Benefits of Exercising Creativity
One of the more common themes in Deepak Chopra’s book, Super Brain, is this: Use your brain, don’t let your brain use you. If you’re confused, that’s okay. This is meant to be followed up with examples.
Freestyle Rap and Your Brain: Surprising Benefits
When you listen to artists like Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, or Common, just the thought of freestyle rap might be intimidating enough to make you shy away. Besides, if rapping is not your thing, you’re probably wondering why I’m suggesting that you jump genres at this point in your life.
Self Driving Cars: Insurance Issues
Sci-fi fans may have been waiting for the invention of flying cars for decades, but it’s self-driving cars that are quickly becoming our new reality. Automated vehicles are one of the great technological revolutions of our time, but learn why they cause fear in the hearts of insurers.
Urban Beekeeping for Beginners
You’ve romanticized about having your own honeybee hive apiary; have thought about helping save the bees from disease, nutrition and pesticides; or contemplated how great it would be to have bees populate your garden. It’s doable, but will take some time and effort.
Is Downsizing Right for Me? Tips and Thoughts to Consider
There are various passages of time we know we will live through, such as learning to drive, having a child or buying your first home, and they become major life events as they should be and downsizing and the reasons to move are at the heart of this.
Can Blockchain Transform the Food Industry?
Blockchain is taking the world by storm, though the talk mostly focuses on a small subsection of its use cases. More than bitcoin and healthcare records, blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt less expected arenas like food supply chains.
Why the Gig Economy Will Bring More Equality
Seldom, if ever, is the Industrial Revolution framed as a labor revolution. Yet that’s undeniably what it was. Is it any coincidence that the dawning industrial revolution — fed by the Internet of Things, virtual reality, and the like — is stealing the limelight from the spread of contingent work?
In-School Initiative Ideas for Businesses
What’s the most popular course at Yale University this year? It’s not English Composition, American Government, or any other foundational course; it’s Psychology and the Good Life. This semester, nearly a quarter of Yale’s undergraduates signed up to learn how to lead happier, more fulfilling lives.
How to Regrow Veggies from Kitchen Scraps
Ever wish you didn’t have to throw out so many vegetables or that you didn’t need to buy them? What if you could fix both problems in one? What if you grew more vegetables from the scraps of your meals? No green thumb? No problem!
Making the Most of Savings Apps
You use your smartphone while you shop. Why not let it net you some deep discounts? Find out top ways to make retail apps work harder for you.
7 Steps to Planning a Career Change for the New Year
Every “New Year” is our annual reminder to rethink our lives and reevaluate the future. It is a time which allows us another chance to change for the better. If your resolutions include a new career, getting a jump on planning can help you succeed.
Impact Investing: Factors to Consider
Are you thinking about getting involved in impact investing? Learning more about the factors you should consider will help you determine if it is the right type of investment for you.
Using Personality Tests to Choose a Career
Have you already chosen a major? Are you leaning strongly toward one career field? Have you considered if this path is the right one for your personality type? How much does it matter?
Diversity is a Strength in my Personal and Professional Life
Being open to diverse people and opinions has allowed me to grow as a person, and as an entrepreneur. How can we show the importance of diversity to others?
Inspirational Quotes for Millennials to Get Out of Debt
“Don’t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny." Get some inspiration to get out of debt!
Online Selling: 2 Essential Tips for Taking Better Photos
Whether you’re selling garage sale finds on eBay, extra baby stuff on Let It Go or the latest sprocket on Amazon, you need to be photographer. You’ll need social media and business skills to be successful too, but if your stuff doesn’t look valuable, no one will buy it.
How to Get Rich Slowly: Play the Long Game for Financial Success
Wait a minute — what’s the rush? Become financially stable can take time, and in the long-run it’s usually better that way.
Selling Garage Sale Finds: Tips for Making Extra Cash
Are you looking for a way to make extra money in your spare time? Who isn’t? If you like cruising garage sales and have an eye for value, you could turn your coins into folding money. It’s not a career, but with some research, legwork and luck it can make a nice paying hobby. Is it for you?
Creative Ways to Sell Your Artwork Locally
If you paint, sculpt, take photographs or make any other physical form of art, I’m sure you love what you do, but you also deserve to get paid. Not enough artists make a living doing what they do. No one’s going to change that for you than you, however. Time to change your own life.
Driving for Uber or Lyft? Learn How to Overcome Some of the Downfalls
Now that you are cleared to drive for Uber or Lyft (or both), how is the adventure? You probably have a book full of stories from the first weekend alone. How can you make the most of the business and avoid as many problems as possible?