Start the day right by creating energy
Pick the Brain has a simple recipe for starting the day right to gain energy for the whole day. Technorati Tags: Health
The Simple Pleasures in Life
Its been said that one of the secrets of happiness is appreciating the simple things in life and a way of doing that is to list your favorite things and people.The zen habits blog has listed some simple pleasures to get the list started. Not a bad idea to include some every day especially the …
Motivation
Self motivation is valuable both at work and in your personal life.It is not something that should be seen as a passive activity that just happens to you but as something you can work at to increase your chances of being inspired.One way to do this is to analyse what you can do to emphasize …
Unclutter to get organized
43folders has declared war on clutter in four consecutive articles. Heck the Unclutterer is a whole blog on the subject. Interesting extreme case of hoarding by the Collyer brothers. I also have bought the book Its all too much (Amazon.com site for reviews and comments). And here is the Canadian Amazon site for the book. …
Time Travel Movies
On my flight from Calgary to Ottawa I watched 1.5 movies both involving time travel. Meet the Robinsons was really enjoyable with a geeky inventor building confidence, eccentric characters, and themes that I like. “Keep moving forward”. Coincidentally I later started to watch the The Time Machine which is based on HG Wells book of …
Instantly Improve Your Life?
Another article on attitude and how it can instantly improve our lives. Now who doesn’t want to do that?This is from the LifeHack blog which is one of my favorites for tips on how people can improve life.10 virtually instant ways to improve your life Many of our problems come from within our own minds. …
Media examples of a fixed mindset
Carol Dweck’s book riffs on the importance of having a growth mindset and seeing challenges as opportunities for growth no matter what the outcome. With the imminent launch of the Apple iPhone there are a plethora of articles in the media that exhibit the fixed mindset. It is dramatic to say Apple is betting the …
Solutions for 10 Thinking Sins
The zen habits blog has some direct advice about how negative thinking can be caught and corrected before it causes negative results.You could call it the power of positive thinking – and acting! Technorati Tags: attitude
The Pale Blue Dot
The Pale Blue Dot: The picture of Earth from 4 billion miles away. As told by Carl Sagan through some favorite films set to the music of Mogwai.(If you don’t already have the divx video plugin for you browser you can download it for free from www.divx.com) Technorati Tags: Nature, Video
Quirks and Quarks Questions and Answers via MP3
An example of the types of questions that are answered online from the Quirks and Quarks science show (also on radio) is this one about why electrical plugs are polarized.Quirks_&_Quarks_electrical_plug_q&a Technorati Tags: Education