20 very easy tips for lowering your daily stress level

When we’re stressed, we tend to become more stressed. That’s because when we’re rushed and harried, we cut corners. We don’t take the time to do the little things that, though not difficult or time-consuming themselves, can end up saving enormous amounts of time and trouble.
20 very easy tips for lowering your daily stress level

Empty Your Inbox with the Trusted Trio

Managing the steady stream of email that gathers in your inbox every day can feel like an impossible task. Not long ago, I kept a lengthening list of folders in my email software to track messages by topic, sender, project, urgency and any other context that seemed relevant that hour. I'd spend lots of time carefully dragging and dropping every message from my inbox into the folder it seemed to belong in that day.
Empty Your Inbox with the Trusted Trio

Planning a Kitchen Garden

What’s a “kitchen garden”? A kitchen garden merely refers to a garden that consists almost exclusively of plants intended to be eaten. Although one might put a few decorative plants around the edges of such a garden, the vast majority of the garden is intended for food.
Planning a Kitchen Garden

Rename Multiple Files Efficiently Using Excel or Google Docs

Renaming multiples files on your Windows computer is easy. Select all the files, press F2 and type some descriptive text. Windows will append a unique sequence number to each of the file names.
That’s a fairly quick solution but not very flexible because you don’t get to specify any choices or criteria.
Rename Multiple Files Efficiently Using Excel or Google Docs

Driftr Travel Blog

Driftr is a travel blogging site. The layout is very simplistic and rather elegant and it formats your trips in a uniformed manner. When viewing a trip, you’ll see the location marked on the map (in relation to all of your other visited locations). Further details are shown below, along with images, including suggested places to eat, visit, sleep, how to get around, and additional notes are found in the trip blog section.
Driftr Travel Blog Opens its Public Beta

History's Greatest Replies

Any attempt to compile history's greatest replies—or history's greatest anything, for that matter—is fraught with difficulty, so it might be more accurate to refer to the replies that follow as simply my all-time favorites. Most of them come from people whose names will be very familiar to you, and I think you will agree that the comebacks and retorts here are very special.
History's Greatest Replies

Getting Things Done Traveling Through Southeast Asia

Getting work done on the road when you visit another state for a few days is one thing, but flying halfway around the world with your laptop bag is a whole other ball of wax. The 13-hour flight, foreign power outlets, lack of or spotty Wi-Fi, and the pain that is hauling all your stuff onto ferries, tuk-tuks, and buses every few days can sure put a damper on mobile computing.
Getting Things Done Traveling Through Southeast Asia

Exercises for Better Focus and Concentration

You can find strong powers of concentration in yourself. When you are decisive and sincerely want to excel in your studies, pass an important exam, or playing one of your favorite games; the power of concentration becomes available to you. This kind of concentration is raised because of some need, or desire. Increasing it in a systematic way, brings it under your control, and grants you the ability to use it easily, with no exertion whenever you need it. Real and good concentration is developed slowly, through daily work, and with special exercises. It has to be approached in a reasonable and practical way.
Exercises for Better Focus and Concentration

The Best Free Software

157 software tools. No fees. No expiration dates. No problems. Sometimes even no downloads. No kidding.
The Best Free Software

12 Powerful Ways to Keep Your Online Life Simple and Peaceful

The true challenge of technology: how to get the most out of it without letting it overwhelm us. How to keep things simple but powerful. How to master technology without letting it become our master (to paraphrase Stephen Covey).
12 Powerful Ways to Keep Your Online Life Simple and Peaceful

All A-twitter

In this Web 2.0 age, we expect information to be immediate and distilled into readily digestible pieces.
I just read something disturbing: When Steve Jobs was asked at the recent Macworld Expo what he thought of Amazon's Kindle eBook reader, he said (as reported by The New York Times), "It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore."
All A-twitter

Top 10 Strange Phenomena of the Mind

The mind is a wonderful thing - there is so much about it which remains a mystery to this day. Science is able to describe strange phenomena, but can not account for their origins. While most of us are familiar with one or two on this list, many others are mostly unknown outside of the psychological realm. This is a list of the top ten strange mental phenomena.
Top 10 Strange Phenomena of the Mind

7 Reasons to Drink Green Tea

The steady stream of good news about green tea is getting so hard to ignore that even java junkies are beginning to sip mugs of the deceptively delicate brew. You'd think the daily dose of disease-fighting, inflammation-squelching antioxidants--long linked with heart protection--would be enough incentive, but wait, there's more! Lots more.
7 Reasons to Drink Green Tea

Web Worker Daily » Archive 12 Top, Free Ways to Collaborate Online «

Applications that make it easy to share and collaborate are often of much more use to web workers than they are to standard office workers. Especially if you work online with colleagues at disparate locations, some of the best collaboration tools you can choose are free. In this post, I’ll round up several examples that you can count on.
Web Worker Daily » Archive 12 Top, Free Ways to Collaborate Online «

1350.0 - Australian Economic Indicators, Mar 2008

A monthly compendium of economic statistics, presenting comprehensive tables, graphs, commentaries, feature articles and technical notes. Primarily a reference document, the publication provides a broad basis for analysis and research on the Australian economy.
1350.0 - Australian Economic Indicators, Mar 2008

4221.0 - Schools, Australia, 2007

There are more school students, more Indigenous students and more teachers in Australian schools than there were ten years ago, according to results from the 2007 Schools Census released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today.
4221.0 - Schools, Australia, 2007

12 Practical Steps for Learning to Go With the Flow

No matter how much structure we create in our lives, no matter how many good habits we build, there will always be things that we cannot control — and if we let them, these things can be a huge source of anger, frustration and stress.
The simple solution: learn to go with the flow.
12 Practical Steps for Learning to Go With the Flow

100 Tiny Tips to Improve Your Mood

Even the most happy-go-lucky person in the world has a bad mood now and then, but the difference between moving on and having a bad day all depends on what you do about it. There are plenty of ways to shake off a funky mood, and we’ve listed 100 of the best ways to do it here.
Look on the Bright Side: 100 Tiny Tips to Improve Your Mood

The Earth Has More Than One North Pole

You may think of the North Pole only as the top of the world—its northernmost point and, if you're younger, Santa's home. But it turns out there are a host of "north (and south) poles" on our planet.
The Earth Has More Than One North Pole

February 29 Proposal - The Privilege of Ladies

Custom allows marriage-minded gals to propose to their boyfriends on February 29.
February 29 Proposal