What are you able to live without?

What activities and things don't you need? Get rid of those that aren't needed. This will free up a lot of your time and attention, allowing you to focus on the things that really matter.

50 tools which can help you with your writing

You can find the 50 tools via this external link.

… You will become handy with these tools over time. You will begin to recognize their use in the stories you read. You will see chances to apply them when you revise your own work. Eventually, they will become part of your flow, natural and automatic …

6 driving tips to avoid frustration

Do you get angry or frustrated at other drivers on the road? More often than not, we are frustrated by other drivers and road conditions when we're not prepared for them. Did you know that you can actually avoid road rage and frustration by expecting everyone around you to be idiots? When you expect them to be this way, you'll drive defensively, because you never know when an idiot is going to come into your path.

Here's some tips that will help you prepare yourself, and as a result, will relieve your frustration and avoid you going into a 'road rage'. Remember, frustration is simply the result of feeling a lack of control, so by maintaining control of your driving experience you avoid the frustration.

1) Drive defensively
There's a reason this is the number 1 tip. When you drive defensively, you make sure that you're aware of everything else on - and off - the road. You're just waiting for the unexpected, so that when it happens... you're ready. Swerving cars and suicidal pedestrians will be of no concern to you in this state, because you're ready for it. If you hit someone or something, then you weren't driving defensively enough.

2) Slow down at traffic lights
When you come to a traffic light that is green for go, take your foot off the accelerator and let the car coast, having your foot 'at the ready' over the brake. This allows you to be prepared to brake if the lights change to orange. If the light is still green as you go beyond the 'point of no return', return your foot to the accelerator.

3) The point of no return
Most traffic lights (in Australia and NZ at least) have two white arrows on the road before you reach the lights. The first arrow is the 'point of no return'. If you're doing the speed limit and the lights change to orange when you're at or past this first arrow, then you have time to continue through the intersection before it turns red. If the lights turn orange before you reach this first arrow, then you will need to slow down and stop, as the lights will turn red before you reach the intersection.

4) When you see brake lights in front of you, put your own brakes on.
Start slowing down immediately when you see car/s in front of you put their brakes on. There's usually a reason for them braking, and you don't want to be going up their backside by not being prepared. You also need to do this so that the drivers behind you know that you're braking, so they can be prepared to slow down as well. You don't want them going up your backside!

5) Take the path of least resistance
Traffic in front of you is unpredictable. Always look out for the path of least resistance by choosing the lane with the least amount of traffic in front of you. It will help avoid the idiots, and provide you with satisfaction as you sail past all those other cars backed up in the one lane.

6) Remember the 'two second rule'
You should have a decent amount of space between you and the car in front, with two seconds being a safe distance. If you're unsure about how much space you have, do the following exercise while behind a car. As it travels past a post or other object by the side of the road, count to yourself: one-one thousand, two-one thousand.... If you can reach the end of 'two-one thousand' before you've reached that roadside landmark, then you're at the safe distance of two seconds. This is applicable for any speed.

In wet weather, increase the distance to 4 seconds. This is to help avoid sliding on water on the road and ending up ploughing into their backside because you've applied the brakes too hard because you were too close.... If you're too close to the car in front, and they brake suddenly to avoid a collision or for whatever reason, then you're not going to have time to maintain control of your own car. The distance and time is too small for you to brake and avoid colliding with their backside.

If another car cuts in front of you to take up the space between you and the one previously in front of you, simply remember this rule and drop back 2 seconds behind the one that just cut in front of you. They will invariably find themselves in trouble if they're forced to brake, while you stay out of trouble by remembering this rule.

Market your blog

If you want to improve your chances of success with your blog this year, then you might like to implement a few tips. There's plenty for you to have a look at over at 'How to market your blog in 2007'.

Explore

There's a fine line between being flexible, being wishy-washy and being rigid.

It's worth exploring that line.

Taking a stand

Every time you 'take a stand' for something, or against something, ask yourself one thing.

Is it worth it?

There are a lot of stands worth taking, but there are also a lot of stands that have lost their significance.

Performancing for Firefox

If you're a Firefox user AND a blogger then you need this Firefox extension. It splits your page into two, with the new bottom frame allowing you to do all your blog posting while keeping the web page you're visiting in the top frame.

What I really like is the section in the bottom frame that allows you to choose which of your blogs you want to post to.

This saves a lot of time by not having to log into blogspot.com to do your posting. Visit the link above to find out more, and then install it. It's worth it.

Making the Law of Attraction work for you

There's a lot of stuff about the Law of Attraction and how it works, but there's not a lot on how to make it work for YOU. You don't need to know how electricity works in order to turn on the light; you just need to know that flicking the switch will result in the light going on. I hope that this article will do that for you too, where a switch is flicked and you see the light.

Unlike the light switch, however, the process of flicking your own switch to attract your desires into your life can be slightly more complicated. While this process involves understanding WHY it works, there's no need to understand HOW it works, as the 'how' is literally up to the universe.

