Living Scared Sometimes the answers to our problems are not nearly as complex or elusive as many of us seem to believe they are. Or as difficult as some of us make them. Sometimes our problems only exist in our head. Sometimes the journey from where...
I Need a User Manual for My Life! I was doing something routine a couple of days ago paying some first of the month bills online and I got stuck. For the life of me, I couldnt remember the name of one of the people I send payments to. All the informa...
5 Reasons to Go Through Life Lazy, Drunken, and Stupid I started this blog 16 months, hoping to develop my writing skills, connect with smart people around the world, and create a new income stream. By those standards its been a success. But more imp...
10 simple ways to save yourself from messing up your life Stop taking so much notice of how you feel. How you feel is how you feel. Itll pass soon. What youre thinking is what youre thinking. Itll go too. Tell yourself that whatever you feel, you fee...
A Simple Way to Improve Your Life Everyday I love to have simple ways to improve my life. Everyday is a chance for improving our life, and its up to us to best use it. What I want is to have good, balanced progress everyday. To ensure balance, my fav...
The Beauty of Occasional Abundance Depending upon our life experiences, each one of us has a different definition of abundance, much of which is learned during childhood. We are taught at an early age to either want for nothing or yearn for more. We...
Keep Your Home Business Green Earth Hour has come and gone for 2008, and it was an easy opportunity for people who dont normally think about their environmental footprint to do something about it. Apparently it was quite successful, with local utilit...
The Art of Doing Nothing Sure, we all know how to do nothing. We all know how to lay around and waste time. But many of us are too busy to do it much, and when we do it, our minds are often on other things. We cannot relax and enjoy the nothingness....
10 HARD Ways to Make Your Life Better Some of the most worthwhile things in life arent easy. One of the things I dislike most about power of positive thinking-style personal development philosophies (such as The Secret) is the implication that if you...
Navigating the Etiquette of Social Media Blogging, social networking and a veritable host of methods of stay in contact with people are all very new. There is no real handbook of online etiquette that we can turn to with questions of how many comment...
Top 15 Diet Hacks Youve read and enjoyed the Top 20 Motivation Hacks and Top 10 Productivity Hacks and now you want hacks to eat healthier and to get a flat tummy. Well, Zen Habits has never been one to hold back on you, so at reader request, here ar...
Personal Productivity in the 21st Century What does it mean to be productive? The gurus have given us a few ideas it means to get things done, to be highly effective, to know who it was, exactly, who moved your cheese. What things, effective at what,...
3 Words That Forever Changed a Deaf Boys Life From the very first day, school was a struggle. And yet, as fate would have it, three simple words forever changed my life.. Since it never occurred to anybody at the school to retain the services of an i...
How to Survive in this Crazy World Life is full of pressure. Worries about your health, terrorist threats on the news, financial troubles, conflicts at work and family concerns. Without a center in your life, those pressures are likely to push you ar...
The Perfect Mess In an interview with Michael McLaughlin published in The New Writers Handbook (2007), Eric Abrahamson, co-author of A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder, says Your mess is perfect when it reaches the point at which, if you...
