To read more books in 2015 you should:
1. Plan when you’ll read.
2. Plan what you’ll read.
3. Refuse to finish bad books.
4. Watch less TV.
Hopefully those four points will help you do more of something that can be really fun, reading.
Month: December 2014 (Page 1 of 2)
Budgets alone don’t solve all of your problems, just like training wheels alone don’t make you into an expert bicyclist. Instead, both training wheels and budgets teach you the basics and enable you to get started on your path. They can stick around for as long as you need them and you can easily remove them when you feel you’re ready to move forward on your own.
Budgets are not law. They are not a “leash” that you’re going to have to wear for the rest of your life. They are not a prison. They’re more like braces on your teeth.
Budgets are a tool to help you mold your normal behaviors into a set of more financially responsible behaviors, nothing more, nothing less. A budget succeeds when it becomes so transparent that you no longer actually need it, like a six year old who starts being able to fly along on her bicycle with both training wheels off the ground.
via The Secrets Behind Successful Budgeting – The Simple Dollar.
So as the end of 2014 approaches, this might be the time to add a few free software security projects like the ones we’ve listed below to your annual tax-deductible donations. “There’s no way around it. If we want tools that are secure and usable, then these projects need funding,” says Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a non-profit that has run fundraising campaigns for encryption software. “They don’t have a business model. They’re not doing this to make money. Their first priority is the security of users.”
via 8 Free Privacy Programs Worth Your Year-End Donations | WIRED.
“Start paying attention to the way you do the small things in your life. You may surprise yourself at just how much more you are capable of.”
via This One Phrase Changed My Life – Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement.
“As technology advances, so does the potential complexity—for this reason, load screens are here to stay. While waiting in life, and even video games, is unavoidable it does not have to be wasteful. Find ways to improve yourself or help others around you when you feel stuck facing life’s loading screens.”
“Trust me, life goes on without a television service. I rarely watch television at all these days. I fill my evenings with other things – taking classes, working on projects, spending time with my kids and with my wife, going to social events, and so on.
Your cable bill is certainly a bill you can do without if you’re willing to make that choice. The decision, as always, is up to you. Are you willing to make a choice that will save you both time and money?”
via The Ultimate Guide to Cutting the Cable Cord – The Simple Dollar.
And in this moment, you begin to feel a tinge of embarrassment—not because the clothes are any different from what you normally wear, but because your immediate culture’s expression of normal has changed dramatically.
As I mentioned, for most of us, these feelings of embarrassment did not end when we graduated school. They continue even into adulthood.
“Whether you think you can or cannot, you are right.”
via Becoming Rich Is a Matter of Mind Over Money – The Simple Dollar.
Vacation is cheaper than severance and training.
via paperplanes. From Open (Unlimited) to Minimum Vacation Policy.