There are countless actions you can take to prevent violence. If we are to progress into a more peaceful and safer world, it takes commitment from each of us. Violence thrives in an environment of isolation, helplessness, inertia and fear. Your commitment defeats that environment. Here are 100 ways to get started.

1. VOLUNTEER at your neighborhood school or community organization.
2. KEEP kids BUSY and productive after school.
3. SUPPORT your local battered women’s shelter and rape crisis center.
4. MENTOR a youth.
5. KEEP kids AWAY from guns, and guns away from kids.
6. Don’t keep a gun in your house. If you do, lock it up.
7. MONITOR your family’s movie and television viewing.
8. GET NEWS of the day from more than one source.
9. MAKE COMPASSION a part of your management style.
10. BRING FAIRNESS to your workplace.
11. TAKE CHARGE of protecting yourself; take a SELF-DEFENSE class.
12. DON’T LAUGH at rape jokes.
13. Be an ALLY; STAND UP for someone else.
14. In an escalating confrontation, LOWER your voice.
15. BE KIND to the homeless.
16. LISTEN actively.
17. SPEND TIME in nature.
18. OPEN your HEART.
19. CHANGE your mind.
20. RESPECT people from other ethnicities and cultures.
21. VOTE; participate in democracy.
22. MAKE ROOM for the other.
23. QUESTION stereotypes about gays and lesbians.
24. PRACTICE smiling.
25. LEARN ABOUT RELIGIONS other than your own.
26. SIT in STILLness everyday.
27. SPEAK your TRUTH with compassion.
28. RESTRAIN from making hand gestures while driving.
29. REDUCE road rage.
30. Get to KNOW your neighbors.
31. SHARE responsibility for the safety of everyone’s children.
32. KNOW your police officers.
33. POLICE the police.
34. BE VIGILANT, not a vigilante.
35. DEVELOP a household safety plan.
36. Teach children the difference between helpful strangers and harmful ones.
37. GIVE kids SAFE SPACES.
38. USE the buddy system.
39. AVOID isolated places.
40. YELL to get attention if you’re in trouble.
41. TEACH facts and strategies. Don’t teach fear.
42. BE PATIENT.
43. THINK about the effects of spanking.
44. BE aware of your actions around children.
45. GET HELP if you have an explosive temper.
46. DEVELOP positive outlets for dealing with problems or stress.
47. DEVELOP an AWARENESS of shared family beliefs about violence and its effect on others.
48. PRACTICE & TEACH empathy.
49. Don’t minimize or dismiss other people’s feelings.
50. LET boys CRY.
51. LET girls BE angry.
52. BE FLEXIBLE.
53. LET children FEEL their emotions.
54. ENCOURAGE teens to have healthy relationships.
55. TALK to your teens about the realities of dating violence.
56. ENCOURAGE assertiveness.
57. Don’t label female children as aggressive if they stand up for themselves.
58. NAME abuse when you see it.
59. HELP your sons and daughters learn to be responsible about their sexuality.
60. TEACH your teens to distinguish between consensual sex and sexual assault.
61. ACCENTUATE positive characteristics of healthy relationships.
62. Take ACTION to INFLUENCE what is in the media.
63. REFRAIN from using violent words or actions when reacting to conflict, stress or anger.
64. Use CONFLICT RESOLUTION techniques.
65. MEDITATE to gain clarity and focus.
66. SUPPORT victims of violence in their healing.
67. THINK before you react.
68. SHIFT negative thinking.
69. Be DISCERNING; refrain from judging.
70. ENCOURAGE social justice.
71. PPRACTICE respectful sexuality.
72. CREATE a positive support system.
73. CARRY your local rape crisis hotline number with you.
74. Support ECONOMIC GROWTH in underdeveloped areas.
75. Give a job to a youth from a disenfranchised community.
76. Steer kids AWAY from gangs.
77. CREATE sexual harassment free zones in your workplace.
78. CONFRONT where and how alcohol is sold in your community.
79. SUPPORT prevention and treatment of drug abuse.
80. If you drink, DON’T DRIVE.
81. Plan for SAFE driving with teens.
82. Don’t let friends or guests drive impaired.
83. Respect your elders.
84. Support gang intervention efforts.
85. Motivate gang members to renounce violence.
86. Express GRATITUDE often.
87. Learn the warning signs of an abusive relationship.
88. Speak out on violence against women.
89. Recognize and report hate crimes.
90. Respect the experiences of rape survivors.
91. LAUGH heartily.
92. Don’t ignore violence.
93. Base sexual relations on a firm yes; seek consent.
94. Give youth a chance; don’t stereotype.
95. Educate yourself on the myths and realities of rape.
96. Take responsibility for your own sexuality; don’t let it be defined by anyone else.
97. Promote corporate responsibility.
98. Teach tolerance; lead by example.
99. VOLUNTEER or DONATE to Peace Over Violence.
100. INVENT your own way

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Many of us are stuck in a cube for most of the day. Why not have some fun with your co-workers. They annoy you day in and day out. Here are 101 ways for you to slowly drive them crazy.

