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Must Daily Tips to Adopt

Are your days hectic and stressful? Do you find yourself scrambling constantly? Unfortunately, our days often control us, leaving little time to accomplish the things that matter.

Yet by taking a few minutes to consciously plan our day, we can create a healthy and productive routine. By repeating simple, yet powerful habits, we can move closer to fulfillment and composure. Having positive habits embedded into your day is a powerful way to “kick ass and take names.”

The following are 11 simple habits that will tremendously aid you in creating the day that you desire.

Drink water upon waking: Drinking water as soon as you wake up is a powerful way to start your day. The first thing you should do when you get up ( aside from rolling out of bed of course), is drink a glass of water. This will jog your brain and help you get moving. Try putting a bottle of water near your bed so you don’t forget.

Go for 30-minute walk: I realize many people don’t have enough “time” to walk for 30 minutes, but I promise the benefits are well worth the effort. Walking not only strengthens your bones and immune system but also does wonders for your mood. Get the family involved or use it for one on one time with your pets.

Visualize: Set aside 10-15 minutes to just imagine yourself in your ideal life. How do you feel? What it is it like? Get excited about the future you. When you visualize success, you’re calling your subconscious mind to go to work.

Deep breathe: There is no reason why you can’t do this everyday. Whether it be while at a traffic light or while your waiting in a long line, take sometime and draw a few deep breaths each day. Feel the positive energy flow into your body. Take a few breathes now.

Eat slowly: To be honest this is something I’m working on myself. In our fast paced world, too often we devour our food without appreciating the meal. If you eat slow, not only will you eat less but you will immerse yourself in the moment and enjoy your food a great deal more.

Smile: Free and simple, do it.

Be thankful: Too often we get caught up in what’s wrong with the world, instead shift your perspective and appreciate the blessings in your life. Not thankful for anything? Be thankful for your computer. Take a few moments and reflect on how privileged you really are. You can’t be miserable while thankful, gratitude is a powerful cure.

Help someone: Don’t go to bed unless this one is checked off your listen. There are literally hundreds of ways you can help someone. Take some time to listen to someone in need. Hold the door for someone. Choose the farthest parking spot so someone who is running late can park up front. Get creative! The possibilities are endless.

Take a step towards your dreams: Do one action that will move you towards your dream everyday. Don’t know what what to do? Try crafting a mission statement. Consistent action yields results. As Steve Pavlina says ” People overestimate what they can accomplish in a year and underestimate what they can accomplish in 5.”Just take a step.

Seek inspiration: When you surround yourself with inspiration you condition yourself to create. Inspiration can be found anywhere. Have deep conversations, watch inspiring videos, meditate , or just observe. Find the beauty in life. Inspiration is there, can you find it?

The total time of doing all of the above shouldn’t take more than a few hours a day max. See if you can do all 11 habits everyday for a month. I promise that if you do, your life will be forever changed. Get going

http://www.aboundlessworld.com/11-daily-habits-you-should-adopt/

Fast Facts - Bluetooth Technology 101

What is Bluetooth technology?
Bluetooth wireless technology is built into electronic gadgets and lets you talk and share information like voice, music, and videos wirelessly.
Radio waves send you information:
Mobile phones, FM radio, and television all use different kinds of radio waves to send information—such as, music, and videos—wirelessly.
Your PAN
Bluetooth technology also uses radio waves. The biggest difference between Bluetooth technology and devices like FM radios and TV is distance. Radios and TVs are meant to broadcast to many people over miles or kilometers.
Bluetooth technology sends information within your own personal space, which is called your Personal Area Network or “PAN” at distances up to 10 meters (33 feet).
Bluetooth Radio
When someone says a product "has Bluetooth,” that means it has a piece of “hardware,” or a small computer chip that contains the Bluetooth radio, and some software that lets you, the user, connect that product to other products wirelessly using Bluetooth technology.
The kind of radio technology used by Bluetooth technology dates back to discoveries pioneered by the military in the 1940s.
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group
Bluetooth technology was invented in 1994 by engineers at Ericsson, a Swedish company. In 1998, a group of companies agreed to work together using Bluetooth technology as a way to connect their products. These companies formed the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), an organization devoted to maintaining the technology. This means that no single company “owns” Bluetooth technology, but that many members of the Bluetooth SIG work together to develop Bluetooth technology.
The name "Bluetooth"
'Bluetooth' was the code name for the SIG when it was first formed and the name stuck. The name "Bluetooth" is actually very old! It is from the 10th century Danish King Harald Blatand - or Harold Bluetooth in English. King Blatand was instrumental in uniting warring factions in parts of what is now Norway, Sweden and Denmark - just as Bluetooth technology is designed to allow collaboration between differing industries such as the computing, mobile phone and automotive markets.
Cable replacement
Bluetooth technology was originally intended to be a wireless replacement for cables and wires between things like phones and headsets or computers, keyboards and mice. It works great in those devices and it can do so much more—connecting TVs, music players and even home healthcare devices.
New connections
Bluetooth technology has continued to mature and now you can create new connections that weren’t possible using wires, like connecting your mobile phone to your car stereo, or printing a picture directly from your camera phone.

Seven Great Questions to Ask at a Job Interview

If you are going for an interview as a prospective employee then you should do some research. Read the job description and requirements carefully. Browse the web site to see how the organization presents itself. Search for news items and comments about the company on news sites and blogs.

For the interview itself you should dress smartly and appropriately. It is important to have some questions prepared and here are a few that could really help:

1. What exactly would my day-to-day responsibilities be? It is essential that you clearly understand your role and the tasks that you would be expected to undertake. It is easy to make assumptions and get the wrong impression of what the work would be so it is vital for both sides that there is clarity in what is expected of you. If the interviewer cannot give a clear answer then this is a worrying sign, so politely follow up with more questions. Some people even ask to see exactly where they will sit.

2. What are the opportunities for training and career advancement? This question serves two purposes. It helps you to understand where the job might lead and what skills you might acquire. It also signals that you are ambitious and thinking ahead.

3. What is the biggest challenge facing the organization today? This sort of question takes the interview away from the detail and towards strategic issues. It allows to you see and discuss the bigger picture. It proves that you are interested in more than just the 9 to 5 aspects of the job. It can lead to interesting discussions that can show you in a good light - especially if you have done some intelligent preparation. If appropriate you can follow up this question with some questions about the objectives of the department and the manager who is interviewing you.

4. When did you join? After the interviewer has asked a number of questions about you it can make a good change to ask a gentle question about them. People often like talking about themselves and if you can get them talking about their progress in the company you can learn useful and interesting things.

5. What are the criteria that you are looking for in the successful candidate for this position? The job advertisement may have listed what was wanted in a candidate but it is very useful to hear the criteria directly from the interviewer. The more that you can discover about what they want and how they will make the decision the better placed you are to influence that decision.

6. How do you feel that I measure up to your requirements for this position? This follows on naturally from the previous questions. It may seem a little pushy but it is a perfectly fair thing to ask. In sales parlance this is a ‘trial close’. If they say that you are a good fit then you can ask whether there is any reason you might not be offered the job. If they say that you are lacking in some key skill or attribute then you can move into objection handling mode and point out some relevant experience or a countervailing strength.

7. Would you like to hear what I could do to really help your department? If you want the job then this is a great question to ask at the end of the interview. Most interviewers will reply, ‘Yes.’ Drawing on what you have learnt in the conversation, you can give a short sales pitch on why you fit the criteria and why your strengths and ideas will siginficantly assist the boss to meet their objectives. Make it short, direct and clear with the emphasis on the benefits for them of having you in the team. At the end ask something like, ‘how does that sound?’

