Tips to Improve Your Life

Find Inner Serenity by Making it Easier to Find Your Keys

1. For most people, getting control of clutter brings a greater sense of calm and decreased frustration. .....

2. When you complete a list of action steps, your instinct might be to throw the list away. After all, the work is completed! However, some creative professional teams take a different approach; they relish their progress. Some go so far as surrounding themselves with it. .....

Empty Your Inbox in 30 Seconds

3. Is your inbox filled with thousands and thousands of unread messages? Before you give up hope, there .....

Instantly Build Self Confidence

4. These tips will get you riding high in no time. .....

Reduce Your Trash To Almost Zero

5. Follow the No Impact Man experiment to reduce our trash as close as we can to zero. .....

Feel like a million bucks for cheap

6. Feel healthier and more energized right away without spending a fortune. .....

End Laundry Chaos

7. More than 20 tips to help you keep your laundry chaos to a minimum. .....

Learn the Secrets of the Super Organized

8. A few simple habits keep clutter and chaos at bay. .....

Check Email Once a Day

9. Simple tips that will reduce interruption and increase your productivity. .....

Become an Early Riser

10. 5 benefits of rising early, and some practical tips on how to do it. .....

Learn Lessons from Google About Self Image

11. How you think of yourself greatly affects how successful you can be. Google has got self-image down to a science. .....

Make a Good First Impression

12. Research shows that people decide what kind of relationship they want with you in the first ten minutes of a meeting, so making a good first impression really matters. .....

Know the Hype Behind Bottled Water

13. Have you ever stopped to think about just how incredibly odd it is to buy bottled water? .....

Leave Work at Work

14. Want more time for your family or personal life? Heres how not to think about your job 24/7. .....

Create a Landing Strip to Become Organized

15. We come from work exhausted, often carrying our work bags, groceries, and the mail. A landing strip will help you avoid disorganization from the time you get home. .....

Understand Time to Increase Return on Investment

16. Time is your most valuable resource. Understanding these ideas will help you make optimal decisions. .....

Give Your Resume a Face Lift

17. Even if you can?t hire a fancy designer and are stuck with Microsoft Word, a few tweaks can turn your blas? r?sum? into an elegant and functional showpiece. .....

Boost Your Energy Level

18. Feeling energetic is a key to happiness and to self-esteem, so take steps to keep your energy high. .....

Actually Execute Your To Do List

19. Many productivity systems will tell you how to organize your tasks, but what happens if you dont feel like doing them? .....

Learn the Truth About Baby Carrots

21. Baby carrots not really young carrots! They are also less nutritious and less flavorful than regular carrots. .....

Try Quick and Painless Ways to Kill Distractions

22. Are you spending more time dealing with emails, IMs, phone calls, and random stray files than actually working? Here are ten actions you can do right now to kill distractions and get back to work. .....

Reduce Your Carbon Emissions

23. The most important lifestyle changes you can make to reduce your carbon emissions are listed here. .....

Put the Action Method Into Practice

24. After a couple years of studying how creative people stay organized, we developed a simple and easily customized method for managing projects. A good portion of 2006 was spent putting the Action Method into practice. .....

Gently End Procrastination

25. Need an easy way to remind you when you should be working and when you should be playing? Try using teaming up Flextime with Growl .....

Get the Most Out of Your RSS Reader

26. Seven simple tips for getting your feeds under control. .....

Use Catchphrases to Change the Way You Think

27. By keeping certain ideas active and accessible through review and repetition whether its Say yes,Fake it till you feel it, or People succeed in groups you can shape the way you think. .....

Photograph Your Mementos to Free Up Clutter

28. Taking digital photos of your mementos can get rid of clutter, free-up storage space, and provide you with a simple way to walk down memory lane. .....

Save Trees With Ease

29. Want to avoid all the paper towels, paper napkins and other tree-killing stuff theres no need to use? .....

Organize Your Cluttered Desktop and Regain Your Sanity

30. Is your desktop littered with zillions of random files and folders often litter my desktop. Learn how 5 ordinary folders can keep your desktop immaculate. .....

Eat Slower

31. Why eating slower is better for your health, your sanity, your digestion .....

Maximize Your Lunch Hour

32. Your lunch hour should be the least ?productive? moment in your day. If it lasts a mere 20 minutes-or just doesn?t exist anymore heres how to turn it around and make it joyful. .....

Increase Workplace Productivity by Not Being a Jerk

33. You get more flies with honey, as the saying goes. This is a brief outline for how to work and play well with your coworkers .....

Find Cheap Gas Instantly

34. If soaring gas prices are draining your wallet dry, heres five ways to find cheap gas anywhere. .....

Find Your Purpose

35. We are all searching for our purpose. It seems tempting that having it appear by divine intervention would be great. Maybe not. .....

