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10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything

What does it take to succeed? A positive attitude? Well, sure, but that’s hardly enough. The Law of Attraction? The Secret? These ideas might act as spurs to action, but without the action itself, they don’t do much. Suc

How to Stand Up

Stand up. Sounds tough right? In this article, I will explain to you how you can get from a seated position to a fully standing position with just a few simple steps. You see, you and I were designed to be standers. Some

34 Tips for Your Younger Self

In January, we asked you what advice you’d give your younger self as part of our regular We Ask, You Answer feature. There was plenty of great advice—and a lot of catharsis, it seemed—and we’ve collected some of the best

10 HARD Ways to Make Your Life Better

Some of the most worthwhile things in life aren't easy. One of the things I dislike most about "power of positive thinking"-style personal development philosophies (such as "The Secret") is the implication that if you ju

10 Steps to a More Global You

There’s no escaping the fact that the world is getting smaller: your company’s vendors might be in India, with customers in Britain, while you are somewhere in the U.S. That’s why employers, from international non-profit

How to Become a Pop Star

I was 16, good looking, and with a great voice: I could see myself walking on the red carpet, and success was just around the corner. Or so I thought… With my little band made up of two people and one very expensive lapt

12 Tips to Improve the Quality of Your Free Time

Are you happier at your job, or during your free time? Unless you’ve followed the research of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi you would probably be surprised at the actual answer. He conducted studies which recorded peoples curr

What to Do When It's All Too Much

Things have been pretty hectic around here. We lifehackistes talk about and write about productivity as a way of dealing with the everyday distractions and time-sinks that prevent us from getting our important work done

13 Tips to Actually Enjoy Exercising

Is staying in shape always something that gets bumped to the bottom of your list? I know many people that complain about not having enough time to exercise. I think they are lying to themselves. The real problem is that

How to Read a Painting

Art is a great status symbol in modern society and because of that it can be quite intimidating to the casual viewer. For many the first impulse is to blow it off, to see it as a worthless plaything for the rich and bori

How to Avoid Being Enslaved by Consumerism

“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.” - Henry David Thoreau “Much of our activity these days is nothing more than a cheap anesthetic to deaden the

6 Reasons Why it Makes Sense to Arrive Early

Why bother showing up early when you can blame any number of things for “making” you late? There’s traffic, a convenient ally when you need her. A distant cousin to traffic would be a freeway accident, which of course cr

How to Live Mini-Adventures on a Small Budget

Believe it or not, having life adventures is not in the exclusive realm of eccentric billionaires and jet-setting entrepreneurs. Life adventures don’t even require a lot of time, so you don’t need to quit your job or cas