To help address this problem, a growing number of moving companies are going green to help save the environment. By putting the welfare of the environment into consideration and part of their agenda, they are taking small steps to saving the future generation from the devastating effects of climate change. Saving the environment may be the least of your worries now when you’re also busy packing and making the move as less stressful as possible, but if you’re one of the few people who actually care for Mother Earth, these moving tips can prove helpful on your moving day....

One of the greatest things about this kind of design is that it even allows for enough shelving space to store all the bags of hamster toys, treats, food and bedding in one spot and even leaves you with enough space to store a few unrelated items too. I looked at this type of option when I was looking to build a large cage for my chinchillas that wouldn’t cost an absolute fortune....

It’s May, and for most people that means its time to get serious about getting your body into better shape. Prime beach weather is closer than you think, and you’re probably starting to get serious about hitting the gym regularly. But overdoing your workout can do more harm than good. In fact, your athletic performance starts to suffer once you lose about 2 percent of your body weight due to profuse sweating…and that takes less effort than you might think....

This is why we developed the “Hackers’ Deck” for our marketing event sponsored by Yahoo! JAPAN. This nifty deck of cards can magically generate ideas for Internet businesses. On each card, it has “service” and “feature”. For example, on “service” are “instant messenger”, “auction site”, “IP-phone”, etc… and on “feature” are “for seniors”, “invitation only”, “detachable”, etc. How to use it is simple. You shuffle the deck and draw two cards....

On behalf of the entire Lifehack crew and everyone at our parent company, Stepcase, I want to wish all our readers who celebrate Christmas a very merry one indeed. And to them and everyone else, here’s looking forward to a new year filled with peace, love, and joy around the world.

All of us here at Lifehack and it’s parent company Stepcase wish you a great start to an even greater new year! Please join us for a 2009 filled with great tips and advice about finances, technology, health and fitness, work-life balance, home organization, and of course personal productivity. We’ve got lots of great stuff planned for this year, so stay tuned! title: “Happy New Year " ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-15” author: “Jennifer Wisner”

Herniated Disc – Infographic | Gold Coast Orthopedic Featured photo credit: Gold Coast Orthopedic via goldcoastorthopaedic.com

Don’t worry, I’m not going to scare you with more facts and negative health effects of sitting too long. But what we need to do is to combat this sedentary lifestyle, and standing desks seem to be the best option. How is a standing desk going to help? A study in 2015[1] shows that by combining exercising and standing, you can increase your life expectancy potentially even more. The more you move around, you’ll burn more calories, and it helps your heart to function better, which in turn lessen your risk of chronic diseases....

Hipster POD: Adding An iPod To Your Hipster PDA – [Podophile]

This kind of energy is deemed negative because it creates bad feelings inside of other people who are at the brunt of the anger and even cause the angry person to feel badly about themselves and the world around them. But can this negative energy be used for good? Does it always have to be interpreted as a failing quality that affects people in a damaging way? The Positivity Within The Emotion of Anger Anger is found in most animals capable of emotions which indicates that there is some evolutionary reason why we are able to feel this emotion in the first place....

Helps You Handle Stress Better Anyone who works in the corporate world will tell you that it’s an extremely stressful situation to be in. Those who doesn’t let stress knock them down tend to perform better at the office. It’s not uncommon that people voluntarily leave a perfectly well paid position because they can’t deal with the stress and anxiety that comes with the job. If only they knew exercising will fix this problem… Here is a video by Dnews which will explain how exercising helps you cope better with stress....

Here are some of the thoughts and actions that the highly successful think and do to motivate themselves, even when their environment is challenging, so that they can achieve their goals. 1. They remind themselves that they’ve had successful days. They know they’ve had accomplishments before, so they can get through a challenge again. 2. They are not waiting for some flash-of-lightning moment. They are not waiting for big leaps of effort either....

But I was not always an email-lover. Three and a half years ago, when I was working at a day job, I barely felt the need to check my email. Only after I started on my entrepreneurial journey, did I begin holding my emails dear. I am a blogger, a freelance writer, an editor, a behavioral coach and an online marketer. I am also religious about responding to every message I possibly can....

Traits of Mr. Maybe It’s been almost two years since the last time I spoke with “Mr. Maybe,” and I feel like my life has been a lot happier without him. Whenever I tried to make contact with him again, things ended the same way each time – he would ghost me and I wouldn’t hear from him for months. I made the mistake of ignoring all the red flags I saw in the very beginning of the relationship; I was settling because I was so desperate for someone to love me....

They include time taken up by sleep, showering, shopping and watching television and ultimately come up with a worryingly short amount of time in our lifetimes that are actually ours to do with as we please. I feel as though it’s important we warn you that this infographic may ruin your day if you’re prone to existential crisis, depending upon how you look at it. Before you scroll down I’d like you to remember:...

It’s not the kid-friendly content you have to worry about – it’s the effect of excessive amounts of screen time your kids are being exposed to on a regular basis. The younger they are while their brains are developing rapidly, the more adverse the effects may be. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, parents of infants and children under the age of two should avoid exposing them to smartphones, tablets, computers, televisions and anything else that serves to entertain people through a screen....

A meta-analysis done of 148 mortality studies even found that a lack of social relationships is comparable to well know health risks such as cigarette smoking and obesity, where weak social ties could be comparable to smoking 15 cigarettes a day or having more than 6 alcoholic drinks. One factor that has received less attention, though, is the number of friends we have and the effects this may have on our health....

1. They are first friends. Sisters learn about interacting with other girls from each other. Whether you shared a room or had your own space, as a child your sister knew more about you than any other person on the planet. You could act cool or put on sophisticated airs at school but she knew if you kept candy under the bed or spent your nights mooning over the boy who say in front of you in homeroom....

“Much of our activity these days is nothing more than a cheap anesthetic to deaden the pain of an empty life.” – Unknown “The things you own end up owning you.” – Tyler Durden in Fight Club Beyond a minimum threshold of poverty, money doesn’t buy happiness. Wealth may seem like a solution to your problems, but often it simply replaces the ones it solves. As paychecks increase, lifestyles usually match those increases....

Neither do I. It doesn’t work that way, does it? We buy things, we achieve goals, we indulge ourselves—but none of it gives us lasting happiness. So, what does work? According to scientific research, the answer is gratitude. Unhappiness often boils down to fear in one form or another: fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough.1 For example, you might be miserable at work because you’re afraid you can’t do your job, and you’re afraid you’ll be fired....