What if your mind could have a billboard? It would be useful to remind yourself of affirmations. Great for mapping thoughts and organizing them into a plan of action. Practical to have them constantly in front of you whilst at you desk. You could empty the contents of your mind upon your “brainboard”. Hmmm, it [...]

How can you change your habits and thereby change the direction of your life for the better through the use of a device? Each time you have a thought you may think in images, or ‘speak’ to yourself in words. If these thoughts are not enhancing your life you can change them for something that [...]

As mentioned in Life Hack #12, shocking your body into conciousness is not the best way to start the day. Observe how long it takes from initially regaining conciousness to being fully awake, and adjust the alarm clock sound accordingly. So if it takes five minutes to awake play a five minute audio track. For [...]

An alarm clock does the job. That’s why we use it. It’s purpose is to wake us up. However there is one rather large drawback from using it, as indicated by it’s name. We awake in a state of alarm. Not really an ideal start to any day – being shocked into conciousness. I’d also [...]

We all have animals that inhabit our Time Zoo. Some have many animals, some only a few. However all demand upkeep, and all sap away at our limited resource of Time. Stuff. That’s what clutters up or lives for the most part. We tend to think that having more items to fulfill functions within our [...]

If you have a to-do list, goal list, or any other kind of list, that you think would be better carried in printed form I’d strongly recommend a PocketMod to do the job. You enter your list into a software application and the output is an A4 size sheet that can be folded into a [...]

You’ve heard it said “Necessity is the mother of invention”, well one day I met her distant cousin and ended up with an ipod nano ‘case’ (or pocket) made from a sheet of paper. My shirt had no pockets and I wanted one to put my ipod into, paper was nearby and the photos below [...]

“There’s a fire burning in your home and you only have time to get out with one thing. What would you take with you?” Apparently this hypothetical question is about showing what is important to you. It was posed to me a number of years ago, but with a change of situation over the years [...]

Time has three dimensions, the past, the present, and the future. The first of these, our past, is recorded in videos, photographs, print, inscriptions, and memory. The second, the present, is a constantly flowing flux that is being played out to, and absorbed by, our senses. What about the third, the future? What does the [...]

Increasingly people in cities are succumbing to the symptoms of hayfever. My question is “Where is the hay?” There is less and less greenery in the city with each passing year as front gardens turn into driveways and rear gardens are decked. Granted, hayfever is not caused by hay and is attributed to the effects [...]