Many candidates take a passive role at the interview. They competently answer the questions that are put to them but they never take the initiative by asking intelligent questions that steer the interview in a helpful direction. If you are a proactive candidate who asks the sorts of questions given above then you will be seen as more dynamic and you will significantly increase your chances of being offered the job.

www.lifehack.org/.../seven-great-questions-to-ask-at-a-job-interview.html

10 Powerful Success Strategies

If you’re serious about creating lasting and significant change in your world – as opposed to merely thinking and talking about it for another year – there are a few things you might want to do in order to help make those intentions a reality…

1. Know what success is. If you don’t know what success is (for you), how can you possibly create it? Success is different things for different people and one person’s success (a pregnancy for example) might be another person’s catastrophe. That’s because success (or failure) is not so much about the situation, circumstance, event or outcome as it is about what that “thing” means to the person in the middle of it. In order to create success, you must first define it – and far too many people haven’t. Be very clear about what you want and don’t want for your life. Clarity produces excitement. Excitement produces momentum. Momentum produces behavioural change. Behavioural change produces different results and eventually, the internal vision becomes an external reality. Giddy-up.

2. Get comfortable being uncomfortable. Some people will live a life of second-best, of compromise and of under-achievement simply because they are (1) controlled by fear (2) always looking for the magic pill or shortcut and (3) not prepared to do the tough stuff. People who always take the easy option are destined for mediocrity. At best. Constantly avoiding the discomfort means constantly avoiding the lessons and the personal growth. Pain is a great teacher. Not always what we want, but sometimes what we need.

3. Seek to be righteous, not right. The need to be “right” speaks of arrogance, insecurity, ego and stupidity. It’s also synonymous with failure. The person who constantly needs to be right will miss out on much of what life has to teach him and alienate himself from others. Arrogance repels, humility attracts.

4. Seek respect, not popularity. It’s been said that our nature is “who we are” and our reputation is who people think we are. When the two are synonymous, we’re usually on the right path.

5. Embrace mess. To embrace mess is to embrace life because life is messy, unpredictable, unfair, uncertain, lumpy and bumpy. So get used to a little chaos. Embrace it even. While others succumb to the messiness and unpredictability of the human experience, make a conscious choice to be the calm in the chaos.

6. Don’t become your parents. Or your boss. Or anyone but you. The enormity of conformity is a problem for the wanna-be success story. Sure, your parents are great and by all means respect them, love them and learn from them, but please don’t become them; that’s just plain ugly and a little bit tragic. Listen to, and learn from other people, but think, act and decide for yourself. And no, you don’t need anyone’s approval or permission; you’re big now. It’s okay.

7. Use more of what you already have. Imagine what you could achieve if you took all the knowledge, intelligence, opportunities, time, skill and talent that you currently have and absolutely milked it. What if you already have more than enough talent to become wildly successful? Well, you do. There go the excuses. And that voice that’s telling (some of) you right now that you don’t have what it takes to become successful, that’s called fear. Not logic, fear. Not reality, fear. Unless of course, you allow that to become your reality. Be mindful that the voice in your head (the very loud, annoying and persistent one) is rarely a reflection of your potential and mostly a manifestation of your insecurity. And no, you’re not alone in your self-doubt; it’s a universal condition. Many people fail, not because they don’t have what it takes, but because they don’t use what they already have. Successful people typically don’t have more innate potential, luck, time or opportunity than the next person, but they consistently find a way to use much more of what they have at their disposal. While the majority are rationalising their lack of decision making and action taking, these guys are finding a way to get the job done. The question is not “how much ability do you have, but how much will you use?”.

8. Be an innovator, not an imitator. Not too many sheep succeed. Baaah. Sometimes it’s a good idea to build your own team rather than join someone else’s. Don’t let your fear stand in the way of your potential to create, innovate or lead. When I set up Australia’s first commercial personal training centre, most people told me it wouldn’t work. Glad I didn’t listen.

9. Do what most won’t. If you want to achieve what most people won’t (happiness, joy, calm, wealth, optimal health, balance) then don’t do what they do. If you want to be like the majority, then do what they do. Producing different results comes from doing different things. Simple really. And effective. Most people won’t persevere, won’t finish what they start, won’t find the good, won’t do what it takes, won’t question their long-held beliefs, won’t be solution-focused, won’t do what scares them and won’t “be the change” they want to see in their world. Choose to be different.

10. Be like water. Powerful. Gentle. Adaptable. Ever-changing. Being static in a dynamic world – like the one you and I inhabit – is a recipe for disaster. If you can’t adapt, you can’t succeed. Our practical, three dimensional reality, and everything in it, is in a constant state of transition, while some of us are in a constant state of “same”. Statues don’t succeed, they just get crapped on.

www.lifehack.org/articles/.../10-powerful-success-strategies.html

The Top 100 Web Sites of 2009

I hope you'll enjoy these sites as much as I do!

