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How To: Get Motivated to Exercise
If you are one of the lucky ones, you genuinely enjoy exercising and you look forward to doing it each day. If you are like the rest of us, you don’t. I despise exercising, but I do it anyway, usually watching the clock the whole time, wishing I was finished.
At the end of the day, I don’t kno ...
Confessions of a Creative Mind
I had to laugh when I received a email this week titled "Confessions of a Creative Mind." Filter, one of the national agencies located in Seattle, is calling all creatives to confess their secrets, white lies and fibs on their website.. "We all have ‘em, and we’ve all told ‘em. Maybe you have a t ...
Stephen King’s Advice to Writers
Stephen King is one of my favorite writers of all time. Known as a modern day Alfred Hitchcock, his books Carrie, The Shining, Misery, Cujo and The Dead Zone have all inspired me to be a writer.
I find it fascinating that as an author he can find just the right words to scare someone (and wow ca ...
How To: Get Rid of Writer’s Block
It’s 10pm, you finally sat down to relax and update your blog. You get comfortable, turn on some music, and stare at your computer screen. Nothing. You put your fingers on the keyboard ready to go, nothing. What is going on? This is so strange. You tell yourself to shake it off and try again. ...
Make Time to Take Care of Yourself!
Busy, everyone is always busy all the time but taking a "me" day or a "me" break is always more beneficial. Taking time to relax and de stress from your everyday work is really difficult when you know you have so much to do. We are not saying to take a very long break, what I meant here is takin ...
How To: Live Greener By Reusing Everyday Items
One simple thing we can all do to be kind to the environment is reduce the amount of trash we produce. According to the video below, between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, American’s alone generate an extra 5 million tons of trash!
One way to reduce the amount of trash we produce is to reuse s ...
Quick Tutorial | How to be Emo
Obviously you didn't want to become a nerd and instead you wanted to become "Emo". As a followup article on my "How to be a Nerd" I now present to you the easy and quick tutorial on how to be Emo. What? You don't know what Emo is? Well, that's why this tutorial exists I guess. In short it's nowadays ...
Summering 2000 | What will we remember?
As 2010 is rapidly approaching I thought we would summon up what the decade has given us and what we will remember when we go in to the new decade of exciting and new things. Just like the 80's gave us Michael Jackson's "Thriller", neon colored clothes and first generation personal computers and gam ...
Vintage Polaroid Films Production to Resume in 2010?
Have you heard of the Impossible Project? Here is their mission. Polaroid is transforming itself from an analog Instant Film Production Company to a global Consumer Electronics and Digital Imaging company.
Production of analog Instant Film stopped in June 2008, closing the factories in Mexico ...
The 43,000 Year Old Plant
Here we go again, I find myself writing about nature every week. I just can’t get enough of it. I was writing an excerpt for a client, and the Science channel was on the television in the background. I looked up when I heard them talking about a plant that has lived for 43,000 years. I had to st ...
Land and Water Fun Gigantic Toys!
Now you can have fun both on land and water with this huge, gigantic toys! First up is this gigantic RollerBall is simply awesome, potentially dangerous, but nevertheless awesome. Once inflated this behemoth stands about three metres high, and is rather like a spherical cushioned igloo. The idea, wh ...
Make Taking a Bath More Fun!
Do you like singing in the shower or just like listening to music while you rinse those daily grime away everyday? Here is a smart gadget that will entertain you and clean you at the same time. Presenting the Shower Tap Radio.
With a super strong sucker that'll pucker up to your shower tiles l ...
How To: Get Into The Flow of Your Life
Several weeks ago I wrote an article entitled, “10 Signs: Change Is Happening in Your Life” http://retwt.me/i9M7
Since then, I've received several messages asking me to elaborate. Because of that, I’ve decided to write this article which will focus on how to get “into the flow” of your life.
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How To: Decide on the Best Halloween Costume
One of the most fun parts of Halloween is dressing up in costume. One of the most dreaded parts of Halloween is deciding what that costume will be.
If you are like me, you love dressing up, but since it’s such a challenge to come up with the best Halloween costume, you usually make your decision ...
Experience is the Best Teacher!
For designers the best thing after your formal training is to actually jump in and learn the ropes by experiencing how it is to work in the real world. Here is a great program that allows the students to travel and see the work of great designers up close. They also share their experiences, what t ...