Entries Tagged as 'Hacks'

Monday, July 27th, 2009

How To Save You From Yourself

This guest post was written by Jacob Inman, author of Revive Your Life.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.
-Charles C. Noble
It’s not unusual for intelligent people to get themselves stuck in a deep rut in life.  By rut, I mean a somewhat extended period of time flooded with low motivation, poor moods, […]

Monday, July 13th, 2009

50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind

These questions have no right or wrong answers.
Because sometimes asking the right questions is the answer.

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Which is worse, failing or never trying?
If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t […]

Monday, July 6th, 2009

How To Live a Life of High Adventure

This guest post was written by Robin Krieglstein, founder of GoalTribe.
I know a little something about living an adventurous life.  I’ve hot air ballooned Kathmandu, glacier trekked Patagonia, gone paragliding in the Andes, slept in a snow-shelter at the top of the Rocky Mountains, scuba-dived in the tropics, camel trekked the Sahara, rock-climbed in Thailand […]

Monday, June 29th, 2009

How To Make Today Memorable

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,
but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
- Maria Robinson
Yesterday is gone and tomorrow is just a figment of the imagination.  So if you think about it, today is the only day you’re alive.  Today is the day that matters the most.
Here’s how to make […]

Monday, June 15th, 2009

How To Win a Race in Last Place

 
This guest post was written by Alex Fayle, author of Someday Syndrome.
When I was seven years old, I won a foot race in last place.
An Outsider
Due to foul play at other schools, the local school district enacts a mandatory policy during recess hours that segregates the schoolyard based on gender.  Boys and girls are no […]

Monday, June 8th, 2009

20 Life Lessons I Learned in My 20’s

With an impending 28th birthday on my mind, I spent some quiet time this evening reflecting on my recent past.  And I’ve come to realize that my 20’s taught me a lot about life.  So, I figured I’d share a few lessons I’ve learned along the way.

If you’re smiling right now, you’re doing something right.
It’s […]

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

How To Choose Happiness With Words

This guest post was written by Tehseen, the author of Recharge Your Mind.
Happiness is simply a state of mind.  No, I’m not implying that we can instantly heal the pain of a severe or unexpected personal tragedy just by thinking about being happy.  Rather, I am referring to our levels of happiness on routine […]

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

5 Practical Steps for Generating
New Ideas and Insights

This guest post was written by Glen Allsopp, the author of PluginID.
About a year ago, I feared I would struggle to build an audience for my new personal development website.  My fear was solely based on the fact that I had just turned 19.  I simply assumed most people would question my age, and thus, […]

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

When Less Advice is the Best Advice

The subject of her email reads “CRISIS.”  I could tell she hastily wrote it in a state of desperation, since it’s filled with misspellings, flighty run-on sentences, and profanity.  A premise of self-doubt bleeds from every single line.  All of which caught me off-guard, because it isn’t like her to be so pessimistic.
Lost at 25
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Monday, April 13th, 2009

How To Live Life

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because there is a big difference between living and merely existing…

Educate yourself until the day you die. – The time and energy you invest in your education will change your life.  You are a product of what you know.  The more knowledge you […]