When we think of waste, we dont usually think utility. Yet, as we face droughts, limited landfill space, and depleting natural resources, weve been forced to reconsider our castoffs, with interesting results. These five case studies show that with in...
Cooking at home is an excellent way to save money. But if youre accustomed to dining out for most meals, it can be a difficult transition. Fortunately, theres plenty of help available on the web. The Lazy Persons Guide to Eating More Meals at Home is...
I dont have a landline in my apartment. And since I work from home, that means that I dont have a landline for my work either. I havent had a landline for almost four years now, and Im okay. While not everyone is in a position to get rid of his or he...
There are points when the only thing you can do despite desperately wanting to be productive is to step back for a few minutes. And while conventional productivity wisdom seems to dictate that you should use those few minutes to get a small task done...
Simplifying can sometimes be overwhelming. The amount of stuff you have in your life and the amount of things you have to do can be too big a mountain to tackle. But you dont have to simplify it all at once. Do one thing at a time, and take small ste...
29 Ways to Carry Out Random Acts of Kindness Every Day The time has come when we cannot just rely on others to make the world a better place each one of us has to do our bit. It is therefore time for people to be more and more aware about their Perso...
How to Bring Your Life into Line with Your Values The world, it seems, is going downhill fast. Everyone has a take on whats wrong: liberals over-regulating everything, conservatives decimating the principles of governance, immigrants refusing to blen...
Living a Life of Prosperity: Inside and Out What is prosperity? According to Websters dictionary prosperity is the condition of being successful or thriving; or economic well-being. Shakti Gawain, author of Creating True Prosperity describes prosperi...
Why You Should Kick the Versus Habit In our time-starved, action-obsessed approach to work and life, we easily drop into the habit of seeing every choice or decision in terms of simple opposites: good versus bad, right versus wrong, success versus fa...
The Tao of Travel Against all odds, I became a world traveler in my 25th year. It began, as all things inevitably do, with a girl. I thought it was ever-lasting love. She was setting out for a year abroad a summer in Germany, then an academic year in...
How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Other People Comparing yourself to other people has got to be one of the easiest things for any person to do. We cant help it. People feel the need to do it in order to understand where they stand in societys hierarc...
Read This Now! OK, Im done with procrastinating. Im done with the guilt, anxiety, stress and, of course, the not getting stuff done. Im tired of answering whatd you do today with nothing. Of course, its a lie I did do something, just not anything imp...
Treat every day as Earth Day EARTH- Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Earth Day. Holidays like these and others could be celebrated every day of the year. While larger projects like helping to clean up local parks are important tasks to tackle, there are als...
Are You Lifehacking Too Much? Nick Cernis of Put Things Off recently declared that productivity is dead. He said that our obsession with productivity is getting in the way of our lives. Nick started out by saying that the productivity industry is out...
Working in Project Space One of the givens in David Allens Getting Things Done is that you cant do a project. Instead, Allen recommends you break projects down into immediate next actions, discrete doable chunks that can be cranked through with a min...
