I found this blog www.behance.com recently and it is pretty cool. Below I only listed 25, but you can go here to get all 100… http://www.behance.com/Featured/Articles/100-Tips-to-Improve-Your-Life/5591
- Find Inner Serenity by Making it Easier to Find Your Keys. For most people, getting control of clutter brings a greater sense of calm and decreased frustration.
- Surround Yourself With Progress. 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. Is your inbox filled with thousands and thousands of unread messages? Before you give up hope, there’s an instant way to clear your inbox of old emails in less than 30 seconds.
- Instantly Build Self Confidence. These tips will get you riding high in no time.
- Reduce Your Trash To Almost Zero. Follow the No Impact Man experiment to reduce our trash as close as we can to zero.
- Feel like a million bucks for cheap. Feel healthier and more energized right away without spending a fortune.
- End Laundry Chaos. More than 20 tips to help you keep your laundry chaos to a minimum.
- Learn the Secrets of the Super-Organized. A few simple habits keep clutter and chaos at bay.
- Check Email Once a Day … or Once a Week. Simple tips that will reduce interruption and increase your productivity.
- Become an Early Riser. 10 benefits of rising early, and some practical tips on how to do it.
- Learn Lessons from Google About Self-Image. 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. 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. Have you ever stopped to think about just how incredibly odd it is to buy bottled water?
- Leave Work at Work. Want more time for your family or personal life? Here’s how not to think about your job 24/7.
- Create a Landing Strip to Become Organized. 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. Time is your most valuable resource. Understanding these ideas will help you make optimal decisions.
- Give Your RÈsumÈ a Face Lift. Even if you can’t hire a fancy designer and are stuck with Microsoft Word, a few tweaks can turn your blasÈ rÈsumÈ into an elegant and functional showpiece.
- Boost Your Energy Level. 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. Many productivity systems will tell you how to organize your tasks, but what happens if you don’t feel like doing them?
- Keep Your Desk Clean and Tidy. Do you spend waste more and more time looking for lost items instead of being the brilliant creative person that you are? Here’s how to get your desk clean, clutter-free, and keep it that way for good.
- Learn the Truth About Baby Carrots. Baby carrots not really young carrots! They are also less nutritious and less flavorful than regular carrots.
- Try Quick and (Almost) Painless Ways to Kill Distractions. 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. The most important lifestyle changes you can make to reduce your carbon emissions are listed here.
- Put the Action Method Into Practice. 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. 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. Here’s how.
thanks for #17 sue…it helped w/ my resume.
(yes, i’m on the job hunt once again!)
Girl! I’m looking into the Chicago Teaching Fellows program AGAIN!!!! It’s what I keep returning to year after year as a “Maybe I will do it this year” kind of thing. I already took my basic SKILLS test and as it turns out I got skills.
You would be a kick ass teacher! I could totally see you knocking skulls together and being like, “Mr. and Mrs. Smith I did not beat your children, they knocked their heads together!” Case dismissed.
No more knitting?
i’m still knitting, but i need a career–i’m sick of paying my own health insurance, and sick of just scraping by…
and i feel i’m wasting my “artistic skills/sense of fashion/style” at this damn yarn shop full of old ladies!! i need stimulation, and they provide NOTHING!! and i need to get the hell out of indiana!!!
i thought of being a teacher while i was in VA, but hell no, i’d be arrested for murder!!! HA (i could teach at the yarn barn, but have absolutely no desire!! …you should interview my parents before you make the “teacher” move…they would’ve picked different careers if they had to do over. but they are LOVING retirement.)