when to be a quitter

June 6, 2007

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The PositiveSharing blog has an interesting post on knowing when to quit your job. Actually, this has a much wider applicability; you can use these principles to decide when it’s high time to quit just about any situation that you find yourself in at least partly voluntarily, even unemployment. The ultimate question is: how is […]

Mary Pickford on failure

June 5, 2007

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The failure is not in falling down. The failure is in staying down. Mary Pickford inspirational quotes wikipage :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

the best productivity blog on the entire internet

June 5, 2007

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Check it out for yourself. It’s hard to find a more straightforward guide to productivity; some days, this kind of smack in the face is exactly what a person needs. DoItFuckingNow.com Post your favorite productivity blogs, tips, and resources in the comments or right on the wikipage; you don’t have to be authorized, just click […]

quote: the six mistakes of man

June 4, 2007

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The delusion that personal gain is made by crushing others. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and studying. […]

the most boring thing in the world

June 4, 2007

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Well, maybe air is boring-er, but not by much. I’m talking about water. You need it, a body’s gotta have it, but good lord in heaven is it dull stuff. And I dunno about your bathroom, but mine just isn’t such a fabulous oasis of delights that I care to spend half my day in […]

a good life

June 1, 2007

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  “Sweat every day, laugh every day, and that’s the secret to a good life.” Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa inspirational quotes wikipage :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

meals without kitchens: equipment

June 1, 2007

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Not everyone out there has a kitchen they can use: some people live outdoors, some have rooms in hotels, boarding houses, or private homes that don’t allow them to cook, and some people are just New Yorkers. How do you eat under those circumstances if it’s unrealistic to expect to eat at restaurants all the […]

Diane Ackerman on beginnings, endings, and the part in between

May 31, 2007

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  It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. Diane Ackerman inspirational quotes wikipage :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

resting heart rate: a benchmark

May 31, 2007

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Boy, there’s nothing so exciting as taking out a watch and a calculator and settling down to do some math, eh? Hoo boy, I’ll bet you’re excited! Well who wouldn’t be? But there’s a reason I’m making you do your homework (don’t look away from the monitor…I can see you, ya know! I have the […]

who is ‘us?’

May 30, 2007

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Now here’s someone you generally don’t hear a lot from in self-help circles: MTV and Entertainment Tonight television personality Vanessa Minnillo. If this is the kind of sense she usually makes, I wouldn’t mind hearing more from her (which is a lesson to those of us with tendencies to write off television-presenting former beauty queens). from the March, 2006 […]

paint your car for $50

May 30, 2007

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Well since we’re on the subject of budget makeovers, let’s just take a gander at this and agree that the man is a genius. Considering how much time people spend in their cars, and how easy it is to let them get run-down when you haven’t the cash to get them seen to professionally, these […]