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What about to become a creative genius? Did Picasso and Mozart use superhuman intelligence to create their masterpieces? And similarly… How intelligent do you need to be to become a successful entrepreneur? How good does your training program need to be to become an elite athlete? How perfect does your weight loss program need to be to burn fat? These are questions that we don’t often ask ourselves, but they are built into our beliefs and actions about many phases of life....

Adobe is not alone, website after website being hacked and compromised. We all need to take a step back and commit ourselves to developing a good password strategy. It is nearly impossible to come up with a good password strategy and execute it by yourself. You need to incorporate some form of technology to assist, the complexity of password management and username management is simply too much for us to remember ourselves....

Find out which books you need If you want to get your books without any surprises, then you need to do your homework even before your real homework starts. The information on which books are needed is usually on your department’s website or professor’s course web page. You need to find the book title, author, edition and year. It’s best if you can find the ISBN, which is easy to find by typing the name into one of the many websites available, such as Bookup....

Viewing a bright screen in dimly lit environments can lead you to suffer from eyestrain, headaches and disrupted sleep. Luckily, an app named f.lux has been designed to specifically deal with this issue. Once programmed with your geographic location, the app automatically adjusts the screen brightness to match the natural daylight cycles. So, when the sun is brightest at midday, f.lux will make your screen operate at full brightness. When midnight comes around, f....

Amanda Statham, the editorial travel manager of “You and Your Wedding” publication, has traveled to unlimited indulging resorts and hotels to find the most nostalgic places on the planet. Previously she wrote “Scarborough’s best choice of hotels” where a couple would like to stay but today she shares her decision of the ’10 top honeymoon hotels and locations’. (1) These are all the best recommendations for the couples who want to spend their most memorable night in style....

1. Personal finance If you can’t take care of your personal finance, everything else you want to achieve can fall apart, because you don’t have the basic needs met. Developing the skill to manage your own budget, expenses, and savings is what will allow you to take care of your family, pay your bills, and invest in the resources that will keep you expanding. Money isn’t the only thing that will make you happy in life but it’s the base layer that will act as a supporting pillar to the things you want to achieve in your life....

You certainly hear and read a lot about the benefits associated with the energy efficiency of LED light emitting diodes versus traditional lighting. When you compare them to other energy-saving illumination methods that are currently available, you will find that LED lamps are definitely the smartest and most power-saving solution for illumination. The top 8 benefits of using LED lights over their less efficient alternatives can be read below....

It translates words in photos, from one language to another. This is obviously useful in numerous situations, when traveling or reading brochures in foreign languages. One of the best features of the app includes offline functionality. You don’t need to be connected online to use Word Lens. The app does require a steady hand to process hard to read signs, but overall it’s as simple as pointing and shooting....

Then something awful happens – you jolt awake, and find yourself uncomfortable, grouchy, irritable, and just plain can’t fall asleep. This is one of the worst feelings in the world. If you’ve ever experienced this, you know exactly what I mean. If you want to get rid of insomnia and feel rested and ready to tackle your day after a full night of deep sleep, you have to try this foot massage....

Below, you’ll learn how to develop a follow-up system and turn your business cards into business opportunities. Here is the basic formula: Use your business cards to get business cards Think of a business card less as a representation of yourself and more as a business card magnet. Your card is the key to exchanging more cards. Simply by having one, and offering it wherever you can, you’re encouraging a reciprocal relationship to form....

Is your smartphone lacking buttons? Most mobile devices today only have two or three. With Dimple.IO, you can add buttons to your device, while programming in specific functions. The gadget is a NFC tool that attaches on to any part of your smartphone. All you have to do is add functionality to the buttons through an app. With the press of a button, you can: Turn on the camera flash for light....

While all of those are viable options, the best way to spend your day during the cold is to binge watch as many Netflix shows and movies as you can. There are so many great shows and movies on Netflix, but let’s be honest—you’ve already seen Breaking Bad, Dexter has a terrible ending, and Narcos is based on a true story, so you already know how it’s going to end....

The ads given by reverse mortgage companies are very attractive. The ads show it as a means of great fortune. For several people, it is an excellent way of increasing their financial profile after retirement. It can have positive effects on their life quality. But it is important to look at both pros and cons of this mortgage before investing in it. Disadvantages of reverse mortgage: Here are some of the drawbacks of this type of mortgage....

The presentation, Best Kept Secrets for Personal and Team Productivity, will be on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 1:00-2:00 PM EDT. Register now – [webex] Join us for a scintillating hour with Allen as he reviews best practices to increase your productivity, both at home and at work. Find out how technology – in particular Mindmapping and web conferencing – are powerful tools that Allen considers part of anyone’s productivity ‘bag of tricks’....

Kill Switch When you lose your cell phone, it is a pain to have to rebuild all of your contact information. When you lose your smart phone, you run a greater risk of identify theft through the private information being found on your phone. The kill switch would allow you to turn off the phone and lock out any users remotely. It will also feature a GPS feature that will allow you to track its location and find it....

Your Bladder Has Done Nothing Wrong First off, it’s not your fault. The reason why this happens has nothing to do with you. It all depends on the water’s temperature. The colder the water, the higher diuresis ( a medical term for increased urination) for you. What happens is called ‘cold immersion diuresis’. The Science Behind This This is basically a step-by-step breakdown of what happens. The cold water leaches the heat of the blood vessels that lie near the skin surface....

Love isn’t something you can see with your eyes; rather, it’s more of a feeling that occurs deep within a person that sets off a domino effect of subsequent thoughts and external actions. We use those thoughts and actions to cultivate our own perception of what love is. Regardless of how you perceive love, like, and lust, there exists a simpler, science-based explanation that goes beyond your personal sentiments and experiences to reveal what it’s like to fall in love....

Success won’t happen overnight, it is about consistently doing a sequence of small actions that contributes to what you want. The key is to keep going until you achieve your goal. Remember, the feeling of achievement will eventually kick in, and you will be grateful for surviving from the long painful period.

That is the theory, but in reality we all know that if you repeatedly refuse to do overtime when the situation demands, you are most likely to be fired. If the company asks for an overtime, it is best to do them and if necessary demand the collection for an extra wage at the appropriate time. How Bad Is Overtime for Us? Disadvantages of overtime are usually aligned with health and un-productivity....

Security Can Lead to Boredom It is normal to reach this level of security in a relationship. The longer you’re with somebody, the more you get to know them and what to expect from them. This level of familiarity is the cause of relationship boredom. Although security is definitely something you want with your significant other, what you don’t want is the boredom. One of the biggest mistakes a couple can make is believing that their predictability makes up for the loss of intimacy or excitement they used to feel together....