11th June 2009
Regular readers of my blog and subscribers to my Brainpower Newsletter know that I’m a believer in safe self-experimentation. In fact, I regularly recommend trying things out that do not yet have scientific evidence proving their effectiveness. After al...
01st June 2009
The most common suggestion on how to save money on heating bills is to turn down the thermostat. That certainly works, and it is true that you can put on a sweater to keep warm. On the other hand, some people feel the cold more than others, and among all ...
21st May 2009
The average article on how to save money on food might mention coupon shopping and stocking up during sales. This article, however, is about some of the lesser known tricks for spending less. Here are three to try.
Eat Less
Okay, I am not suggesting...
18th May 2009
Anyone who ventures out into the wilderness in the colder months of the year might want to know how to construct a few basic winter survival shelters. We can probably rule out the most famous of these, the igloo. It's difficult and time consuming to build...
15th May 2009
Thousands of people every year find themselves in a wilderness survival situation. Fortunately most are rescued alive and well - but not all. If you hunt, hike, canoe, backpack or do other activities that involve the possibility of getting lost in the woo...
15th May 2009
Anyone who might someday get lost while hiking, hunting, canoeing or backpacking should know the basics of how to build a wilderness survival shelter. There are several types, ranging from snow caves to poncho tents to modified rock-ledge shelters. They a...
15th May 2009
The following creative marketing ideas are specifically about finding new places and ways to advertise. This has always been an area ripe for new ideas. What prompted me to write this page is an article I recently read on a company called Show Media.
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26th April 2009
If you want what may be the simplest innovation process, here it is: Find the things that others are not doing well, or just not doing. Once you identify these deficiencies, design a better service or product based on what customers really want. Then sell...
23rd April 2009
Getting the best price on your next car just got easier. Just read over the following car buying secrets and put them to good use.
1. The Dealers Real Cost
The Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) is the price that consumers supposedly are m...
22nd April 2009
This is not an article about new job ideas for those who simply want to do something different for a living. It is about changing our ideas about the meaning of employment. I was inspired to think about this by an article in Time Magazine in March of 2009...
17th April 2009
Of course there are opportunities during a recession, including those listed below. In fact, many "lucky people" will prosper in these tough economic times. If you want to be one of them, you have to start to think like them.
To begin with, you might w...
17th April 2009
Luck is not always as random as it appears. There are things that lucky people do differently from others, and ways that they think differently. These "good luck habits" explain much of their good fortune. This is evident even during an economic recession...
16th April 2009
Perhaps you want to promote your website or get paid to write for other webmasters, but you don't know how to write an article for online use. Don't worry. The following three formats make it easy to put together articles that readers will want to read.
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30th March 2009
As children, we were always looking for creative ways to make money. One of my brothers collected golf balls from the bottom of a pond and sold them back to the golfers. Another sold candy in school from a hollow book. I ran casino and carnival-style game...
30th March 2009
Lying with statistics has always been part of politics, but it has perhaps become more prevalent as we have become more mathematically illiterate as a people. In fact, 65.7% of statistic are just plain false. Okay, I invented that one - but to make a poin...
