overall stress levels are reduced. To help you live a life with less stress, here are six hobbies that will help you stay happy and relaxed....

You do not need to go through such stressful diets and painful exercises because there other healthier and painless ways of losing weight as well. By making some small and painless changes in your lifestyle, you can say goodbye to your extra weight and lead a healthy and happy life. Here are some of the painless methods of weight loss: 1. Adding Food, Not Subtracting Them Instead of excluding food from your diet, try to add more healthy foods to it....

That being said, there are some common elements of highly happy people. Happy people who have unlocked the secrets of happiness have the seven characteristics below. How many do you have? Take the short quiz at the end to find out! The 7 Secrets of Highly Happy People

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While there are numerous advertisements out there offering surgeries and procedures to help alleviate body odor for good, you should only pay attention to them as a last resort. There’s a lot you can do to help prevent body odor without shelling out thousands of dollars or putting your body through unnatural processes. Before you decide to put your body through something that may or may not be necessary, check out some of these preventative solutions to excessive body odor....

Speed-Reading Techniques – [Keith Drury] (Link not working) Speed-Reading Techniques – [Keith Drury @ Archive.org version] 5. Break the Back-skip habit. Most of us read along a line of type like this one to get the interpretation of the meaning, but as we read our eyes jump back to dwell on a word we just passed. We do this without knowing it. In fact, probably the only way to discover how many times you back skip is to have someone watch you read and count the eye-darts back....

This will mean different things for different people, but if you have your own office, you might try locking the door and only scheduling meetings in the afternoon -hopefully, this will mean you’ll get more done in the morning. Of course, for this really to work well, you might have to convince your co-workers to try spending half of their days alone as well. Otherwise, other employees may distract you, but if you can make an office quiet-time, you might be able to help the whole office get more done....

This start-up app, currently in beta testing, is a (currently) Gmail app that isn’t just quick for the sake of quickness. Quickly works by giving suggestions on actions to take when you open an email based on what the email contains and, as you keep using and teaching it, how you’ve responded or acted upon similar emails in the past. Since Quickly is still in beta, the developers are continuing to build the program’s comprehension and prediction abilities with the help of beta testers (I just signed up myself!...

The Migraine Research Foundation indicates that migraine headaches are common. In fact, approximately 18% of American women and 6% of men suffer from migraine headaches. Thus, if you suffer from migraines, you won’t be surprised that they are the 8th most disabling illness in the world. According to researchers, there is hope for migraine sufferers. This study published in the International Journal of Yoga, indicates that when yoga is combined with conventional care, migraine headaches can be reduced in intensity and frequency....