Essential oils are the best products you can use for hair care. There are multiple oils for multiple hair problems and they are cheaper and more effective than commercial products. The only thing you have to be careful about is to test the essential oil on your scalp, to make sure you are not allergic to them. Because essential oils are strong, you need to dilute them with water or a base oil....
In this day and age when just about every product claims to be either “natural” or “non-GMO”, we are left with too many good choices. There’s even a term for it called “overchoice”, also referred to as “choice overload”. Psychologically, making a decision becomes impossibly overwhelming due to the many potential outcomes and risks that may result from making the wrong choice. We’re not going to do that today. Instead, we will look into only two different natural products to help you avoid binge eating....
If you love vegetables, you should try to eat more bean sprouts, collard greens, spinach or turnip greens; they offer some of the largest percentages of calcium. You can even get creative and make an “Asian-inspired” salad. Fruits like figs and rhubarb are also rich in calcium. You may also want to try to incorporate more beans and legumes in your diet like soy beans, white beans, tempeh and tofu....
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Second, today we have released a Lifehack.org Podcast, produced by our content producer Chris Brogan. In the first episode, Chris interviews Patricia Ryan Madson, author of Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show up – lots of wisdom and tips in there. I encourage you to listen to it. Use my tips on saving time and digesting audio materials just like I did on listening audio books. Please send us comment for the first episode, and ideas for future episodes....
Productivity apps you need There are several productivity apps that you should have ready to go for the coming year. We highly recommend picking a set of tools and sticking to them, but at the bare minimum you will need a way to track projects and create and edit documents (presentations and spreadsheets too), and keep track of notes and information. For project and action managers, we can’t recommend Toodledo, Remember The Milk, OmniFocus, or Asana enough....
Having a hard time staying dry? Maybe you need LiquidOff. Using nanotechnology, the creators of the innovative product developed a spray that can completely repel liquid. Videos of the technology in action is quite impressive and here at Lifehack, we think this product can go a long way. Imagine being able to step out during rainy season without getting your clothes wet. Raising the stakes higher, imagine letting your kids eat a bowl of spaghetti at a wedding without having to worry about tough stains or spills....
It comes with true Wireless HD docking station which helps you connect all your music libraries and portable gadgets with ease. You wouldn’t ever need to deal with connectors and adapters again. With this device, you can get access to all the music through a synchronized touchscreen and play it in amazing sound quality. Using a Wi-Fi connection, it allows you to play any music stored in your PC, Mac or any other device straight from the Olive ONE....
Motor patterns are primarily keyboard based patterns that your brain and fingers have an easy time memorizing. As the picture below shows, the password “de3lo0ptre” might be hard to remember unless one sees the pattern on the keyboard. Discussion on Memorable Passwords [Quora]
Organic Lawn Care For the Cheap and Lazy – [Richsoil.com] Optional: * Fertilize with an organic fertilizer in the fall and spring. I recommend the Ringer brand. * Have the pH of your soil professionally tested. Add lime if it is below 6.0 and gardener’s sulfur if it is above 7.0. * How much top soil do you have? See how deep a shovel will go into the soil. How deep can you dig a hole in one minute?...
Good piece of life hack! Using Whiteboards for Home Organization – [cgr @ Lifehack.Community]
Sean Tierney suggests sorting your todos graphically on a scale for urgency vs importance – since tasks can sometimes parade as urgent when they really aren’t, and vise versa. Read on Sean’s post for how he sees this method helping get started on your todo’s. May I suggest putting up a four-square grid on a wall and posting todos with Post-It notes? Urgency vs. Importance and the 5th system for scattered todos – [ScrollinonDubs]
I believe most of us assume the best in those we meet. That’s not always the case, but often it is. The most important part of this trusting thing is that others need to know they can trust us. In this post I’m going to give you several reasons why gaining trust with people is essential for relationships, growth, and (really) life all the way around. Hopefully, this will help guide us into a discussion as to why trust is so important today....
Check out these 13 things you will be able to relate to if you have a work BFF. 1. You And Your Work BFF Have Loads Of Inside Jokes You and your Best Friend Forever from work have so many inside jokes that you struggle to remember them all. Once you joked about writing them all down because there would probably be enough to fill a book. You only have to say one sentence with an inside joke in it and your work BFF will start cracking up....
He was very active with me when I was little, taught me how to catch a football, and made it to all of my games. But the memories that are burned into my head and the legacy he left with me is the heavy smoker and hard-core alcoholic who treated his wife and family like crap and was hammered every Christmas. That is my father’s brand. What is your brand today?...
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Here are two proven ways to tackle a substantial organizing project. One, hold daily sessions. Two, make a day of it. If you choose to hold daily sessions, have ones that are relatively brief. You can do anything for 15 minutes right? You probably find this is particularly true when there is a reward at the end of the time block. This approach to getting organized will accomplish the goal over time....
Another big drain on employee productivity is mails. According to statistics, employees receive 42 emails per day on an average. That’s a lot of time gone reading and replying to those mails. A good tactic that works is to avoid checking emails during the most productive hours of the morning. With a little conditioning, it will prove to be a big winner for your efficiency. Accountemps has outlined more great tips on getting the most out of your day....
Why do such things happen? While there might be external factors that contribute to the situation, I believe that there is one main cause: we waste our time on unnecessary stuff. We spend our time on things which do not contribute to the final results, and that eventually causes us to overspend our time. Obviously, the cure is: Do no more than what is necessary It is easier said than done though....
A study by Eduardo Andrade and Joel B. Cohen analyzed why people enjoy horror movies. The study concluded that some people are “happy to be unhappy.” The researchers found that these people are able to feel both positive and negative emotions at the same time. While they enjoy the relief that comes after a threat is removed, they also enjoy being scared. Here are 10 signs that show you enjoy your unhappiness according to psychologists:...
