50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one. While not totally comprehensive , here is a list of 50 things everyone should know how to do. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. Check out these books for more ideas on pertinent life skills:
Bird by Bird: Anne Lamott’s Timeless Advice on Writing and Why Perfectionism Kills Creativity by Maria Popova “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.” Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (public library) is among my 10 favorite books on writing — a treasure trove of insight both practical and profound, timelessly revisitable and yielding deeper resonance each time. One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. What makes Lamott so compelling is that all of her advice comes not from the ivory tower of the pantheon but from an honest place of exquisite vulnerability and hard-earned life-wisdom. I started writing when I was seven or eight. So she found refuge in books, searching for “some sort of creative or spiritual or aesthetic way of seeing the world and organizing it in [her] head.” I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. But, one might wonder, why? Donating = Loving
40 Ways to Feel More Alive “I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.” ~Joseph Campbell As I write this, I am two hours away from my first weekly acting class in Los Angeles. I frequently said I wanted to do it, along with painting classes, which I’m starting next week, but I always made excuses not to start either. I was too busy. The list went on and on, but I realized the last two were the big ones for me. Also, I hesitate to give large amounts of time to hobbies I have no intention of pursuing professionally. I realized last month, however, that I want to prioritize more of the things that make me feel passionate and excited—and not just occasionally, but regularly. I don’t know if these classes are “leading” anywhere. That’s what it means to really feel alive—to be so immersed in the passionate bliss of this moment that you don’t think about yesterday or tomorrow. Say Something You’ve Been Meaning to Say 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills The web is a powerful resource that can easily help you learn new skills. You just have to know where to look. Sure, you can use Google, Yahoo, or Bing to search for sites where you can learn new skills , but I figured I’d save you some time. Here are the top 40 sites I have personally used over the last few years when I want to learn something new. Hack a Day - Hack a Day serves up fresh hacks (short tutorials) every day from around the web and one in-depth ‘How-To hack’ guide each week.eHow - eHow is an online community dedicated to providing visitors the ability to research, share, and discuss solutions and tips for completing day-to-day tasks and projects.Wired How-To Wiki - Collaborate with Wired editors and help them build their extensive library of projects, hacks, tricks and tips.
Comment créer des publications de l'espace pour votre blog ?Social Bistrot Le marketing de contenu est une stratégie inévitable pour faire connaître votre entreprise et générer des ventes. Pour réussir à écrire un bon article, il existe un bon nombre de tâches à réaliser. Le site Quicksprout a créé une excellente liste de contrôle claire et complète. Au niveau du titre : Mon titre peut-il être saisi dans Google ? Mon titre suscite t-il la curiosité ? Mon titre correspond t-il au contenu ? Mon titre comporte t’il les mots clés nécessaires ? Au niveau de l’introduction : Mon introduction est-elle accrocheuse ? Mon introduction est-elle concise ? Mon introduction comporte t-elle une image ? Au niveau du corps de texte ? Mon corps de texte comporte t-il des sous titre ? Mes paragraphes font-ils moins de cinq lignes ? Est-ce-que ma publication donne l’illusion d’une conversation ? Mes sources sont-elles citées ? Mon vocabulaire est-il bien adapté ? Ma publication comporte t-elle du visuel ? Mon contenu suscite t-il l’émotion ? Au niveau de la conclusion :
50 Excellent Writing Exercises to Cultivate Your Creativity & Craft If you’re a good writer, you can succeed in any industry, no matter what kind of online degree you have. But even great writers sometimes have trouble organizing their work, polishing up the details, or even picking a cohesive idea to write about. Here are 50 excellent writing exercises to help cultivate your creativity and craft, from brainstorming to beating writer’s block and remembering your motivation. Brainstorming and Organization Try these brainstorming exercises to map out your ideas, spur on your creativity, and plan your project. Levels: Break down your topic sentence or main theme into levels to create subtopics and then single terms that you can explore individually with lists, charts or free-writing.Free-writing: This traditional form of brainstorming involves writing down anything that comes to your mind even if you don’t think it makes sense. Writer’s Block Use prompts: Print out and then cut up these prompts to store in a writer’s block box. Games Language and Grammar Style
Get Photo-News with the PhotoVerse App Last week, the developers of an iPhone/iPad app contacted me about using my RSS feed to pull content for their new application. It’s a pretty cool idea, so I said “go for it!” PhotoVerse collects photography related news and blog posts like any RSS reader, and makes it handy for anybody interested in photography to keep up on their reading while also allowing them to share the articles on social media networks. In essence, it’s a preloaded feed reader just for the photography nuts. The developers also asked me if I would like to test out the application… but I’m on Android, so no luck. I have 5 coupon codes for a free copy of the app.
I Removed Every Inessential Thing From My Website and This Happened When I built my first website a little over 3 years ago, I had no idea what I was doing. Naturally, I figured that looking at what other websites and blogs had on their pages would be a good place to start. I started seeing sites with social media buttons, email popups, advertisements, comments, and all sorts of other things. At first glance, these things seemed important. After all, every other website had them and they appeared to serve a purpose. But as I continued tweaking my site design, I tested what would happen if I eliminated the unessential pieces. As I pulled away each piece, a funny thing happened. But it’s not just websites. The Power of Less When I was a kid, I looked like a string bean. I spent hours trying to come up with the right combination of exercises and the perfect split routines for each week. It took me about 7 years (I’m a slow learner), but eventually I figured out that the answer was the exact opposite: simplicity. Eliminate Your Distractions
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Flashcards: The world's largest online library of printable flash cards Ecrire mieux grâce à la neuroscience La phrase «il avait les mains parcheminées» ne stimule pas le cortex de la même manière que les mots «cannelle» ou «savon». De nombreux chercheurs en neuro-sciences ont étudié le lien entre les mots et le cerveau, notamment après avoir analysé les scanners de personnes en train de lire. Un article de Poynter propose de mettre ces découvertes au service des écrivains, pour les aider à améliorer leur style. Poynter s'appuie notamment sur un article paru en mars 2012 dans le New York Times, qui compilait les études récentes faites par des chercheurs en neuro-science sur l'impact de la lecture de différents types de mots ou phrases sur le cerveau. Par exemple, des chercheurs de l’université d’Emory ont prouvé que les mots «canelle» ou «savon» engendrent une réaction du cortex olfactif, qui lui-même intervient dans le traitement des odeurs. France Ortelli Partagez cet article
10 Sentences That Can Change Your Life for The Better The power of a single sentence is tremendous.A single sentence can either make your day or in the same time ruin somebody’s day. It can change your mood. Just a few words put together, yet they make such big impact. #1 “People aren’t against you; they are for themselves.” #2 “Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.” #3 “You learn more from failure than from success; don’t let it stop you. #4 “The most dangerous risk of all – The risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” #5 “Go where you’re celebrated, not where you’re tolerated.” #6 “The person that you will spend the most time with in your life is yourself, so you better try to make yourself as interesting as possible.” #7 “If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.” #8 “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. #9 “Everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.” Your turn now…
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