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The New Year Is Here! Financial To-Dos in January 2012 | Life & Money | The Latest The holidays are behind us and the chilly January wind may be nipping at our nose, but we’ve got a secret weapon hidden underneath that fuzzy scarf: resolve. 2012 is here, and we’re planning to kick its butt. After all the New Year’s resolutions we made a couple weeks ago, we’re ready for business. There’s no time better than now to take control of your finances, and we’ll help you get there. So, take a seat, swill that hot cocoa and knock these to-dos off your list: Make Your Financial Resolutions. Studies have shown it takes 21 days to form a solid habit. Reassess Your Budget. A new year calls for a new, revamped budget. Check Your Credit Score. Ring in the new year error-free. Start a “Time Journal.” Modern life isn’t just about budgeting money–it’s also about budgeting time, which means spending your resources in the way that gives you the most fulfillment. Compare Your Interest Rates. Organize Your Taxes Now. Print out all of your to-dos and the full list of what to buy in January!

8 Things Everybody Ought to Know About Concentrating - StumbleUpon “Music helps me concentrate,” Mike said to me glancing briefly over his shoulder. Mike was in his room writing a paper for his U.S. History class. Mike made a shift about every thirty seconds between all of the above. Do you know a person like this? The Science Behind Concentration In the above account, Mike’s obviously stuck in a routine that many of us may have found ourselves in, yet in the moment we feel it’s almost an impossible routine to get out of. When we constantly multitask to get things done, we’re not multitasking, we’re rapidly shifting our attention. Phase 1: Blood Rush Alert When Mike decides to start writing his History essay, blood rushes to his anterior prefrontal cortex. Phase 2: Find and Execute The alert carries an electrical charge that’s composed of two parts: first, a search query (which is needed to find the correct neurons for executing the task of writing), and second, a command (which tells the appropriate neuron what to do). Phase 3: Disengagement 1. 2. 3. 4.

Joe's Goals - Free Online Habit Tracker 9 Mind-Bending Epiphanies That Turned My World Upside-Down | Raptitude.com Over the years I’ve learned dozens of little tricks and insights for making life more fulfilling. They’ve added up to a significant improvement in the ease and quality of my day-to-day life. But the major breakthroughs have come from a handful of insights that completely rocked my world and redefined reality forever. The world now seems to be a completely different one than the one I lived in about ten years ago, when I started looking into the mechanics of quality of life. It wasn’t the world (and its people) that changed really, it was how I thought of it. Maybe you’ve had some of the same insights. 1. The first time I heard somebody say that — in the opening chapter of The Power of Now — I didn’t like the sound of it one bit. I see quite clearly now that life is nothing but passing experiences, and my thoughts are just one more category of things I experience. If you can observe your thoughts just like you can observe other objects, who’s doing the observing? 2. Of course! 3. 4. 5.

Yoga Vedanta Centres | 5 Points of Yoga Proper Exercise Our physical body is meant to move and exercise. If our lifestyle does not provide natural motion of muscles and joints, then disease and great discomfort will ensue with time. There are numerous modern physical culture systems designed to develop the muscles through mechanical movements and exercises. The Yogic physical exercises are called Asanas, a term which means steady pose. The body is as young as it is flexible. The Asanas also affect the internal organs and the endocrine system (glands and hormones). Swami Vishnudevananda recommended daily practice of the 12 Basic Asanas. Proper Breathing Yoga teaches us how to use the lungs to their maximum capacity and how to control the breath. Most people use only a fraction of their lung capacity for breathing. Three Types of Breathing Clavicular breathing is the most shallow and worst possible type. Actually, none of these types are complete. Learning Abdominal Breathing Learning Full Yogic Breathing Pranayama Proper Relaxation

Creative Thinking Articles and Techniques by Michael Michalko » Blog Archive » How to Get your Subconscious Mind Working on a Problem Has this ever happened to you? You’re walking down the street, completely relaxed, and you are not thinking about any particular thing. Then all of a sudden the solution to a problem you’ve been working on for weeks pops into your head out of the blue. You wonder why you didn’t think of it before.You’ve experienced your subconscious mind at work. Your subconscious mind will continue to work on a problem long after you leave it. This is known as incubating the problem. As a simple experiment, write the alphabet vertically on a piece of paper. An easy way to communicate with your subconscious mind and get it working for you to solve a problem is to write a letter to yourself. Work on a problem until you have mulled over all the relevant pieces of information. EXAMPLE: The owner of a car dealership was trying to improve his business. Dear Subconscious, How are you? My car sales are down by 10%. Thanks, Bert Bert mailed the letter to himself and two days later received it.

Dot: 360º video capture for the iPhone 4 by Jeff Glasse Hey Kickstarter-onians, Thanks for checking out our project! We call it Dot. It’s a stylish, durable and downright pocketable 360º (panoramic) lens attachment and app for the iPhone 4. What does it do? Dot lets your iPhone capture immersive, fully navigable, panoramic video in real-time - and share with friends on your phone, as well as on Facebook and Twitter, or streamed online using our awesome panoramic video web platform and player. Cool, right? We're excited too. But seriously, our secret beta testers have already had a lot of fun taking it to concerts, the park, on moped rides in Italy, and showing cramped apartments to mothers halfway around the world. So? We haven’t slept much. We’ve spent the past few months researching, designing, prototyping and coding. Let's do it! We’re excited to bring our cutting-edge (read: magical) panoramic technology to a much wider audience – and even more excited to see what you guys will do with it. Thanks for your support. Kogeto team www.kogeto.com

Mind Stereo - Media Center For Your Mind Mind Stereo is a fully functional media center for your mind, allowing you to listen to musical playlists, internet radio and watch mesmerizing visualizations while enjoying the many benefits of brainwave stimulation. Mind Stereo acts much like any ordinary media player. It has a playlist and an equalizer. Mind Stereo embeds entrainment into audio and visuals in a number of ways: - Sound modulation, effects and filters (more info) - Binaural beats & and other tone-based entrainment (more info) - Flash integration into visual plugins (more info) - AudioStrobe (for use with compatible LED glasses) (more info)

Nutrition 101: Eat To Burn Fat The 15 Best Fat-Burning Foods 1. Walnuts All nuts do contain some amount of the omega-3 fat alpha-linolenic acid, but most only contain trace amounts. One ounce provides almost 3g of alpha-linolenic acid. 2. It has also has been shown to boost calorie burn when eaten. 3. This very slow-digesting carb keeps blood sugar and insulin levels low, so fat burning can stay high. In fact, research has shown that athletes who consume slow-digesting carbs in the morning burn more fat throughout the entire day and during workouts than those consuming fast-digesting carbs. 4. Avocados also contain a very interesting carb called mannoheptulose, a sugar that actually blunts insulin release and enhances calcium absorption, both of which are critical for encouraging fat loss. 5. This way you know you're getting a direct supply of the fats that turn on fat burning and block fat storage. 6. Soy has also been shown to aid fat loss, possibly by decreasing appetite and calorie intake. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.