1.	Staple your reports in the wrong corner
2.	Put tape over the mouse optics
3.	Unplug a co-worker’s monitor
4.	Talk to sick employees while wearing a dust mask
5.	Leave a stack of old applications and a not saying, “Install these”
6.	Turn your earphones up all the way
7.	Burn popcorn in the microwave
8.	“Forget” to put your tuna sandwich in the fridge
9.	Turn up the beep volume of the copier
10.	Empty the paper out of the main printer/copier
11.	Empty the ink or toner out of the main printer/copier
12.	Practice beat boxing
13.	Sing show tunes
14.	Hang up the phone before they say, “good bye”
15.	Slurp hot coffee during meetings
16.	Walk around the office barefooted
17.	Empty out a co-workers office on a Friday afternoon
18.	Misplace peoples pens
19.	Insert a 3.5” disk before they turn on their computer
20.	Glue their mouse to the desk
21.	Leave an open can of tuna in their desk
22.	Make a screenshot of their desktop and use it as their screensaver
23.	After each sip give a refreshing, “Ahhh”
24.	Turn up the contrast on their monitor
25.	Talk in a funny accent
26.	Smirk when a co-worker walks by
27.	Use goofy event sounds for your programs
28.	Chant, “Yeay, I got mail!!” every time you get a new email
29.	Print out a phony pink slip and leave It in their mailbox
30.	Send flowers from one co-worker to another
31.	Start your car remotely when someone walk by it
32.	Insist on people to have a great morning
33.	Leave hole punches all over
34.	Leave your lunch garbage in other people’s cans
35.	Put salt on someone’s mouse pad
36.	Set a password on someone’s screensaver
37.	Carry on a conversation with someone two cubes down
38.	Eat half of someone’s lunch
39.	Swap co-worker’s chairs
40.	Stare deeply into your co-workers eyes when they talk to you
41.	Take all the ice out of the community freezer
42.	Listen to comedy tracks and laugh hysterically
43.	Hit all the floor buttons when you leave the elevator
44.	Fake stomach flu during a meeting and need to abruptly leave three or four times
45.	Make hissing sounds into the phone and insist you have a bad connection
46.	Flip the left and right mouse button defaults
47.	Take out the ball in the mouse
48.	Eat sunflower seeds
49.	Tell a long story without a point
50.	Tell a co-worker you liked their hair better last week
51.	Anonymously send flowers to a random co-worker
52.	Bring Cheetos for food days
53.	Drag your feet when you walk down the halls
54.	Exclaim your co-worker didn’t wash his hands when leaving the restroom
55.	Eat stinky foods when you have lunch at your desk
56.	Practice drumming on your desk
57.	Whisper loudly
58.	Use too many paper clips
59.	Fill out your time sheets incorrectly
60.	Set your mobile phone to an obnoxious ring tone
61.	Forward chain letters and other spam to co-workers
62.	Express your political views at length
63.	Come to work sick
64.	Drink the last cup of coffee without making a new pot
65.	Answer your mobile during meetings
66.	Stand over someone while they are on the phone
67.	Mess with the thermostat
68.	Give everyone a pistol wink when they walk by
69.	Sneak up behind someone
70.	Leave unusual print outs on the printer
71.	Throw out other people’s prints
72.	Juggle office supplies
73.	Gradually turn down the volume on someone’s phone
74.	Write all your memos on bright colored paper
75.	Be overly nice to people
76.	Hide whiteboard erasers
77.	Chew gum while talking on the phone
78.	Regularly update everyone on the current weather
79.	Read your emails aloud
80.	Leave the fridge open
81.	Shake up cans of pop in the fridge
82.	Leave fingerprints on the copier glass
83.	Whistle all day long
84.	Wear too much cologne/perfume
85.	Wear bright colored clothes
86.	Type loudly
87.	Hide the sugar and creamer
88.	Give everyone a nickname from a TV show
89.	Do the sneaky walk around the office
90.	Peer over the cube and wait for a co-worker to look up and notice
91.	Use the intercom and page yourself
92.	Swap the regular and decaf coffee
93.	Type emails in uppercase and excessive punctuation
94.	Leave your cell phone on your desk with the ringer turned all the way up, then walk away.
95.	Stick pencils to the ceiling in other people’s offices
96.	Refer to your garbage can as your in-box
97.	Throw a bouncy ball in your office
98.	Imitate regular sounds like a disc drive opening, door slamming or a mouse click
99.	Talk to your monitor as if it was a person
100.	Tell the same story over and over

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his is a list of over 100 ways to annoy someone else:

