Hardware. Sport_tips. The 8 principles of having fun. SlowLeadership.com came across an interesting site defining the 8 principles of fun, at eightprinciples.com.
It’s a site that is so in love with a few simple rules to enjoy life more, that they’re selling screensavers and things promoting them. However, SL did something nice and gave a little run down of the 8 rules, while adding an important one of their own. 1. Stop hiding who you really are.2. Start being intensely selfish.3. When do people perform best at any task, from sport to nuclear physics? The Eight Principles Movie – [8Principles] How to minimize the effects of a hangover. 15 great decluttering tips. Post written by Leo Babauta.
As with anything, getting rid of clutter can be made incredibly simple: just go through your stuff, one section, closet, drawer, or shelf at a time, and get rid of everything that isn’t absolutely essential, that you don’t love and use often. Of course, simplifying a process like that isn’t terribly useful to many people who struggle with clutter. So, with that in mind, I present to you 15 fabulous tip for decluttering. These tips aren’t mine — they’re from you guys, the readers, repackaged into a useful little post. How to be a friend of yourself. Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt We often focus on building relationships with others that we forget the essential first step: being friends of ourselves.
How the mind affects your happiness. Understanding the Mind As humans we live in two worlds.
There is the external physical world of work, family and friends that we travel in. Then there is the world of our mind and imagination. It is a virtual reality that can appear and feel just as real. When it comes to your emotions the virtual world of your mind can be more real. How to overcome jealousy. Overcoming jealousy has been one of my most requested topics for new articles, but in the past I’ve always declined such requests because I don’t have much personal experience in this area.
I’m not prone to jealousy, so I can’t explain from personal experience how to overcome it. Nevertheless, due to the demand for such an article, I’ll risk sharing my thoughts on it anyway. In my opinion jealousy is a side-effect of a mindset that’s rooted in scarcity. 10 reasons you will never be successful. 10 easy arithmetic tricks. Technology Math can be terrifying for many people.
This list will hopefully improve your general knowledge of mathematical tricks and your speed when you need to do math in your head. 1. The 11 Times Trick We all know the trick when multiplying by ten – add 0 to the end of the number, but did you know there is an equally easy trick for multiplying a two digit number by 11? Take the original number and imagine a space between the two digits (in this example we will use 52: Now add the two numbers together and put them in the middle: Why you should write things down. This is a reminder.
You probably already know all – or most – of this. But reminders can be useful. 7 stupid thinking errors you probably make. The brain isn’t a flawless piece of machinery.
Although it is powerful and comes in an easy to carry container, it has it’s weaknesses. A field in psychology which studies these errors, known as biases. How to understand people. My headline might sound overreaching.
Clearly a rule can’t define something as complex as human behavior. But despite this, I’ve found most people tend to make the same mistakes. These mistakes are frequent enough that they create conflicts later. Remembering these seven rules will help you avoid these mistakes. People Skills is About Being Nice, Friendly and Interesting, Duh! 10 reasons why you should be curious.
Post written by: Marc Chernoff.
A letter from a parent. Motivation. If you want to make things happen the ability to motivate yourself and others is a crucial skill. At work, home, and everywhere in between, people use motivation to get results. Motivation requires a delicate balance of communication, structure, and incentives. These 21 tactics will help you maximize motivation in yourself and others. 1. Consequences – Never use threats. 2. 3. How to dramatically improve your eye contact skills. Eye contact: The most important communication tool Is your eye contact aggressive, is it soft, is it inviting, do you love with your eyes? Eye contact is a very tricky art to master but vital to effective communication. How can you make it better? How to keep your life organized.
By Leo Babauta It’s a rare person among us who doesn’t feel the need to get more organized. I consider myself fairly organized, for example, but there are times when I get a little lax about my organizational rules, and there’s always room for improvement. How to live the Golden Rule. “…thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”, Leviticus 19:18 By Leo Babauta One of the few rules I try to live my life by, and fail every day trying, is the Golden Rule. I love the simplicity of the Golden Rule, its tendency to make I interact with happier … and its tendency to make me happier as well.
It’s true: the rule of treating others as you would want to be treated in their place will ultimately lead to your own happiness. Let’s say that you apply the Golden Rule in all of your interactions with other people, and you help your neighbors, you treat your family with kindness, you go the extra mile for your co-workers, you help a stranger in need. How to deal with info overload. The problem with being constantly bombarded by information, as we web workers are, is not so much that we can’t deal with it, or that it distracts us from our work, or that it shortens our attention spans or stresses us out.
It’s that we have allowed that information to control our lives. We’ve discussed this at length in the past. We can argue endlessly about whether a high amount of information and connectivity is good for you or not, or whether it increases or decreases productivity. The point is whether we really want to have all of this information, and whether we are in control of it, and whether consuming massive amounts of information is really how we want to spend all of our waking hours. digg Who is the Master here: the information, or us? Back in the 1980s and 1990s, there was a growing voluntary simplicity movement based on the growing trend of many people in the workplace to feel overworked and overwhelmed.
Career Advice sur The Dilbert Blog. How to detect bullshit. By Scott Berkun, August 9, 2006. How to cultivate lifelong learning. How to be more focused. Things I wish I’d know when I was younger. How to decompress after high stress. Every Thursday is Happiness Day on Zen Habits. The last couple of days were just crazy for me. My days were jam-packed with activity, meetings, people stopping in to see me, hundreds of emails, phone calls and messages, one project after another. I am usually able to maintain calm and focus in the midst of a workday, but the last two days put my abilities to a test. I stayed calm, but the stress levels were definitely higher than I care for.
After all that, I needed to decompress. So today is a decompression day for me. Here’s what works for me: Deep breathing. 52 Tips for Happiness and Productivity. How to declutter your digital life. Interview with Tim Ferriss of The 4-Hour Workweek (1) If you heard of a new book called The 4-Hour Workweek, you know who is Timothy Ferriss. Tim speaks six languages, runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide, a national champion in Chinese kickboxing, and has been a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University since 2003. Recently his book caught my attention. The title itself is very attractive to me who work at least 40 hours per week (if not more). Are you late? Why are you late? Time management begins with one of the absolute basics – arrive on time. In his book Copy This! , the founder of Kinko’s (now FedEx Kinko’s) Paul Orfalea recounts that he would make hiring decisions based on key basic modes of operating.
How to know that a pink-slip is coming. Wise Bread Picks. Eliminate Boredom With These 12 Tips. The Gentle Art of Saying No. List of personal productivity books. How to make 2007 your best year ever. How to start your day at 5:00 AM. 10 golden lessons from Steve Jobs. How to become a master connector. How to get exceptional service every time, without paying for it.
50 Things You Need to Know by 50. How to instantly improve your life. How to become an early riser. How to exit a conversation. How to be good at socializing. How to feel better now.