Apps
Google Docs Google's online office suite includes a presentation maker, spreadsheets, and, of course, a word processor. Use it to create and collaborate with anyone that has a Google account, and keep all the documents online where you can always get to them. It even helps you create Web forms for easily collecting info online.
MeeboWhy install instant-messaging software? Meebo is a browser-based IM aggregator, providing one master buddy list for all your IM accounts—AIM, Google, Yahoo, MSN, even Facebook or the old ICQ.
PicnikAn online Photoshop? Maybe it's not quite that powerful, but Picnik is amazingly robust for a Web-based image editor. That it has tight integration with lots of great photo sharing sites like Flickr, MySpace, and Facebook is a bonus.
TwitterDoes the site that's synonymous with micro-blogging need an introduction? Here's one anyway: Think of Twitter as a place where you can constantly keep people up to date on your life status, and where you and friends can publicly make with the witty banter all day (and night) long.
Funby Whitney Reynolds
1Up.comIn a crowded field of gaming Web sites, 1Up.com stands out for its expert game reviews, news, and videos, and its active community. Read up on the gaming world while you're resting your thumbs.
BoingBoingThis "Directory of Wonderful Things" keeps getting wonderfuller, with spin-offs like BoingBoing Gadgets, BoingBoingTV, and BoingBoing Offworld. Each of them use the same quirky BoingBoing sensibility to dig up treasures around the Web.
FacebookThe preeminent social network is fast becoming the hub of all social interactions on the Web, and as more people join, our list of Facebook friends more and more resembles our real-world "social graph." If you're still holding out, knock it off and join already. Your friends and family will thank you.
Flickr.comFacebook is great for sharing your camera phone pics with friends, but more serious photographers will want a more serious photo-sharing platform. Flickr makes the chore of uploading and tagging photos as simple as possible, and offers plenty of great features for photo enthusiasts, pros, and people who just like to look at pretty pictures.
HuluHulu's advertising campaign calls the site an evil plot to destroy the world; with the amount of time you can lose watching the free shows and movies offered, it might just be true. Who needs a TV when you have Hulu?
IMDbIMDb is the Web's best source for finding out who that guy was that was in that thing with that other guy. Beyond solving bar bets, the site offers movie and TV news, clips, trailers, and even full-length video.
io9Hey, nerds! How about a nerd blog for your nerd interests? io9 covers everything science fiction and otherwise less-than-hip. Comic book superheroes, television time-travelers, and real-life robot-controlled rat brains; io9's got them all.
MLB.comAmerica's favorite pastime has the site it deserves in MLB.com, which has a ton of cutting-edge features and is adding more all the time. The site excels at what every sports site should be working toward: Making it easy to keep track of games and scores from your desk at work.
Nick.comNick's Web site has information on your kid's favorite shows (or your favorite shows—admit it, you like Avatar: The Last Airbender), full-length episodes, and browser-based games. Why waste time with Solitaire when you could play cards with SpongeBob?
The OnionThis venerable source of satire has moved beyond snappy headlines into the realm of Web video and audio. Tech fans will appreciate pieces like this not-quite-safe-for-work bit of hard-hitting reporting.
PandoraBored with shuffling through your iTunes music? Pandora throws a bit of the unknown and unexplored into the mix. Enter a song or artist, and Pandora creates an Internet radio station with similar songs. Try putting in Weird Al's "Fat." It'll be fun—trust us!
Rotten TomatoesWhy rely solely on Roger Ebert's opinion when you could be drawing from the aggregate knowledge of the teeming masses? Rotten Tomatoes collects movie reviews from credible publications and draws a percentage from those scores, ranking them as either "Fresh" or "Rotten."
SomeecardsSomeecards has a wry e-card for every occasion, from birthday wishes ("Happy birthday to someone I feel incredible close to when I'm intoxicated") to cries for help ("I can't handle the pressure of making my own salad.") You can even create your own cards, if you think you're clever enough.
Ustream.TVViewing and creating online video is easier than ever; Ustream.TV lets anyone with a webcam start a live broadcast. Those who'd rather just watch can find a world of sporting events, talk shows, and kittens—so many, many kittens.
YouTubeYouTube is synonymous with online video at this point. The site is expanding its offerings beyond homemade videos of people doing Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" dance, however; now you can watch full-length TV shows and movies, like American Gladiators and She Gods of Shark Reef.
Infoby Brian Heater
Google MapsGoogle's mapping service keeps getting better and better, adding new features all the time. It's almost good enough to forgive them for the time the Street View camera took a picture of us coming out of a gentlemen's club in the middle of the day.
Google SearchApparently Google also does search. It'll never take off.
KayakTraveling would be a lot more fun were it not for all of the, you know, traveling. But just because every other part of the process is a nightmare doesn't mean booking your trip has to be. Kayak crawls hundreds of travel sites and tracks current promotions to help you get the best fare for your flight.
MintIt's a scary time to be thinking about money, so you may as well get a little bit of help from our Editors' Choice for online financial services. Mint can track your income and spending, and help you build a budget you'll be able to stick to.
PetfinderWhy get your pet from a store when you can adopt a loving animal from a shelter? Petfinder lists dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, and other animals in need from across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
Simply HiredIn the current economic climate, it's probably best to cast your net as wide as possible. Simply Hired aggregates results from thousands of job and company sites, making job hunting as easy as its name implies.
SnopesSnopes is the go-to source for debunking urban legends. Please consult it before forwarding that chain e-mail, especially if it has anything to do with Barack Obama, Walt Disney, or a dying child who can only afford treatment if you forward the e-mail.
TreeHuggerThis Discovery Channel-owned blog is the ultimate up-to-the-minute resource for green news, culture, eco-friendly design, and more.
WebMDBefore you go checking this site, let us assure you that you don't have the bubonic plague. Heck, it's probably just a simple case of the Swine Flu.
WikipediaCollege professors and newspaper publishers hate this online encyclopedia. The rest of you have probably already spent half your day going further down the Wikipedia rabbit hole.
YelpWant some Persian food in New York with a side-order of snark? Looking for a review of a Thai restaurant in San Francisco, prepared in iambic pentameter? Anyone who thinks business reviews can't be fun needs to Yelp more.
Newsby Eric Griffith
BBCFor the news of the world—in 32 languages, no less—the British Broadcasting Company is second to none. It doesn't hurt to read it in an English accent either, for extra gravitas.
DiggThe ultimate user-submitted content site. Actually, it has no content, just links, all of which are voted upon—dugg—by visitors to the site, or any site that puts a Digg badge on its pages. Still one of the hottest places to visit to see what's...hot.
EW.comEntertainment Weekly's online home remains one of the best all-around entertainment sites, with some real reporting on some fluffy bits of news, not to mention fun columns (its Lost analysis can't be beat), reviews, and even video. Thankfully, it's fluff we all enjoy.
The New York TimesSome think the Old Grey Lady ain't what she used to be—and well, if you're thinking about that 17-pound mass of paper delivered on Sundays, maybe that's true. The Times Web site, however, is where the real breaking news of the day is found, along with all the great extras you'd expect in Arts, Style, Travel, and other sections.
Science DailyThomas Dolby got it right when he cried: "SCIENCE!" We like science that much too, and that's why Science Daily is a perennial favorite on this list. The site aggregates the very best coverage in that very broad topic, from fossils to space exploration, from diseases to climate change, and every nano-particle in between.
SlateThe Washington Post's online current affairs magazine—which was founded by Microsoft—continues to deliver on much more than politics (entertainment and tech coverage is especially good), and with far more wit and clarity than is typical online.
Shoppingby Kyle Monson
Amazon.comThe online shopping behemoth just keeps getting bigger. From dead-tree books, CDs, and DVDs to their digital equivalents (e-books, MP3s, and movie streaming), Amazon has it all.
The ConsumeristStand up for your consumer rights, and if those dastardly companies don't heed your complaint, take it to The Consumerist. The consumer-rights blog, recently bought from Gawker by Consumer Reports, offers catharsis by taking big companies to task for all kinds of shady behavior.
craigslistThis Craig fellow sure is swell! His list lets you hunt for a new house or apartment, buy and sell used stuff, and even find your long-lost love!
EtsyThis excellent online store lets you both buy and sell handmade items, and has tons of one-of-a-kind treasures available at good prices. It's the Internet equivalent of a cottage industry, and we absolutely love it.
TruliaAn afternoon of browsing Trulia's real estate listings will either make your day or destroy your week, depending on whether you're shopping for a home or considering selling. Housing booms and busts will come and go, but through it all, Trulia is our favorite real estate site.
Techby Kyle Monson
Ars TechnicaThe standard practice for news sites these days is to be a mile wide and an inch deep-write as many short posts as possible. Ars has always gone in the opposite direction, with refreshingly insightful reporting and commentary on the tech industry.
CNETCNET's recent acquisition by CBS hasn't dampened its moxie. It still has great tech news and reviews, and this gargantuan technology network is also breaking new ground in Web video, live broadcasting, and audience interaction.
EngadgetIn many ways, Engadget is setting the standard not just for the blogosphere, but for the whole tech media world. The site covers the world of tech gadgets with a level of skill and enthusiasm that is hard to match.
InstructablesBuild things of limited usefulness out of household objects! That's the idea behind this fun, geeky DIY site. Browse for project ideas or just enjoy the weird obsessions of the DIY community.
LifehackerI can't remember what life was like before Lifehacker, but I'm pretty sure it involved lots of wasted time, wasted money, and wasted closet space, and not nearly enough keyboard shortcuts. Optimize your entire online and offline life with this site's incredibly useful tips and how-tos.
PCMag.comWe have to pat ourselves on the back here—our expert tests and reviews of tech hardware and software are still the best in the business. And stay tuned for some big changes to the site in the coming months.
Phone ScoopI don't know of another site that covers developments in the mobile/wireless world with as much depth as Phone Scoop. And if you're in the market for a new handset, check out the site's cool Phone Finder.
SourceForge.netLooking for that one free PC utility that will save your life? Building a utility that will save others' lives? Whether you're a giver or a taker, SourceForge has you covered by offering a huge library of free, open-source software, and the opportunity to upload your own projects.
TechCrunchThough the dollars aren't swirling around Silicon Valley like they were a couple years ago, there are still leaks and rumors to report, mergers to scrutinize, and startups to evaluate. TechCrunch is on top of it, with an unparalleled network of loose-lipped informants that ensures that Michael Arrington gets the story first.
Appsby Eric Griffith
Aviary This site is giving Picnik a run for its money, offering online, Flash-based image editing, color editing, vector editing, image hosting, and even image capture of Web sites (using a Firefox add-on) which you can instantly open in the image editor.
Gizapage Privacy might be the biggest problem with modern social networks. That and the fact that there are too damn many of them. Gizapage wants to fix both problems by giving you a single dashboard from which to control your social network profiles across sites like Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and your WordPress blog.
PagetweetPageTweet's interface creates a shortened URL (ala TinyURL) for you to share on Twitter, Facebook, et al. But there's a twist to this URL shortener: When your friends click on that URL, they'll see the Web page you want to share, plus whatever clever caption you assign to it.
TinyChatYou need to have a quick conversation with multiple co-workers. Except some of them are working from home, the lucky bastards. Rather than try to get all your various IM services to cooperate in creating a multi-person chatroom that probably won't work anyway, jump on TinyChat and make an instant chat room that even supports audio and video.
TweetBackupYou spend all day crafting cleverness in 140 characters or less and have the admiration of tens, if not hundreds of readers! But what happens if Twitter were to go away tomorrow? You'd lose all that pithy genius. TweetBackup to the rescue: It does what it says, backing-up thousands of posts (well, 3,200 of them at least) and your friends list for free.
SeesmicJust like Meebo brings the power of IM aggregation to your browser, so Seesmic does for Twitter. The Web-based Twitter client sports a multi-column view that's similar to the Seesmic or TweetDeck desktop apps, and makes it easy to keep up with your Twitter feed.
Funby Whitney Reynolds and Kyle Monson
1000 Awesome ThingsYou know what's awesome? Thinking it's Thursday when it's really Friday. Or the light turning green just as you get to the intersection. Or placing the last piece of the puzzle. This happy blog doesn't have 997 more awesome things just yet, but it counts down another bite of awesomeness every weekday. And that's awesome!
Apology CenterIf you've wronged someone, you should probably clear the air with them ASAP, or at least with your preferred form of clergy. If that isn't enough, though, you can appeal to the anonymous masses of the Internet. Post on Apology Center about the hearts you've broken or the couches you've stained, and if you're sincere enough, you might be forgiven.
Awkward Family PhotosOh, what horrors the Sears Photo Studio has wrought! If you've ever starred in a photo where everyone in your family is wearing the same stupid T-shirt, you could have your few minutes of Internet fame on this blog.
b@ TVThis crazy site is a collection of multi-angle videos of DJs spinning at popular clubs around the world, with an annotated progress bar so you can comment or tag different songs in the set. b@ TV won't appeal to everyone, but we're including it in our list for two reasons: 1) If you're into house music, it'll be your new favorite site; 2) We desperately want a site like this for live rock shows.
BookArmyThis social network site for readers features a recommendation engine and user reviews geared toward finding you a good book to read next.
Broken Picture TelephoneRemember that old grade-school game, Telephone? Broken Picture Telephone is a Web-based version of it, and lets players alternate between writing words and drawing clever pictures to transmit the original clue.
GroovesharkThere are a lot of sites, like Songza and Skreemr, that let you stream whatever song you want; Grooveshark is probably the best, though. It's got a slick UI, has a multi-faceted search function, and lets you make playlists of just about any song you can think of.
InterfaceLIFTIt might seem like a throwback, but we still love browsing through sites of beautiful, free desktop wallpaper art. And InterfaceLIFT is one of our faves. Pick your wallpaper for any screen size, including mobile devices and dual- or triple-monitor setups.
Item Not As DescribedPeople put some weird stuff up for sale on Craigslist. Just think, you might never know that a papier-mâché boot with a map of Middle Earth even existed if you never visited Item Not As Described.
ShorpyShorpy is not a photo site for the LOLcats crowd. This blog features retro photographs taken between 1850 and 1950. Get a glimpse of what the world was like before camera phones—or any phones!
Texts from Last Night Come the cruel light of morning, you may look at your phone and wonder why your friend sent you a message like "I wish everyone could be as happy as the people in the laxative commercials." Submit that bit of SMS poetry to the oft-hilarious and frequently filthy Texts from Last Night, where it can live anonymously with others of its kind.
That Guy with the GlassesReading the different personalities on this movie/culture review site is akin to hanging out in your nerdy friend's basement-and we mean that in the best way. These guys have their own language of inside jokes, a cast of regular commenters, and they know all the same movie and gaming trivia you do.
Ugliest TattoosAll it takes is one buzz of the needle to lead to a lifetime of regret. And all it takes is one snap of the camera to let that regret be splashed across the Internet. Ugliest Tattoos does exactly what its name indicates, showing off a gallery of poor life choices.
WorldWide TelescopeThe Web client version of the WorldWide Telescope project puts the entire known universe right into your browser window. The site lets you travel around Earth, space, and other planets, sight-seeing via photos from ground- and space-based telescopes.
Youshouldhaveseenthis.comDon't take this site too seriously, though it could be quite useful. Youshouldhaveseenthis.com is a primer of the 100 Web memes you should definitely, absolutely have already seen by now. E-mail the URL to your parents, or to that one guy in the office who always forwards two-year-old links.
Infoby Brian Heater
Academic EarthScholars and professors from top U.S. universities such as Harvard, Standford, Yale, and more offer up free video lectures on a large spectrum of subjects on Academic Earth.
BikelyWhy drive when you can ride? This social network for bicycle enthusiasts offers up biking routes in more than 40 countries.
DestinationRXDestinationRX aims to simplify the world of health insurance and prescription drugs with a number of handy online tools, like a pricing calculator for figuring out what your medications should cost.
Hotel Video ReviewsWhen it comes to choosing a hotel on the other side of the world, pictures and words often aren't much help. Hotel Video Review offers exactly what it suggests in a number of cities. The content is a bit lacking at the moment, but hopefully it'll fill out before we take our next trip.
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75 Amazing Ways to Maximize Your Brain Power