	Sing the Batman theme incessantly.
	In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sensual massage."
	Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."
	Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of "Beeeep Bip Bip Beeep Bip..."
	If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.
	Amuse yourself for endless hours by hooking a camcorder to your TV and then pointing it at the screen.
	Speak only in a "robot" voice.
	Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly.
	Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one will "swipe your grub".
	Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 98 copies.
	Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.
	Sniffle incessantly.
	Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles.
	Name your dog "Dog." 15. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up."
	Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think."
	Claim that you must always wear a bicycle helmet as part of your "astronaut training."
	Declare your apartment an independent nation, and sue your neighbors upstairs for "violating your airspace".
	Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a "real hoot."
	Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with Lysol.
	Practice making fax and modem noises.
	Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc:" them to your boss.
	Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.
	Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance.
	Erect an elaborate network of ropes in your backyard, and tell the neighbors you are a "spider person."
	Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with the prophesy."
	Wear a special hip holster for your remote control
	Do not add any inflection to the end of your sentences, producing awkward silences with the impression that you'll be saying more any moment.
	Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears.
	Disassemble your pen and "accidentally" flip the ink cartridge across the room.
	Give a play-by-play account of a persons every action in a nasal Howard Cosell voice.
	Holler random numbers while someone is counting.
	Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you "like it that way."
	Drum on every available surface.
	Staple papers in the middle of the page.
	Ask 1-800 operators for dates.
	Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire FBI copyright warnings.
	Sew anti-theft detector strips
	peoples backpacks.
	Hide dairy products in inaccessible places.
	Write the surprise ending to a novel on its first page.
	Set alarms for random times.
	Order a side of pork rinds with your filet mignon.
	Instead of Gallo, serve Night Train next Thanksgiving.
	Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise.
	Honk and wave to strangers.
	Dress only in clothes colored Hunters Orange.
	Change channels five minutes before the end of every show.
	Tape pieces of "Sweating to the Oldies" over climactic parts of rental movies.
	Wear your pants backwards.
	Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints by the cash register.
	Begin all your sentences with "ooh la la!"
	ONLY TYPE IN UPPERCASE.
	only type in lowercase.
	dont use any punctuation either
	Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.
	Pay for your dinner with pennies.
	Tie jingle bells to all your clothes.
	Repeat everything someone says, as a question.
	Write "X - BURIED TREASURE" in random spots on all of someone's roadmaps.
	Inform everyone you meet of your personal Kennedy assassination/UFO/ O.J Simpson conspiracy theories.
	Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind, its gone now."
	Light road flares on a birthday cake.
	Wander around a restaurant, asking other diners for their parsley.
	Leave tips in Bolivian currency.
	Demand that everyone address you as "Conquistador."
	At the laundromat, use one dryer for each of your socks.
	When Christmas caroling, sing "Jingle Bells, Batman smells" until physically restrained.
	Wear a cape that says "Magnificent One."
	As much as possible, skip rather than walk.
	Stand over someone's shoulder, mumbling, as they read.
	Pretend your computer's mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it.
	Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce "no, wait, I messed it up," and repeat.
	Drive half a block.
	Inform others that they exist only in your imagination.
	Ask people what gender they are.
	Lick the filling out of all the Oreos, and place the cookie parts back.
	Cultivate a Norwegian accent. If Norwegian, affect a Southern drawl.
	Routinely handcuff yourself to furniture, informing the curious that you don't want to fall off "in case the big one comes".
	Deliberately hum songs that will remain lodged in co-workers brains, such as "Feliz Navidad", the Archies "Sugar" or the Mr. Rogers theme song.
	While making presentations, occasionally bob your head. like a parakeet.
	Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of day.
	Leave your Christmas lights up and lit until September.
	Change your name to "AaJohn Aaaaasmith" for the great glory of being first in the phone book. Claim it's a Hawaiian name, and demand that people pronounce each "a."
	Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.
	Chew on pens that you've borrowed.
	Wear a LOT of cologne.
	Listen to 33rpm records at 45rpm speed, and claim the faster speed is necessary because of your "superior mental processing."
	Sing along at the opera.
	Mow your lawn with scissors.
	At a golf tournament, chant "swing-batabatabata-suhWING-batter!"
	Ask the waitress for an extra seat for your "imaginary friend."
	Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn't rhyme.
	Ask your co-workers mysterious questions, and then scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about "psychological profiles."
	Stare at static on the TV and claim you can see a "magic picture."
	Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times.
	Never make eye contact.
	Never break eye contact.
	Construct elaborate "crop circles" in your front lawn.
	Construct your own pretend "tricorder," and "scan" people with it, announcing the results.
	Make appointments for the 31st of September.
	CONSTINTLY SAY "HI"
	Invite lots of people to other people's parties.

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Your mind is a powerful thing, but it’s often limited by things like fear, habit, and poor health. However, there are a number of ways to improve the way you use your mind. Read on to discover 100 mindhacks that will help you make the most out of the most powerful tool you have at your disposal.

General

Follow these general mind hacks to give your brain some power.

