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Right. Should you find yourself being swept into the maelstrom of awkwardness that is a Secret Santa party, you’ll undoubtedly see a variety of desk calendars, coffee gift sets, and gift cards being unwrapped around the snack table. Aim to be a little bit more unique this year, and consider one of these gift ideas instead of the usual, paltry offerings. Addictaball For the office teammate who’s continually procrastinating and not focusing on work, there’s the Addictaball from Firebox: a three-dimensional maze full of slides, spirals, platforms and holes through which the player has to guide a little metal ball, which will provide hours of gyrating fun for slackers of any age group....

Our confidence plays an important role in ability to achieve success and happiness. It affects our mental thought patterns, the way we speak, the way we act, and the decisions we make in all areas of our lives – career, money, relationships, and even our health. Confident people take more action, perform better, and are more likely to attain their goals. In addition, confident people also know how to take more enjoyment from their accomplishments are happier in general....

First, Terry Borton’s Development Framework (What – So What – Now What) as the logical explanation tool. Second, the 5-Why technique used in root-cause analysis (RCA) as the simple problem-solving tool. Using Occam’s razor as my underlying principle, I propose a new method called the What–Why Method. Crazy Simple! Using the military as an example, we find that numerous problem-solving methods exist within the U.S. military. In the U.S. Army alone, we have a smorgasbord of options to select from....

How many pages do you have? Enterprise SEO is not about the size of the company, but the number of pages a company has. For example, if you sell 1,000 or more products or services, you probably have an enterprise website and can benefit from enterprise SEO. T-Mobile has at least 35 thousand pages, one for each device. Sometimes, a Fortune 1000 company has a small website. Berkshire Hathaway shows about 800 pages, which are mostly press releases or financial reports....

Receive reminders via email, instant messenger, and SMS Share and publish to-do lists (Example) Add tasks via email, and send tasks to other users Enter due dates in English (e.g. ‘Tomorrow, ‘Tuesday at 7pm’) Printable weekly planner and quick view of upcoming and overdue tasks iCalendar and Atom support Keyboard shortcuts Remember the Milk – [Hat Tip to Omar]

1. “Happiness is not a goal… it’s a by-product of a life well lived.” (Eleanor Roosevelt) How many times you found yourself saying “I just wish to be happy”? Being happy is our natural state. Do what you love, smile a lot, forgive yourself and others, be grateful, and serve. This is a simple recipe for happiness. 2. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it....

What’s meant by “perceptible by our senses” is that a frequency falls within the ranges of our senses (i.e. we can see it, and/or hear it and/or taste it and/or smell it and/or touch it). There is a lot of things in our world that our senses cannot detect, but still exist. Electricity, radio waves, and ultraviolet waves come to mind. In this context, like vibration attracts vibration means that we attract things that are vibrating on the same frequency that we vibrate at....

Dharmesh Shah goes on to say that you don’t have to take his word for it. He’s sold over $20 Million worth of software for his startups, which include the likes of HubSpot and Pyramid Digital Solutions. The tips are well considered, and include gems like: You Don’t Need Sales People, You Need Sales. Reveal Your Geekiness Seek First To Understand, Then To Be Understood (nods to Covey) Pretend Like You Don’t Already Have A Product Treat The Demo As Evidence Of A “Head Start” Try To Get The Customer To Sell You Improve The Product Immediately...

I preface this little article by saying that you could use anything that you can easily update a feed with, not just Twitter. 1. Firstly, set up Twitter to send notifications to your email account. Twitter doesn’t do this natively, so you will have to use your Twitter RSS feed with something like rssfwd.com – this site will send any feed to your email as they come through with a small delay....

1. Compassion Improves Well-being The two cats I rescued from an animal shelter a couple of years ago actually rescued me. These unwanted felines helped me to find hope and resilience after losing my father to Parkinson’s Disease. Two-year-old Ziggy was on the kill list because it would cost too much to pull his bad teeth. And Zoe was getting “too old” to be adoptable. These playful friends showed me unconditional love, made me laugh, and helped me feel like I was not alone after I’d walled myself off from the world....

Why is it so hard to move forward? One step forward, another back, yet another sideways? Sometimes it can seem like we are just going around in circles. Blockages Most blockages come from unresolved problems. So how do we become blocked and what can we do about it so that we are free to move forward? Most blockagesare in our heads. These mental blocks come from a variety of sources but they usually fall into these categories:...

DIY Cleaning [Do it Together]

If you ever wished for a device that could track these things for you, you wish is fulfilled. StckR TrackR, a device which was funded on Indiegogo, makes it easier for you to track anything. Just place it on anything you don’t want to lose and track it via TrackR, a free Android and iPhone app. This app can conveniently tack 10 or less of your favorite items, so it can take care of most of the things you’d never like to be lose....

But, like oh so many high school and college students, I wasted a lot of my time in the short- and long-term. I would sleep late on Saturdays, lose hours “hanging out” with friends and scrolling through Facebook and Tumblr endlessly. In the long-term, I also was never sure what I wanted to do with my life, so I drifted through the easiest college courses, never really pushing myself to do better....

No, really. A new study published in the journal Mindfulness reports that dishwashing is a great way to relieve stress and it can actually boost mental well-being. If you have already figured out that dishwashing can be a good activity for relaxation, there is now scientific proof that your least favorite chore might also be benefiting your mind. “We hypothesized that, relative to a control condition, participants receiving mindful dishwashing instruction would evidence greater state mindfulness, attentional awareness, and positive affect, as well as reduce negative affect and lead to overestimations of time spent dishwashing,” wrote the study authors at Florida State University in Tallahassee....

Computers. If you work – heck, if you live – in these times, you gotta use them. You gotta master them. More often, it seems, computers master us. Perfectly competent, intelligent people shudder at the thought of backing up their files, configuring their email clients, or setting up a website. Today’s prizes are meant to make your computer easier to use, and to make you more productive. ActiveWords turns every word you type into a potential command, allowing you to lookup information, launch programs, or even set up series of actions that can be triggered with a single word....

It’s tricky, because I venture that lots of us don’t exactly know all of our own tags, let alone which ones are truly more useful to others. So, what tags do you give yourself? Do you share these with potential “customers” who might need (be willing to pay for) the services advertised in your tag?

Resilience, as a term, means to recover from something difficult. Bonus points if you recover quickly. For some career fields, like engineering, there are resilience tests and measurements to make sure the structures will survive despite challenging weather. But what about us? Is there a test we can take to determine how we will weather the storms in our lives? I’m glad you asked! The quiz provided at the end of this article will help you gauge where you stand with resilient behaviors....

If something is wrong with your Christmas you still have time to set it right. Nobody is going to do it for you, it is up to you. Don’t let this year be as stressful and frustrating as the last. Take back your Christmas this year and every year from now on.