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Renewable Energy. Digi-Key. Seeing Auras. Seeing Auras Contrary to popular belief, one does not have to be born with the talent to be able to see auras. The technique to learn how to see auras only takes one minute to learn. However, it may take years to see auras well enough physically to glean all the information they can offer. Aura reading, as with most things psychic, is a lesson in patience. You may see auras right away, or within a few days of practice. You may not. As with any psychic work, DON'T STRAIN YOURSELF! To See Auras:Get a partner or stand in front of a mirror. You can also practice seeing the various colors, however, by looking at after-images. Most people have little problem seeing the whitish area around people. If you are in school, try seeing the aura around your teachers and classmates. Auras tend to have a base color, which determines the person's overall personality. OrangeOrange is the color of the sun.

GreenPure emerald green, particularly if it has a dash of blue, is the color of healing. 2012 Group: Home. Home. Oct18 5 Fun and Spooky Halloween Ideas for Your Family by Elaine - All Posts By This Author It’s Halloween again, and you’re excited to hang out with your friends and start spooking everyone out. Even so, wouldn’t it be nice if you can spend this creepy season with your family instead? Many families today have plenty of traditions to make their Halloween festive and exciting. Oct14 How to Live in a Haunted House by Carmelia - All Posts By This Author You’ve found the perfect house for a reasonable price, and it has enough room for you and your family. Oct1 How To Deal With an Overbearing Mother-in-Law by aileen - All Posts By This Author You’ve finally met your Prince Charming and he has brought you to his castle (see the Top 10 ways to find the person of your dreams).

The first thing you should try to do is talk to your husband about your feelings. Sep21 10 Unique Uses For Used Tea Bags by Elaine - All Posts By This Author Aug23 8 Brilliant Uses For Banana by Elaine - All Posts By This Author. Complete List of English Power Words - The Emurse.com Blog. How to Get a Copy of Your FBI - StumbleUpon. The Freedom of Information Act is a powerful thing. If you've ever wanted to know just what those guvmint bastards have on you, anyway, here's your chance. Just fill in the italics in this form letter with the appropriate information, get your signature notarized, send it off, and you're in business!

This should be free, though if your search returns reams of information, you may be charged 5 cents per page in duplication fees. The law says that your request must be responded to within 10 days, but you can expect something closer to 2 or 3 months for a definitive answer with the current backlog of paperwork. Your Name Today's Date Your Address Line 2 of Your Address Federal Bureau of Investigation Records Resources Division - Attn.: FOIA/PA Office J. This is a request for records under both the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act.

My full name is: Your Name. I hereby agree to pay reasonable costs associated with this request up to a maximum of $30. Sincerely,Your Signature. 60 Ways To Make Life Simple Again. That Was Not OK. Top10 - Lifehacker. Lucid Dreaming. By lucid dreaming, you can gain complete control over the one place that no one will ever care about: your imagination. Just The Facts Lucid dreaming is a scientifically proven phenomenon. While some get into lucid dreaming in order to treat chronic nightmares, or to experience all facets of the human experience, approximately 99.8% of people use it as a tool for cheap and interactive 3D porn. A lucid dream is a dream in which the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming, and he or she can even choose to control and manipulate his or her dream. Dream, dream, dream. Lucid dreams are oftentimes random and fleeting occurrences, but with minimal effort you can learn to initiate them at will.

How to Take Control of Your Dreams: So, you've doubled your weight over the past five years, you own a record-shattering collection of greasy pizza boxes and broken aspirations, and you're beginning to consider installing a toilet bowl in the place of your computer chair? The Tasks: 1. "What? " 2. 8 Tools to Better Understand Your Target Audience. I Can't Find My Phone. 100 Ways To Develop Your Mind | Change your thoughts. This weeks Sunday Siesta has been postponed as I have been working all weekend on this article. It’s my longest article ever at over 4500 words but I think it was worth the time and the effort. I have been resisting doing this post for a while now. However, it kept niggling away at the back of my mind and I kept getting more and more ideas to add to it so here it is. I was originally inspired to do this by Dragos Roua who wrote a great post 100 Ways to Live a Better Life and who was inspired by Mike King in this great post 100 Ways To Be A Better Leader who was inspired by Armen Shirvanian: 100 Ways to Show Boldness who was inspired by the maniac who started it all Luciano Passuello and his post Tackling Any Issue With A List Of 100 So here I am with 100 Ways to Develop Your Mind 1.

If there’s one thing that will change your thoughts quicker than anything else, it’s facing your fears. 2. A lot of people have difficulty in standing up for themselves. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Mary & mac design. Recycle Jars and a 5 Gallon Bucket into a Workshop Organizer. @Carlos Eduardo Bunn: i never knew i was such a hacker. want to know more 1337 hax0r insider tips? When you fill an ice cube tray instead of holding it level and moving it around under the faucet, hold one end under the faucet and tilt the other end down at about a 30-45 degree angle that way the water fills all the cubes to a near equal height _and_ you don't have to worry about some of the cubicals being empty and some being overly full or worry about spillage while you are moving the tray around. w00t!