1. Use the Internet: Studies have found that using the Internet is good for your brain, as it keeps your mind fit and sharp.
2. Practice streamwriting: Find answers and solve problems by writing out your conscious until your superconscious comes out.
3. Power idea generation: Practice quiet solitude in which you list out problems and ideas, whether useful or not, to make your brain better at generating ideas.
4. Take on a creative hobby: Make your brain work harder with a creative hobby that requires thinking.
5. Read quality magazines, books, and blogs: Make sure that the sources that influence your thinking are top notch, so you’ll have a good reference to call on.
6. Stay active: Be sure to stay connected with your friends, family, and network so that you can be mentally stimulated through relationships.
7. Engage in meaningful activities: Join a spiritual group or participate in community service to improve your psyche.
8. Use Oblique Strategies: Use these cards to help you make decisions in hard situations.
9. Use weighted pros and cons: Assign weights and importance to different pros and cons of a situation to make your decision.
10. Set goals: Creating goals helps you actively think of ways to be better.
11. Write things down: Your goal can stare back at you once you’ve written it down.
12. Take a nap: By napping, you’ll be more likely to remember things that you’ve memorized earlier.
13. Drink something warm: The warm sensation from a hot drink can make you feel more emotionally warm and content.
14. Visit museums and performances: Engage your mind’s interest and expand your view of the world with artistic expression.
15. Use focused solitude: Find a place where you won’t be disturbed, then sit still and think quietly to yourself.
16. Be determined: Tell yourself to never give up and you’ll be in the right mindset to take on difficult tasks.
17. Believe in your abilities: Don’t worry too much about your ability to use your brain properly-by being confident in your abilities, you’ll do better.
18. Give yourself structure: You need deadlines and limitations to accomplish more, and do things more efficiently.

Habits

These daily habits will give your brain the shakeup it needs to do well.

19. Shower blind: Wake up your brain by relying on your tactile senses to clean yourself.
20. Wear textured clothing: Improve your mind’s sense of touch by wearing clothing that you can really feel.
21. Don’t do things on auto pilot: Think carefully about all of the decisions you make to increase your brain activity.
22. Sleep on it: Sleeping on ideas will help you make tough decisions and solve problems.
23. Always carry a notebook: You never know when a great thought will strike you, so always keep something to record your thoughts and ideas with.
24. Wake up to a new smell: Change the smell that you associate with waking, and you’ll create new neural pathways.
25. Relax at the end of the day: Use sensory stimuli like an aromatherapy bath to help you wind down and create a new path to relaxing at a smell.
26. Write instead of typing: Writing by hand is great for stimulating ideas and exercising your creativity.
27. Wear earplugs: Restrict your sense of hearing, and you’ll make your brain work harder.
28. Brush with your non-dominant hand: By using your non-dominant hand, you’ll make your brain use the side of itself that it normally doesn’t use.
29. Make use of dead time: Listen to books on tape while in traffic, or brainstorm ideas while raking your yard to give your brain constant healthy stimulation.
30. Sit up straight: Your posture can affect your thinking process in a positive way.
31. Read aloud with a partner: Reading aloud uses different brain circuits, so you’ll improve your brain power by doing so.
32. Write before bed: Before going to bed, write in a journal or notepad to offload the day.
33. Mix up your routine: Eat a different breakfast, take a new way to work, or watch a different TV program to throw some curveballs at your brain.

Learning

Make use of these mindhacks when learning.

34. Learn things in order: Always start with the basics first, and you’ll find learning easier.
35. Share your knowledge with others: Teaching others information will increase your own understanding, so be sure to teach and share whenever possible.
36. Associate boring subjects with fun: You remember the things you enjoy, so make a game out of learning or create a fun story out of it.
37. Interlink thoughts with others: Learn holistically and improve your recall by associating everything you learn with things you already know.

Communication

These communication hacks can help you influence your mind and the minds of others.

38. Use framing: When creating a persuasive argument, frame it in a way that gives it positive or negative connotations.
39. Use fluid speech: Avoid words such as "um" or "like" to make your speech more confident and persuasive.
40. Mirror your subject: Mimic the body language of the people you’re trying to persuade, and they’ll feel a sense of empathy.
41. Repeat what others are saying: By repeating what others say, you’ll help yourself remember better, as well as appear more sincere and interested.
42. Use touch: Bond with others using subtle, polite touches.

Energy

Your brain can get tired, so give it some refreshment with these mind hacks.

43. Listen to classical music: Listen to relaxing, classical music to stimulate your brain.
44. Do the opposite of what you’re doing: If you’ve just drained your brain with intense work, give yourself a period of relaxation to restart things.
45. Take a deep breath: Beathing well and deeply will move more oxygen and blood into your brain.
46. Meditate: Close your eyes and observe the thoughts that come through your mind for about 20 minutes to refresh your brain’s energy.
47. Take a 1 second nap: Go from daydreaming to 1 second twilight dreaming and wake up ready for action.
48. Have sex: Sex will help you shift your focus and give you more energy to take on the next task.
49. Play a sport: Playing a competitive sport will wake you up mentally.
50. Shake your leg: If you’ve been sitting for a while, stand up and shake one or both legs to get your circulation moving and improve blood flow to your brain.
51. Take a walk: Take your mind off of things and get some fresh air by taking a walk.
52. Go to a movie: Immerse yourself in another world by going to watch a movie at a movie theater.
53. Create digestable tasks: Break large projects down into smaller tasks, and create reasonable goals or completion.
54. Take a caffeine nap: Drink a cup of coffee, and then take a 10-15 minute nap for a quick energy boost.
55. Catch up on interesting reading: Reading a book or magazine that you like will help relax your brain while still keeping it active.
56. Play a game: Playing a board game, video game, or brain game will help you give your brain both rest and stimulation.
57. Listen to motivational CDs: Relax by listening and stimulate your brain at the same time with motivational CDs.

