This is why you need to take microbreaks (and how to do it properly)
...We can’t be productive without breaks. But far too many of us can’t seem to get away from our desks, even for just a few minutes...
Ignore Everybody - Recommended Book
...Doing anything worthwhile takes forever. Ninety percent of what separates successful people and failed people is time, effort, and stamina...
The Art of Decision-Making
...Ideally, we’d be omniscient and clearheaded. In reality, we make decisions in imperfect conditions that prevent us from thinking things through...
Make Amazing 7-Minute Caramels in Your Microwave
...Use the best unsalted butter you can find. Mass-produced caramels are often made with butter mixed with other fats, so their taste cannot compare to gourmet or homemade caramels like these, which rely on the flavor that comes from butter...
Should You Move Near Your Grown Child When You Retire?
...Your kids may have very different expectations and ideas about how your lives will merge...
The Power of Moments - Recommended Book
...And that’s the charge for all of us: to defy the forgettable flatness of everyday work and life by creating a few precious moments...
Getting Ahead By Being Inefficient
...Inefficient does not mean ineffective, and it is certainly not the same as lazy. You get things done – just not in the most effective way possible. You’re a bit sloppy, and use more energy. But don’t feel bad about it. There is real value in not being the best...
How to Do Great Things
...The conditions you think you want are rarely the ones that help you produce your best work...
Roth Rollover Traps
...Everyone should start a small Roth IRA as soon as they can, so they will get the five-year waiting period started for every Roth IRA they will ever own...
The Next Millionaire Next Door - Recommended Book
...Economic independence belongs to those with the willingness to allocate time, money, energy, and cognitive resources to achieve financial goals...
Don’t Need to Downsize Yet? Great. Start Now. Eight Reasons to Pre-Downsize
...Starting early shows you how much you own and hints at how much is ahead...
10 Cold Weather Cocktails Guaranteed to Warm Up Your Winter
...warm yourself up with these classic hot cocktails that go beyond spiked hot chocolate...
The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention
...We are not taught how to learn in school, we are taught how to pass tests. The spacing effect is a far more effective way to learn and retain information that works with our brain instead of against it...
A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Recommended Book
...The harsh truth is that the most important driver in the growth of your assets is how much you save, and saving requires discipline. Without a regular savings program, it doesn’t matter if you make 5 percent, 10 percent, or even 15 percent on your investment funds. The single most important thing you can do to achieve financial security is to begin a regular savings program and to start it as early as possible. The only reliable route to a comfortable retirement is to build up a nest egg slowly and steadily...
Why It’s Easier to Make Decisions for Someone Else
...What we found was two-fold: Not only did participants choose differently when it was for themselves rather than for someone else, but the way they chose was different...
How to overcome the “scarcity mindset”
...If you can’t let go of the chase and shake off the helplessness and cynicism it eventually generates, then you’re stuck. If you’re not willing to question that, then it is hard to dislodge the thinking that got you stuck...
Why Small Habits Make a Big Difference
...Tiny, nearly imperceptible changes can make a huge difference when you factor in time...
This is Marketing - Recommended Book
...A lifeguard doesn’t have to spend much time pitching to the drowning person. When you show up with a life buoy, if the drowning person understands what’s at stake, you don’t have to run ads to get them to hold on to it...
How Your Brain Keeps You Believing Crap That Isn’t True
...In other words, what counts as common knowledge is a mix of things that are true and other things that are false, all of which are believed because they’re widely held, frequently repeated, and routinely recalled. It’s this fluency-as-a-surrogate-for-truth shortcut that makes innovation tricky: We trust in assumptions about the way the world operates that seem so obviously true that we fail to test them. And in failing to check these basic assumptions, we slam the door shut on finding new and better ways to do things...
Waffle Iron "Fried" Cheese
...Breaded, melty cheese is something that crosses cultures—from deep-fried mozzarella sticks at state fairs to queso frito in Latin America. Inspired by those foods, we've taken squares of cheese are breaded and "fried" them in the waffle iron for just a minute, until their outsides turn golden brown and crunchy and their insides become perfectly melted and gooey...