Kidding aside, i think the useful 'hack' here is to save extra lids so you have an easy way to transport otherwise fixed storage containers. i've seen that kind of storage and always thought it was good but for having to transport things - i had never thought of just saving extra lids. guess brand loyalty would help here so all your lids and jars are the same size. 3315 - Awaysomelike!!!! 42 Practical Ways To Improve Yourself - Stepcase Lifehack. Are you someone who likes to grow?

Do you constantly seek to improve yourself and become better? If you do, then we have something in common. I’m very passionate about personal growth. It was just 4 years ago when I discovered my passion for growing and helping others grow. At that time, I was 22 and in my final year of university. As I thought about the meaning of life, I realized there was nothing more meaningful than to pursue a life of development and betterment. SEE ALSO: How to Better Yourself One Day at a Time After 1.5 years of actively pursuing growth and helping others to grow through my personal development blog, I realize there is never an end to the journey of self improvement.

As a passionate advocate of growth, I’m continuously looking for ways to self-improve. Read a book every day. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this article or anything about personal growth. Image © kevindooley. Top 10 Memory Hacks. Design Gallery, Deals, Tutorials & Community. 10 Tips for Designing Presentations That Don’t Suck: Pt.1.

Powerpoint has produced more bad design in its day that perhaps any other digital tool in history with the possible exception of Microsoft paint. In this post we’re going to address the epidemic of bad presentation design with ten super practical tips for designer better looking and more professional presentations. Along the way we’ll see a number of awesome slide designs from Note & Point along with some custom examples built by yours truly. Let’s get started! Also be sure to check out 10 Tips for Designing Presentations That Don’t Suck: Pt.2! Not a Designer? Most of the content on this site is targeted specifically towards professional designers and developers, or at the very least those interested in getting started in this field. You’ve chosen a visual tool to communicate and should therefore take the time to learn a thing or two about visual communications. Follow the ten tips below and see if you don’t start getting comments about your awesome presentation design skills.

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Webcast.berkeley | UC Berkeley Video and Podcasts for Courses & Events. The Procrastinators Digest - A Concise Guide To Solving The Procrastination Puzzle :: By Timothy A. Pychyl PhD. Procrastination Research Group Home Page. This web site provides access to information and research related to procrastination. Although our site originates at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), it represents a compilation of information and research on procrastination from all over the world.

Are you visiting our website for the first time? Here are some suggestions: BLOG - If you want to understand your own procrastination, visit my Don't Delay blog on Psychology Today - a very good source of concise summaries of the latest research along with helpful tips and strategies for change. PODCASTS - Ranked in the top 15 on iTunes for Self-Help. Updated regularly at iProcrastinate Podcasts RESEARCH - If you want to know about research in the area, you'll find lots of information on this site including a bibliography (see "Research Resources" in the menu above). More recent research is highlighted below the cartoon. Sirois, F. & Pychyl, T.A. (2013). Haghbin, M., & Pychyl, T.A. Khazraei, N., & Pychyl T.A. Rahimi, S., Hall, N. Awakenings: Tools for psychological and spiritual growth. Category:Creativity Techniques.

This A to Z of Creativity and Innovation Techniques, provides an introduction to a range of tools and techniques for both idea generation (Creativity) and converting those ideas into reality (Innovation). Like most tools these techniques all have their good and bad points. I like to think of these creativity and innovation techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the same way as my toolbox at home for DIY.

It has a saw, spanner, hammer, knife and all sorts of other things in it, they are all very useful, but you have to pick the right tool (creativity / Innovation technique) for each job. This site will try and provide a little guidance along with each tool to let you know whether it's best used for cutting paper or putting in nails. For the future, the aim is to also have sub-categories which will identify Techniques for; Problem Definition - including problem analysis, redifinition, and all aspects associated with defining the problem clearly.

Subcategories. Time Management Training from MindTools. Become Who You Want To Be. Create your temporary spambox! Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done. Binder Clips Keep Beverages Stacked in Your Fridge. Life Hacks Vs Anti Life Hacks at Kontraband.

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How to Take a Nap - 10 Steps to the Perfect Nap. Get Topic Updates Share Slideshow Excerpted with permission from Beauty Sleep by Michael Breus, Ph.D. Getting the right amount of sleep can help you lose weight, look younger, and improve your sex life. (Really.) A nap can actually give you some of the same benefits of a good night's sleep, may relieve pain, and helps keep your mind sharp throughout the day. Here are 10 tips on how to take the perfect nap from the book Beauty Sleep by Michael Breus, Ph.D. Advertisement.

EHow...how things get done. Thinking in straight lines. Let’s face it, we, the civilized, educated, enlightened part of humanity like things to be straight. Let primitive tribesmen live in picturesque and practical round huts—we require abstract boxes of steel and concrete clad in plate glass, with plenty of nice straight lines, true vertical and horizontal planar surfaces and lots of ninety-degree angles to please the eye. Let these tribesmen spend their days meandering up and down picturesque winding paths laid down by grazing animals—when we build a road, we take a map and apply a ruler to it, and anything that’s in the way of that ruler, picturesque or not, must be dynamited and bulldozed because everyone knows that traveling in straight lines is more efficient.

This is good enough for most of us, and so we have come to regard straight lines as natural. But the fiction is indeed very convenient. Straight lines are popular with grocers and their customers, but nobody loves a straight-edge more than the technocrat. Similarly with oil.