Make a GTD System

36. Putting together a functional GTD system for the price of a weeks worth of Starbucks. .....

Avoid costly DIY mistakes

37. You can end up costing yourself more in the long run if you dont watch out for these mistakes. .....

Think About Whether You Can Afford NOT to Pursue Your Dreams

38. Pursuing dreams is crucial, even when it means taking a hit or entering financial uncertainty. .....

Plan for Success

39. Waiting for your ship to come in is a waste of time. .....

Improve Your Mind by Reading the Classics

40. How to use the wisdom of the classics to become a better writer, thinker, and speaker. .....

Break Habits of Highly Ineffective Emailing

41. A list of what not to do when emailing, avoiding these habits will take you a long way toward better, more productive email. .....

Make Your PDA Green

42. If you are worried about e waste and the toxins produced by burying and burning old cell phones and PDAs, you may want to try my green hipsters pda. .....

Learn to Go From Solo to Successful Collaboration

43. Self-starters are often successful doing everything themselves. However, when forced to grow beyond the one gal/guy-show, many creative professionals are unable to take the leap from a solo success to a successful collaboration. .....

Create a Morning Routine

44. Developing a routine in the morning could lead to greater sanity and happiness, and achieving your goals. .....

Learn How to Survive a Road Trip

45. Road trips always begin on a high note, but by the end even Mother Teresa would be willing to shove her grandmother out of the car .....

Share To Make Ideas Happen

46. The philosophy to share ideas liberally defies the ageold instinct to keep ideas secret. However, the creative persons tendency to jump from idea to idea to idea causes most ideas to die in isolation. Creative professionals should take every opportunity to communicate new ideas broadly, seek feedback, and develop a sense of accountability. .....

Use Space Under Stairs for More Storage

47. Very cool under-stair storage where each step is a drawer. .....

Work in Multiple Positives

49. These hyper-productive activities will benefit you in multiple ways at once. .....

Use a Super Slim Wallet

50. Its time to shrink down that backbreaking Constanza wallet. Here are 8 ways to radically slim down your wallet. .....

Advertise Action to Yourself

51. We live in a world of choices. When we buy, we have to make a choice between varieties, brands, and sizes. Similarly, when we work we have to decide what to focus on and how to use our time. While prioritization helps us focus, our minds still have the tendency to wander. We are most likely to focus on whatever catches our eye. Along the lines of .....

Gain Muscle in Minimal Time

52. How Tim Ferriss gained 34 pounds of muscle in 4 weeks. .....

Choose Living Over Sleeping Sometimes

53. Despite the importance of healthy sleep habits, there are times when its good to throw caution to the wind and invest in your life in other ways. .....

Make Reference Items Helpful

54. We spend too much time discussing, storing, and organizing notes. References are only valuable if you refer to them. Even with a well-organized system for managing references .....

Eat Sustainably

55. If you are interested in how to eat sustainably .....

Lose Weight Without Exercise

56. How to lose 20 lbs. of fat in 30 days with a sensible diet. .....

Find Calm and Sanity Through the Environment

57. If you?ve ever thought a more environmental life might also be a calmer, saner life, you?re right. .....

Learn About the Successfully Self Employed

58. Is freelancing for suckers? Are you already an expert? This series explores the levels of the freeagent and how to understand what each one means. .....

Learn GTD the Easy Way

59. An online primer of all the chapters of Getting Things Done. .....

Set Goals So You Actually Accomplish Them

60. Setting goals is hard. Following through is even harder. Using a framework that builds on your personal view of the world can make the process easier .....

Reduce Gamer Clutter

61. If you are a gamer, these are a number of suggestions to help you keep your entertainment system under control and the gaming clutter to a minimum. .....

Stick to a Schedule of Regular Exercise

62. Exercising regularly boosts mood right away and also makes it easier to sleep, keeps your weight down, and gives you energy. .....

Cut Back on Computer Cables

63. Follow these 8 simple steps to get rid of the birds nest of cables behind your computer. .....

Pay the Price to Be an Entrepreneur

64. The price of access can be steep, but once youre flying down the road its well worth it. .....

Single task

65. Increase your productivity by learning not to multi-task. .....

Get Outside Your Comfort Zone

66. Comfort isnt all its cracked up to be. .....

Drop Ideas That Fail

67. Ideas are a commodity. Being able to execute them well is what creates success. Hanging on to an idea, even after it his proven to be ineffective is the downfall of many aspiring entrepreneurs. .....