When you decide to do something, the first thing that happens is that a thought comes into your head. You might think that you want to go for a coffee at your local Starbucks. What happens in your mind is that you see the experience in your head. You can see the people that will be there, hear the sounds, feel yourself sitting in the seat, and enjoying the taste of the coffee that you drink while reading a book you wanted to catch up on. You are living that experience in your mind!

The next thing that happens is that you'll head out of your house, jump into your car (or go for a walk) and end up at Starbucks. When you get there you'll buy yourself a coffee, sit down and enjoy it, while looking at the people around you or read that book.

What just happened? The thoughts and feelings in your mind became a reality! What happens in your mind is the precursor to those things happening in your life.

Now, you can create on purpose or you can let it be created for you by default. Most people let their reality be created by default, because they don't put any effort or control into it. They're on 'auto pilot', letting reality be whatever it wants to be, because they believe they have no control over it.

When you create by default you avoid understanding how the power of your mind determines your reality. In the example above, you've used your mind to create a reality where you went to Starbucks and enjoyed a coffee and read a book. You could have instead created a reality where you stayed home and read the book there.

Your experiences begin as imagination, before they become real.

When you consider that your life is a result of your IMAGINED experiences, by failing to take responsibility for your thoughts and imagination, you also fail to take responsibility for your life. This is how you create by default.

To create on purpose involves making good choices about the kind of life you want. This is achieved by making those choices in your MIND first. You'll need to understand the power that your thoughts have on how your reality is determined, and then you can purposefully create the experiences in your mind that you want in your life.

You can CHOOSE the experiences that you want to have.

As you see them in your mind, you also have to FEEL yourself experiencing them. You have to imagine what those experiences are going to be. The emotions, the pleasures, the wind rushing through your hair, and the feelings of enjoyment that you would have with those experiences.

When you can hold these things in your mind, these visions and feelings, then your life will move forward in a way that will make those experiences real.

That's how you make the Law of Attraction work for you, by creating on purpose - choosing the experiences in your mind to bring them into your life.

To see how it works, you need to look at what you're attracting to yourself right now. If you can only see hardship, suffering, anxiety, fear, anger, etc, then that's all that you're going to experience. When you are afraid of something, you'll see more of it in your life than if you weren't. It's because you're looking for it, and by looking for it, you're creating it.

This happens with everything that's on your mind. So to have different experiences, you just need to have different thoughts. That's all!

It's that simple. There's nothing else you need to do!

• Visualise it.
• Feel it.
• Let it come to you.

Just like how you already do it with everything that's been happening in your life so far. The only difference is that before, you didn't know that what's on your mind is what's coming into your life.

I have a friend who has wanted to move forward in his career doing something that he's good at. However, he's unsure about what he really has a passion for. He knows that what he's good at isn't what he's passionate about. As a result of holding onto the thoughts in his mind of continuing to do what he's good at, even though he doesn't really enjoy it, his life has moved forward in a way that gives him the opportunity to do more of what he's good at. The only problem is that he can see he's going to hate it!

What's happened is that the universe has provided for him what he's been asking for. The only thing is, he's asking for the wrong things. He's not asking the universe to provide what he really wants, because he doesn't know what he really wants. So the universe is simply providing him what is on his mind.

This is the same for you. You're getting what's on your mind. Change your mind, and your focus, and your imaginations, and the universe, one way or another, will give you what's on your mind.

Let me know how it works for you. I'd love to read your comments about what you're attracting into your life by changing what you're thinking. Share with us your successes.

Read websites faster

If you're like me, you have a lot of information to read on a daily basis. Wouldn't it be easier if you could save time by going to only one website that collects and displays the latest updated information from all those other websites you visit?

Of course it would.

That's why you need to go to www.bloglines.com and set up an account. Then you can 'subscribe' via Bloglines to your favourite news and information and blog sites, and instead of going back to them, you simply go to your Bloglines page and see what's been updated.

No need to browse all those websites any more. Now you have more time to do more important or pleasurable things. Enjoy.

Surprise your kids...

...by not reacting to them the way they think you will. React differently. Thank them instead of chastising them. Be different.

Learn to be flexible

Rigidity is the demon of an unsatisfying life.

Change

Every now and again you need to shake things up and surprise everyone, including yourself.

A change is as good as a holiday, as they say. And you can never have too many holidays...

Enjoy what is in front of you

There's value in having a long term view of life, but there is also value in living in the moment.

Make time

Make time for the things you care about the most, whether that's daily exercise or 30 minutes with a good book.

Introduction

Most of us find that every day is filled with various commitments that simply stress us out! We feel obliged to fulfil one obligation after another, whether it's to work, family or friends, and at the end of each day, there's nothing left for ourselves.

How do people do more, earn more, and get more, and enjoy it all? How do these people build more satisfying lives? How do they sort through all the 'stuff' and find meaning in it all?

This site attempts to answer those questionsby helping you do more, earn more, get more and ENJOY more.

It's not complicated. In fact, it's very simple. Every day (or every few days) some simple tips or hints will be placed on this site.

You will need to remember one thing, of course. Life doesn't become simple until you make it simple. If you are inspired by this website - or by anything - to do something to simply your life and make it more enjoyable, do it immediately! Don't hesitate, and don't procrastinate.

Life is simple. Make it that way. And enjoy.