How to Fight Your Online Addiction and Regain Control of Your Attention

How much time do you spend each day responding to email, checking Facebook, sending and reading Tweets, aimlessly surfing your favorite websites and buying things you don’t need? How much time, in other words, do you spend doing stuff online that doesn’t add much value in your life, or in anyone else’s? Too much, I’m…

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Source: LifeHacker – How to Fight Your Online Addiction and Regain Control of Your Attention

How to Make Yourself Luckier

Like it or not, we’re all a little superstitious. It’s not necessarily a bad thing—research shows that leaving things to chance and luck can enhance performance, increase productivity, and reduce stress. As writer Eric Barker explains, being lucky isn’t completely beyond our control.

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Source: LifeHacker – How to Make Yourself Luckier

Make Your Weekend More Awesome

Sure, weekends are for relaxing, but it can turn into too much of a good thing. Eating and drinking in excess or watching hours of TV might sound like good ideas at the end of a long week, but they have negative physical and psychological consequences. Writer Eric Barker lays out the best ways to make your weekend

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Source: LifeHacker – Make Your Weekend More Awesome