A while ago, Kuro5hin has a featured article titled Uberman’s sleep schedule. Ever since the article has been released, there are a lot of interest on polyphasic sleep – discussions are everywhere. There are also attempts on testing and experiencing such method. Like recently in UberSleep.com, Nick Busey shows his efforts and experience on Polyphasic Sleep. Some people reported positively on such method, however some has bad experience on it: Currently I am classified this as good to know, do not implement it yet....

Is this LOVE? Or is it just another LIKE? You can diagnose your “love” in this test, just count the number of items that ring true to you. 1. I want to say unnecessary things to him/her. You know it’s unnecessary…but you want to meddle! 2. I want to talk about myself in front of him/her. Were there times when you noticed that you kept talking about yourself? 3. To be honest, I want to have sex....

The next day, we do the same thing again. While I have been known to indulge in this from time to time, there’s an issue with this lifestyle. You basically spend each day, trying to get through it. You’re just living for the weekend. The weekend is never long enough, of course, and then it’s another week of the same. The problem with this is that months — or years — can go by....

Using the Palm TX as an iTunes Remote – [Idealog] On the TX, I installed PalmVNC, a $10 Euro shareware Palm-based VNC client. The TX is very quick about connecting to a wireless network. For the most part, it works quite well. Here are a couple of pictures of the TX controlling iTunes as a remote…

In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke down the walls of discrimination and became the first African American to play baseball professionally in the United States. Since the turn of the 20th century, olympic sporting events for women have become less and less male-oriented. Over forty events have become available for women in disciplines ranging from weightlifting to boxing to table tennis. The founder of the International Olympic Committee, Pierre de Coubertin, put it best: “All sports must be treated on the basis of equality....

However, there are certain guidelines that you need to follow while setting deadlines. It requires a fair amount of balancing between being too easy and too difficult to meet. They need to be realistic. Even as you may wish for all your tasks to be finished by the next morning, you know that it is not possible or feasible to set such a deadline. If you are too anxious and pumped up to reach your goal, you are likely to set deadlines that are too close for tasks that may genuinely need time....

Do you wake up in the morning looking forward to your trip to Starbucks, Caribou Coffee, or your local coffee shop on the way to work? Do you have a mortgage that you’re working to pay off? If so, you have an amazing opportunity to make a healthy habit change and save thousands of dollars on interest on your home mortgage and pay it off sooner! The Health Impacts of Coffee and Caffeine The experts have trouble agreeing on whether coffee is bad or good for you....

Your doors will keep opening if you have the ability to convince people. This series of posts is targeted at the techniques of being that killer negotiator. Over the last few posts, we have discussed how to master the basic rules of negotiation, knowing that everybody is a good guy, breaking the self-serving bias, saying less and listen more, and using the Benjamin Franklin effect and Foot in the Door technique to your advantage during negotiation....

Watch this video below to learn more, and share your thoughts in our comment section below! Featured photo credit: clarita via morguefile.com

It helps you recover from distractions faster Distractions are among the leading causes of poor productivity in the workplace. If you want to be productive, you must get rid of as many distractions as possible in your workplace. Since distractions are inevitable in many workplaces, you also need a faster way of recovering from them. This is why you need sleep to keep your brain active. When the brain is active, you will recover more quickly from any sort of distraction you encounter in the workplace....

Procrastination is a natural byproduct of the human brain being unable to focus 100% for long periods of time. Research has found that we can only focus on what’s in front of us 53% of the time. So working on developing a strong “attention muscle” is the key to creating more focus on tasks and, in turn, allows us to spend our time and attention optimally in the moment. But how can we train our minds to pay more attention and become more focused?...

These days, we see meditation being prescribed as the remedy to stress, anxiety, depression, or any other health-related concerns. We see this practice spread out from yoga studios into offices, corporations, as well as military and police enforcement divisions. It has become a practice modality serving people of all ages, backgrounds, and skill levels, which puts you in the perfect position as a beginner. This guide will provide you with some basic steps to starting your meditation practice....

======================= Show Notes: Here’s episode 2 of th Life Hack podcast, covering some articles from the site, a view into our wiki, and an interview with CEO David Hayden, founder of Jeteye.com. Music was provided by Micronaut, and was found at the Podsafe Music Network. Lifehack.org is the creation of Leon Ho.

The Unzipped Truth is an extremely funny and creative project by self-proclaimed ‘cultural matador’ Marta Ibarrondo. Her illustrations seek to answer some of life’s greatest questions, and does so with cheeky drawings and witty thoughts. Marta says: ‘The Unzipped Truth looks at the world through kids eyes. But answers it with the big mouth of an outspoken city girl whose opinions occasionally get her into trouble.’ How can any of us argue with that?...

Here are the sites for teachers I mention in the show: Academhack Academic Productivity Getting Things Done in Academia Instructify Teaching Generation Z. I also referred listeners to my recent post, 10 Ways to Pimp Your Blog, for tips on promoting a new blog. Thanks for listening. Subscribe to the Lifehack Podcast Feed via RSS or iTunes.

db clay’s Puzzle wallets are mailed of the same durable, eco-friendly “Tope” fabric as their other wallets. But each one is hand-printed, using a unique combination of design elements and colors. There are only 500 wallets in the series, and each one is individually numbered. How can you get in on the action? Easy: leave a comment on this post with your tip for being or staying creative. It’s only fitting, after all, that we celebrate creativity and encourage it to grow, given the nature of these all-original works of pocket-sized art....

Read on below if you dare. 1. The Moundsville Penitentiary, Moundsville, West Virginia There’s a reason why most ghost hunter shows spend multiple episodes perusing the terrifying hallways of decrepit penitentiaries: tons of people died in them. Not only that, but they’re usually eerie to look at and their interiors are poorly lit. Moundsville is a prime example of this, being both creepy on the outside and inside, and having had more than a handful of folks die excruciating deaths within its walls....

14 resources on GTD software – [Listible.com]

Our goals became but words on a document. We keep telling ourselves “I will do this some time later”, then completely forget about them a few weeks later. Olin Miller had it right – It is time to change, and there is no time better than now. But how? The Westenberg Framework Jon Westenberg is an entrepreneur, comedian, and writer. He also launched a coaching program to help people build their roadmap in life....