You all must be aware of the fact that exercise keeps your brain fit, “jog” your memory and boosts your brain power. In this article, we will try to describe every possible scientific, psychological and logical way that can help you to capitalize on brain power. Brain power, according to dictionary definition, is somebody’s mental or intellectual ability.
You wish to improve Brain power - Not Higher IQ Scores!? Well, maybe you want higher IQ scores too. The American Heritage Dictionary describes Intelligence Quotient (IQ) as “The ratio of tested mental age to chronological age, usually expressed as a quotient multiplied by 100.” Actually, it’s a test of intelligence with 100 as the average score.

A recent IQ test asked which of four fruits was dissimilar. It was the fruit containing multiple seeds; however, imagine you were not accustomed to these fruits? Clearly this test is culturally slanted. You are supposed to have certain knowledge, yet you are being tested for intelligence, not knowledge.
Now suspiciously observe this lettering: “A-N-L-D-E-G-N.” reorganize them and you’ll have the name of a(n): Sea, Nation, State, Municipality or Animal. This is from an IQ analysis I only just gave. Well… There are not many oceans, so I could discount those - but wait a moment! That’s an assessment system. An aptitude examination should not calculate your test-taking capacity. I’m pushed to score higher than a person of equal intelligence who hasn’t learned simple techniques for scoring higher on multiple - choice tests.

“True Life Results” in opposition to “Test Results”

Now enlighten me with one thing. What was Henry Fords’ brain capacity? Who knows? He was one of the most inventive citizens of the previous century, and he succeeded by neighboring himself with intelligent individuals.

That practice single-handedly has to be merit more than 20 IQ points in terms of true life results.
True life results are what you desire, true? So if you would like to be more inspired, find out how to exercise imaginative problem solving practices. If you want to focus better, there are devices for that. Learn to speed-read and you’ll learn twice the information in equal time. After you build your first Ark, write your first novel or make your first million dollars, what will your IQ results be? It won’t matter
Okay, a defective examination is better than no examination at all, and it is amusing. I recently wrote an IQ test, and even though I don’t believe my IQ is really the 138 it showed, it was enjoyable. Of course I might have a better score on a good day than a bad day, so try these guidelines to improve your IQ test results:

70 Techniques to Improve Brainpower

1. Take a deeep breath. Increased airflow means heightened oxygen levels in the blood and, as a result, in the mind. Breathing through your nose and you’ll observe that you use your diaphragm more, drawing air deeper into your lungs. Numerous deep breaths can also help to relax you, which is beneficial to clearer thinking.

2. Meditate. An easy meditation technique you can accomplish presently is to just close your eyes and listen carefully to your breathing. Tensing up your muscles and then relaxing them to start may be of assistance. When your mind wanders, just bring your concentration back to your breath. This will help unwind you, clear your mind, and leave you more prepared for any intellectual undertaking.
3. Sit up straight. Carriage affects your judgment process. Demonstrate it to yourself by doing arithmetic in your head while slouching, looking at the ground and letting your jaws dangle open. Then do the math in your head while sitting nice and straight, with a closed mouth and look forward or slightly up. You’ll realize that it’s easier to think with the second posture.

