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Home. How to Hack Your Brain. Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done. 60 Small Ways to Improve Your Life in the Next 100 Days. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to make drastic changes in order to notice an improvement in the quality of your life.

60 Small Ways to Improve Your Life in the Next 100 Days

At the same time, you don’t need to wait a long time in order to see the measurable results that come from taking positive action. All you have to do is take small steps, and take them consistently, for a period of 100 days. Below you’ll find 60 small ways to improve all areas of your life in the next 100 days. Home 1. Day 1: Declutter MagazinesDay 2: Declutter DVD’sDay 3: Declutter booksDay 4: Declutter kitchen appliances 2.

If you take it out, put it back.If you open it, close it.If you throw it down, pick it up.If you take it off, hang it up. 3. A burnt light bulb that needs to be changed.A button that’s missing on your favorite shirt.The fact that every time you open your top kitchen cabinet all of the plastic food containers fall out. Happiness. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Need Some Motivation Right Now? Read This IMMEDIATELY — Think Traffic. If you’re in desperate need of some motivation, we’re going to fix that problem, right here, right now.

Need Some Motivation Right Now? Read This IMMEDIATELY — Think Traffic

Prepare yourself. WARNING: I’m going to swear and yell a little in this post. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Interview questions. Disciplines > Job-finding > Interview Questions Big picture | Strengths | Possible weaknesses | Stress | Working with others | Constraints | See also Job interviews are often the most feared aspect of finding yourself employment, and yet they need not be that way.

Interview questions

A critical trick is to know what questions you might be asked and hence have great answers already prepared for those tough questions you may be asked. This section not only tells you how to answer interview questions, it also explains what they are looking for and hence lets you answer difficult questions with effective answers. Please do note: the answers offered here are to help you think and understand and may the right things to say in all situations.

Big picture Big picture questions seek to understand the whole person, their overall motivations and their general approaches to work. Tell me about yourself: A classic opening question. Strengths Strength questions effectively ask 'Why should we employ you? ' Possible weaknesses. The Top 100 Productivity and Lifehack Blogs for College Students. Having a little trouble getting motivated?

The Top 100 Productivity and Lifehack Blogs for College Students

From school responsibilities to personal calendars and social commitments, college students find themsselves stretched in too many directions. To give you a little boost, we've generated a list of the top 100 productivity and lifehack blogs for college students. Here they are, arranged by category, but in no particular order. Most Popular Following is a collection of some of the most sought after blogs about productivity on the Web. 43 Folders: Productivity guru Merlin Mann gives advice on "simple ways to make your life a little better. " Organize your life with the advice and tools found on these informative blogs.

71 Things You Can Do. By Scott Hughes Most people aren't Warriors, and I'm fine with it.

71 Things You Can Do

Most people do things that don't make sense, and I'm fine with it. I've learned to accept the non-sense that fills this world. (Part of being a Warrior is accepting that most other people are not Warriors, and accepting them.) Still, the point is that people do things that don't make sense. For example, lazy people often whine that they don't make more money. Granted, sometimes when something bad happens to a person it's purely bad luck. However, usually when you don't like what's happening in your life, it's your own damn fault. In the following, I list 71 things that you can do to be more successful. Lessons Culled From 31 Self-Help Books. Toward a Greater Greet:How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less By Nicholas BoothmanA guide to making a lasting good impression, from teeth to breath to handshake to small talk.

Lessons Culled From 31 Self-Help Books

Lessons: • After greeting someone, immediately clap your hands, then raise your handshake hand toward their heart. • Take deep, lingering breaths when nervous. Imagine your nostrils are below your navel and the breaths are beginning from there. • Find moments during a conversation to say “Me, too” or to otherwise establish common interests. • The next time you’re talking to someone, synchronize your body language with the other person for 30 seconds. • Practice saying the word great in the mirror using various inflections until you’ve made yourself laugh.

Make a Difference in Under a Minute:59 Seconds: Change Your Life in Under a Minute By Richard WisemanProvides behavioral tweaks based on psychological research in an amount of time anyone can spare. Lessons: • During a date, bond over what you dislike. 100 Free Tools to Tutor Yourself in Anything.