Dreams

Make the most of your dreams with these mind hacks.

58. Drink ice water: By drinking ice water just before bed, and right after waking up, you should have instant recall of the dreams in your sleep.
59. Suppress REM: For one night, suppress REM with alcohol or antidepressants, and you should get a double dose the next night, along with vivid dreams.
60. Talk about your dreams: If you discuss your dreams with others, you’ll reinforce your awareness of them and make it easier to recall them in the future.
61. Take 5-HTP: This precursor to serotonin will help you promote deep sleep and have lucid dreams.
62. Don’t sit up or stand up: Remain in bed to remember your dreams, as sitting up or standing up can erase them.
63. Write down your dreams: Your dreams will fall out of your memory quickly, so write them down or record them as soon as you wake.
64. Take galantamine: Taking galantamine can help promote memorable, colorful dreams.
65. Verbally remind yourself to remember: Just before sleep, talk to yourself about remembering to pay careful attention to your dreams and recall them in the morning.
66. Take more naps: Naps tend to have better REM, and will give you more vivid and lucid dreams.

Finance

These mind hacks will help you hack your brain for better finance.

67. Match frivilous spending with savings: Each time you spend money in an irresponsible way, put the same amount into savings.
68. Write down goals: Make your financial goals more concrete by putting them in writing.
69. Tell other people your financial goals: By telling others your plans, you’ll be accountable and more likely to stick to them.
70. Create a habit: If you want to save, make it a habit to place at least $1 into your savings stash every day.
71. Create visual imagery of your goal: With a picture of your financial goal in sight, you will be more motivated to stick to your guns.

Productivity & Time Saving

With these mind hacks, you can be more productive and save time.

72. Use proper timing: Don’t wait until the end of the day to remind yourself to take care of something. Time activities for when they are most likely to be completed.
73. Clean out your inbox: Keep your inbox, desk, and thinking area clean to free up space and stress in your mind.
74. Mind Map: Use Mind Maps to keep your important items together.
75. Give yourself less time: If you give yourself less time in which to complete a task, you’re likely to just finish it within that time.
76. Spreed: Use this tool to train your mind to quickly read through pieces of text.
77. Scarcity: Remind yourself that an image, product, or idea is scarce, and you’ll be subconsciously drawn to take care of it.

Brain Games

Play these brain games to build up your mind’s muscle.

78. Short Term Memory Test: Take this test to assess and improve your levels of short term memory.
79. Guess the Colors: Figure out the layout of the colors in this game.
80. Animated Memory Game: Use these memory games to give your brain some work.
81. Simon Says: Follow Simon’s movies and copy them to give your memory a boost.
82. Crime Scene: Watch this video and pick a criminal from a list of suspects.
83. Fun Match Game: This matching memory game offers a variety of themes and varying difficulty.
84. Face Memory Test: Find out how good your facial memory is with this test.
85. Guess the Flag: Improve your visual memory and build your knowledge of world flags with this game.
86. Memory Solitaire: Play this memory game by yourself to improve your brain’s memory skills.

Food & Health

Follow these tips to eat, drink and exercise your way to a better mind.

87. Drink a glass of water: Give your brain the fuel it needs to stay lubricated and working well by keeping up with your water intake.
88. Good fats: Omega-3 fatty acids can help your brain’s intellectual performance.
89. Vegetables: Vegetables offer your brain a steady stream of energy.
90. Eat more choline: Choline is a fat-like B vitamin found in eggs that can help with your memory and reaction time.
91. Exercise: Exercising is good for concentration and can improve your overall health, which supports a smarter and more efficient brain.
92. Control your cholesterol: Healthy cholesterol levels are good for mental sharpness and efficiency in blood flow to your brain.
93. Fish: Many fish are found to be good sources of omega-3 fatty acids.
94. Yogurt: Eating yogurt will help produce neurotransmitters and improve neuron signals.
95. Apples: Apples and apple juice are great for their antioxidants and acetylchiline, which helps preserve memory.
96. Carbohydrates: Carbohydrates can be mentally soothing at the right time and in the right amount.
97. Alcohol: Moderate alcohol consumption can improve blood and oxygen flow to your brain.
98. Use a smaller plate: Make yourself feel more full by simply eating off of a plate that is smaller.
99. Fruit: Fruit will break down slowly, giving your brain a steady stream of energy.
100. Non-caffeinated tea: Teas such as green tea will help to relax the brain and create mental alertness.

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Most of us are interested in improving something about ourselves: our productivity, our sanity, our organization, our happiness, our effectiveness, our impact on the environment, our minds, our dreams.

