If all it took were buying a facecream to get rid of wrinkles, no one would have wrinkles. There is never a silver bullet.
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With inflation rising, our money doesn't go as far as it used to. Everyone I know is looking for ways to cut back expenses. Here are 12 ways I use to cut grocery costs.
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“Good fences make good neighbors,” Robert Frost said. Boundaries are important, both in a physical sense, but also in an emotional and intellectual sense. I find, though, that most people don’t know how to set a good boundary, and this can severely hamper them as they work toward a more fulfilling life. This is Episode 64, which I am calling…
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Our brains, the Ziegarnik effect reminds us, focus on the open loops that have yet to be completed. Physical clutter can often hide open loops. Today we look at how to figure out if your clutter is hiding open loops and what to do about it.
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I have a tendency to make the same recipes frequently. I know the steps to make the food, but not necessarily the exact proportions. Yes, I could look them up, but just having a list with my bare-bones information was all I really needed.
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Have you ever finished a project and realized that much of what you did didn’t need to be done? You can avoid this situation by learning to find your minimum viable result. Today we will look at this software development concept and how it can save you time and energy on all of your projects.
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A reader asked about how to analyze and get rid of commitments that are taking up your time. It's a hard proposition: we are pulled in so many directions, and many of us really want to actively contribute to many of our commitments. However, we are still over-scheduled and over-committed and we need to cut back. Here is my take…
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Ironically, it takes a time commitment to learn how to manage time. Some of us are faster learners than others, and there are some lessons I wish I would have absorbed at a much earlier time than I did.
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One of the most powerful things about Gmail is that you can add a “+tag” to your email address, turning your single email address into an infinite amount of addresses. These modified plus addresses can then be used to filter email with great precision.Microsoft finally is getting on board with this, setting the Plus addressing as a default as of…
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If we apply my standard definition of clutter to be "something that you don't love and don't use", we can define mental clutter as the "baggage" we carry around in our heads. But what is mental clutter, and what can we do about it?
