Master the New Gmail with These Tips, Shortcuts, and Add-Ons 50 Things You Need To Give Up Today When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you. So starting today… Give up trying to be perfect. – The real world doesn’t reward perfectionists, it rewards people who get things done. Read Getting Things Done.Give up comparing yourself to others. – The only person you are competing against is yourself.Give up dwelling on the past or worrying too much about the future. – Right now is the only moment guaranteed to you. Right now is life. Don’t miss it.Give up complaining. – Do something about it.Give up holding grudges. – Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness.Give up waiting. – What we don’t start today won’t be finished by tomorrow. And remember, mistakes make us human, failures help us grow, hope keeps us going and love is the reason we’re alive. Photo by: Ai-lueh Chen Related 60 Empowering Quotes to Help You Get Things Done July 27, 2012 In "Aspirations" 10 Things You Must Give Up to Be Successful June 4, 2012 30 Things to Start Doing for Yourself
29 Ways to Beat Procrastination Once and For All We all procrastinate. Sometimes it’s not a bad thing, but it can turn into something evil and nasty if we aren’t careful. Try these procrastination beating techniques to destroy this deadly foe once and for all. 1. Get up and move One of the best ways to “change the channel” of procrastination is to change your scenery. 2. Setup a daily (or hourly) reminder that you should be working on something or at least not wasting your time (unless you have time to waste). 3. There is nothing like having someone on your side when it comes to making your goals a reality. 4. You can do this with people around you or even with your motivation buddy above. 5. No matter what it is. 6. The nicest part about waking up early is that it is quiet and still. 7. You can’t wake up early and work if you don’t get to sleep early. 8. Sometimes we see how big a mess is in our lives and rather than do anything about it, we procrastinate. 9. Sitting in front of your TV isn’t a good thing (all the time). 10. 11. 12.
10 incredible iPad apps for education Learning is rarely fun; it’s even less fun when being taught within the confines of a lecture hall or classroom. While this may be true, there’s no reason why you can’t make the process more entertaining and challenging. The tablet market has paved the way for educational resources in the form of slick, new apps, with text-books now being replaced by online downloadable versions of themselves. Evernote It seems wherever you look nowadays, there’s Evernote. ➤ Evernote Price: Free Paper Winner at the 2012 Apple Design Awards for Best iPad app, Paper has taken creativity of app development to new heights. ➤ Paper Goodreader You could be forgiven for thinking Goodreader as just as a PDF reader for the iPad. Price: $4.99 Bamboo Paper – Notebook Famous for its pen graphic tablets, Wacom’s first foray into the app market is quite an impressive one. ➤ Bamboo Paper – Notebook iA Writer ➤ iA Writer Price: $0.99
The Chronicles of Narnia Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or about the sufferings of Christ? ... An obligation to feel can freeze feelings... The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven children's books written by C.S. Lewis. The Chronicles[edit] The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)[edit] For the 2005 movie, see The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know... "By the Lion's Mane, a strange device," said King Peter, "to set a lantern here where the trees cluster so thick about it and so high above it that if it were lit it should give light to no man! Once a King or Queen in Narnia, always a King or Queen. My Dear Lucy,I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. Prince Caspian (1951)[edit] Who believes in Aslan nowadays? For the 2008 movie, see The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
C.S. Lewis Biography C.S. Lewis was a prolific Irish writer and scholar best known for his Chronicles of Narnia fantasy series as well as his pro-Christian texts. Synopsis Born on November 29, 1898, in Belfast Ireland, C.S. Early Life Author Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, on November 29, 1898, to Flora August Hamilton Lewis and Albert J. Lewis's mother died when he was 10, and he went on to receive his pre-college education at boarding schools and from a tutor. Teaching Career and Wartime Broadcasts Lewis graduated from Oxford University with a focus on literature and classic philosophy, and in 1925 was awarded a fellowship teaching position at Magdalen College, which was part of the university. Lewis began publishing work in the mid-1920s with his first book, the satirical Dymer (1926). 'The Chronicles of Narnia' Though the book received some negative reviews, general readers took to the story in a big way. Marriage and Later Life Literary and Film Legacies
8 Tips for Starting a Business YogiTunes co-founder Alex King-Harris shares what it takes to succeed as a new business owner. January 11, 2012 Anyone who has ever started their own business will tell you: It's a lot of hard work. You build it from the ground up, put in countless hours to get it started and extensive efforts to keep it running. It becomes your life. Alex King-Harris is the co-founder of the recently launched YogiTunes, which works a lot like iTunes, but specifically for the yoga community. Instead, yoga instructors were simply creating playlists for their own classes, but were unable to share with one another. YogiTunes offers a feature called the Yoga Teacher Playlist, which is a selection of songs picked by yoga instructors for use in their classes. Although YogiTunes is similar to the concept of iTunes, a platform of providing and sharing music specifically for health purposes had not existed before. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7) Be prepared to make sacrifices. 8) Do what you love to do.
Starting a Business: Advice from the Trenches If you’re like thousands of other designers, programmers and other creative professionals out there, at one point in time you’ve considered starting your own business. Unlike most, you’ve gone against common sense and decided to open shop for yourself. And not just freelance full-time, mind you, but file for the company name, get some stationery, and wade through the legal mumbo-jumbo. This article offers real-world advice from the trenches of a small start-up, and is applicable to designers, web developers, copywriters, usability experts and all manner of service providers. Write a Business Plan#section1 The most important thing you can do to prepare for starting and operating your own business. Beyond the mental exercises, a good business plan will give you a much better chance of getting a small business loan from a bank than walking in and saying, “I like Photoshop and maybe a can do some websites or something. Take a few weeks and develop a strong and thought-out plan. Good:
Five things to know before using Facebook Timeline apps Facebook finally unveiled a host of apps this evening that, coupled with Timeline profiles, will bring an entirely new experience to its users. Initially announced at the F8 conference in San Francisco last September, Timeline apps (also known as Open Graph apps) allow brands to add real-world interactions to their applications. Spotify was one of the first companies to release a Timeline app, letting users share what they are listening to with their Facebook friends in real time. For example as a user listens to a song on Spotify, the activity appears as, "Jane Doe is listening to July by Youth Lagoon on Spotify" on Facebook. With tonight's announcement of more than 60 new Timeline apps, users can expect to see more actions beyond listening, like "reading," "watching," "cooking," and "running". But before you add these attractive new apps, consider the way Open Graph works and how exactly it will affect your Facebook experience. 1. 2. 3. 4.