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This list is an introduction to the blogs of LifeRemix.net, taking a sample of some of the best tips from each of the blogs in the network: Black Belt Productivity, Behance, Cranking Widgets, Dumb Little Man, Happiness Project, LifeClever, LifeDev, No Impact Man, Pick the Brain, Success From the Nest, Tim Ferriss' Four Hour Workweek, Unclutterer, WiseBread, Zen Habits.

Will all of these tips work for you? Probably not. Just pick and choose the ones that appeal to you, and give them a try.

1. Find Inner Serenity by Making it Easier to Find Your Keys. For most people, getting control of clutter brings a greater sense of calm and decreased frustration.
2. Surround Yourself With Progress. When you complete a list of action steps, your instinct might be to throw the list away. After all, the work is completed! However, some creative professional teams take a different approach; they relish their progress. Some go so far as surrounding themselves with it.
3. Empty Your Inbox in 30 Seconds. Is your inbox filled with thousands and thousands of unread messages? Before you give up hope, there's an instant way to clear your inbox of old emails in less than 30 seconds.
4. Instantly Build Self Confidence. These tips will get you riding high in no time.
5. Reduce Your Trash To Almost Zero. Follow the No Impact Man experiment to reduce our trash as close as we can to zero.
6. Feel like a million bucks for cheap. Feel healthier and more energized right away without spending a fortune.
7. End Laundry Chaos. More than 20 tips to help you keep your laundry chaos to a minimum.
8. Learn the Secrets of the Super-Organized. A few simple habits keep clutter and chaos at bay.
9. Check Email Once a Day ... or Once a Week. Simple tips that will reduce interruption and increase your productivity.
10. Become an Early Riser. 10 benefits of rising early, and some practical tips on how to do it.
11. Learn Lessons from Google About Self-Image. How you think of yourself greatly affects how successful you can be. Google has got self-image down to a science.
12. Make a Good First Impression. Research shows that people decide what kind of relationship they want with you in the first ten minutes of a meeting, so making a good first impression really matters.
13. Know the Hype Behind Bottled Water. Have you ever stopped to think about just how incredibly odd it is to buy bottled water?
14. Leave Work at Work. Want more time for your family or personal life? Here's how not to think about your job 24/7.
15. Create a Landing Strip to Become Organized. We come from work exhausted, often carrying our work bags, groceries, and the mail. A landing strip will help you avoid disorganization from the time you get home.
16. Understand Time to Increase Return on Investment. Time is your most valuable resource. Understanding these ideas will help you make optimal decisions.
17. Give Your RÈsumÈ a Face Lift. Even if you can't hire a fancy designer and are stuck with Microsoft Word, a few tweaks can turn your blasÈ rÈsumÈ into an elegant and functional showpiece.
18. Boost Your Energy Level. Feeling energetic is a key to happiness and to self-esteem, so take steps to keep your energy high.
19. Actually Execute Your To-Do List. Many productivity systems will tell you how to organize your tasks, but what happens if you don't feel like doing them?
20. Keep Your Desk Clean and Tidy. Do you spend waste more and more time looking for lost items instead of being the brilliant creative person that you are? Here's how to get your desk clean, clutter-free, and keep it that way for good.
21. Learn the Truth About Baby Carrots. Baby carrots not really young carrots! They are also less nutritious and less flavorful than regular carrots.
22. Try Quick and (Almost) Painless Ways to Kill Distractions. Are you spending more time dealing with emails, IMs, phone calls, and random stray files than actually working? Here are ten actions you can do right now to kill distractions and get back to work.
23. Reduce Your Carbon Emissions. The most important lifestyle changes you can make to reduce your carbon emissions are listed here.
24. Put the Action Method Into Practice. After a couple years of studying how creative people stay organized, we developed a simple and easily customized method for managing projects. A good portion of 2006 was spent putting the Action Method into practice.
25. Gently End Procrastination. Need an easy way to remind you when you should be working and when you should be playing? Try using teaming up Flextime with Growl. Here's how.
26. Read Your RSS Feeds Faster and More Productively. Four simple tips for reducing the time you spend on reading feeds.
27. Use Catchphrases to Change the Way You Think. By keeping certain ideas active and accessible through review and repetition ñ whether itís ìSay yes,î ìFake it ëtill you feel it,î or ìPeople succeed in groupsî ñ you can shape the way you think.
28. Photograph Your Mementos to Free Up Clutter. Taking digital photos of your mementos can get rid of clutter, free-up storage space, and provide you with a simple way to walk down memory lane.
29. Save Trees With Ease. Want to avoid all the paper towels, paper napkins and other tree-killing stuff there's no need to use? Read here.
30. Organize Your Cluttered Desktop and Regain Your Sanity. Is your desktop littered with zillions of random files and folders often litter my desktop. Learn how 5 ordinary folders can keep your desktop immaculate.
31. Eat Slower. Why eating slower is better for your health, your sanity, your digestion, and more.
