This isn’t a Bucket List; it’s a F**k-it List Life can end in an unpredictable instant. The degree of separation between people is estimated to be around 4.74. This is why we’ve all heard about the friend of a friend who was murdered, the local car accident with multiple fatalities or the fire which ended the lives of several we knew in our community. Most of us too have had something unexpectedly terrible happen to a loved one which resulted in their death. It also feels all too common that we hear about a father who died whilst saving his son from drowning or an adult member of the public who perished whilst attempting to rescue another person from some life or death situation. These are both tragic and triumphant stories of human affairs. This article isn’t about fear or tragedy, but self-empowerment. If we wrote down NOT a bucket list – which is a list of things to do and places to see – but a fuck-it list – which is a list of ways to grow in how we think, feel and act – would what it look like? There are many ways to do it.
A Life of Productivity – 100 time, energy, and attention hacks to be more productive When I graduated University with a business degree last May, I received two incredible full-time job offers, both of which I declined because I had a plan. For exactly one year, from May 1, 2013, through May 1, 2014, I would devour everything I could get my hands on about productivity, and write every day about the lessons I learned on A Year of Productivity. Over the last 12 months I have conducted countless productivity experiments on myself, interviewed some of the most productive people in the world, and read a ton of books and academic literature on productivity, all to explore how I could become as productive as possible, and then write about the lessons I learned. One year, 197 articles, and over one million hits later, I’ve reached the end of my year-long journey, but not before going out with a bang. This article’s a long one, but it’s pretty skimmable! Without further ado, let’s jump in. To kick things off, here are a number of my favorite time hacks to both: Hacks to get more time
A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass Three physicists who have been collaborating in the San Francisco Bay Area over the past year have devised a new solution to a mystery that has beleaguered their field for more than 30 years. This profound puzzle, which has driven experiments at increasingly powerful particle colliders and given rise to the controversial multiverse hypothesis, amounts to something a bright fourth-grader might ask: How can a magnet lift a paperclip against the gravitational pull of the entire planet? Despite its sway over the motion of stars and galaxies, the force of gravity is hundreds of millions of trillions of trillions of times weaker than magnetism and the other microscopic forces of nature. This disparity shows up in physics equations as a similarly absurd difference between the mass of the Higgs boson, a particle discovered in 2012 that controls the masses and forces associated with the other known particles, and the expected mass range of as-yet-undiscovered gravitational states of matter.
How To Stop Being Lazy And Get More Done - 5 Expert Tips Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here. Some days the to-do list seems bottomless. Just looking at it is exhausting. We all want to know how to stop being lazy and get more done. So I decided to call a friend who manages to do this — and more. Cal Newport impresses the heck out of me. He has a full-time job as a professor at Georgetown University, teaching classes and meeting with students.He writes 6 (or more) peer-reviewed academic journal papers per year.He’s the author of 4 books including the wonderful “So Good They Can’t Ignore You.” And yet he finishes work at 5:30PM every day and rarely works weekends. No, he does not have superpowers or a staff of 15. Below you’ll get Cal’s secrets on how you can better manage your time, stop being lazy, get more done — and be finished by 5:30. 1) To-Do Lists Are Evil. To-do lists by themselves are useless. Here’s Cal: Sum Up
6 Bad Postures That Are Ruining Your Health & How To Correct Them Jeff Roberts, Collective Evolution | Straighten up that back soldier! No seriously, if you are like the majority of the population, chances are you are suffering from symptoms correlated with bad posture. Catching a glimpse of myself in the mirror, it’s easy to see that I have forward neck/head posture. This is normally caused by a variation of weak neck muscles, seated job positions, incorrect sleeping positions, and prolonged computer or TV use. But other than the un-esthetic aspect of bad posture, there’s really not much to worry about right? Over time, poor posture takes a serious toll on your spine, shoulders, hips, and knees. Worst of all, bad posture can cause nerve constriction. The following article will explore 6 common bad posture positions that many of us are making and will provide solutions to help correct these postures. Rounded Shoulders The problem: The sternoclavicular joints are unstable, therefore the body recruits the pectoris minor muscles to stabilize the joint.
10 Mini Productivity Hacks To Ease Your Life We probably live in the busiest and most distracting time in history, and all the tasks we have to accomplish each day can be really difficult to complete when it’s hard to focus. Everyone wants to be more productive, but many people don’t know where to start. Or worse, they think the key to productivity involves doing things that look like a major lifestyle shift. The good news, however, is that there are many small things you can do to make your life easier and more productive. Here are ten mini productivity hacks that you can start using today. 1. One of the key things to realize about productivity is that not every task we have on our plates is equally important. If you want to boost your productivity and get more done, a simple trick to start out with is making a list of the day’s tasks and determine the top three tasks that you simply must complete before the day is up. 2. 3. 4. Ever considered how you use the precious amount of time you have available each day? 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Lies, damned lies and statistics - Untangling the facts of the cleantech revolution from the hype Do you remember your first maths exam with a calculator as a kid? What do you remember of that exam? One thing most people don’t remember is you essentially had a small computer in your hands in the form of solar powered calculator. The solar powered calculator produced in 1978 represented one of the earliest applications of clean renewable energy in a consumer product. Solar has come a long way from the simple calculator. What you’ll get out of the next 10 minutes is answers to: - What actually is the cleantech revolution, and how an earth is the industry structured? We then conclude suggesting that renewable energy is a positive change and will be disruptive. A small note we will focus our analysis predominantly on solar industry as this is the area that has received the most media focus in the cleantech revolution. The downloadable data we use is the following: -Electricity power consumption( excel downloadable data) Cleantech energy sector breakdown 1. 2. 1. 2. 1. UK solar potential
Time Blocking -- The Secret Weapon For Better Focus Advertisement Are you looking for a more efficient way to organise your work-days? Try Time Blocking. A few months back, I came across Cal Newport’s illuminating post on Time Blocking — a productivity “hack” that helps you to make the most of your work day by assigning very specific tasks to very specific blocks of time. This is loosely based on Parkinson’s Law, the idea of which is that work will simply expand to fill the time available for its completion. For some, the idea of scheduling tasks in such a rigid way may be counter intuitive. Newport generally spends around 15-20 minutes at the end of each day planning his ‘time blocks’ for the following day, with the overall goal to “make sure progress is being made on the right things at the right pace for the relevant deadlines”. For a potential promise of a 50% increase in productivity (especially related to deep, tough work), the temptation to give this hack a trial run is hard to resist. Give Some Time To Planning For example… 1.
Top 10 Highly-Desired Skills You Can Teach Yourself We’re all about do-it-yourself here at Lifehacker. But just because you don’t have the skills to do something doesn’t mean you can’t learn them. In the next installment of Lifehacker’s 10th anniversary celebration, we’re revisiting some guides we’ve written on learning some highly-desired skills. Check out the full list below, and see more of our 10th anniversary look back at lifehacker10.lifehacker.com. 23 Reply <a href="#" class="reply-to-post reply-count hover-icon proxima text-small icon--svg u-oversized" rel="nofollow">Discuss <svg class="svg-icon svg-bubble"><use xlink:href="#iconset-bubble" /></svg></a>
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