Your Life Is What You Make Of It

 

Your Life Is What You Make Of It

This article describes how your life is what you make of it. If you are willing to work hard to reach your ambitions and goals, there is no reason why you should not attain them. In my opinion, far too many people try to take shortcuts or are too willing to expect free handouts from other people or have the credit card attitude of buy now, pay later. I hope you enjoy the read.

One of my best friends, Chris, turned seventeen around a month before I did. For his birthday, his father bought him an adorable and sporty-looking car. Chris was delighted and showed his new present to all his mates, including myself. He could not take us out for a spin as he had yet to learn to drive, and I thought what a great gift it had been and returned home to tell my parents.

Tips on Saving Dollars on Energy in Your Home

 

Tips on Saving Dollars on Energy in Your Home

According to World Energy Solutions, a publicly-traded energy services company, a typical U.S. family spends more than $1,600 a year on home utility bills, yet making some simple changes around the home can save money and make heating and cooling systems more efficient in St. Petersburg, Fla.

By evaluating facilities and equipment, World Energy Solutions (symbol: WEGY) helps businesses lower their utility consumption and maintenance costs and extend the life of their equipment.

Your Ticket To Financial Freedom

Your Ticket To Financial Freedom

 

Now days, it is nearly impossible today for the average family to thrive on a single income. However, the skyrocketing cost of child care makes it difficult for both parents to work. Fortunately, the internet has made making money online a suitable income option without commuting or daycare.

Making money online means much more than entering contests and sweepstakes; it is not uncommon to see a professional create a home business in computer programming, accounting, medical billing, and many other fields. Making money online has never been easier! All that is required is a computer, a reliable internet connection, and an idea.

An Introduction To Spam Filters

An Introduction To Spam Filters

 

Using spam filters is another very effective way of combating spam or junk mail. These programs use some keywords like guaranteed, free, etc., and block any email with those words in them. But this has the disadvantage of sometimes blocking even essential correspondences from your contacts and preventing those senders from sending emails to your address again. The way out is to use add-on spam filters to control the content that should be allowed into your inbox. This will save you a lot of time and energy as you will no longer have to

What Is Spam?

What Is Spam?

 

You have probably seen an increase in the amount of junk mail that shows up in your email box or on your favorite newsgroup. The activities of a small number of people are becoming a bigger problem for the Internet.

Chain letters that ask for money, whether for reports or straight up, are illegal in the US, whether in postal mail or email. Report these frauds to your local US Postmaster. You may see an email coming from Nigeria or another African country sent by someone who wants to use your bank account to transfer 20 million dollars. This is called a ‘419’ scam, and people have been killed over it.

7 Great Success Ideas!

 

7 Great Success Ideas!

Let history’s greatest minds help you to find authentic success and happiness today.

Plato. Socrates. Aristotle. Confucius. Thomas Aquinas. Hundreds, even thousands of years later, the names of the great philosophers remain legendary, their ideas continuing to captivate minds, stimulate thought, and shape the course of human history.

But what are those ideas? Why are they still impacting the way people think, understand, and act? Most importantly, how can they help you live a happier, better, more fulfilling life today?

3 Magic Bedtime Questions

 

3 Magic Bedtime Questions

For many people, life zooms past once they reach their working age. Every day, it’s the same flash routine of waking up, going to work, returning from work, and sleeping. It’s no wonder why you’ll ask yourself, “How did I get old so fast? Where did all the time go?”

The problem is in the routine work. The human mind has this habit called deletion. Anything that keeps repeating, memory does not record, simply because it’s not worth taking notice of.

So how can we slow down our experience of time and not let our lives slip by in a flash?

7 Steps To Break (or Make) A Habit

 

7 Steps To Break (or Make) A Habit

We all have habits, some good and some not so good. These are behaviors that we’ve learned and that occur almost automatically. And most of us have a habit we’d like to break or one we’d like to develop.

It takes about four weeks for a new behavior to become routine or a habit for most people. The following steps can make it easier to establish a new behavior pattern.

1. The first step is to set your goal. Especially when you are trying to stop or break a habit, you should phrase your goal as a positive statement. For example, instead of saying, “I will quit snacking at night,” say, “I will practice healthy eating habits.” You should also write down your goal, and Committing it to paper helps you to commit. It can also help if you tell your plan to someone you trust.

Innovation Is A State Of Mind

Innovation Is A State Of Mind

 

You probably know the myth of innovation as a sudden flash of insight that comes from nowhere. We read about that "aha" moment, or that light bulb turning on in the mind of some inventor or innovator, and this is true to an extent. Einstein really did get flashes of insight while shaving in the morning. However, he was working on the particular problems he had insight into, and he didn't suddenly have ideas for new kitchen gadgets or movie plots.

Einstein's innovations, in other words, no matter how "sudden" the original ideas were, came from past and present mental work. It is like a singer who works at his craft for ten years and then becomes an "overnight success."