Learn to Calculate Risk

68. Risk and reward go hand-in-hand. Knowing what to expect can help reduce risk and shape your reality. .....

Dont Settle for Just One Path

69. Variety is the spice of life. So why do you have to be just one thing when you grow up? .....

Get Rid of Paper Clutter

70. A four-part series dedicated to reducing the paper clutter in your home. .....

Set Up Action Areas

71. Boxes need to be mailed, errands need to be run, cookies need to be eaten, orders need to be fulfilled, but by whom? Whoever has a chance! The Behance team got tired of limiting our action steps to just an area on paper why not make action areas out of physical space? .....

Find Hidden Clutter

72. Ten places to start looking for hidden clutter in your home. .....

Get a Promotion

73. 10 tips that landed the writer an IT promotion most could be used in any field. .....

Dispose of Old Electronics

74. The best ways to dispose of old electronics. .....

Increase Your Intelligence

75. A list of 5 simple activities that will boost your brain power. .....

Present Yourself

76. Creative achievements seldom happen in isolation. A big part of making ideas happen is controlling how you come across to others. Of course, the Creatives tendency is to say, who gives a crap what other people think. While there is merit in never compromising oneself for the sake of anothers opinion, creative professionals need to make an effort to be understood. You need to present yourself effectively to engage others and get the support (and t .....

Follow George Orwell

77. Becoming a better writer will create better career opportunities and increase productivity. .....

Lay Your Energy Line Creative teams juggle multiple projects at once

78. The constant streams of ideas lead to more ideas. As energy is spread across projects like peanut butter, prioritization is all but lost.Energy Lines are a simple way to prioritize and use design to guide creative energy. .....

Focus on Continuous Improvement

79. By mastering the optimization mentality you can become an expert in your chosen field. .....

Motivate Yourself

80. This post will teach you to recognize the primary motivation killers and how to beat them. .....

Become a More Light hearted Parent

81. We all want a peaceful, happy atmosphere at home and you cant nag and yell your way there. .....

Give Up Nagging

82. Its no fun to nag, and its no fun to be nagged. Give your relationship a lift by putting an end to the irritating nag cycle. .....

Learn to Sacrifice Temporary Pressure for Long term Goals

83. All success requires sacrifice. Do you have the determination to endure temporary punishment to reach your dreams? .....

Learn the GTD Workflow

84. An excellent into to GTD for the novice, a great refresher for the experienced. .....

Use the Power of 10 Minutes

85. 10 Minutes can be even more productive amount of time than 50 minutes, if used properly. .....

Triple Your Workout Effectiveness

86. Do you exercise regularly but dont get the results you want? Here are some simple but powerful ways to boost that workout. .....

Work 8 Hours Straight Without Hating Yourself

87. There is an art to taking breaks that can help you work longer, and more productively. .....

Learn Whether You are Waking Up at the Wrong Time

88. Everyones internal clock can tell us when we should be working. Are you listening to it? .....

Reduce Wasted Plastic Cups and Bottles

89. If you want to toss fewer plastic cups and bottles in the trash, you may be interested this ultra-cool reusable cup and water bottle. .....

Avoid Entrepreneurial Burnout

90. Fill Your Tank. Many times entrepreneurs suffer from going too hard with their vision, without thinking about keeping the work pace sustainable. .....

Take Steps to Boost Your Happiness in the Next Hour

91. You can make yourself happier and this doesnt have to be a long term ambition. You can start right now. .....

Learn to Capture Ideas and How to Manage Diarrhea of the Brain

92. Sometimes our best ideas come at the worst possible times. These tips will help to make sure none of those precious ideas fall through the cracks. .....

Know the Signs That a Pink Slip is Coming

93. If you can answer yes to THREE or more of these questions, you may want to think about sprucing up your resume and dry-cleaning your best interview attire. .....

Try No TV

94. In an extreme experiment to reduce waste to near zero, No Impact Man turned turned off electricity, which means no TV. Read about how to entertain a little girl with no TV. .....

Accelerate Your Mortgage Payments to Save a Bundle

95. See how much money you can save by adding just a few extra dollars a month to the principal. .....

Put Your Daily To Do List On a Post It

96. If it wont fit on a post it, it wont fit in your day. .....

Use Money to Buy Happiness

97. Some of the best things in life arent free, so spend money in ways to bring you more happiness bang for your buck. .....

Save the Lives of Animals With One Change

98. If you want to help save the lives of hundreds of thousands of animals just by not using plastic bags, perhaps the easiest environmental step .....

Get the Most Out of Your Rebates

99. Follow these tips and we can all fight the Man and wrench our hard-earned money back from those big, faceless corporations. .....

Eliminate All But the Absolute Essential Tasks

100. Is your to do list overwhelming you? Heres how to simplify it to the core tasks. .....