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You are 1,140,004,018 seconds old. The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Thursday, 1 October 1970. You were born in the Chinese year of the Dog. The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 10 February 1970. The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2440684.5. You like long walks on the beach. (Kidding!) But then, the hack becomes this: take that information and put the choicest bits into a custom card, maybe something you make via WinkFlash or Snapfish, or whatever Kodak renamed Ofoto, and post some of the details in the “innards” part of the card....

Eating breakfast every day makes you 34% less likely to develop type 2 diabetes later in life, and 43% less likely to be obese. Those who don’t eat breakfast get their sustenance from sweets, soft drinks, 45% less vegetable and 30% less fruit. Kids who eat breakfast score 17.5% more on average then kids that don’t. The top breakfast foods in the USA include coffee, cereal, eggs, fruit and breakfast sandwiches....

Are video games good for you?

Like sport, the world of business is full of competition. We’re often told that competition is good for the health of the economy and the pockets of consumers. Laws exist to prevent cartels and other means of circumventing competition between businesses. Creating a sense of a contest is sometimes held up as the best way to motivate people, via the use of incentives and open competition for bonuses and promotions....

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. The interesting thing is that we have control of just about everything these days. We have compact discs that we can play skip to play whatever song we want. We have phones/mp3 players that we can pull up any bit of data we want to know or see. Our television now plays exactly what we want because we were too busy to sit down and watch it the day before....

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. How to Handle the Silent Treatment

How can you hold tight to that feeling of hope when you are overwhelmed?Are hope and faith for the future the basis for your personal happiness?Feeling like there is no hope is one of the most challenging emotions to manage. After all, why would you even try when you feel there is no hope? Finding hope when it seems like there’s none to be found can be tricky, but it is possible....

The first duty of love is to listen. 5 Tips for Empathetic Listening

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. For the past few days, she’s been asking the people around her – kids, friends, co-workers – what they think makes life worth living, and the answers have been pretty much of a sort: family, friends, work, music, some possession or other, faith, maybe health. Computer games. Although these answers aren’t necessarily trivial, they strike me as very unsatisfying answers to the question “What makes life wort living?...

There was a monk once. For years he practiced meditation, contemplation and forbearance, yet he could not gain enlightenment. He still felt troubled by the world around him, especially when people failed to see his saintliness or disagreed with him what he thought was the truth. He still felt bad when people mistreated him, and, good, when he was treated well. He wanted to rise above, remain indifferent to such worldly offerings but he could not....

Create a daily ritual Your ritual is the foundation of your quest to stay focused. There are no people with a high level of focus who do not purposefully follow a daily routine. It is in following the sleeping patterns you set, establishing when you eat, setting when you have personal time and when you take breaks that you maximize your effort in working towards your goals. Set 1-2 BIG goals for the year Setting BIG goals gives you a finish line to run towards, enabling you to ensure that all your daily actions ladder up to these goals in some way....

We are mostly aware of the proven benefits of taking vacations. We are repeatedly and painfully reminded that our obsession with keeping up with the Jones’ and impressing our bosses is taking its toll on our efficiency, creativity, performance, and even our health! If we insist on leaving a couple vacation days in the bank each year, however, could taking a periodic trip to la-la land also be beneficial?...

It turns out that this kind of thinking is wrong. The number of believers does not necessarily count in validating the credibility of a belief. It’s the scientific data and the historical facts that really matter. Which common beliefs are actually wrong? Here are ten of them. Wrong: We only have five senses. Right: We actually have at least nine senses, while most scientists believe that we have around 21....

As far as the first two questions go, perhaps the world will never know. But it just so happens that there is an answer for how you can make yourself promotable, and it isn’t as much of a secret as you might think. Read on for a list of 10 qualities of highly promotable employees: 1. Humility Unlike prideful people who feel like they already know everything, humble people recognize that they have more to learn, and as a result, they have much more potential for growth....

I should also note that everyone doing serious training should look into healthy diet choices and the basic supplements that will help you stay focused and give you enough fuel to get the most out of your workout. The best pre workout ingredients are the relatively cheap basic stuff that has been proven to work, and combined with a diverse diet, good form, stretching and a decent amount of sleep, will ensure that you stay healthy and avoid injuries....

1. Workout. Be active. A body in motion stays in motion. A body at rest stays at rest. Stay in motion. Daily. With the vast majority of jobs moving more to the office and less in the field, it’s easy to spend most of your time sitting. Exercise becomes a vital factor in maintaining a healthy, happy life well into the golden years. Learning to play golf and tennis when you’re young can help you stay active when older and offer a great way to stay social for years to come....

It is important to know the distinguishing factors between being a leader and being a manager. Here are some of the indicators. 1. Leaders inspire while managers operate Leaders are meant to trigger a movement and inspire people to take action. Managers enforce rules and make sure orders are carried out. There is more flexibility with leadership, as the main purpose is to get people to be motivated enough to do what is required of them....

Sometimes it is a short article that has a great quote, sometimes it is a video that tells an inspirational story, and sometimes it is a quiet story of personal success. But every time it is something that touched me at the perfect time and helped me through the day. Here are 10 inspirational success resources that are worth checking out: While these are certainly just the tip of all the “success” articles online, I hope they inspire you to dig into additional reading and studying of the skills, strategies and actions that will help you to create success in your life....

Related posts: Taking Time Out to Listen Be Careful What You Teach Five reasons to forget about money and focus on what makes you happy at work Problems, Predicaments and Sleight of Hand Job satisfaction keeps falling When “Near Enough” Isn’t Adrian Savage is a writer, an Englishman, and a retired business executive, in that order. He lives in Tucson, Arizona. You can read his other articles at Slow Leadership, the site for everyone who wants to build a civilized place to work and bring back the taste, zest and satisfaction to leadership and working life....

The Sleep Matters Club powered by Dreams has put together an infographic to show you just that. From the infographic, you will notice that the number one thing that these successful entrepreneurs have in common is to wake up early. More than half of them wake up before six every morning. Waking up early gives them more time to do what they want each day and that is a critical part to their success....