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http://www.psychologytoday.com/print/40925

10 Life-Enhancing Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes or Less

By Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D. It usually takes us much longer to change our moods than we’d like it to take. Here are ten things you can do in ten minutes or less that will have a positive emotional effect on you and those you love.

The Twenty Healthiest Foods for Under $1 - DivineCaroline

Food prices are climbing, and some might be looking to fast foods and packaged foods for their cheap bites. But low cost doesn’t have to mean low quality. In fact, some of the most inexpensive things you can buy are the best things for you. At the grocery store, getting the most nutrition for the least amount of money means hanging out on the peripheries—near the fruits and veggies, the meat and dairy, and the bulk grains—while avoiding the expensive packaged interior. http://www.divinecaroline.com/22177/52070-twenty-healthiest-foods-1

100 Ways to Unchain - Unchain Your Lifestyle

http://www.unchainyourlifestyle.com/ Source: CureTogether CureTogether aggregates personal experiences of people dealing with a particular health condition or disease, for example Migraine in this chart. Interestingly, effective solutions are simple and usually imply lifestyle change or avoiding a bad habit. Even more intriguing is the lower right quadrant: popular things that don't work.

Savage Love by Dan Savage - Columns - Savage Love - Dan Savage - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=6577949 I read your column every week , mostly out of abstract interest. My thoughts reading your advice are usually some variation on "Wow, that's a lot of work to do, just to have a sex life." So reading you, I came to the conclusion that I was asexual. I liked this conclusion, as it was a sexual identity that made sense for me. Then I joined an asexual community. I soon realized that I was unlike those people, too.

50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do

http://www.marcandangel.com/2008/06/02/50-things-everyone-should-know-how-to-do/ Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one. 21. Parallel Park – Parallel parking is a requirement on most standard driver’s license driving tests, yet so many people have no clue how to do it.
Dale Carnegie once said, “It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It’s what you think about.” I don’t think anyone could say it any better than that.

75 Ways To Stay Unhappy Forever

http://www.marcandangel.com/2010/11/29/75-ways-to-stay-unhappy-forever/

Marc and Angel Hack Life - Practical Tips for Productive Living

You are powerful when you believe in yourself – when you know that you are capable of anything you put your mind to. You are beautiful when your strength and determination shines as you follow your own path – when you aren’t disheveled by the obstacles along the way. You are unstoppable when you let your mistakes educate you, as your confidence builds from experiences – when you know you can fall down, pick yourself up, and move forward. http://www.marcandangel.com/
Somewhere Else During my competitive cross-country running days it wasn’t uncommon for me to run five miles at 5AM and another ten miles at 10PM, six days a week. I was competitive. I wanted to win races.

Why We Are Weird

http://www.marcandangel.com/2009/12/21/why-we-are-weird/
http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2007/02/my_secrets_of_a.html

The Happiness Project: My Secrets of Adulthood -- each one changed my life, once I figured it out.

Here are my Secrets of Adulthood. Although these items may not seem particularly profound, each one was a revelation when I finally figured it out:
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Unsolicited Therapy | Therapy for the hosts, the guests, and the listeners

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