4. Using Phosphotidyl Serine (PS). Shown in medical studies to boost clarity and rate of education, this supplement activates cell-to-cell communication, helps normalize cell expansion, increases the functioning of the unique receptors seen on cells, and prepares cells for movement. That means it can aid your brain power. It’s also considered to repeal memory refuse. Phosphatidylserine has no identified unpleasant side effects.
5. Using Vinpocetine. Derived from an alkaloid discovered in the Periwinkle plant, this extract is used as a cerebral vasodilator. It amplifies the flow of the blood stream to the mind, which advances its oxygenation and in doing so raises psychological awareness and insight. Studies imply it may also be the most dependable memory enhancer accessible today.
6. Take Gingko Biloba. The foliage belonging to this tree is confirmed to augment blood flow to the mind. The trees are regularly found in parks. My associates and I used to eat a small amount of leaves when we required a extra dose of mind power. It is also fairly cheap, if you get the pills or tea bags at any health food outlet.
7. Try Some Saint John’s Wort. This is a ordinary wild plant that may be budding in your own backyard. Although it’s mind power improving components aren’t as widely acknowledged (research does document it’s helpfulness for treating clinical depression), Countless people affirm by its temporary mood-elevating effect, and our common sense tend to improve in function when we are in high spirits. It is easy on the pocket, but I would frequently just collect it in the wild and make my own tea. (Hyperacum Perforatum is the botanical name if you care to research on your own).
8. First-class thinking practice. Simply making use of a problem solving method for a number of weeks and it will develop into a routine. Revamp everything you observe for a period of time, and that will grow to be a custom. You can build up countless good thinking habits with a little bit of work, and then be more capable naturally from then on. Employ the power of practice.

9. Make use of quiet time. This is down time that is usually wasted or just not usually spent wisely. Driving the car, time used up in waiting quarters, or even time spent cleaning your house can be incorporated here. If you have a normal walk-man or tape player and access to a library you can use this time to listen to educational audio books. You could spend 200 hours in your car each year. What might you become skilled at in that time?
10. Learn a language. Mastering a new tongue has been revealed to halt the age-related refuse in brain function. It also better acquaints your brain to fresh concepts and new methods of looking at things (in English we are frightened, in Spanish we have fear). It is one of the greatest brain training methods.

11. Rosemary. Inhaling this familiar herb may have a positive effect on the brain. The studies have not yet come to light, but several people believe that just breathing in rosemary awakens the mind. It seems harmless, so if you have rosemary kitchen, give it a whirl.
12. Exercising your mind. Concentration and clear thinking are more or less mechanical once you eradicate interruption. Learn to impede and observe your hectic mind. As you observe things that are delicately annoying you, work these small things out. This could mean making a phone call you have been putting off, or adding things to a to-do list so you don’t need to worry about them for a while. This will make you a more powerful thinker and, with some time will begin to come more naturally to you.
13. Write. Writing is beneficial to your brain for many different reasons. It helps’ you memory understand what is most useful and makes it easier to access later. It is a way to elucidate your thoughts. It is a way to keep fit your imagination and diagnostic capability. Writing in a journal, composing poems or verse, taking notes and writing stories are all ways to use writing to enhance your mind power.

14. Listen to Classical Music. Investigations at University of California, explained that kids who studied music by learning an instrument or learning to sing, were greatly superior at solving puzzles, and when examined, scored 80% higher in spatial intellect than the non-musical crowd. In a different study, 36 students were prearranged three spatial analysis experiments on a typical IQ test. Just before the primary examination, they would listen to Mozart’s sonata two piano sonatas, K. 448 over a period of ten minutes. Prior to the subsequent test, they listened to a relaxation recording. Prior to the third, they did not listen to everything. The standard scores for all 36 of them: 1st examination: 119. 2nd examination: 111. 3rd examination: 110. A Student who listened to classical music saw an increase of nine points.

15. Expand your sixth sense. Natural perception can be a vital component of mind power. Einstein and others depended greatly on their instinctive hunches. Man is given instincts to help him decide what is best.
16. Avoid food which can cause allergic reactions. This may include corn, wheat, diary products or even peanuts. Be careful if you react to these foods as they trigger digestive troubles and mental haze in certain individuals.
17. Sleep well. Your body needs a specific amount of sleep - most likely at least five hours - the value seems to be more essential than the amount. Also, small naps in the mid-day appear to assist in rejuvenating the mind for some people.
The trick to sleeping more effectively is to sleep LESS and have MORE energy by augmenting your sleep cycle in order to produce a wealth of vigor in your life.

18. Caffeine. Students who knock back coffee prior to major exams score higher on testing. My chess playing improves. Too much caffeine has been shown in research to cause decreased decision-making abilities. Caffeine affects you in your own way, and has some malicious long-term side effects for a few of us, but short-term - it does the trick!

19. Avoid sweets. Ingesting useless carbohydrates can cause “brain blocks”. On occasion referred to as the “sugar crash” as well, this lethargic reaction makes it difficult to reason effectively. Insulin hurrying into the bloodstream to offset the sugar rush is to blame for this feeling. Stay away from starchy pasta, sugars, white bread and potato chips before any essential psychological responsibilities.

20. Audio Hypnosis. The influence of implication is genuine, and one way to exercise it is with hypnosis recordings, Compact Discs or digital format. This type of “brainwashing” has more substantiation for it than subconscious implication.
21. Speed-read. Contrary to popular belief, your understanding of material increases when you learn speed-reading techniques. You will learn and obtain more knowledge in less time.

22. Work Out. Exercise over an extended period can heighten your brain power, that is to be expected. Positively affecting your physical health should also positively affect your mental health. Modern studies, however, reveal that cognitive function is enhanced instantly after only a few moments of low impact activity. If you require a brain refreshment, you could try walking up and down the stairway a few times.
23. Make-believe Friends. Chatting to and receiving guidance from characters in your head is a surprisingly good technique for accessing the information in your subliminal psyche. See in your mind’s eye a discussion with someone who has an assortment of awareness in the area you need to work on.
24. Increase your Imagination. Inventiveness gives command to your judgment. Unprocessed calculation can be completed by computers currently, but people provide the creative notions that characterize our society.

25. Study more competently. When you make a decision to learn a little, take annotations from the get-go. Take home with you from each educational endeavor a inquiry or two, to produce eagerness and inquisitiveness. By taking short breaks you create more starting and ending points in your lessons. The start and ending points of any lesson are always recalled with ease
26. Use procedures for lucid thoughts. Chaotic workspaces and offices can encourage messy thinking. Systematize a space for cerebral labor. Prepare yourself for a task by sighing, stretching and taking a deep breathe. Organize some time for brainstorming without distraction.
27. Brain wave stimulation. The most recent mind wave stimulating products are great utensils for shifting your mind function. Some of them work to relax the mind where others get your brain to stretch its’ muscles before a real work out.
28. Creatine. This is a complex originating in meat. Athletes use it to assist muscle growth. New substantiation is now showing that it facilitates brain growth also. Recent research showed progress in operational memory and common intellect following creatine usage. The quantity used in the experiment was 5 grams each day. This is roughly the amount used to improve athletic performance, and is as much as you’d usually get in four pounds of meat.
29. Speaking. Speaking is only beneficial to the mind if you are in fact exercising it. If you try to explain something that you have an okay understanding of in your own words you will observe that the procedure of explanation will lend a hand to illuminate your comprehension.

30. Spend time on things you take pleasure in. This can be a great way to both decrease stress and kick start your mind. The solution is to accomplish something proactive. Watching TV doesn’t count. Whether it is playing a mentally stimulating game or something constructive like woodworking, when you are energetically occupied in an activity that you get pleasure from, you are concerned less about things and you begin to think more effectively.
31. Adjust your beliefs. Believe you more intelligent and you will become more intelligent. Self-Affirmations such as actually telling yourself you are getting smarter may help, but showing yourself actual proof is more helpful. Write down all of your successes. Say to yourself, “Wow, that was really ingenious,” and recognize when you do something innovative. Write down your good ideas. Put together the proof of your good ideas and look back on them to see your improvement.

