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Creative and Delicious Ways to Repurpose “Extra” Easter Candy
Easter has passed and the bunny has come and gone, but the candy remains. You may have some leftovers, or you may—in your infinite wisdom—have hit up the clearance aisle to stock up on peanut butter eggs and hollow chocolate rabbits. Either way, here are some of the most delicious things you can do with your sweet haul besides just eating it.
6 Ways a Typical ‘Night Owl’ can become a ‘Morning Person’
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In many ways the world is split along the lines of Morning people and everyone else. Generally, a “morning person” can be said to be one of those lucky few who are happy, full of pep, and productive in the early hours of the day while you’re still wrestling your snooze button.
Many people will do anything just to make that transition. One of my close friends for instance, has been battling with the seemingly tedious task of transitioning from being a “night owl” to a morning person since last year.
Like I always say; “the night was made for rest, the day for work, and the morning for blessings, creativity and health”. Does that make me a morning person? You could say that. Maybe I am not. But I am one of those people who usually completes fifty percent of their tasks while many people are still tossing on the bed and rubbing their eyes.
I will share a few simple tips that anyone can follow to make that vital transition. With them, you can change from being a night owl, or just a heavy sleeper to becoming a person who maximizes his/her mornings.
- Plan Your Morning before the Day
The Morning is the most beautiful time of the day. It is a serene and peaceful time. It can also be a very profitable time, but at the very best it is still just time. Time by nature flies and can be up before you even know it has begun.
Taking a few minutes at night to put together the things you will need to do the next day, will reduce the rush in the morning. It also gives your subconscious mind ample time to work on those tasks, and give you ideas on how to go about them. Most importantly, it will give you time to get your act together before leaving the house.
Get your gym bag together. Ready your bike. Pack your office suitcase, and pick out your attire. This way you can devote the morning to exercise, meditation and prayers, time with the family at the breakfast table, and even catch a TV show before the rat race begins.
- Use the Night for its true Purpose
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise” – Ben Franklin
Sleep at any time has a great deal of benefits. But the benefits of a good night’s sleep cannot be overemphasized. The night was made for only one purpose and that is to rest. The day winds down into darkness, and expects you to follow.
On the average, an adult needs between 7.5 and 8 hours of sleep per night. “But many people can function with 6 hours’ sleep, and there also some who need 9 hours or more,” says Sudhansu Chokroverty, MD, professor and co-chair sleep medicine at the New Jersey Neuroscience Institute at JFK Medical Center in Edison, N.J.
- Handle Hangovers the Proper Way
Early morning hangovers can be very distressing. The best way to handle them is to avoid them altogether. Don’t drink so much alcohol late at night. Better still; keep away from it as much as you can.
If for some reason however, you consume enough alcohol to cause you a hangover in those precious hours of the morning, don’t panic. The smart thing to do is to explore potent medicinal ways of dealing with hangovers, so you can get on with your day on time.
- Maximize Your Day; Free up your Nights
A lot of people prefer to work at night. From writers to internet marketers, the night season appears to be the most productive time of the whole day. As a night worker, you could get great results. However, you may have to waste your early mornings.
The simple thing to do here is to work out a routine that allows you to cover more during the day. This means your nights get freer. Indirectly, it kills the risk of you being a grumpy, red eyed father, neighbor or spouse.
Imagine being able to wake your kid up each morning and prepare him for school. How about having a go at another round of sex with your wife? Or you could just spend time talking, planning, or praying.
- Make Hitting “Snooze” a Little Harder
A lot of times in the past, I set the alarm clock with the best of intentions. But when it eventually rang, it always seemed to have gone off a little sooner than I was ready to rise. Over the years luckily, I have cured myself of that snoozigitis disease. But it took a lot of discipline, and practice.
If you want to do the same, simply keep your alarm clock somewhere farther from your bed stand, perhaps on a cupboard or something. The idea is to make sure that to hit the snooze button; you have to get out of bed.
- Rethink Mornings
If you don’t have a rethink about mornings, you will still not maximize them. Mornings are the best part of the day. It presents you with a period when there are few sounds outside, no yelling children, no nagging wife or husband, and no neighbors blasting music from their stereos. But until you think so and believe so, you will still remain sluggish in the mornings.
So what was that excuse you gave for not being a morning person?
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The Ready to Write Bag
If you really want to be prepared to write anywhere, you need all kinds of electronics, writing utensils, and notebooks. Case in point, Lifehacker reader Ezra Hilyer’s bag is set up for just that.
