5 Simple ways to live a life you love The quickest way to living a life you love is through learning to love the life you live. Youre waiting for something to change in your life before you can be happy. You might think if only you had a different pa...
The Cost of Smoking: All Dollars and No Sense There are many arguments in favor of quitting smoking. Some focus on health concerns, complete with pictures of desiccated lungs and gobs of arterial plaque. Some arguments appeal to vanity, describing ho...
Train Your Mental Alarm Clock in Four Simple Steps Is there any sound more wretched than that of an alarm clock in the morning? Although Im not a violent person, I often have detailed revenge fantasies involving hurling my clock across the room and w...
Creating Your Own Second Childhood Watching my niece playing in the garden recently made me think about life from her point of view. There I was after a long day at work, downing a Red Bull in the hope of keeping my eyes open while my mind ran throug...
Why Don't Snorers Wake Themselves Up? Anyone who's ever slept in the same room as a loud snorer knows how infuriating it is to have to suffer through all that noise while the offending party remains blissfully oblivious and asleep. Loud snorers can w...
Want To Sleep Better, Find A Good Mate Women's Sleep Habits Linked to Love In unsurprising news, women in bad relationships have a poorer quality of sleep. Of course, maybe all these women date men who snore. A study conducted by Wendy M. Troxel, PhD...
Humans Need More Sleep in the Winter: Say What? During this time of year, its hard to not be jealous of the various squirrels, hedgehogs, possums, chipmunks, bats, skunks, lemurs, and other small mammals that lower their body temperatures and their m...
How Helping Others Helps You Lift Depression Want to boost your mood without diet, exercise, or pills? Perhaps, you should consider volunteering. In his article, Its Good to Be Good: Science Says Its So, Dr Stephen Post sites numerous scientific stud...
Can City Living Make You Crazy? Could city living be making you crazy? A new report says that weak social ties may be to blame for the higher incidence of mental disorders in cities. Its not the hustle and bustle of living in the concrete jungle surr...
Lack of Sleep Could Slowly Kill You You know the old adage You can sleep when youre dead? Turns out you just might get to terminal dreamland a lot faster if you dont get a regular good nights sleep. New research suggests that your risk of developing...
Quitting has gotten a really bad rap. The Internet (and life in general) are filled with rhetoric about how bad it is to give up on something. Truth is, giving up on the wrong things is just as important as committing to the right ones. Being able to...
Creating Your Dream Lifestyle With Passive Income Every person has a dream of how they would live their life if he did not have to spend a large amount of his time working. Most people rely on earned income to support their finances. This makes a dre...
4 Ways to Measure Your Standard of Living Standard of living should not equate to amount of spending. When I sat down to write an article on the countries with the highest standard of living, I thought it would be easy. But, how do you define standar...
Do you sleep with a pig? EVERY night for the last year, Kathy Ruttenberg has been taking a bath, putting on pajamas, turning on CNN and getting into bed with a little pig named Trixie. Shes a great cuddler if you lie still, said Ms. Ruttenberg, a 53-...
25 Ways to Wake up Early If others can be out of bed really early and make great days ahead, so can you! Its all a matter of changing routines, learning the benefits of being an early riser and practicing the new habit positively. Heres how: Gimme on...