32. Maximize Your Lunch Hour. Your lunch hour should be the least "productive" moment in your day. If it lasts a mere 20 minutes-or just doesn't exist anymore-here's how to turn it around and make it joyful.
33. Increase Workplace Productivity by Not Being a Jerk. You get more flies with honey, as the saying goes. This is a brief outline for how to work and play well with your coworkers (and get more done).
34. Find Cheap Gas Instantly. If soaring gas prices are draining your wallet dry, here's five ways to find cheap(er) gas anywhere.
35. Find Your Purpose. We're all searching for our purpose. It seems tempting that having it appear by divine intervention would be great. Maybe not.
36. Make a GTD System for about $20. Putting together a functional GTD system for the price of a week's worth of Starbucks.
37. Avoid costly DIY mistakes. You can end up costing yourself more in the long run if you don't watch out for these mistakes.
38. Think About Whether You Can Afford NOT to Pursue Your Dreams. Pursuing dreams is crucial, even when it means taking a hit or entering financial uncertainty.
39. Plan for Success. Waiting for your ship to come in is a waste of time.
40. Improve Your Mind by Reading the Classics. How to use the wisdom of the classics to become a better writer, thinker, and speaker.
41. Break Habits of Highly Ineffective Emailing. A list of what not to do when emailing, avoiding these habits will take you a long way toward better, more productive email.
42. Make Your PDA Green. If you're worried about e-waste and the toxins produced by burying and burning old cell phones and PDAs, you may want to try my green hipster's pda.
43. Learn to Go From Solo to Successful Collaboration. Self-starters are often successful doing everything themselves. However, when forced to grow beyond the one gal/guy-show, many creative professionals are unable to take the leap from a solo success to a successful collaboration.
44. Create a Morning Routine. Developing a routine in the morning could lead to greater sanity and happiness, and achieving your goals.
45. Learn How to Survive a Road Trip. Road trips always begin on a high note, but by the end even Mother Teresa would be willing to shove her grandmother out of the car. Here are 9 tips to help keep you sane and happy on any road trip.
46. Share To Make Ideas Happen. The philosophy to "share ideas liberally" defies the age-old instinct to keep ideas secret. However, the creative person's tendency to jump from idea-to-idea-to-idea causes most ideas to die in isolation. Creative professionals should take every opportunity to communicate new ideas broadly, seek feedback, and develop a sense of accountability.
47. Use Space Under Stairs for More Storage. Very cool under-stair storage where each step is a drawer.
48. Know What's In Store If You Have a Toddler. New parents often wonder what's in store for them once their kid is able to move around on their own. Here's what you can expect.
49. Work in Multiple Positives. These hyper-productive activities will benefit you in multiple ways at once.
50. Use a Super Slim Wallet. It's time to shrink down that backbreaking Constanza wallet. Here are 8 ways to radically slim down your wallet.
51. Advertise Action to Yourself. We live in a world of choices. When we buy, we have to make a choice between varieties, brands, and sizes. Similarly, when we work we have to decide what to focus on and how to use our time. While prioritization helps us focus, our minds still have the tendency to wander. We are most likely to focus on whatever catches our eye. Along the lines of "out of sight, out of mind" we learn that "right before our eyes, actions thrive."
52. Gain Muscle in Minimal Time. How Tim Ferriss gained 34 pounds of muscle in 4 weeks.
53. Choose Living Over Sleeping Sometimes. Despite the importance of healthy sleep habits, there are times when it's good to throw caution to the wind and invest in your life in other ways.
54. Make Reference Items Helpful. We spend too much time discussing, storing, and organizing notes. References are only valuable if you refer to them. Even with a well-organized system for managing references (either digital or paper), how often do we actually use them? How do we make reference items helpful?
55. Eat Sustainably. If you are interested in how to eat sustainably, read about it here.
56. Lose Weight Without Exercise. How to lose 20 lbs. of fat in 30 days with a sensible diet.
57. Find Calm & Sanity Through the Environment. If you've ever thought a more environmental life might also be a calmer, saner life, you're right.
58. Learn About the Successfully Self-Employed. Is freelancing for suckers? Are you already an expert? This series explores the levels of the free-agent -- and how to understand what each one means.
59. Learn GTD the Easy Way. An online primer of all the chapters of Getting Things Done.
60. Set Goals So You Actually Accomplish Them. Setting goals is hard. Following through is even harder. Using a framework that builds on your personal view of the world can make the process easier. This series helps outline how.
61. Reduce Gamer Clutter. If you are a gamer, these are a number of suggestions to help you keep your entertainment system under control and the gaming clutter to a minimum.
62. Stick to a Schedule of Regular Exercise. Exercising regularly boosts moodóright awayóand also makes it easier to sleep, keeps your weight down, and gives you energy.
63. Cut Back on Computer Cables. Follow these 8 simple steps to get rid of the birds' nest of cables behind your computer.
64. Pay the Price to Be an Entrepreneur. The price of access can be steep, but once you're flying down the road -- it's well worth it.
65. Single-task. Increase your productivity by learning not to multi-task.