32. Intelligence Aerobics. Do math in your head while you are working at other things. Think of a new application for everything you see. Habitual use of the brain has been proven to spawn new neuronal growth, and even stop the decrease in mental abilities that are experienced when we get old.
33. Keep on learning. This goes hand-in-hand with exercising your mind. You can do this in your spare time by listening to educational audio books.
34. Go Walking. Physical activity has been proven to benefit the intelligence, and walking is one of the finest exercises for a lot of people. It is easy, and the recurring nature of it puts you in a state that is very favorable to comprehensible thought. Why not carry a paper and pen or a tape recorder and use your 15 minute walk to work out problems.
35. Find a role model. Seek out people who are inspired, intellectual, or exceedingly industrious. Try to mimic their actions and think in the manner that they think. This is a huge standard in neural-linguistic encoding (brainwashing). However, you should use caution when taking their recommendations. Successful individuals frequently don’t in fact recognize why they are doing well. Act the way that they act, but do not do what they tell you to do.
36. Fish is Brain Food. Consuming fish truly increases the speed of your brain waves, and picks up attentiveness. Researchers have also discovered a nearly faultless relationship between eating of fish and decreased levels of depression in an assortment of different countries. Americans are 24 times as likely to suffer from depression as the Japanese, for example, who eat a significant amount more fish.

37. Pass up pointless arguments. When we use an excessive amount of strength to support a point just to “win a fight” or “prove a point” your self-image comes into play. This isn’t favorable to the reception and application of fresh information. This means that you place your brain in a rut, and you only proceed to put it in deeper with every squabble. Healthy debates can be a helpful thing, but when the sense of self takes over, the mind can begin to narrow. This is not a formula for healthier thoughts.
38. Laugh it up. Laughter triggers the release of endorphins and lowers stress levels. It is good for long term brain fitness. Laughter also tends to leave you feeling unbolt towards new ideas and views.

39. Go out and play. Exciting the brain triggers significant differences in the organization of the brain. New neural pathways are established and fresh brain cells are developed. Intellectual games, as well any activities involving hand-eye coordination motivate the brain.
40. Solve puzzles. A great way to exercise your mind is by solving word puzzles, lateral thinking puzzles, and even the odd riddle. You can toil on them even as waiting for a meeting or prior arrangement such as a Doctor’s office, or on the transit, if you need to really squeeze it in.
41. Play Video Games. That’s right, research has uncovered that video games can advance mental adroitness, while working on our hand-eye coordination, depth acuity and pattern Video game players also benefit from higher attention spans and information processing ability than most other people. Ask a person to spend one week playing video games and watch as their visual-perception skills improve. Believe it or not, video games could actually save your life. Operating Room Surgeons, who play video games, even just for a few hours a week, make one-third fewer errors during surgery than the doctors who don’t play games. Don’t be quick to judge gamers as reclusive or outsiders: one investigator found that white-collar professionals who play video games are more self-assured and social.
42. Sing out loud. When you are driving alone, try singing about something that is going on. This utilizes the right side of your brain: The Creative Side. Have you ever noticed it is easier to rhyme words when you sing them than it is to write them down? This is due to the right brain’s ability to notice patterns. Singing often will train your mind to slip over to the right brain more effortlessly. Being able to switch in this manner will help you to become a more accurate problem solver. If you are skeptical about the differences between the brain hemispheres, just observe a person who stutters. They may not be able to tell you how they feel without stuttering but ask them to sing and they will suddenly be able to stop.
43. Go Nuts. Educational Scholars at the universities in many South American countries often consume large quantities of brazil nuts before a test, convinced they improve brain power. The facts are starting to corroborate this. Many types of nuts that have raw materials and amino acids that are valuable to the intelligence include almonds and walnuts.

44. Olive oil. Olive Oil is surprisingly high in mono-unsaturated fat which has been known to develop better memory retention. A less expensive option is canola oil, but there are limited studies supporting its’ value.
45. Vitamin supplements. In research, children tended to have higher scores on tests when on a routine of daily vitamin supplements. Phonies will tell you that while eating a balanced diet, you don’t require vitamins, which, given way we live our lives day-to-day, is nothing but a sales pitch for vitamins. Who in this day and age eats a wholly balanced diet?
46. Fiber is your friend. It is not only what is going in, but what is coming out that is vital to brain ability. Toxic swelling in the body and brain can cause poor brain function. People frequently report improved thinking as one of the perks of curing their constipation.
47. Be Self Aware. This may perhaps not appear key to brain power, although it is. As soon as you identify yourself better, you know how to steer clear of the typical effects of sense of self and feeling in your apparently “logical” thinking. Otherwise you can at least take it into consideration. Look at yourself, mainly as you clarify things or dispute.
48. Force yourself not to forget. Sometimes you want to recall the title of a song that you heard or the name of an old friend that you bump into. It is there, right at the very tip of your tongue but you still can’t quite spit it out. What did you usually do when caught in that position? Most likely ask some close by buddy for the name, and upon the shock you will even holler triumphantly, “Oh yeah! That’s right.”
The next time this occurs make yourself to memorize that name. The mind can be exercised similar to your muscles and the further you work out the better it will become.
Do not border yourself to recollection of names. Do you rely on your cell phone to keep track of phone numbers? Don’t use an address book even on paper - you can learn by heart all the numbers you need to know. Attempt to visualize the keypad of your mobile phone in order to produce a mental image of what the series of digits looks like.
The worst thing that might come of this is that you will have to to consult your contact list for the numbers anyways…
49. Motivate yourself. Motivation is as important to mental tasks as it is to any other. Learn a few easy methods for self motivation.
50. Avoid too much stress. A Neuro-psychologist from the George Washington University indicated bluntly that stress causes brain damage. Extended periods of stress have repetitively been shown to damage the brain as well as the rest of the human body. By mastering a few stress cutback techniques you can lower your stress level.
51. Become educated. Scientists have acknowledged for some time that people with less education are more likely to fall victim to Alzheimer’s. Learning in any region of study appears to make the mind stronger.
52. Practice information often and “over-study”. Go over what you have covered the same day you learn it, and do so regularly afterwards. Research shows that spaced out learning over time is more effective than just “cramming” information in a rush. Always “over-study” by learning more than you think you will need to know. With familiarity comes expertise.

53. Avoid fatty foods. In scientific studies, animals without fail learn at a slower rate when they are eating high fat diets. Non-saturated fats found in Olive oil are what you should stay with. Saturated fats have been revealed to in fact arrest the development of brain cells.
54. Eat less. Eating too much has the initial consequence of redirecting more blood to the digestive tract which leaves less for the brain. Over time it can be responsible for arterial blockages that permanently decrease blood flow to the brain. In one particular examination, rats on a calorie-restricted eating plan had more brain power.

55. Avoid suspicious foods. There is substantiation that these foods can be horrific for your mind: synthetic food colorings, artificial sweeteners, soda-pops, corn syrup, frostings, other highly sweetened beverages, hydrogenated lard, sugars, white bread, and any white-flour products.
56. Eat breakfast. When kids who don’t normally eat breakfast begin regularly eating it, studies found that their math scores went up a whole grade on average.
57. Evade diabetes. The progression of diabetes corresponds with a reducing of IQ test results. So if you want to prolong your brain power, pursue your doctors’ nutritional advice for steering clear of or treating diabetes.
58. Eat foods with lots of antioxidants. Antioxidants defend all your cells, as well as brain cells. Several of the foods containing high levels of antioxidants are: raisins, blueberries, blackberries, cranberries, strawberries, spinach, garlic, kale, and raspberries. In one analysis, rats had age-related mental turn down inverted by eating the same as a 1/2 cup of normal blueberries every day.
59. Drink wine. In restraint, red wine can be fine for the brain, it seems. It is endowed with antioxidants, which work to guard brain cells. A glass of wine each day for women and two for men is typically considered a harmless and sensible amount.

