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How The Happiest People In The World Spend Their Money. Increasingly, the stories people tell me about their work and life choices break the conventional mold: A twentysomething entrepreneur starts a business while holding down another job and living on friend’s couch.

How The Happiest People In The World Spend Their Money

He’s trading financial insecurity today for work he feels passionate about and a distant promise of a future payoff. A fortysomething father of two with a stay-at-home wife walks away from a lucrative legal career without knowing what his next step will be because he can’t tolerate the stress and relentless hours any longer. A single mother of three gets laid off and decides to start a not-for-profit instead of finding another job in advertising. Their unique journeys not only challenge the traditional wisdom about the path we “should” follow with our work and careers, but they also challenge the standard rules about money. Work, life, and money are intertwined intimately, and yet they’re rarely addressed together. Be more mindful about what your money could buy. 40 Android Apps to Boost Your Productivity. Over the last few years, smartphones have become an integral part of our lives with most of us depending on them to help organize our work and personal lives.

40 Android Apps to Boost Your Productivity

From primarily being communication tools, phones are quickly growing into swiss-army knives for everything we do on a daily basis – be it taking notes, maintaining todo lists for work and home, managing schedules or tracking what we do. In this article, we will look at some of the best Android applications that can help you be more productive at work as well as in your personal life. Now there is no dearth of notes and todo list applications on the Android Market, but this is a list of some of the best ones out there. Notes Diaro Diaro is a personal diary or journal application targeted at people who want to note down their thoughts, experiences and insights on a regular basis. Diaro Price: Free Evernote Evernote Price: Free (Premium costs $5/month or $45/year)Full review: Evernote Springpad Springpad Price: FreeFull review: Springpad Taskos. The Unexpected Way To Use Your Social Network Strategically. If it’s a clear night tonight, go outside about 9 p.m. and look west at the two brightest stars, beautiful as jewels, one above the other.

The Unexpected Way To Use Your Social Network Strategically

Low to the horizon will be the planet Venus, the “evening star,” just beginning to set. Above Venus is the planet Jupiter, the gas giant with more than 60 known moons (and still counting). Now turn around and face east. Coming up off the horizon you’ll see another jewel, this one quite reddish; that’s Mars, the Red Planet (two tiny moons). On March 3 this year, our Earth (one giant moon) will pass closest to Mars, overtaking it in our orbital race around the Sun.

The solar system is a network of planets, each of which has its own network of moons, so it provides a picturesque (if inexact) analogy for social networks, which are also networks of networks. But rather than counting how many moons you have in your network, what you ought to be doing is figuring out how to get the most benefit from the right ones. [Image: Flickr user Carl Jones]