Everyone’s heard the old adage, practice makes perfect. Practice isn’t just for building skills, though. It’s also for maintaining the ones you’ve already built.
Any Skill You’re Not Practicing Is Wasting Away
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Use the Rubber Band Method to Build Better Habits Every Day
Building better habits requires reminders. You need something to help you keep your new habits at the forefront of your mind until they’re cemented in your brain. Even a simple rubber band can help.
How to Write Short: Master Word Craft In the Digital Age
Whether you identify as one or not, everyone is a writer. Between social networks, dating profiles, blogs, and the day-to-day tasks of most jobs, writing is an essential skill. In How to Write Short, author Roy Peter Clark illustrates the value of brief, short-form writing in our technology-driven world, and shows you how to do it right.
The Long Haul Flight Carry-On Bag
Long flights are tough, but motorcycle journalist and Everyday Carry reader Wes keeps things as pleasant as possible with his carry-on bag loadout.
Here’s How You Can Replace Your Rusty Brake Lines
Do you live in a place like Michigan where road salt treats your car like a school of piranhas treats a wounded duckling? If so, your brake lines might be rusty, so you should replace them to avoid things like death, despair and turmoil. It’s actually a cheap and easy job; here’s how you do it.
Protect Garden Labels Against Water with Clear Nail Polish
Making your own garden labels takes just some popsicle sticks and a sharpie, but water can make the ink run, or the wood rot. You can save them with something you’ve likely already got sitting around: nail polish.
Remains of the Day: Google Photos for iOS Now Supports Live Photos
Apple’s “Live Photos” are the charming Harry Potter-esque animations that bring a little life to your static pics, and you can now store and manage them in Google Photos.
Make the Perfect Burger Joint “Special Sauce” at Home
Some folks will tell you that “special sauce” is just mayonnaise and ketchup, but there’s a little more to it than that. The right mix of basic ingredients and a few surprising spices will make your homemade burgers more mouthwatering than ever.
You Can Now Hail a Lyft Within Facebook Messenger
You’ve been able to hail an Uber within Facebook Messenger since last December, but now Lyft is joining in to give you more options .
Why Perfectionism and Burnout Go Hand in Hand
Perfectionism is often treated as a virtue—especially in the workplace—but research shows that the self-imposed pressure perform flawlessly just leads to eventual burnout. Perfection simply isn’t how you should measure success.
Sig Nordal 