60. Always drink alcohol responsibly. Research at the University Of Indiana School Of Medicine, indicates mature light drinkers (less than 4 drinks each week) had superior tests scores relating to thinking capacity than non-drinkers. Those who drank 10 drinks or more a week had poorer scores. It is recognized that alcohol is capable of killing brain cells, so self-control is always the key.
61. Folic acid. According some research, the quantity of folic acid found in 3/4 cup of cooked spinach, helps with depression and repeals memory loss.
62. More brain foods. Other foods that can be excellent for your brain are: Avocados, oatmeal, bananas, lean beef, peas, eggs, flaxseed oil, potatoes, soybeans, brewer’s yeast. broccoli, wheat germ, brown rice, brussel sprouts, cantaloupe, cheese, chicken, collard greens, oranges, peanut butter, romaine lettuce, salmon, spinach, tuna, turkey, and yogurt.
63. Vitamin E. Many intelligence researchers recommend taking up to 400 I.U.s of vitamin E each day. Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and diminishes the obstruction of blood vessels, including those that lead to your brain.
64. Vitamin C. Found in orange juice and other citrus fruits, ingestions of vitamin C has been found to increase IQ test results in young children.
65. Selenium. 100 micrograms of selenium has been proven to have mood-elevating effect. Your mind tends to function more efficiently when you are happy. Foods rich with selenium incorporate Brazil nuts and garlic.
66. Alpha-lipoic acid. Alpha-lipoic acid (10 to 50 mg per day) progresses recollection and care for nerve cells.
67. Inositol. This natural and organic substance is grouped in with vitamin B. Inositol brings stress levels down and helps to clear your mind. It furnishes energy production, and helps to wake your mind up. Animals in lab tests showed a calculable enlargement in physical motion for nearly five hours after using Inositol.
68. Huperzine A. This is a composite extorted from Chinese club moss. It has been used to treat Alzheimer’s in Israel and the United States. It applies to the memory and learning parts of the brain and appears to be safe to use.
69. Question everything. Its’ an important step in keeping your brain fit. Get into the routine of asking questions about everything that is new to you. Why are skyscrapers built so high? What do worms eat? Ask whatever thing that pops into your head and examine the possible solutions.
70. Smell basil. This could be another herb that could be beneficial for your mind. That isn’t any research to prove it but many believe that the odor of basil is good for the brain.
71. Climate. A lot of people have taken into consideration that they are more capable thinkers when the room temperature is just right. Generally, it seems as if cooler temperatures, though not unbearably cold, tend to encourage better thinking. Try testing it for yourself to observe what warmth facilitates your comfort the best.
72. Rainy days amp up brain power. Studies from Australia have indicated rainy and gloomy conditions may help the brain’s capacity to store memory. A University study surveyed customers at a major shop in Sydney, Australia. They discovered that people achieved higher scores on recollection exams during rotten weather when customers felt depressed.
The conclusions, available in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, reflect earlier examinations that showed students who were feeling down achieved higher scores than students were in high spirits.
When you are happy, you tend to think in a more worry-free style that encourages you to overlook details and be less aware of the worlds around you.

73. Use systems. From Since I was a child the way to find 12 times 49 was to multiply 12 by 50 take away 12. It is much simpler to find the solution in your mind by doing this. I received no acclaim for my special algorithms at the time, but they are advertising these kinds of tricks on infomercials now, because they are effective. You can discover many simpler methods for doing math or other intellectual tasks in your head. Or you can find out about them in literature.
74. Create a brain power diagram. Many Doctors will advise you it takes roughly twenty to thirty days of recurrence to create new routines. This indicates that when you form your diagram for better brain power, be positive you arrange to use that new-fangled problem solving system, or devour those new intellect foods for a minimum three weeks. You can make use of numerous of the brain elevators here and get instantaneous outcomes, but it is harboring new routines that will grant you the majority of your brain power.

75. Apply new knowledge to things you already knew. Connect new data to information you already remember, whether it’s new material that builds on previous knowledge, or something as simple as an address of someone who resides nearby someone else in your life.
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100 Awesome Business Blogs that are Better than an MBA

Going through school to get an MBA can take a few years away from your life and work. These days you don’t always have time to take a few years and be a student. You’ve got bills to pay! This list of 100 business blogs can bring you up to speed in the briefcase world so you can take a detour around the MBA education route.

Small Business and Entrepreneur Blogs and Resources
1. Solo Entrepreneur - This site of testimonials and wisdom might be all the push you need to become a solo entrepreneur.
2. Small Biz Survival - If you’re a small town/rural business in these economic times, it can be tough to make it from day to day. With these marketing and financial, make your money woes a thing of the past.
3. The Portal of American Small Business - This site should be bookmarked by small business owners ASAP, as it offers news, reviews, and perspectives that can start saving you money today.
4. About.com: Entrepreneurs - This site helps your own business climb the Fortune 500, and helps you stay motivated while you’re clutching the ladder.
5. The Blog of Tim Ferriss - This blog blends practical entrepreneurial advice with the perspective necessary to help keep your head above the water.
6. Small Business Trends - This sight takes the accumulated tips and tricks from submitted small business trends and offers it as big advice for littler companies.
7. Small Business Brief - If you want small business news in bite-sized chunks, this is it. Quickly play catch-up with the latest online business advice, and read user reviews for just how helpful the advice really is.
8. The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur - If you want bootstrapping advice, this is the right place. This fellow created a multi-million dollar tech industry (while sleeping in conference rooms to avoid hotel charges), and after selling that, went on to create a company that found itself in the Fortune 500.
9. Entrepreneur Daily Dose - This site is a one-stop shop for entrepreneurs, offering advice on sustainability, loan eligibility, and consumer confidence.
10. Successful Entrepreneurial Blog - Another site of practical advice, this site offers advice on credit reform, social networking, and even how swine flu is not so bad for business.
11. Independent Street - This Wall Street Journal blog offers thoughts on small and big business alike, as well as how the government’s financial decisions will affect you.
12. Main Street: Small Business - This small business site offers tips on balancing career, family, and retirement plans.
13. Small Business Blog from Microsoft - Corporate titan Microsoft descends from the throne to offer great advice to small businesses.
14. Small Business CEO - Like the name says, this site offers advice for small business CEOs, such as how to boost online marketing, helpful podcasts, and the benefits of incentives versus larger salaries.
15. The Solopreneur’s Million-Dollar Mindset - This business coach offers in-depth updates on making your business vision a reality.
16. Start-up Toolkit -If you’ve been wanting a one-stop shop for everything you need to start up a business, look no further.
17. The Entrepreneurial Mind - This Belmont University site offers reviews of tech, thoughts on venture capital, and new age marketing.
18. Wil Schroter’s Bigger Blog - This site helps you start a company, keep it running, and adapt to the ever-changing future market.

Marketing Blogs and Solutions
19. The Marketing Spot - If you’re a small business that needs big marketing ideas, The Marketing Spot has got you covered.
20. Duct Tape Marketing - Ancient wisdom holds that duct tape is like The Force: it has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. This site offers the articles, interviews, and resources to hold your business together in the 21st century.
21. Dave Duarte’s Blog - This self-proclaimed “marketing geek” offers practical tips, such as utilizing a corporate social network and avoiding your own business biases.
22. Marketing and Strategy Innovation Blog - This site offers advice on how to bring new marketing and strategy innovations to your site, with a dash of social branding and motivational advice sprinkled in.
23. 5 Blogs Before Lunch - This site offers every aspect of marketing news, with updates that range from the informative to the downright entertaining.
24. Marketing Pilgrim - The focus of this site is on online business, as it offers the latest news on Facebook, Flickr, and AOL.
25. Perry Marshall’s Blog - This amusing site starts off by suggesting that Thoreau’s business advice was given in the haze of crack cocaine, and the biting humor continues from there. This site offers dozens of controversial tips on how to get ahead in the business world.
26. How to Change the World - Offering itself as “a practical blog for impractical people,” this site helps you master the art of salesmanship.
27. Church of the Customer Blog - This site offers business perspectives from the customer’s side, and offers tips for how to avoid heresy in the church of the customer.
28. Marketing Genius From Maple Creative - This site is all about marketing, from building a buzz to pushing a brand to crafting an awesome ad.
29. Be Excellent - If you’re business needs to experience a revolution, it starts here, with in-depth advice about strategy execution.
30. The Engaging Brand Blog - This is the site to bookmark for info about building your brand from the ground up.
31. Name Wire - Another branding-type site, this page focuses on the theories and practices behind product naming.
32. Biz Stone - The cofounder of Twitter offers unique perspectives on the worlds of business and social networking.
33. Smart Talk On Conversation - This site is all about how communication can help your business, from word of mouth marketing to interactive dialogue and social networks.

