Stop Trying to Impress Other People

Imagine, just for a moment, that you find yourself on a desert island with just you and four or five of your closest friends and relatives - the people you care about the most in this world. The only people around are the people that care about you.
Stop Trying to Impress Other People

Uncluttered public speaking

I’m sure we’ve all attended memorable presentations — some are memorable because they inspire, others because they’re awful. (I’ll never forget my astrology professor who droned on and on: “One may find that it’s intuitively obvious” and then he’d add a few incomprehensible points about celestial objects.)
Uncluttered public speaking

How Meditation Improves Your Health

Fact 1: Meditation assists healing. If you have any kind of health complaint at all then meditation can help you to get better.
How Meditation Improves Your Health

The 2008 Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix - The Big Picture

The sixteenth round of the 2008 Grand Prix motorcycle racing (MotoGP) season was recently held on a track on the southern coast of Australia. The 2008 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix took place on Phillip Island, on the weekend of October 3rd.
The 2008 Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix

The Financial Crisis in Pictures: 8 of the Best from Around the Web

With the stock market continuing to plunge, one thing remains constant: financial news sites like to tell part of the story with images of distressed Wall Street traders and executives that are experiencing some of the worst moments of their careers.
The Financial Crisis in Pictures: 8 of the Best from Around the Web

Why It's Not Selfish to Put Yourself First

One piece of advice that I’ve come across in the writings of several life coaches is that we should act in our own best interests. My initial reaction to this is to feel uncomfortable – like most people, I worry that I’m being selfish if I put myself first.
Why It's Not Selfish to Put Yourself First

How to Accept Criticism With Grace and Appreciation

How do you deal with criticism? The first reaction for many of us is to defend ourselves, or worse yet to lash back. And yet, while criticism can be taken as hurtful and demoralizing, it can also be viewed in a positive way: it is honesty, and it can spur us to do better. It’s an opportunity to improve and build up our true talents.
How to Accept Criticism With Grace and Appreciation

Opening the Door to Helping Your Parents

What kind of help should I provide for my parents? What kind of help do they actually need? What does their situation really look like? Would they be happy if I took an interest, or would they not like it at all?
Opening the Door to Helping Your Parents

Email: Test Your Web Mail's Password Recovery (Before Someone Else Does)

CNET's Michael Horowitz runs down the ins and outs of securing and restoring access to your Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail account, whether it's been infiltrated, locked you out, or you're just looking to ensure its privacy. It's a good guide that might make you think twice about your web mail practices, especially if you haven't run through his final bit of advice: Test your password recovery procedure—the kind that left Sarah Palin's Yahoo Mail account wide open—before anyone else does.
Email: Test Your Web Mail's Password Recovery (Before Someone Else Does)

Once-a-Month Shopping: Save More by Shopping Less

How often do you go to the supermarket? Could you get by making only one trip per month? What if it saved you money?
Once-a-Month Shopping: Save More by Shopping Less

Yoko Ono: Celebrate John Lennon's Birthday Today with Peace

On 9 Oct 2008, John Lennon’s birthday, Yoko Ono asks the people of Iceland to join her and many others across the rest of the world in praying for peace and stability.
Yoko Ono: Celebrate John Lennon's Birthday Today with Peace

The Certainty Bias: A Potentially Dangerous Mental Flaw

Robert Burton is the former chief of neurology at the University of California at San Francisco-Mt. Zion hospital. He recently wrote a book, On Being Certain, that explored the neuroscience behind the feeling of certainty, or why we are so convinced we’re right even when we’re wrong.
The Certainty Bias: A Potentially Dangerous Mental Flaw

The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself You’ll Ever Need | Zen Habits

Motivation isn’t that complicated. Sure, there are numerous tips that can help, numerous tactics and strategies.
The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself You’ll Ever Need | Zen Habits

Google Maps: Now Officially Gorgeous

Remember when we told you about Google’s new satellite, GeoEye-1, which should bring highest resolution commercial imagery available to Google Maps? Below, you can see the first image that the satellite captured. GeoEye-1 captures images at .41 meters in black and white and 1.65 meters in color; for real life reference, that means crisp enough to read license plates.
Google Maps: Now Officially Gorgeous

Understand the Financial Crisis

Freddie and Fannie, Bernanke, Bush, mortgages, loans, foreclosure, $700 billion bailout, recession, crisis. These are the words filling the headlines and being tossed around in Washington and on Wall Street in worry and, yes, panic. What does it all mean?
Understand the Financial Crisis

The Things You Don’t Need (But They Say You Do) For a New Baby

Expecting parents know the gauntlet of baby gear pushed and prodded their way through the store’s aisles. Modern-day culture all but convinces the average parent-to-be that they may very well fail at their upcoming task without the shiny new products begging for purchase. Never mind that men and women have parented children for eons without most of these things.
The Things You Don’t Need (But They Say You Do) For a New Baby

8 tips for finding the right thing to say in a difficult situation

I often feel like I don’t know the right thing to say. I’ll be desperate to find the right words, but in a tough situation, I just don’t know what to say to make a person feel better. I often find myself switching the topic of the conversation -- so quickly that I've changed it before I realize what I've done.
8 tips for finding the right thing to say in a difficult situation

A Do-It-Yourself Guide to a Romantic and Highly Frugal Date Night

I’ve been collecting ideas and tips for a while and I’ve come up with some fairly modular options for coming up with a frugal romantic date. Choose one option from the “Dinner” section and the “Entertainment” section and then top it off with one item from the “Follow-Up” section.
A Do-It-Yourself Guide to a Romantic and Highly Frugal Date Night

The 10 Things I Won’t Give Up Just To Save Money

Times are tough and they may be getting tougher as inflation and unemployment rates rise. There are 10 things that I could cut out of my expenses to save money right now but these measures will likely cause my earning power to shrink and my cost of living to rise in the long term.
The 10 Things I Won’t Give Up Just To Save Money

New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret

Sometimes I send messages I shouldn't send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night email to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together. Gmail can't always prevent you from sending messages you might later regret, but today we're launching a new Labs feature I wrote called Mail Goggles which may help.
New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret