What are your little hacks which you use throughout the day? If you use plain ol’ paper to write the note, be sure to put the paper with something that you know you’ll touch when you get home. Also, make sure it’s securely attached to the item. Get Organized: Spices, TV, Mail and Conversation – [Meryl.net]

I see team space is exceptionally important: Being manager in a virtual team, I drive to create a better virtual space for every members within my team and for other teams to collaborate. On one hand, we support changes from company and department on software tools and virtual processes implementation. We see changes are good for creating more space for the team to work together. On the other hand, there are software tools that we try to build within the team level, to serve the specific needs for the team....

Apple has now started allowing us (iPhone developers) to give away free copies of our iPhone applications. So this week we are going to give away 10 copies of Meeting Time. The first 10 commenters with a reason why they need this tiny little iPhone app will get themselves a redeem code through email (so make sure you have spelled your email correctly). Here the little description about Meeting Time: Meeting Time for iPhone – [Stepcase] Have you ever had the need to organize a teleconference and face with the problem of finding a suitable time for everyone in various time zones?...

For the last several months, I’ve been slowly rebuilding a more-or-less by-the-book GTD system. I’ve done elements of GTD for years, but things over the last year have gotten too complicated and my hope is that implementing the whole GTD system as close to Allen’s vision as possible will help me balance two quite different careers with the rest of my life. I had intended my next “GTD Refresh” post to be about reaching”Inbox Zero”....

Sentence Level Sentence Parts and Word Functions Verbs and Verbals Clauses The Garden of Phrases Diagramming Sentences Sentence Fragments Run-on Sentences Rules for Comma Usage Punctuation Marks Besides the Comma Punctuation Between Two Independent Clauses Notorious Confusables A Confusables Menu Plague Words and Phrases Articles and Determiners Plurals and Possessives Pronouns and Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Placement of Modifiers Subject-Verb Agreement Tense Sequence among Verbs, Infinitives, and Participles Compound Nouns and Modifiers Capitalization Abbreviations Using Italics and Underlining Using Numbers, Making Lists Writing Concise Sentences Parallel Structures Confusion: Sources and Remedies Vocabulary Builders: Suggestions, Quizzes, Pop-Up Lexicon Spelling: Rules, Suggestions, Quizzes Paragraph Level Sentence Variety Consistency of Tense and Pronoun Reference Avoiding Primer Language Sentence-Combining Skills Coherence and Transitions Paragraph Development Guide to Grammar and Writing – [Capital Community College Foundation]

It’s important to remember that a lot of these moves don’t make sense if you’re just doing them for the tax break. However, if you were planning to get some sort of elective surgery or buy a Honda hybrid, for instance, it may be reasonable to move up your schedule for the tax benefit. Take a close look at your overall financial picture before moving forward. Because everyone’s situation is different, you may want to consult with a professional and rely on his advice....

Instead, it has everything to do with the quality of our mental focus in the moment. Can Happiness Be Created with Proper Time Management?

The holiday season is upon us and we all want to have a joyful time as well as remain safe. So here are three dumb things that I’m sure you have seen people do over past holiday seasons and it’s still worth reminding everyone to avoid them. Dumb Thing #1 – Drinking and Driving This (of course) should be general knowledge by now, but it’s still shocking how so many people from all adult ages still drink and drive!...

How inadequate water intake causes headache? Your brain is surrounded by a protective layer of water, which encompasses the entirety of your brain. Low or complete lack of water intake causes this layer to evaporate. This depletion can cause your brain to push against your skull, leading to painful headaches. What to do In order to maintain a healthy layer of water around your brain, increase your daily intake of H2O and monitor your results....

Over time, we have embraced a lifestyle that is built on the consumption of unhealthy fatty foods, in other words, junk food which has not only impacted our body and health but the way we think and feel. The food we eat is known to impact the way we feel and the way we feel impacts the way we operate/behave every day. It is of the utmost importance that we fuel our body with the best foods possible....

The right shoes can bring an outfit together, but for men, choosing a pair of shoes that looks great is no easy task. In fact, most men get the whole ordeal wrong. Unlike many women, men can live off less than 10 pairs of shoes. Essentially, five different pairs is all that is needed to pull of most basic looks. But now, the modern man is required to go beyond the basics and stretch old, traditional styles....

All you’re going to need is a cupcake tray, cupcake wrappers, a yummy cupcake mix, the tutorial above and a few marbles. Make your cupcakes as you usually would, place them in the tray, and lastly, put a marble in between the wrapper and the tray. Using this method you’ll have heart shaped cupcakes that your loved one will adore in no time! Featured photo credit: DIY Heart Shaped Cupcakes – Perfect For Valentine’s Day!...

What makes a thought leader out of an individual is the ability to drive innovation and new ideas in a particular field. Every thought leader is revered, famous and connected enough to drive people to their respective businesses. Yet being a thought leader does not happen overnight. You need a systematic and consistent approach to become the person people follow and consider to be solid in a particular field. Here are some things you need to do to be a thought leader....

What you’ll need: An egg, clear tape, a flashlight, a pair of tights and ice cubes. 1. Check the color of your egg with a flashlight. Bring the egg to rest on top of the egg to check color. 2. Put tape around the whole shell of the egg. Start out from going from the thin end going down vertically to the thicker end of the egg. 3. Wrap it in the middle a pair of sheer tights....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiWdF3u9C0w#t=0 Err, so yeah. It’s a real thing. The dongle plugs directly into the bottom of your iPhone and emits a bacon-scented spray when paired with the accompanying alarm clock app. Who wouldn’t want to wake up to a waft on meat-smell in the morning? Well, unfortunately there’s a little while longer to wait before you begin your days with this meaty air freshener. The dongle is currently not for a sale and only a select few will own it as it is a give-away promotion only available on the company’s website until early April....

Plan Ahead Before you head out for your weekly grocery store trip, think ahead for the next week of some meals you might like to have. I personally am not into meal planning very far in advance because it’s too rigid of a structure for my likings, but that does work out for a lot of people. If this sounds like something you might like, pull out a calendar or print one off your computer and start planning out what you want to make for meals each day....

Being nice is something we’re taught from birth. When you’re three, you’ve not grasped that barging someone out of the way for the red trike is considered impolite so an adult says “play nice,” and we learn that it’s a good thing. But fast forward 20 years and suddenly, being too nice can get you in trouble. It can even stop you from earning a good salary, finding true love, or inventing something you believe in....

Bluetooth has broadened its horizons and found itself almost indispensable in many different areas of technology today. Here are five examples of how Bluetooth technology is making our lives easier. Streaming Music to Your Sound System There is something incredibly convenient about being able to relax in your bed, streaming music from your mobile to your sound system on the other side of the room. With the possibilities that services, such as Spotify, offer us in producing one-of-a-kind playlists, it is now easier than ever to enjoy that music without compromise, and Bluetooth just adds to the experience, meaning we no longer have to get out of bed to change the CD....

We trick ourselves into making connections. Most people are convinced that the full moon makes other behave strangely even though there is no scientific evidence to support that claim.[1] This belief in the connection between two unrelated things is called an illusory-correlation bias.[2] We’re all kidding ourselves when we don’t understand the difference between correlation and causation. Causal analysis can help you determine whether two variables have a relationship base on correlation or causation....

You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking. – Wayne Dyer Everyone in the office is pulling their hair out as the client’s Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) keep finding new and ‘creative’ ways to change their original brief and technical recommendations and now it has become a vicious circle. It is almost like they keep changing their minds on purpose, but it is not so, when one works in a project of that magnitude and scope, there are things likely to go ‘amiss’ during the planning stages, and somehow these missing pieces are compounding to become an eternal barrage of modifications....