10 Everyday Technologies That Can Change the World

 A garden hose, a tin can, duct tape, metal piping, kitchen cleaner, and gasoline: That is all television icon MacGyver needed to make a flame-thrower to ward off a swarm of killer ants. In the r...Full Article

World's 100 Most Powerful And Influential People

Vanity Fair has unveiled its annual list of the worlds 100 most powerful and influential people, what the magazine calls the New Establishment, and topping the table for the first time is Vladimir Put...Full Article

10 Helpful Ways to Recycle Used Books

Many of us love books and find them incredibly hard to part with. But if youve made up your mind to declutter your shelves, these top tips will enable you to release your treasures to new homes withou...Full Article

Read Old Books to Think Great Thoughts

Today there is more to read than ever. Traditional and social news sites are filled with the latest buzz stories repeated ad nauseam. One is pressed to keep up. Amid the endless competition to make he...Full Article

Marcus Aurelius’ Six Timeless Observations on Life

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was Roman emperor from 161 until his death in 180. A great thinker, Marcus embodied Plato’s ideal of the philosopher king to a considerable extent. He was a strong empe...Full Article

10 Productivity Myths That Hold You Back

What are the myths and mistaken beliefs that are preventing you from being more productive in both your work life and your personal life? How are you actively undermining your efforts to pull it all t...Full Article

7 Ways to be Inspired When Surrounded by Negativity

 If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.    -Robert Fulghum    Uh-oh ...Full Article

10 Ways to Find Time for Inspiration

    But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.    -Benjamin DisraeliIt seems that so many of the ideas in these daily refl...Full Article

Lifehack.org Readers Respond: What’s Your Inspiration

Has this ever happened to you?    You come out of a deep sleep. Something’s wrong. You can see and hear, but you can’t move! No matter how hard you try, you can’t budge. It’s like you’r...Full Article

Struggling With Addictions

What kind of bad habits do you struggle with? Most people think that when they come to Christ that their bad habits will magically disappear. And some church people act like if you have any bad habits...Full Article

More Than I Can Bare

One of my long time best friends called me the other night with a horrible pain in her heart. She needed someone to talk to. Rumor had it her daughter might be suicidal and she was trapped on a busi...Full Article

Sissys Show of Support

I had been fighting with the software program that I used to build my website. The software program had a bug in it and would occasionally anger the main brains of my computer. Without warning, my c...Full Article

Selfish Beings

Trouble, trouble, trouble. Nothing but trouble. The night before, I was just talking to a friend-cum-feng-shui master about the direction of my life. The horrible things that are currently going in my...Full Article

Count Your Blessings

Each day brings a new beginning.Its a new leaf in the story of your life. It can be bright, cheerful and positive, with the courage toface another day, whatever it may bring with enthusiasm.Or, let th...Full Article

Challenge Your Problems

Life teaches us in peculiar ways. It knocks us down. It makes us struggle to get back up.Blessings often appear as misfortunes and trials. When we challenge problems with solution-focused thought, nee...Full Article

Adversity to Victory

The following is a true story about a young friend who lives in St. Louis.Andy was born with a developmental disorder. The two sides of his brain were not joined normally with each other. The right si...Full Article

One Womans Story of How Her Smile Increased Her Confidence

For one who takes pride in being involved with different community organizations, possessing a high level of confidence is essential. Especially when that involvement includes speaking to large and sm...Full Article

How Would YOU React To Tragedy Like This?

The true story Im about to share will have a profound impact on you, just as it did on me.One day a mother was in her kitchen doing the dishes, when through the window, out of the corner of her eye, s...Full Article

Self Acceptance - Lessons From My Hair Affair

For our diet and, indeed, in every aspect of our lives, we must remember to relax from the demands of the unrealistic ideal. For those trying to lose weight, you cannot be the Barbie. For those liftin...Full Article

Trusting Yourself and Others

How come, as women, we always second-guess ourselves? Are we not confident to choose a mate that has the characteristics of what we yearn for or start and operate a business that we have a passion for...Full Article