Category: Tools and Information

How to be happy: Tips for cultivating contentment | MayoClinic.com

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author of articleDo you know how to be happy? Or are you waiting for happiness to find you?

Despite what the fairy tales depict, happiness doesn’t appear by magic. It’s not even something that happens to you. It’s something you can cultivate.

So, what are you waiting for? Start discovering how to be happy.

How to be happy: What science tells us

Only 10 percent or so of the variation in people’s reports of happiness can be explained by differences in their circumstances. It appears that the bulk of what determines happiness is due to personality and — more importantly — thoughts and behaviors that can be changed.

So, yes, you can learn how to be happy — or at least happier.

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3 Food Tips to Help You Sleep Better | Eating Well

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Learn how to get a better night’s sleep with these 3 tips to beat insomnia.

Relaxation techniques, like deep breathing, getting into a “bedtime routine” of winding down, even journaling those stressful thoughts that keep your mind jumping. These tips can all help you sleep but as the associate nutrition editor at EatingWell Magazine and a registered dietitian, I’m also interested in how to use food to beat insomnia.

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green driving tips | greenercars.org

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Driving Green

Buying green is just the first step in reducing the environmental impacts of automobile use. Your choice of vehicle is most important, but how you drive and how well you maintain your car, van, or light truck will also make a difference.

  • Avoid \”jack rabbit\” starts and aggressive driving. Flooring the gas pedal not only wastes gas, it leads to drastically higher pollution rates. One second of high-powered driving can produce nearly the same volume of carbon monoxide emissions as a half hour of normal driving.
  • Think ahead. Try to anticipate stops and let your vehicle coast down as much as possible. Avoid the increased pollution, wasted gas, and wear on your brakes created by accelerating hard and braking hard.
  • Follow the speed limit! Driving 75 mph instead of 65 mph will lower your fuel economy by about 10 percent, and can dramatically increase tailpipe pollution in many vehicles.
  • When possible, plan your trips to avoid rush hour. Stop-and-go driving burns gas and increases emissions of smog-forming pollutants.
  • Combine trips. Warmed-up engines and catalysts generate much less air pollution, so combining several short trips into one can make a big difference.
  • Take a load off. Carrying around an extra 100 pounds reduces fuel economy by about 1 percent. Take a few moments to unload your cargo area.

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Three Credit Mistakes That Will Lower Your Credit Scores|creditcardinsider

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When it comes to the world of credit reporting and scoring, misinformation and myths abound. You will find many self-proclaimed “experts” or “gurus” laugh out loud who are all too quick to give consumers advice regarding how to improve credit scores. Even your cousin, your parent, your banker, or your Realtor may think that they have great credit advice to give you.

While your loved ones and even some of the “experts” may have good intentions at heart, you should be very careful before blindly following advice about how to improve credit scores. Following the wrong advice could damage your credit scores and might cost you a lot of money in the long run. Controlling your credit scores isnt like making a pizza, where even if you do it wrong it still tastes decent.

Here are a few of the most popular credit myths which, if followed, could have very negative consequences for your credit scores:

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Score Free Stuff On Your Birthday | genxfinance

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Happy Birthday!  Yes, we all hear this on our own special day but how many of us really indulge because of the occasion?  What if I told you that you could score all sorts of free stuff on your birthday just by signing up for mailing lists online?

Yes, you heard that right!  You can celebrate your birthday in style without spending a dime. From food, to coupons to your favorite retailers, you get all kinds of fun things on your special day

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31 Twitter Tips for Business | Forbes

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For years I have wondered what the value of Twitter is for sales and business. Everyone knows the indisputable value of LinkedIn for B2B sales, marketing, B2B prospecting, and entrepreneurs in general. But Twitter is finally gaining traction in B2B.This article shares some of the latest Twitter strategies, tactics, tools, and best practices.

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Lead Generation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them | AllBusiness

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Good content marketing starts with good lead generation. You’ve probably heard something like this before. But what is lead generation in the first place?

Lead generation is the act of collecting a list of names and contact information of people who will play a critical role in your content marketing strategy. These are the people that your search engine optimization SEO team will forge relationships with to promote your products.

Lead generation is usually the first step in any comprehensive SEO strategy. Establishing contacts will get the ball rolling in your campaign, allowing you to reach a targeted audience that will be more receptive to your business.

This is why it is incredibly important that you are able to conduct lead generation early on, and do it the right way. What are some of the pitfalls to avoid? Let’s take a look at some of them.

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Your Thoughts Can Release Abilities beyond Normal Limits|Scientific American

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Better vision, stronger muscles—expectations can have surprising effects, research finds.

There seems to be a simple way to instantly increase a person’s level of general knowledge. Psychologists Ulrich Weger and Stephen Loughnan recently asked two groups of people to answer questions. People in one group were told that before each question, the answer would be briefly flashed on their screens — too quickly to consciously perceive, but slow enough for their unconscious to take it in. The other group was told that the flashes simply signaled the next question. In fact, for both groups, a random string of letters, not the answers, was flashed. But, remarkably, the people who thought the answers were flashed did better on the test. Expecting to know the answers made people more likely to get the answers right.

Our cognitive and physical abilities are in general limited, but our conceptions of the nature and extent of those limits may need revising. In many cases, thinking that we are limited is itself a limiting factor. There is accumulating evidence that suggests that our thoughts are often capable of extending our cognitive and physical limits.

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Justdelete.me Wants To Help You Pull The Plug On All Those Pesky Online Accounts | TechCrunch

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It’s tiring, isn’t it? Doing everything online, I mean. Everyday you log into services tailor-made for shopping, searching, sharing, watching, chatting, curating, reading, bragging — that’s a lot of places to keep your personal information, and no one could blame you if you wanted to try to pare down on those extraneous connections. Hell, I’d like nothing better myself sometimes.

A U.K.-based duo consisting of developer Robb Lewis and designer Ed Poole seem to understand that desire awfully well, and they teamed up to create what may be a truly indispensable resource. It’s called Justdelete.me, and as the name sort of implies, it’s a directory of links to pages where you can lay waste to your myriad online accounts.

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