Do you use Google/ig for your browser? Whether you use Firefox or Internet Explorer you can have Google/ig with its various plugins, news feeds or RSS feeds. One such is Google News, where you can keep up to date with top stories around the world - and use keywords to get stories in your field of interest. I have health, self c

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Do you ever consider how much of our everyday routine is managed by habits. We don't consciously think and give our body directions as we tie our shoe laces, drive our car - or even walk. Habits and routines help us perform better and save us from mental exhaustion.
But habits and routines can also make us rigid and can prev

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Social Bookmarking is a powerful way of promoting your blog. Yet it takes significant amount of time to submit your posts to each and every social bookmarking site. Until I found SocialMarker, I also spent a lot of time while submitting my blog posts to social bookmarking sites.

Today it takes 15-20 minutes to submit my arti

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Do you have parts of your life that you want to change? Do you know exactly what you need to do to change them? Do you go to bed every night knowing you did nada to make that change happen?

I’ve been there. I’ve watched others get there. I even developed a model to explain what happens and why. And the best part is, this mod

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Are you bullied at work? Do you find aggressive or intimidating colleagues or managers make your life miserable. Nearly 7 out of 10 say they have been bullied at work. Is this why we seem to relish watching bullies on TV - whether in restaurants or on the sports field? Bullying should not be tolerated, this post looks at assert

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Have you ever gone shopping just because you’re bored? Do you have a closet full of perfectly good clothes and “nothing to wear?” You may be caught in consumerism. The good news is that there is a logical explanation - and a way to change. The best news is, it won’t cost you a dime.

Learn how to shift your mindset from focus

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Sparked by a binge of Twittering, Jamie Harrop discusses several examples of how we waste our life and shows the hard, cold, mathematical facts that prove we waste years on insignificant modern-day tasks. Jamie also discusses the solution to lessen the impact of the waste. Again, he runs the numbers to show you how a simple cha

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An anthology is a collection of poems, stories, songs, articles, or other literary passages chosen by a compiler. Similar to an anthology, a bloghology is a collection of bloggers, their profiles, photos, and links to their best posts. It is a monthly ezine(PDF e-book) which can be easily circulated throughout the blogosphere f

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One of the biggest challenges dieters face is eating at a restaurant. If you're on a diet with a fixed menu, it's impossible. That's why I gave up on the Extreme Fat Smash Diet. However, if you're on more flexible weight loss plan like Weight Watchers, dining out is easier but no without it's challenges. Of course, all the

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Is there anything in your work or personal life that has changed recently? Are you having trouble letting go of the “way things used to be?” Can you find anything positive about the new situation? If so, keep reading and I’ll teach you how to move forward more quickly and with fewer negative emotions than you have right now.

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I have always hates giving presentations. At school, an introvert with low self esteem, I would do anything to avoid talking in front of class. But now, like last week, I regularly do them for my job.
The post builds on the previous post on How to Look Confident and gives various hints and tips on how to give a great presenta

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A couple of weeks ago, Leo at Zen Habits ran an Ask Me Anything You Want post that yielded tons of great questions and answers. He gave lots of great advice and I decided to write a whole post about his system for using accountability to others for success.

How do you change your life in public?

1) Get clear about where y

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In Part 1 of this series, I shared how I streamlined tasks in my personal life and automated in several places. In Part 2 I discussed alternatives to hiring a Virtual Assistant. In this installment, I’ll address using the 4-Hour Workweek at home.

One of the overarching purposes of applying the 4-Hour Workweek is to reduce th

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This is the second post in my series, "My 4-Hour Workweek." In this installment, I explain how I found free alternatives to hiring a Virtual Assistant (VA) to handle some of my personal organization tasks.

By streamlining many of my tasks, I realized that I don't need to pay a VA at this time. Instead, I sought out free

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Are you happy? Do you spend your life striving for happiness? This post argues firstly that the more you seek happiness, the less likely you are to find it. But, there are practical things you can do to change how you feel, and ultimately be happier. It looks at the results from the BBC programme "Making Slough Happy" and goe

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