We’ve had a great response from potential sponsors, but there’s still room for a few more. Our Sponsors So Far Take a minute to visit some of the great companies and sites that have already offered to take part in the Great Big Summer Giveaway: What are we looking for? If you read Lifehack, you already know people read Lifehack to find out how to work and live better, more efficiently, and with less stress....
That is why it’s critical not only to identify those fields and skills that are in high demand in general but also to be very specific at matching those skills with your strengths and existing knowledge. By extending that already-present base, you give yourself a chance to quickly step forward and grow so you can keep up with the pace. But it’s also a great idea to look above and beyond your circle of comfort....
Original source – Zen Pencils Luckily, in addition to the top 10 reasons why people don’t reach their goals, I’ve included a quick fix for each of them. So let’s get to it. Top 10 Reasons Why People Don’t Reach Their Goals
With this infographic from business management company Mindflash, you can put your LinkedIn skills to the test. Whether you’re lost on the site and don’t know where to begin, or you want to see if your profile really is as great as you think, this clear-cut LinkedIn “boot camp” will set you straight. Learn what makes a great profile and how you can achieve it. Then go get ’em, tiger....
Photoshop Lover PhotoShopContest.com Editing your digital images without the mystery Become a Photoshop Expert – [Desperately Wandering]
In case you hadn’t heard, Facebook users share not only a social network of over 200 million, but also significantly lower grade point averages (GPAs) than their non-member classmates (according to Time Magazine). And apparently Jennifer Aniston ended her relationship with John Mayer because he was addicted to Twitter (as apposed to drugs like other musicians… ). This begs the question, how many of us are addicted to social networks, and what can we do about it?...
McDonald’s have recently started “#imlovinit24”, a campaign you may already have heard of – especially if you were sat on a certain bench in Toronto recently. McDonald’s set up a regular looking bench in one of their restaurants in Toronto, right in front of a large sign saying “Welcome to McDonald’s.” When two strangers sat on each side of the bench, a hidden panel would appear offering food or drinks for the two to share....
Take stock of your tools Do you have what you need? Just as a good chef looks over the entire recipe before they begin, it is important to look through the entire process before you start. In my case, I neglected to see if we had any solvent around so when I got to the step where I needed to remove old thermal paste, I was unable to proceed without a trip for rubbing alcohol....
This is the basis of the Mediterranean diet which (although thousands of years old) made the news headlines a few years back. So whats the latest buzz about the Med diet? Researchers have studied groups of individuals, particularly those who live in Mediterranean areas (ie. Spain) and consumed a Mediterranean type diet. Not only has this diet shown to decrease the risk of heart attacks and strokes, but more recently researchers have found this type of diet to have a correlation to protecting the brain....
There’s a disagreement in the scientific community about accurately defining meditation and mindfulness.[1] Articulating the distinctions between these concepts require thinking beyond the proverbial box. The process is similar to knitting a blanket. You start with a tangled mess of yarn. Before it’s possible to weave it into its intended, recognizable form, you must smooth out the knots and kinks into a workable media. Thankfully, there’s a simple way to untangle the mindfulness vs....
“I get a lot of messages and emails from people saying that they had a bad day, but after reading my blog they were able to laugh about it and feel relieved others were going through the same too,” she said. “People shouldn’t feel like they are a rubbish parent just because they had to drag their kid kicking and screaming out of Tesco’s. It happens to the best of us!...
The Marshmallow Challenge takes place at corporate retreats all over the country. The teams are usually made up of four people and they jockey for power or to avoid power in the group, plan and then build their marshmallow tower. At about sixteen minutes they panic, put the marshmallow on top and the tower falls over. Why? Why did they get no results even though they worked hard? Tom Wujec at Autodesk talks about who has been successful at The Marshmallow Challenge and what groups have not been so successful....
Wild (2014) follows the true story of a woman who hiked 1,100 miles to rediscover herself and recover from a decade of personal tragedies. Sometimes you have to get lost to find yourself Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) is pushed to reckless and self-destructive behavior after the loss of her mother and the dissolution of her marriage. With no hiking experience, she embarks on the Pacific Crest Trail to find herself....
Terrie from O’Reilly has written a short and neat summary on concepts and/or off-the-cuff quotes from Allen. Several highlights: Followed on Terrie’s link track – Buzz Bruggeman, the guy behind ActiveWords software, has also written a notes for the seminar. Buzz’s post however is more full-on. If you dig into details this notes are for you: Getting Things Done: the Roadmap – [Terrie at O’Reilly] GTD…the Road Map…San Jose – [Buzz Bruggeman] When you know how many agreements you have made, you will make fewer agreements!...
1. Everyone You Love is Going to Die Grim as this may sound, realizing that eventually you and everyone you know won’t be around forever will enrich and deepen your relationships. So many people take their loved ones for granted and feel an unrelenting sense of regret when they’re gone. Parents, grandparents, friends — we never know when we may find out that they’re no longer with us. Have you called your parents lately?...
Boy, that clickwheel is killer for web browsing, but not just because of scrolling. Do you know this already? In Firefox, if you push down the clickwheel while clicking on a link, it opens a new tab. Done with that page, push the clickwheel on that tab and it goes away. That’s it. That one functionality makes it easy for me to keep reading a page while throwing open tabs to check out when I’m done with the page at hand....
I have been this way most of my life, although I’ve recently been able to switch off the perfection switch. It’s very hard to live like this -we are usually this way from a very young age, so it becomes all we know. Have a look and you’ll see what I mean. 1. We Spend So Much Time Trying to Perfect Things For most people it’s fine to simply allocate an hour or so a day to accomplishing their goals....
There is a Word document you can download and print out as well. Study Skills Library: Procrastination – [California Polytechnic State University]
Now, Louis C.K may not be where you usually expect to find a lot of wisdom – that is, if you’re not a fan of his in which case come over to mine and we’ll marathon Louie together; it’s hilarious. Louis brings up an excellent point here though, how many times have you heard others say or said to somebody else “that’s so unfair!”. It probably was, but that’s life and one of the prices you have to pay to live in society amongst other people....
In today’s hectic and competitive world, there is so much negativity floating around that it is easy to get taken in by it. Pessimistic attitudes lead to chronic depressions and a negative mind is actually a magnet for ailments and sadness. We often complain about what we do not have and take for granted what has been provided to us. All of us at some time or the other have felt let down, held on to a grudge or simply hated someone’s guts....
