Flying is cheaper than it used to be. Adjusted for inflation, a ticket from LA to Kansas City cost $575 in 1955
, compared to a couple hundred bucks today. Flights are more affordable these days, but pretty much everything costs extra. Here’s how to get around those fees, especially the hidden ones.
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While overconfidence can wantonly boost your ego, lack of it can knock your self-image out cold. A bad self-image seriously affects one’s spirits and quality of living. But it is very, very viable to build confidence without taking too much effort and turn your life around! Here’s how:
The morning alarm going off is one of the most frustrating moments in a day. You snooze it drowsily and before you can tuck yourself in the sheets and close your eyelids, the alarm starts blaring again. The realities of waking life flood your head and you wish you can shut the world out and sleep in.Don’t dread the day ahead. It’s chock full of awesome possibilities! Despite the mundanity of the events that you’re aware of, there are so many unimaginable circumstances that can happen! Life isn’t a video game, with definite directions and prospects. So rise and shine with your lips curved upwards and get ready for all exciting things that are gonna happen.
Yep. That’s it! Easy huh? You’ll hardly believe how significantly this bolsters your confidence. Ever thought about how man, as merely an evolved ape, has established dominance in the animal kingdom? It’s his upright posture, among other factors that makes him the most superior.For the slumpers out there, check your posture every ten minutes and in a matter of months you won’t be needing to do that at all. You don’t have to thrust your chest forward and walk around like a buffoon. Just make sure that your shoulder blades aren’t angled away from your body and you should be good.
Even if you’d rather play games or watch TV, read at least 10 – 20 pages of any good book of your liking everyday. Books stoke the imagination and are a more vivid and enriching experience than other forms of media. Besides taking you to faraway places and putting you in the shoes of intricately woven characters, books expand your vocabulary, inspire you to construct sentences in myriad ways and give you lots of ideas.Remember that a well read man is well respected, found formidable by his foes and is agelessly attractive despite time and gravity wearing down his visage.
Cars are cool and motorcycles are cooler, but a bike has tremendous sex appeal (Not because of the inverse proportionality between the size of a vehicle and that of its driver’s genitalia). Remember when your daddy let go of the bike as you pedalled and you rode forward on your own, your heart skipping beats as the wind caressed your grinning face? Nothing else can compare, right?
Bikes are not only cheaper, easier to maintain and fun to ride, but also gives you a good cardiovascular workout and is more efficient in locomotion than cars in peak-hour road traffic. You’ll be saving a ton of money this way and also feel buoyant and energetic (surprisingly not exhausted) throughout the day.
As long as it doesn’t needlessly offend anyone or make a sailor blush, swear all you want without the slightest shame. This has got to be the easiest f**king way to build confidence, right? You bet your f**king a** it is!Studies show that people who swear a lot are the most honest and genuine, and though they may not be everyone’s favorite, they have relationships that run deep. Also, our potty-mouthed friends have an air of confidence about them resulting from an aversion to fake their personality to adhere to conventions.
It’s not like taking a bite of a poisoned apple, falling into a coma and getting kissed by a prince would make you as menacingly confident as a scarlet-faced boxer in a face-off. But sleep deprivation seriously saps the vigour and you’ll be having a chore survivng the day, let alone waltz your way through it.
Ensure that you get at least 7 hours of sleep every night (or during the day if you’re a night owl) so that you can wake up to the morning alarm without vehemently cursing it and start the day right.
The world’s yours. Go get it tiger!
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Ajay Shaan is an aspiring motivational writer, a lover of the English language (One that often ends up grabbing his garb and jumping out the window at the sound of the doorbell) and a certified weirdo with a distinct sense of humor. He hails from India and should you wonder how he smells, he does it with his nose, much like the rest of the world.
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Reader Alan is going into surgery soon (best wishes for a speedy recovery!) and wanted a workspace that he could use comfortably while he was out of commission and recovering, but still effective enough to get some work done and do a little gaming. Here’s what he came up with, complete with a quick video tour.
Whether you like to use mayo or not, a good tuna salad requires all the ingredients to come together. A little umami will help balance the flavor, and these two fishy ingredients are perfect for the job.
Have you heard the good news? Live video has come to save the internet, and now Tumblr is getting in on the game. But they’re not reinventing the wheel; they’re partnering with existing video platforms to get live. And probably get weird.
If you’ve been thinking about taking one of Coursera’s many university-created computer science classes, now’s the time. Enterprise software company Atlassian is currently offering scholarships that cover half of all course fees to students who enroll.
Chrome/Opera/Safari/Firefox (Beta): It’s been a while since we highlighted Gmelius
, the add-on that cleans up Gmail’s interface and strips out ads. It’s grown since then, and now has features to send emails later on a schedule, snooze them, bundle in useful reminders, block email trackers, and more.
Modern life is all about innovating our way out of our inabilities. We’re not meant to fly, or live 20 stories in the air, or speak to a friend in New Zealand. And (buzzkill alert) we’re not meant to be awake when the sun don’t shine. Of all that we can now do, the latter may be the most universal. If we’ve mastered anything, it’s light. For the large part, this is good news; extra hours in the “day” mean we can socialize longer and get more work done.
We posted this sound bar system for $300 last week, which at the time was the best price we’d seen. Turns out though, if you have an Amazon Rewards Visa, you can save an additional $60!
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