Entries Tagged as 'Hacks'

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 […]

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

That Advice Saved My Life

Six years ago he walked into my dorm room on the verge of tears.
“I can’t take it anymore!” he groaned.  “I’m just running in place!  I aim. I sprint. I leap.  I fall.  I get nowhere.  Nowhere!”
His desperate eyes stared into mine, hoping… searching for an answer.
His Story
He has dreamed of pursuing a career in […]

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

28 Ways to Slay the Delay

What do you call a painter who doesn’t paint?  Is a writer a writer if she doesn’t write?  If you don’t follow through with the things you want to do, are you really being you?
Think of all the tasks you want to get done, but haven’t yet started.  How much time has lapsed between the […]

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

A Miracle Cure for Stress

This guest post was written by Mary Jaksch, the author of Goodlife ZEN.
Do you feel like life is accelerating?  Maybe you look back at the last five years and wonder where time went.  It may even feel as if all that’s left is stress – without moments of joy and peace.
I must admit, I also […]

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

What is the Value of an Hour?

It was almost midnight on an idle Tuesday and the hospital hallways were unusually calm.  I had just finished reading an old issue of Sports Illustrated from cover to cover.  “Waiting sucks,” I thought to myself.  “Why didn’t I bring a book?”
As I sat quietly with my eyes closed, I could vaguely hear the soft […]

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

“I Will Do One Thing Today” To-Do List

This morning I informed my colleagues that I had only one thing on my to-do list.  Two of them chuckled, a few of them rolled their eyes, but every one of them assumed I would spend most of my day slacking off.  They changed their minds, however, when our boss sent out a mass email […]

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Top 40 Ways to Take Notes Online

Regular note-taking is one of the most productive habits a person can practice.  The ability to take notes online and access them anytime, from any location is priceless.  Over the last few years, I have personally tested nearly 100 different ways to do this.  Some of these note-taking systems are worth mentioning, and some are […]

Monday, March 9th, 2009

How Time Management Can Ruin Lives

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
- Delmore Schwartz
His Story
Tick-tock, tick tock…  It’s the pulse that endlessly beats through his mind.  He attempts to ignore it.  He jogs, reads, writes, drinks, chats, anything to distract its drumming.  But it persists.  The pulse follows him.  It calls to […]

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

25 Ways to Live 25 Hours a Day

Time isn’t money.  It’s the single greatest constituent of life.  The more time you create for yourself, the more time you have to live.  Thus, saving time is life saving.  If you’ve been feeling a day late and a buck short, you’ve been mismanaging your time… and your life.
Here are 25 proven time saving tips […]

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

How To Make All The Difference In
The World

 
Every Sunday morning I take a light jog around a park near my home.  There’s a lake located in one corner of the park.  Each time I jog by this lake, I see the same elderly woman sitting at the water’s edge with a small metal cage sitting beside her.
This past Sunday my curiosity got […]