Boost your productivity by taking action immediately after setting a target even without perfect plans. Adjust your course along the way. Featured photo credit: Railway tracks in front of the station via Shutterstock If your answer is “no” to any of the questions above, that means you’re not managing your time as well as you want. Here are 20 tips on how to be a better time manager: 20 Quick Tips For Better Time Management

Visit different places during the week, this stimulates your creativity. Featured photo credit: Eatery in Copenhagen. Denmark via Shutterstock I believe a life free from creativity is a life free from joy. Our creativity is the essence of who we are. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to the world to feed from our personal well of inventiveness and imagination. But what can you do when your inner artist eludes you?...

Identify your peak hour of productivity. Schedule your most important task for this period. Work on unimportant tasks during non-peak hours. Featured photo credit: wooden sail ship toy model in the sea sand via Shutterstock Otherwise we can easily experience brain overload with too many circuits firing simultaneously and so many programs (thoughts) working in the shadows that we often “freeze up” and cannot remember everything or simply process the information in a much slower and less efficient manner than we’d like....

Life begins where your comfort zone ends. How to Break Out of Your Comfort Zone

Click on the image to download a wallpaper sized 30 Second Tip! When in doubt, keep your mouth shut. Life is full of hard choices, and the bigger they are and the more options we have, the harder they get. As it happens, our brains are fairly binary. They can react very quickly when presented with two options, especially when one’s clearly better. Stand here and drown in the rising waters or jump onto that big rock and be safe?...

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Our planet is filled with amazing nature and beautiful scenery. Some views are so breathtaking that one can only imagine if that’s even possible. Watching the Northern Lights take over the sky, one can only feel the goosebumps. Among all the negativity, tensions and tears that surround our planet; nature definitely offers the best comfort. Since it’s summer and we are all in the midst of planning our trips, I’ve decided to put together four breathtaking places one should explore....

Every once in a while, we are entrusted with the task of presentation. It may be to demo a new product, to present a plan or to explain a new process that you’ve helped create. Whatever the reason and however many presentations you’ve given before, it’s something that not everyone is comfortable doing. Here are some of the presentation techniques that I’ve learnt in my experience to help you conduct an effective presentation....

You might have thought to yourself something along the lines of “Wow, I wish I could do that” or “Oh my gosh, I could never do that!” Well, chances are, you’re probably at least halfway right: You could never do what these professionals do in your current state. The people you see laughing in the face of danger while performing death-defying stunts have dedicated their entire lives to doing what they do, so there’s no shame in not being on their level....

Hopefully, you’ll be able to find something you like and embark on a crafting adventure of your own. If you have never tried DIY decorations, I strongly recommend you give these ideas a shot. They are relatively easy to pull off. If you’re looking for more daunting and complex tasks, there’ll be a plethora of them in the links provided. 1. Paintings and framed decorations If you’ve no idea where to start with DIY, you can try a project called “Quotes on Canvas....

Here are a few healthy substitute ingredients you can use: 1. Vegetable Stock If you’ve run out of meat stock for your soups or stews, you can use vegetable stock without losing any or little flavor. You can buy ready-made vegetable stock at the grocery, or make your own. Finely-cut mushrooms and kelp can taste almost like ground beef in dishes. You can add Korean fermented soybean paste to give it an umami flavor....

Below I share with you a framework with four steps to being more assertive, both personally and professionally, which are research-based and proven to work. This isn’t to say they will work everytime, but they are much more effective than alternative methods (e.g., being too aggressive or passive). 1. Describe the situation. Start by describing the situation and giving an overview of what your understanding of it is. At first, try keep this as factual as possible, as this stops other people from being able to disagree with you....

We were once a hustling and bustling culture that did business within close quarters, and then we became distant and had to make remote collaborations work. Offices that once held lots of people stood empty. The call was for people to stay safe by staying home. Then, the entire world stood still as the pandemic caused our officials to shut down everything. Yet, as we all stayed home to mitigate the spread of the illness, we still needed to make a living....

That’s why, every year you should take a look at the cards in your wallet, and re-calibrate your “portfolio”. Get rid of the cards that aren’t performing and replace them with cards that better match your spending or borrowing habits. The impact of doing so could cut your rates by more than half, or earn you a free flight faster than you ever expected. To give you an idea of how much you can gain by optimizing your credit card portfolio annually, with the exact same spend, we know of one cash back card that will earn you $456 in cash back EVERY year....

The last couple of years were more than challenging for employees. Working from home brought a lot of benefits—no morning drive to the office, for example. But employees might also be affected by this condition’s disadvantages, such as inability to focus at home, loneliness, and more. Add to that the emotional effects of the pandemic—like anxiety and being paranoid—and you get an emotional crisis. Managers these days already know that along with their team management job, they hold another position as a mentor and psychologist....

These places are meant for escape and recharging yet it very often occurs that when we return back to our usual domains we’re drained almost immediately after walking through the door. Why? The claws of clutter or variations of it have us in a hold. Clutter develops quickly, especially when there’s little time in our routine to keep things organized. It can also be a result of past accumulations from childhood that are stuffed in a loft, attic or basement but still have a knack for taking over homes....

A fantastic example of this self-sabotage can be seen in almost every job seeker’s approach to the job search. Here are four ways that real job seekers tripped over their their own job applications, with tips on how you can avoid these pitfalls and pave a smoother, more productive job search path for yourself. 1 Using impossible language. Using claims like “I am a perfect fit…” or “My qualifications are unique…” is setting yourself up to be proven wrong quickly< and easily....

When you make a mistake or life isn’t working out the way you thought it would, it can be easy for your self-esteem to drop. If you’re in need of a boost of motivation, here’s a collection of 41 inspiring quotes that are sure to spark your self-esteem any time you feel low. What is your favorite quote on self-esteem? Feel free to share one from this collection or a new one that isn’t included with me and the Lifehack community below....

That said, there’s got to be benefits to being a “night owl” as well, right? Indeed, there are. What was perhaps most surprising to me is that there are quite a lot of benefits. So, what do night owls gain by staying up until one in the morning every night? 1. They might be smarter. While night owls won’t have too much of an intellectual advantage over their early bird counterparts, studies have shown that those who stay up late and sleep in on a regular basis are slightly smarter than those who are consistently up at the crack of dawn....