Suunto Ambit puts GPS navigation, performance tracking and heart rate monitor on your wrist Suunto Ambit puts GPS navigation, performance tracking and heart rate monitor on your wrist Image Gallery (24 images) The Ambit watch is Suunto's latest GPS-enabled watch, following up on the X10. Top 4 Ways to Overcome Depression Treating Depression Without Drugs – Natural Cures First, they fail to correct the behaviors that contribute to depression, or even show direction towards behavioral modifications, so the disorder recurs. Second, they do not improve the body’s own mechanisms for rectifying such disorders; rather, they temporarily force a change that gives symptomatic relief. Third, for some the severe side effects of these drugs can create major implications.
Cool Tools Cool Tools Show 189: Jordan Bunker Our guest this week is Jordan Bunker. Jordan is a freelance engineer, designer, artist, and prop-maker based out of Oakland, California. He’s also a former Make: magazine technical editor and BattleBots robot builder. The Massive List of Genius - People With the Highest IQ - One Mans Blog 33.8K Flares Google+ 27 Twitter 109 Facebook 1.6K Reddit 11 StumbleUpon 32.1K Pin It Share 4 4 LinkedIn 9 inShare9 33.8K Flares × The other day I sat down to watch The Princess Bride for about the 10,000th time. Matomeno ANYTHING scissors is a scissors. Since there is an explicit case, they stand by themselves. It gives an impression of some object. The pair of scissors - stands up in front of people.
Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn Take the case of chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not. I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. On average, the unlucky people took about two minutes to count the photographs, whereas the lucky people took just seconds. Why?
Think Simple Now » How to Learn Without Memorizing Photo by Edwin Stemp Rote memorization is an inefficient way to learn. Just retaining a single formula can mean pounding the same information into your skull dozens of times. If your computer hard drive had this accuracy, you’d probably throw it out. Unfortunately, you’re stuck with your brain. The good news is that you don’t need to learn by memorization. Connected Mode: 10 Ways to Stay Productive with Online Work Every Monday is Productivity & Organization Day at Zen Habits. Editor’s note: The following is a guest post written by Anne Zelenka, editor of Web Worker Daily. It provides a nice contrast to my usual philosophy of single-tasking, and I’m honored to have a distinguished writer such as Anne contribute to Zen Habits. Maybe you’ve heard you should firewall your attention and eliminate annoying and addictive interruptions like IM and Twitter. But there’s another way to work, a way that you can stay in communication with colleagues, deal productively with interruptions, and keep a broad view of what’s available online. I call it connected mode.
How to Actually Execute Your To-Do List: or, Why Writing It Down Doesn’t Actually Get It Done Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on twitter . Have you gotten good at organizing your tasks in a to-do list, but have trouble actually executing them? You’re not alone. Getting things on your to-do list actually done is difficult because it’s really a collection of habits that most people don’t think about. Handle Chores, House Cleaning and Errands with Simple Systems Post written by Leo Babauta. The key to creating calm and simplicity in your life is creating simple systems, instead of haphazard systems of chaos that form naturally when we don’t give thought to these things. We’ve talked about creating a simple system for handling mail and paperwork, and others for things like errands and email. Today, let’s look at how simple systems for chores, cleaning, yard work and errands can simplify your life and bring order to the chaos. From Complicated Systems to Simple First, let’s take a look at some of the complicated systems we might have for these things, when we don’t give them much thought, and how they can stress us out. See, when you don’t intentionally design a system, one will form anyway, and it probably won’t be an optimal system.
Eight Essential Tips to Overcoming Shyness and Making a Good Impression Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Cyan Ta’eed, editor of FreelanceSwitch. Many of us wish we were one of those people who walked into a room and had friends-to-be flock to them. Anyone would agree that those of us who make friends easily and are innately likable will probably have an easier and more pleasant time of things than those who are incredibly shy or find it very hard to make friends. Little do many of us know that making a positive impression is far easier than we might think. But before I get started with that, let me let you in on a little secret: Everyone is just as shy as you are.
Wake Up: A Guide to Living Your Life Consciously A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation. - Neale Donald Walsch As much as possible, I try to live my life by bringing to my consciousness what is bubbling up from my unconsciousness. I try to clear the fog through which we often drift, to see where I’m going, to make conscious choices instead of automatic ones. Do you ever have a feeling that you’re drifting through life, and not going where you want to go? Or that you don’t know how you got where you are today?
Peaceful Simplicity: How to Live a Life of Contentment Post written by Leo Babauta. This fantastic quote summarizes something that I’ve been trying to focus on recently in my daily life: “Whatever the tasks, do them slowly with ease, in mindfulness, so not do any tasks with the goal of getting them over with.