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The Paleo diet is a great guideline to eat by because it encourages sticking to real foods without dangerous deficits or starving tactics. It can provide a wide range of essential vitamins, minerals, healthy fats, carbs, and protein. Having that variation of nutrients leads to more energy, less fat storage, and potentially lowers the risk of disease. Planning time to cook fresh meals can save a lot of frustration and help you stay on track with your choices....

If you are looking for ways to drastically reduce your expenses immediately, first look at what you need to spend money on every week. And I mean really need. You don’t really need to order in food. You don’t really need to buy expensive perfume. Building from that, you can work out how your regular expenses can be reduced. As for irregular expenses, they can also be deceptively costly in the long run....

Yes, reading is fashionable. Again. And every college student is always in fashion as a rule. But a sufficient ammount of other reasons why books are worth reading for students can be found which are more essential than simple fashion following: books widen your vocabulary; books help students find new models for academic writing; books improve your cognitive skills; books expand your view of the world around; books let students remember grammar and punctuation rules autmatically; books help students learn a subject better; books help you avoid a social exclusion (according to this study of the Basic Skills Agency)....

If you want a healthier, more fit body and happier, healthier mind, this article is for you! Here are 25 habits divided into different categories to give you a healthier, happier life. Fuel Your Body 1. Water First Thing Hydration is so important, and while many of us think of a hot cup of coffee or tea first thing in the morning, we are better off to start our day with a big glass of water....

1. You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself by David McRaney Read it “If you see lots of shark attacks in the news, you think, ‘Gosh, sharks are out of control.’ What you should think is ‘Gosh, the news loves to cover shark attacks.” While the title may seem a bit insulting, this book is meant to celebrate our irrational nature, and explain human psych in an entertaining way....

You might be working and sweating hard to create the best content, but your ideas are still common and non-creative in nature. No matter how hard you try on your own, the performance is still at its lowest. With low performance comes not so many positive results. To improve and to rise out of this predicament, you will need think outside the box and acquire greater ideas from different sources for content creation....

This Buzzfeed article is filled with tips and tricks to make sure your groceries won’t go bad before their time. From basics like throwing out food that has gone bad before it contaminates the rest to how to best store tomatoes, onions, herbs, bananas and more, these tips are sure to help you avoid throwing your unused groceries right in the trash. There are even a few useful infographs, like this one about organizing your fridge so that produce and milk will last longer and so air can circulate throughout the fridge (less circulation means less preservation inside the unit and more spoiled food)....

I’ve taught languages for over a decade, and on three different continents, and here are some of the most common reasons that I’ve come across that stop people trying a new language on for size, and why they are all absolutely not true. I’m not good at languages! Anybody who is able to say this sentence is flat-out lying. Why? Because anybody with the ability to communicate in their mother tongue is already a successful language learner....

Whatever “trash” you might think you have, like plastic bottles or wood crates, instead of throwing them away, you could make something out of them. Every old thing can find a new use. Therefore, use your imagination and get to work. Not only could you make your home look great, but you could also sell those creations and earn a little bit of cash on the side. Speaking of, here are a few ideas on how you could turn your trash into treasure....

As a single parent I understand and live the exhaustion. I get it. I understand there is no break. Ever. The need to duck out for a haircut or go to the dentist becomes an orchestrated nightmare. Yes, single parenting has its drawbacks. You become a mum and a dad instantly. Double the work. Double the responsibility. Double the exhaustion. It can be quite tough. Whilst it has its definite challenges, I’ve come to realize that it absolutely has some amazing advantages, ones that I would never have expected....

That’s right, you can actually get people to do what you want! All you need to know are these 3 psychological tricks: 1. As Follow Up Questions Or Paraphrase What They’ve Said The next time you find yourself in a conversation with somebody, try reflective listening as one of your psychological tricks. To do this, ask the person follow up questions or paraphrase what they’ve said. Reflective listening lets your conversation partner know that you care about what they have to say....

1. Tame frizz with a toothbrush and hairspray. Using hairspray to control frizz is a delicate balancing act: use too little and it doesn’t make much difference, but spray too generously and you’ll end up with unpleasantly stiff hair. In order to make sure you have just the right amount to tame frizz, spray an old toothbrush with hairspray and run it over those pesky flyaway strands. It’ll hold your hair in place without turning it into a helmet....

Convert a Tealight to a Photo holder: Convert a Paint brush to a Door Stopper: Love them. Very creative. Tell me – which lifehack in the site you like and why? 30 Quick LifeHacks: Converting something Ordinary to Great

Without a clear goal, it is easy to be distracted. Set your goals everyday in advance and decide how you do it. Then do it. Featured photo credit: Sunset from Morro Rock in Sequoia National Park via Shutterstock

A ship in a harbour is safe but that’s not why ships were built. “You must not have wanted it badly enough,” the authors of these philosophies seem to be saying. “There must still be something wrong with you.” I don’t think that, ultimately, God or the Spirits or the Universe or the world “provides”. I think a lot of times the world puts obstacles in our way, and no amount of positive thinking makes them go away....

People who are lucky make their own luck. And you only make your own luck by staying in the game. How to Be Lucky

Speed up your learning. You don’t need to spend 10 years on something to know it well in the information age. A lot of study time is wasted because of one problem: you fail to learn things the first time around. Repeatedly going over the same information like putting a band-aid over a sieve. It may reduce the water that slips through, but it doesn’t solve the fundamental problem: that you have too many holes....

That’s why the suggestion — keep on improving yourself because this will help you become more productive, is one of the best precepts of work. Now, regarding the rules, one rule which helps me all the time is…Nuke it! The most efficient and effective way to get over a task is to delete it. If it is not needed, take it off your list. Simple. Another one of my favorites is — Relaxify....

“There is nothing to do all day!” If you’re a parent, chances are you would have come across such tantrums from your kids. As a parent it can be quite aggravating as you wrack your brains for some creative solutions. Parents play a vital and irreplaceable role in a child’s life. The relationships they share with their kids have everlasting impacts on their personalities. It is a fact that children are never easy to raise, and there are no set guidelines or rules to follow as you wander into uncharted territory of being a mom or a dad....

Disconnect Disconnect curates and blocks third-party resources involved in tracking user’s browsing activities across multiple sites and web apps. As the redundant resources are blocked, web pages load faster. It also visualizes the blocked tracking resources, and hence saved time & bandwidth. Do Not Track for Chrome Do-Not-Track is an opt-out mechanism which lets users set their own preferences. Although Chrome has built-in settings to enable or disable the Do-Not-Track HTTP header, you can install this tiny extension to enable it quickly without messing up the browser settings....