17th March 2009
Here are some of the best test taking tips for students facing an exam. They cover memorizing the material, getting ready, and what to do while taking the exam. Develop a routine that works for you using one or more tip from each category.
1. Better te...
13th March 2009
Why look for easy meditation techniques? After all, doesn't good meditation practice take time and effort and self discipline? Perhaps, but before a person is ready to make that commitment he or she may want to have a little taste of what the results migh...
12th March 2009
How many ways do you know to find cheap real estate? Whether you are looking for a home, rental house, land or other property, at least a couple of the suggestions here can help you pay less for it.
1. Talk To Your Bank
Now more than ever (this is b...
11th March 2009
I am a follower of hidden trails. In fact, on at least half of the hiking trips I take lately, I'm off the trails altogether, bushwhacking into the unknown. What do you get for doing as Walt Whitman suggested, and taking the "road less traveled?" A bit of...
10th March 2009
Surviving hard times is not so much about learning how to be tough or eating cheap noodles as it is about careful planning and self control. First, lets consider a worst-case scenario. Suppose we are entering another great depression. It's worth noting th...
10th March 2009
Before you start that job search, let me ask you a question: Why would you want a job? Just for a paycheck? Instead of assuming that a job is a necessity that we all must have (it really isn't), consider what is actually important to you.
Once you have...
10th March 2009
Buying insurance for everything from automobiles to mortgages has become so commonplace that it is natural to assume insurance is a necessity of modern life. But is it really? Is there a better way to guard against life's unexpected occurrences - and save...
10th March 2009
The easiest route to creative product innovation is to start with something we already have and ask some simple questions about it to suggest new ideas. For the sake of demonstrating how this can be done, we'll suppose that we want to design a new kind of...
09th March 2009
It used to be that you could actually get more website traffic by simply throwing a bunch of good keyword search phrases on your pages and in the HTML "tags." Of course search engines got better, and so the "experts" began to tell us that we just needed h...
05th March 2009
How does one develop creativity? By habitually taking creative approaches to life's challenges. To make this habitual, you just need to use certain techniques for a few weeks each, until they become a normal part of your thinking. One such technique is ou...
03rd March 2009
What is the American Dream? Is it two kids, a new car, a good job, and a big new house with a pet dog to greet you at the door? Hmm... At least there was a deeper conception of it when it was invented.
James Truslow Adams answered the question "What i...
03rd March 2009
There are many ways to make money writing online. Just one of them will be laid out here. It is one that you probably haven't read about before.
Make Money Writing Online Ebooks
Okay, you have heard about ebooks and selling them. This isn't quite th...
02nd March 2009
The two most important critical thinking skills are not keen observation nor logic. These help, but both of these come pretty naturally in humans (though we often choose to ignore logic). The skills I am referring to are less common, at least in their ful...
02nd March 2009
There are many brainstorming routines and other techniques for creating new business ideas. You'll find just one of them here, but it's a good one.
New Business Ideas By Turning Things Upside Down
This is a technique for generating truly creative ...
25th February 2009
There are many ways you can make money writing ebooks. Here are three of them. You don't even need a website for the last two.
Ebooks - The Traditional Way
It may be a stretch to call something "traditional" in an industry that is only a decade old,...
