Latest Posts from July, 2012

Learning How to Build Confidence
- Category Career Happiness
- Author: Royale Scuderi
- Date: July 27, 2012
We’re all plagued by doubts sometimes, some more than others. Even the charismatic politician, the inspirational speaker, and the millionaire success story have moments of insecurity. Self-confidence is a tricky thing. Some seem to be born with it, others are taught it and the rest of us have to build it. Our level of confidence

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5 Best Ways to Use Your Vacation Time
- Category Career
- Author: Royale Scuderi
- Date: July 25, 2012
Vacations are an invaluable way to recharge the batteries and recover from the mental and physical stresses of your job. Time away also gives us time to regroup, ponder our choices, and make plans that we don’t have time for when we’re immersed in our day-to-day scheduled lives. An added benefit of vacation is the

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The Secret To Power Napping
- Category Health
- Author: Jennifer Cardona
- Date: July 24, 2012
Counter to popular belief that napping makes you a lazy couch potato, research shows that power napping is more than beneficial to our health. Learn how to fight drowsiness, find the best way to take naps, where to take them, and how they are advantageous to our mental and emotional health. Siesta anyone? Perhaps the

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3 Signs You’re an Impulse Buyer — and How To Stop It
- Category Money
- Author: Jeffrey Trull
- Date: July 24, 2012
With all your frugal defenses up, impulse buying can still bring you down. Even the best of budgets are no match for the sudden purchases that happen without a second of consideration. Impulse buying isn’t just about your habits, either. Retailers work to exploit our tendency to make unplanned purchases. What does this mean? You need to

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Get Fit Without Paying For a Gym Membership
- Category Health Money
- Author: Jeffrey Trull
- Date: July 23, 2012
When you think about exercise and getting in shape, is your first thought “I better hit the gym!”? Perhaps your excitement lasts for one or two gym outings and then dies down. If you’ve felt this way, you’re not alone: 80 percent of the 40 million Americans that have bought gym memberships aren’t using them according

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What You Need to Know About Calories
- Category Health
- Author: Jennifer Cardona
- Date: July 23, 2012
Calories are infamous for having a bad reputation. It’s as if they are the sole culprit behind weight gain and failed diets. Ask a person what they know about calories, and a common response would be that too many calories are harmful to your health. While this has some partial truth to it, calories do

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7 Tips to Help You Plan a Stress-Free Vacation
- Category Career Happiness
- Author: Royale Scuderi
- Date: July 23, 2012
Vacations are supposed to be a respite from the pressures of work responsibilities, but often there is so much to think about, so much to plan, and so much to do, that it hardly seems worth it. You come back feeling more stress than before you left. The key to stress-free vacation is in the

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Coffee Shop or Couch? Why Where You Study Matters
- Category Education
- Author: Bethany Perryman
- Date: July 20, 2012
A public library in Dublin. Photo: Flickr. Where do you study? Most college kids hit up the library, a coffee shop, or study from the comfort of their couches. Some prefer to study outside, and you may even see a handsome coed sunbathing with a book. But, does where you study make a difference? Your study

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How to Handle Friendships in the Office
- Category Career
- Author: Royale Scuderi
- Date: July 20, 2012
Anytime you spend a significant amount of time with people in the same environment, you’re bound to make friends. This is certainly true in the workplace. There are many pitfalls to cultivating friendships at work, but if handled correctly they can make work so much more enjoyable, or at least tolerable in a difficult job.

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From 140 to 4.0: Using Twitter to Help Your Grades
- Category Education
- Author: Bethany Perryman
- Date: July 19, 2012
Tweet, tweet! “What’s happening?” If you can’t get off the Internet, you might as well help it fit into your life. You can get a lot of bang for your buck — or, character, as it were — when using Twitter to improve your grades. If you’re an active tweeter on Twitter, don’t get twitterpated when

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