Thought Lateral
Looking at the world laterally, but that’s beside the point ;-)

Regular cyclists are said to typically have fitness levels of those ten years younger. In addition to this, the speed of urban traffic

The second half of the tower in Life Hack #48 is being built by daily doing ten press-ups. Our biceps at the front of the upper arm tend to be much stronger than the triceps at the rear, probably because

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,

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Having a crying baby is like an alarm clock that wont switch off. What if cute-yet-very-loud-and-noisy baby had a snooze button? That would be a helpful thing for any parent to soothe their crying child quickly…

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.

Remember when you’d surf the web and have many browsers open so you could see different pages at the same time? Then along came multi-tab browsing, one browser with multiple tabs so you could do it all in one browser and become a tab junkie instead. Well if your desktop is even slightly similar you’ve probably [...]

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There are a dozen items of software that constitue part of the Life hack series, each having the ability to assist in making life run considerably smoother and be more productive. The first of these is MyLifeOrganized (MLO) task management software. OK great, but what does it do?

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 [...]