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The Power of Tweaking

I’ll be honest with you – for years I’ve struggled with getting the results I wanted. I tried to go after my goals – starting a business, increasing my flexibility, learning tumbling many times, all of which led to failures. I don’t know anyone el…

Improve Your ‘Hunched over the PC’ Posture

One of the most neglected aspects of our health is our posture. Amongst all the guidelines on healthy eating and workout methods, this essential facet of our well-being is often overlooked.Posture provides the foundation for a balanced workout, deepe…

5 Awesome Tips to Writing Emails That Won’t Be Ignored

I’ll confess before I begin – I still struggle a bit with keeping my emails short and sweet. Not that I don’t know the merits of getting to the point right away in your email, it’s just that I need to put in more conscious efforts to make them precise….

The Bruce Lee Approach to Valuing Money

Bruce Lee lived his life through action; he was a man who lived what he taught. Many people don’t know that he wasn’t just a great martial artist but he studied, amongst other things, philosophy at the University of Washington. He was deeply interested…

You Know, You Can Change Who You Are

Have you ever been labeled?Maybe your parents always said you were the “naughty one” or the “quiet one” or the “clever one”. Maybe your classmates called you a “geek”. Maybe your friends expected you to live up to a particular reputatio…

10 Ways to Remove Clutter from Your Life

Our lives tend to accumulate clutter in every corner: on our desks, in our drawers, on our shelves at home, in our closets, on our computer — you name it, and clutter finds a way to fill every available space.But having a simple, uncluttered life is p…

How to Find Time For Yourself

Today our lives are busier than ever before. Our time is pressed by career, family, friends and sometimes even the things we took on as being “for me” become a chore that saps our precious time. I mean, while your iphone addiction may be considere…

How to Keep a Conversation Going

It happens to the best of us: we’re talking to someone we’ve just met, and the conversation is stalling. We don’t know where to take it, how to keep it going and the silence is making us feel awkward. Although in the grand scheme of things, these…

12 Ways to Jumpstart Your Life

Sometimes we get a little stuck in life — we set New Year’s resolutions and they peter out after a month, we want to exercise but can never get our butts in gear, we want to make positive changes but don’t have the time or energy.If that describes you…

10 Useful (and Innovative) Windows 7 Productivity Tips

I’ve already talked about why you should switch to Windows 7 if you haven’t yet (Mac users, spare me the sarcasm). Windows 7 is without a doubt the best Windows version yet, and hence the sooner you get started with it, the better.Now, for those who ar…