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Here are some good chapters from the book: On a room by room basis in your home, list those items which are merely structure. What is in those structures? By purging the contents, you can free up an enormous amount of space in your home because you can then get rid of the structures. Live Simple: Radical tactics to reduce the complexity, costs, clutter of your life Optimize your place · Choose your region · Choose your city · Choose your quarter · Choose your neighborhood · Choose your home · Rent your home · Set up your home Live your dream · Find your dream · Express your dream · Set aside time for your dream · Gather resources for your dream · Gain your dream’s benefits · Be ready for your break

Food poisoning can be devastating. Unfortunately, not everyone knows how to detect spoilage. Even those who know what to look out for occasionally get sick from contaminated food. What if there was a way to detect food poisoning consistently using a device? The PERES gadget does just that. Using the tool is relatively simple. All you have to do is point and shoot. That’s all. You don’t have to do any complicated programming....

There’s no doubt that when collecting pictures, be it as a photographer,graphic designer or just someone who lvoes pictures, having a photo organization app is crucial. It can become a rather tedious job to sift through hundreds of random images for what you’re looking for. Introducing Lumific – Personal Photo Assistant App. Not only does this app organize all your pictures, it offers you a large amount of visual enhancements, looks through all your photos and removes duplicates, groups similar images and picks the best for review....

With the relaxation mode, the light will create the perfect ambience to help you fall asleep easier. With the wake up mode, the light will mimic the sunrise and help you to wake up more naturally. The proximity and call alert modes are also impressive. You can see LuMini’s party and music sync modes live in the below video. With over 1 million different colors to choose from via the mobile app, LuMini is definitely the ultimate smart mood bulb....

Here are some reasons why do we need brain fitness: Lumosity – Brain Fitness and Memory Improvement – [via Techcrunch] New research shows that we can improve the health and function of our brains by flexing our mental muscles. Exercising the brain leads to better brain performance today and healthier brains in the long run. Computer-based brain exercises can improve how well we think In a recently published study funded by the National Institute of Health, scientists found that memory, attention and mental processing speed can be improved by training the brain....

Burnout is a big problem when you are working towards goals. Your goals become so motivating, that doing anything not directly related to their achievement seems wasteful. Half of you wants to recover your energy to go back with full force and the other believes you are just wasting time. In their groundbreaking book on Energy Management, Tony Schwarz and Jim Loehr, they make the case that managing energy cycles, not just time is the key to peak productivity....

This is especially true if you subscribed to the etiquette of returning the favor to everybody who follows you when building up your social network. There’s certainly no problem in following several thousand people if that’s what works for you, but if you’re anything like this writer, you’ll probably find a smaller number much more manageable. It may be that, in following every tweeter in existence, your stream has been clogged with all manner of tweets which, whilst interesting in their own right, don’t add as much value to your Twitter stream as you’d like It could even be that some of those irrelevant tweets come from people you only followed as a courtesy and who no longer follow you anyway, or it could just be that you like to keep on top of these things....

From the point of discovery of the mass to getting the necessary tests, waiting for results, waiting for surgery, waiting to see if the newly diagnosed cancer had spread to lymph nodes, waiting to see what treatment I would have, and so much more, there were times that I didn’t think I could physically tolerate much more anxiety. I knew I had to do something to manage the stress and that I would need to make it a way of life....

I’ve tried keeping a bullet journal (didn’t work for me), hypnotizing myself to eat less dessert (nope), reading a million self-help books (hit and miss), downloading productivity apps (which usually distract me from actually working). A lot of these things were either hogwash or just weren’t for me (some of my friends really like bullet journals!) The one thing I’m fully confident of, the one thing that actually worked for me is meditation....

Japanese folding – by utilizing efficient “Japanese folding” methods, you can fold t-shirts in a fraction of the time. 2. Clean appliances – if these aren’t cleaned, they will not work properly. Make sure you clean them as soon as you can. 3. Use less detergent – there is no reason to add too much detergent to your wash. Use less to save time and money 4. Load / unload at once – wrap your clothing and move them from one place to another to save time loading and unloading 5....

Their influence felt in areas such as science, math, and arts is redefining various industries, creating waves of change, and breaking ‘traditional ways’ to cater their new way of thinking and ideologies. Having been raised during the time of rapid technological growth, Millennials have the most influence over old generations and are considered the biggest trendsetters of our world today. Despite being career-driven, skilled, and highly educated, Millennials are often considered financially doomed and unstable....

Magnesium is both a mineral and an electrolyte. As a mineral, magnesium plays an important role in keeping the heart and bones strong. Actually, all of our organs need magnesium. The mineral adds to the production of energy and supports the regulation of other nutrients and cholesterol production in the body such as calcium, zinc, and vitamin D. Magnesium plays a role in hundreds of metabolic reactions in the body such as the breaking down of carbohydrates and fats....

What are your experience on multi-tasking, or setting larger block of time to complete your project? Which one do you prefer? Death to Multi-tasking! Long live chunking! – [Management Craft]

When magnetic response imaging (MRI) for the brain was first introduced, it was easy to see which areas of the brain are activated when music is heard and played. The auditory cortex gets going with processing pitch, rhythm, and melody. A part of the cerebrum brings up images associated with the sounds. The cerebellum will help you to move to the music or tap your fingers, if you feel so inclined....

Topping the lists were skills such as Process Management, Machine Learning, and Load Runner (salary values ranging from $125,258 to $170,371). Broadly speaking, the “any skill” list includes aptitudes such as Credit Risk and Analysis, Providing Financial Solutions, and New Business Development (all over $180,000). They do point out that this data set pulls information indiscriminately from wanted ads and that the bigger picture of an applicant is more important than having any one keyword....

But wait a sec. There are smarter ways to deal with rude people! Here are my top 10. 10 Smart Ways to Deal with Rude People

I believe prose is the greatest story telling form we have, and poetry the greatest method of self expression. Yet, are reverence of books is such that many of us see it as a faultless medium, that a bad book will always be superior to a great film or great video game…just because… Well like with everything, there are a lot of bad books out there, books certainly not worth your valuable time....

30 Most Inspirational Quotes By Highly Successful Women Around The World

The quality of care he has received from nurses has been a breath of fresh air. These events have really shown me what nurses are capable of, and how working that job must be very exhausting, mentally and physically. I’m happy to say that medical staff, especially nurses, have saved my dad’s life multiple times this year. What sets nurses apart is that they pay attention to the little details....

But how did this happen? How did a series of capable adults and city officials so drastically miss on the time and budget for a large project? And what can we learn from it? We are bad estimators We often want to assume projects and new initiatives will go according to a best-case scenario, i.e. no delays, no interruptions, etc. That’s usually not the case. Other priorities arise. Distractions happen....