When you’re unhappy with the kind of money you’re making, a change in some simple habits could make all the difference. The money making beliefs you may have gotten use to may not be true; and if you rethink them, things can change for you financially. Ask yourself if this belief is always true? Answer these…

Working on a big presentation for work or uni? They say you can never stop learning, so here is a quick round up of 10 of our favorite presentation articles from yours truly: Lifehack.org Ten Presentation Tips from Professional Trainer Presentation Hack: Flickr Backup Four Tips to Effective Presentation Smallest Presentation Hack Ever My Best

Are you one of those people who say they aren’t creative? How silly; everyone’s creative! However, if you want to completely squash all creativity from your being, try these 10 mental blocks that Copyblogger assure will stop creative thinking. Denying your own creativity is like denying you’re a human being. We’re all limitlessly creative, but only…

A strange thing has happened over the years: people are falling in love with their notebooks. You can see this with the surge in Moleskine popularity and the huge following it has. I must admit, however, that it’s not all justified. When you begin devoting some energy to writing in a notebook, particularly organizing or…

Mission statements are a great way to define direction and maintain focus. Using one for yourself could make a big difference to how you reach your goals. Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D. is a fan and has a 5 step plan to writing a good, personal mission statement. A personal mission statement, is of course personal… but if…

After a few years studying the way creative teams work and developing excellent productivity and organizational solutions, Behance have a few tips regarding meetings. Meetings that end without action steps are a waste of our time. When our Action Pads contain no action steps after a meeting, we realize that the meeting should have been a…

Under wraps for a few months now, Google recently released their Powerpoint knockoff, Presentations. You can access it by going to your Google Docs and creating a New > Presentation. Adding and editing slides is very easy and as simple as you would expect from Google. Importing Powerpoint files is a breeze, but don’t expect any…

Why would you want to do that? Turn your fun, enjoyable hobby into a dreary job? Or maybe turn your everyday job into something you would do for free? Roberta Chinsky Matuson at Monster Career Advice discusses how you could start doing what you love for a living. Your first step in attempting to make a job…

Many of us find ourselves in motivational slumps that we have to work to get out of. Sometimes it’s like a continuous cycle where we are motivated for a period of time, fall out and then have to build things back up again. A good way to be continuously self-motivated is to implement something like these…

My name is Jonathan, and I am an introvert. Oh, for years I denied it. After all, I have good social skills. I am not morose or misanthropic. Usually. I am far from shy. I love long conversations that explore intimate thoughts or passionate interests. But at last I have self-identified and come out to my…

Matthew Leitch, a psychologist from the University College London, became fed up with some myths surrounding memory and wrote these 7 myths. You may have read a few articles about some of them, such as the 7+/-2 rule and using imagery to remember lists. If you still think it might make sense try remembering a…

The house guest/host relationship can be tense at times. When have you overstayed your welcome and how do you properly accommodate guests? Generally, common sense and politeness prevail and there are no issues; but sometimes people don’t make the right adjustments and end up making someone feel uncomfortable. A list of Do’s and Don’ts would be…

Author of “Motivation from the Inside Out: Rethinking Rewards, Assessment, and Learning” and “Beyond Bribes and Threats: Realistic Alternatives to Controlling Students’ Behavior”, Alfie Kohn wrote this piece for the New York Times in 1993 about rewards in the workplace not motivating employees the right way. Kohn suggests that these rewards act the exact same as…

If you ever feel like you’re getting too much opposition and need some motivating words, look to this long list of quotes and anecdotes from some of the world’s most famous achievers. After his first audition, Sidney Poitier was told by the casting director, “Why don’t you stop wasting people’s time and go out and…

APCMag has gone through all the trouble of trying out an Ubuntu Linux installation and replacing everything they normally use Microsoft Windows for. The upside is obviously the open-source and free aspects of Linux, but are their other clear benefits? And what about the areas Ubuntu excelled? All the important ones — all the key applications…