Wash Dark Clothes on a Short Cycle to Keep Colors from Fading
Dark clothing can fade quickly, but you can keep it at bay by washing them on a short cycle, always washing them inside out, and hanging them to dry—among some other tips in this video from Consumer Reports.
Remains of the Day: Apple Fixes iOS 9.3 Activation Bug on Older Devices
People are in a tizzy over Instagram’s timeline change that hasn’t even happened yet, but I, for one, welcome the algorithmic overlords to feed me relevant content. Like this news today: Apple issued yet another build of iOS 9.3 for older devices but still bugs remain.
See Past the Annoying Flaws of Others With a Shift In Perspective
We all have friends or family with flaws that annoy us. Maybe they’re constantly late, or they talk too much , or they handle bad news poorly. Here’s a different way to look at the shortcomings of your friends and family when you’re frustrated.
Save a Little Money by Sticking With Water at Lunchtime
Having a soda, tea, or other beverage with your lunch can be a nice way to treat yourself in the middle of your workday. That drink, however, can also cost you some serious money in the long run, especially if you eat out a lot.
6 Reasons Why Being a Nice Person is Not Good Enough in Life
1) You need to go all out for what you want in life
I remember talking to a friend who was really into this girl. He didn’t do a thing to get to know her, but instead lamented to me about how she was dating another guy, who didn’t seem worthy to him and that he was a nice guy. He wondered why she didn’t like him.
So I told him, “But you didn’t dare to even talk to her!”
Being nice is never good enough. Nobody owes you a darn thing!
You can’t simply be a nice person and then sit around on your butt. You don’t gain what you want from “karma points” or whatever.
If you want something, you go for it. No excuses. You do what it takes. You can’t expect life to be handed over to you just because you’re nice.
2) Being nice is not part of healing
These words resonated with me so much. I can be a very angry person and I was talking to a friend about my anger issues. I repeatedly told him about how I was still a nice guy and didn’t get in trouble with the law.
He then said, “Being nice is not part of healing.”
It made me realize how we all seem to mistake that being a nice person is all that takes to heal our problems and iron out our issues.
Yes, being nice will not cause additional problems, but it’s not enough if you really want to heal. You have to look deep within, start being brutally honest with yourself and pinpoint the start of healing specifically.
3) People simply don’t care
I was once taught by a business coach, “Teachers don’t get paid the most. Entertainers do.”
That said, being popular today seems to be arguably more important than being nice.
So again, you can’t get what you want in life if you’re only nice. You have to play the game right.
Ask yourself, what can you do so you can present yourself to be nice to the masses instead of just one person? How can you make people care? How can you get their attention?
4) Sometimes, you can’t be a nice person at all
Why be nice to somebody who is completely toxic to you? Why say yes all the time? You do know that you can start say no right?
At some point in life, you need to start caring for yourself, and in turn be nice to yourself first and foremost. You need to start being selfish so you can take care of yourself.
Dump the toxic people. Say no when you have to. Reject others. Stand up for yourself! You’ve to earn others’ respect.
And you can’t do that if you’re a pushover.
5) Because life is a mystery
Everyday, in the news, we read about all the bad things happening in the world.
Innocent people get hurt. Good people die for seemingly no reason. Nice people are treated badly by bad people.
Why? Who knows? Because life is a mystery. That is a fact.
We can’t ever filter reality. Life has ups and then it has downs. People feel high and then low at times.
This isn’t to say that we should lead a paranoid life though. It simply means we need to acknowledge that in the grand scheme of things, this is how life works.
We shouldn’t argue over it then. Just be happy your own way and live life the way you want.
6) You don’t stand out if you’re only nice
Think about it: Almost everybody is nice today.
What do you think of somebody when you’re told, “Oh yeah. He’s a nice person.”
And that’s it.
I mean, it’s good to be nice, but that doesn’t mean you’d stand out.
Why not be: Charismatic, talented, funny, eloquent, spontaneous or intelligent?
And you know what? You got it in you. Let it out! don’t be shy. Don’t play safe by being nice only!
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The Evolution of Anxiety: Why We Worry and What to Do About It
Let’s pretend for a moment that you are a giraffe. You live on the grasslands of the African savannah. You have a neck that is 7 feet long (2.1 meters). Every now and then, you spot a group of humans driving around on a safari taking pictures of you.
Sig Nordal 