It seems that a great deal of personal improvement programs spend time trying to encourage people that self-confidence is just about the most important thing you can hope to attain. My experience is that this “feel-good-about-yourself” attitude doesn’t always have the intended positive effect, especially when applied to the things we do in our everyday […]

One of my favorite organization blogs, Unclutterer, just splashed a bit of cold water on my face:
A gadget addict may have a problem if they constantly drool over the next best thing, but most of us can control our consumer frenzy and be happy with our two-year-old cell phones that doesn’t have internet access. When […]

When I was very young, I remember my father trying to explain to me the an easy way to clean my room. He suggested that I divide the room into a grid of squares, and clean things up one square at a time, assuring me that by the time I had cleared every square of […]

In the past few years, the term “hack” has evolved beyond the concept of stealing credit card numbers from a server somewhere. A term that was once used exclusively for data thieves and programmers can now be applied to just about anyone. People are applying “hacks” to their everyday lives — tricks that makes life […]