There is a great benefit that can be realised by helping another person, or group – such as a charity. It is said you can help feed a person or help teach a person to feed themselves, but I think there’s more to it than that. If we require input we grow as the input [...]

There are not many who would suck on the end of a lorry exhaust pipe. There are a significant number who would not smoke a cigarette. Why? Obviously because they would not want to harm their lungs with the deadly pollutants. Strangely, we often do the equivalent and far worse to ourselves.

What are you eating? What have you eaten today? What do you plan to eat tomorrow? Whatever you eat will become you. As for the physical, so for the mental. Whatever your mind eats will become your beliefs, and ultimately your destiny.

It may be difficult to build a tower at once. Though to build one over two years is a realistic objective. Building increased fitness each and every day by a modest amount of exercise is a simple process. You don’t have the time to go to the gym/workout/exercise/whatever-else? I have found that, if I replace [...]

When young it seems like a time wasting activity. Stretching is known to prevent injury and is a simple way to carry youth into old age. With time we slowly lose the flexibility we once had,

Once the egg timer has done its job and the egg is cooked we might as well turn the timer over and start again while we peel the egg – it can be a fiddly process and seems to take longer than boiling the egg did. Or we could just watch this video and blow [...]

At this point in the Life Hack series we move into another category of life improvement hacks. A set of short videos helping to save time by speeding up an activity. The first of these is a method of quickly tying shoe laces. Sprintcuts: Speed-Tie Your Shoes …my other shoes use velcro fastenings.

Often the risks that we do not take are the ones that would most improve our lives. The type of risk I’m discussing has no moral danger, nor physical danger in its action. We don’t take such risks not because they have any danger inherent in the action but because we are afraid to do [...]

Days may come and go with no appreciable difference between each. Not much happened, “nothing new”, “same old same old” day in, day out. In order to effect change there must be something different that happens. Often when that something occurs it is involuntary, and we are forced to react to it. Far better to [...]

Normally when a cell battery can no longer power our devices we dispose of them. If waste management systems are in place they may go for recycling. However, even though they are ‘dead’ they can still provide a useful function. What? How can a dead battery power something?