making your home work
How much of your day is spent doing administrative tasks, and not creating or doing other important work? How much time do you spend responding to emails and IMs and social networks, making payments, doing paperwork, filing, sitting in meetings, driving, doing errands, and so on? How much of that could be cleared up …
Probably the most frequently asked questions for those trying to simplify their lives isn’t How Do I Simplify, but rather What If Others in My Life Don’t Want to Simplify? It’s an amazingly common problem, and one that doesn’t have an easy answer. However, there are things you can do if your significant other, family …
This following guest article was written by Richard Hemby who regularly writes aboutaccredited online degreesand college related topics for Online College Guru, an online college degree guide. Those who practice a frugal lifestyle are occasionally accused of being “cheap” or miserly. Nothing could be farther from the …
One of the things we’re told by productivity gurus is that we need to have clearly defined goals or outcomes — the better defined it is, the more likely you’ll achieve it. And this is true, to some extent. It’s worked for me, when I visualized my goals and set my mind to achieving it, and took small action steps to …
Writer Marc Sotkin produces the website Boomer Alley, which is self-described as a “consistently entertaining, professional grade, irreverent look at the world of the Baby Boomers”. If you can’t see the video in the post, you can find it on YouTube or Boomer Alley. Now I have to go clean out my collection of books …
Several days ago, my mother related to me a horror story about a particular dinner she’d prepared for herself and my father. She had purchased some extremely cheap frozen chicken breasts from a local discount grocery store at a price she just couldn’t pass up, but when she brought them home and actually prepared them, …
With the holiday shopping season in full swing I am reminded of how often people rush out to buy something just because it is on sale. I admit, I enjoy saving money as much as anyone, but I’ve caught myself falling into the trap of buying something just because it is a great deal. A few months ago a friend called me …
Like many people, I tend to overeat during the holidays, from Thanksgiving through New Year’s. It’s kinda part of the tradition to consume huge amounts of food, you know? And like many others, I also tend to gain weight during the holidays — some people can gain 5 or more pounds (though for most it’s usually only a …