66. Get Outside Your Comfort Zone. Comfort isn't all it's cracked up to be.
67. Drop Ideas That Fail. Ideas are a commodity. Being able to execute them well is what creates success. Hanging on to an idea, even after it his proven to be ineffective is the downfall of many aspiring entrepreneurs.
68. Learn to Calculate Risk. Risk and reward go hand-in-hand. Knowing what to expect can help reduce risk and shape your reality.
69. Don't Settle for Just One Path. Variety is the spice of life. So why do you have to be just one thing when you grow up?
70. Get Rid of Paper Clutter. A four-part series dedicated to reducing the paper clutter in your home.
71. Set Up Action Areas. Boxes need to be mailed, errands need to be run, cookies need to be eaten, orders need to be fulfilled, but by whom? Whoever has a chance! The Behance team got tired of limiting our action steps to just an area on paper - why not make "action areas" out of physical space?
72. Find Hidden Clutter. Ten places to start looking for hidden clutter in your home.
73. Get a Promotion. 20 tips that landed the writer an IT promotion -- most could be used in any field.
74. Dispose of Old Electronics. The best ways to dispose of old electronics.
75. Increase Your Intelligence. A list of 5 simple activities that will boost your brain power.
76. Present Yourself. Creative achievements seldom happen in isolation. A big part of making ideas happen is controlling how you come across to others. Of course, the Creative's tendency is to say, "who gives a crap what other people think." While there is merit in never compromising oneself for the sake of another's opinion, creative professionals need to make an effort to be understood. You need to present yourself effectively to engage others and get the support (and the business) you need to push ideas forward.
77. Follow George Orwell's Rules for Effective Writing. Becoming a better writer will create better career opportunities and increase productivity.
78. Lay Your Energy Line. Creative teams juggle multiple projects at once. The constant streams of ideas lead to more ideas. As energy is spread across projects like peanut butter, prioritization is all but lost. Energy Lines are a simple way to prioritize and use design to guide creative energy.
79. Focus on Continuous Improvement. By mastering the optimization mentality you can become an expert in your chosen field.
80. Motivate Yourself. This post will teach you to recognize the primary motivation killers and how to beat them.
81. Become a More Light-hearted Parent. We all want a peaceful, happy atmosphere at home ñ and you canít nag and yell your way there.
82. Give Up Nagging. Itís no fun to nag, and itís no fun to be nagged. Give your relationship a lift by putting an end to the irritating nag cycle.
83. Learn to Sacrifice Temporary Pressure for Long-term Goals. All success requires sacrifice. Do you have the determination to endure temporary punishment to reach your dreams?
84. Learn the GTD Workflow. An excellent into to GTD for the novice, a great refresher for the experienced.
85. Use the Power of 10 Minutes. 10 Minutes can be even more productive amount of time than 50 minutes, if used properly.
86. Triple Your Workout Effectiveness. Do you exercise regularly but don't get the results you want? Here are some simple but powerful ways to boost that workout.
87. Work 8 Hours Straight Without Hating Yourself. There is an art to taking breaks that can help you work longer, and more productively.
88. Learn Whether You're Waking Up at the Wrong Time. Everyone's internal clock can tell us when we should be working. Are you listening to it?
89. Reduce Wasted Plastic Cups and Bottles. If you want to toss fewer plastic cups and bottles in the trash, you may be interested this ultra-cool reusable cup and water bottle.
90. Avoid Entrepreneurial Burnout: Fill Your Tank. Many times entrepreneurs suffer from going to hard with their vision, without thinking about keeping the work pace sustainable.
91. Take Steps to Boost Your Happiness in the Next Hour. You can make yourself happier ñ and this doesnít have to be a long-term ambition. You can start right now.
92. Learn to Capture Ideas and How to Manage Diarrhea of the Brain. Sometimes our best ideas come at the worst possible times. These tips will help to make sure none of those precious ideas fall through the cracks.
93. Know the Signs That a Pink Slip is Coming. If you can answer yes to THREE or more of these questions, you may want to think about sprucing up your resume and dry-cleaning your best interview attire.
94. Try No TV. In an extreme experiment to reduce waste to near zero, No Impact Man turned turned off electricity, which means no TV. Read about how to entertain a little girl with no TV.
95. Accelerate Your Mortgage Payments to Save a Bundle. See how much money you can save by adding just a few extra dollars a month to the principal.
96. Use a Today List to Get Stuff Done. Helps you focus on what needs to be done today.
97. Use Money to Buy Happiness. Some of the best things in life arenít free, so spend money in ways to bring you more happiness bang for your buck.
98. Save the Lives of Animals With One Change. If you want to help save the lives of hundreds of thousands of animals just by not using plastic bags, perhaps the easiest environmental step, read here.
99. Get the Most Out of Your Rebates. Follow these tips and we can all fight the Man and wrench our hard-earned money back from those big, faceless corporations.
100. Eliminate All But the Absolute Essential Tasks. Is your to-do list overwhelming you? Here's how to simplify it to the core tasks.

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