General Business Blogs
34. Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog - This blog focuses on the tips, tricks, and tools you need to get your business running, and the mistakes to avoid so it can keep on going.
35. All Business - This blog offers its own business-friendly advice (such as how to make sure the tax man doesn’t come for you), as well as featuring expert advice from dozens of other businessmen and women.
36. Seth Godin’s Blog - This bitterly funny blog offers business advice framed in cold, hard reality.
37. The Franchise King Blog - This blog offers frank, down-to-earth advice from the franchise frontlines.
38. Business 360 - This CNN blog offers business news that’s intimately tied to real-world developments.
39. The Becker-Posner Blog - Here’s some new-school advice from some old-school businessmen, offering in-depth commentary on every aspect of our economy.
40. Working Life - This opinionated site is chock-full of views on the auto industry, American labor, and the global business world.
41. The Business of America is Business - This site focuses on in-depth analysis of the quirkier aspects of business, such as the leadership tips to be garnered from Ugly Betty and Ocean’s 11.
42. Business Pundit - This easy-to-read site offers info on software industries, finance, and outright weird jobs.
43. Blog Business World - This great resource for business people offers business book reviews, podcasts, and much more.
44. Influxinsights - This site specializes in unique views of business, offering you tips culled from the worlds of art, social networking, and luxury trends.
45. The Curious Capitalist - Offering thoughts on the modern market and economy, this Time Magazine blog brings you clean, concise business news.
46. Tom Peters’ Blog - This humorous site offers over 160 ways to succeed in the world of business and marketing.
47. Cali and Jody’s Blog - This site offers perspectives for CEOs, workers, and parents alike.

Human Resources and Ethics Blogs
48. HR Bartender - This humorous and relatable site offers wit and wisdom for the world of human resources.
49. Lauren Bloom’s Blog - This ethics-centric blog offers practical advice navigating business woes and coming out smelling like roses.
50. The Exceptional Workplace - If you’d like enthusiastic coworkers instead of drones living for the weekend, check out these awesome tips for making your workplace…well, exceptional.
51. Principled Profit - A site promoting “good business,” this page helps you with social networking, social media, and PR lessons.

MBA Survival Guides and Business Career Blogs
52. The Personal MBA - If you’re a business learner wanting to become a business master, this site will provide the training you need.
53. Boot Strap Me - If your business needs to pull itself up by the bootstraps, this site provides all the advice and resources you could ask for.
54. The Hire Sense - This site’s primary goal is helping you to survive in this economy, with tips on what sells in a recession, how to deal with customers, and how to parse job statistics.
55. First Jobs and Career Opportunities Blog - This site waxes philosophic on the job market, offering interview tips, promising jobs, and whether or not following your passion is always the best course in life.
56. Main Street: Career - If you need career advice—from who’s hiring, who’s firing, and how you can secure your future today.
57. MBA Depot - Offering resources for MBAs and managers alike, this site offers books, quotes, articles, and more to help you succeed in the world of business.

Economy Trends and News
58. Gulliver - This business site with a conservative focus examines the business industry on all levels, with a particular focus on Government’s role in that business.
59. Freakonomics - This NY Times offshoot offers business predictions, advice, and—of course—opinions.
60. Financial Times: Alphaville - Another site great for business folks on the go, these pint-sized updates on the entirety of the financial world can be read easily over breakfast.
61. The Bing Blog - This site’s goal is keeping the economic recession in perspective. It’s tough to freak out about a low-performing stock market when it’s next to the black plague.

Investing News and Financial Blogs
62. Steadfast Finances - This informative site offers everything from a historical look car industry woes to meta concepts such as “the fear trade.”
63. The Market Movers - This site offers its updates in condensed sections, allowing you to digest as much or as little of its business wisdom as you wish to.
64. Calculated Risk - Finance and economics advice to help you not only survive but thrive during the turbulence of this global economy.
65. Blogging Stocks - This stock-centric site isn’t afraid of offering its two cents into the world of current events.
66. Stress Free Tax Help - If you want to make more money and pay less taxes…join the club. Seriously, though, this site aims to help you do just that.

Resources for Business Women
67. Learned On Women - This feminist-friendly site offers women-centric advice for navigating the often-testosterone-layered world of business.
68. Sylvania Ann Hewlett’s Blog - This blog also offers global business tips, with a focus on women and minorities in the workplace.
69. Girl Power: Female CEOS - This site offers tips and tricks for smashing through the glass ceiling, offering thoughts on the best way for women to excel in the business world.
70. Women’s Leadership Exchange - This site offers events and resources in order to promote, build, and develop women’s leadership in the world of business.
71. WonderBranding - Another girl-power site, this focuses entirely on marketing to women.

Online Business Blogs and Tools
72. SEO Book - Offering wisdom for the ages through wisdom from the ages comes a site offering what to do (and more importantly, what not to do) with your business.
73. Practical Ecommerce - Designed for online merchants, this site will help you market, profit, and maybe have a little fun while you’re doing it.
74. SEOmozBlog - This site offers all of the SEO web resources you could ever need, and should be bookmarked ASAP.
75. The Internet Strategist - This 12-year veteran of internet marketing offers tips and tricks for online marketing and services.
76. Internet Business Coaching by Terry Dean - Those in the internet business world could learn a thing or two (or three or four) from this amazingly thorough site.
77. Net Promoter - This site of bite-sized updates offers ways of promoting yourself and your business over the internet.
78. Daily Blog - This blog offers a more personal touch, with the tips, tricks, and tweets that have helped the blogger be successful in business.

Management Resources and Information
79. Incentive Intelligence - This site has a singular focus: to provide you all of the theories, testimonies, and tricks for using incentives as a motivation for workers.
80. The Practice of Leadership - This site has everything you need to build communication skills, navigate backfiring goals, and communicate your vision to your workers.
81. Management IQ - This site is all about the managers, offering ways of reducing stress, locking down job security, and becoming the future CEO.
82. Journyx Project Management Blog - This IT-centric site offers project management tips, ways of dealing with difficult fellow workers, and beliefs that can doom IT leaders.
83. Workhappy.net - If you’re a business manager or leader, you can’t miss this site, with its wealth of business theories, easy tips, and lists for maximizing your own communications with workers.
84. DrivenLeaders.com - Through contests, tips and tricks, and branding secrets, this site gives you the drive to be a better leader.
85. Management Issues - If you’re a manager, you’re the heart of your office. This site offers tips and tricks for keeping the body and the heart alive into the 21st century economy.
86. The Outsourcing Weblog - Like the name says, this site offers everything you need to know about outsourcing…from finding good outsource workers gentle ways to leave your outsourcers.
87. CEO Blog - This site focuses on time management and directness, and how each one helps your business grow.
88. Leading Blog - This site’s all about business leadership, offering books, habits, and creative games to lead your team to success.
89. Management Craft - If your business management technique needs state of the art theories and practices, you’ve come to the right place.
90. Leading Answers - This picture-heavy site offers views on business leadership that range from humorous to practical to downright bizarre.
91. Ask the Czar - This leadership-centric site offers ways of using love, inspiration, and excitement to motivate your workforce.
92. Web Worker Daily - Aiming to “reboot the workforce,” this site offers software and hardware to make web working easier.

Harvard Business Heavy Hitters
93. Daisy Wademan Dowling’s Blog - This blogger specializes in career coaching advice, including leadership and planning.
94. Anthony Tjan’s Blog - If you need help building a business—particularly an online business—this site’s got everything you could ask for.
95. Gill Corkindale’s Blog - This Harvard Publishing blog offers unique insight to the world of global management and leadership.
96. Peter Bregman’s Blog - This blog offers global management advice for CEOS and their leadership teams.
97. Management Essentials - These articles were collected from the Harvard Management Update, and offer down-to-earth advice for managers and execs.
98. John Baldoni - This blog should be your go-to for advice regarding leadership consultation and coaching.
99. Babak Nivi’s Blog - If you need advice on anything venture capital, this blog will have everything you need.
100. John Quelch’s Blog - This world-traveling blogger offers world-class advice on global marketing, branding, and marketing communications.

After bookmarking all of these business blogs and sites, kiss all those MBA school applications good bye and start climbing workplace ladders.

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