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The Only Habit You Need to Accomplish All Your Goals for 2015

We all know the disappointment of unachieved goals. With each new year, we set a number of goals to make this year the best, only to forget what goals we’ve set come December. For many of us, the story of passionate goal-setting followed by disappointing results is one we’re all too familiar with....

10 Rude Things Even Polite People Do

Much rudeness is inadvertent. In fact, even the most polite among us probably have some bad habits that make us appear rude when we don't mean to be. (See also: 13 Things People With Good Table Manners Never Do)

Wondering what you do that might come across as impolite? Read below for some...
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How and Why to Improve Your Cursive Penmanship

Over the years here at the Art of Manliness we’ve sung the praises of the handwritten letter and simply writing things out by hand in general. Typically, when folks think about writing a handwritten note, they imagine doing it in cursive. Perhaps it’s because we’ve all seen movies set in times past...

Video: The Most Fun Way to Change Your Habits

I’m doing a video series in which I discuss the various strategies that we can use for habit-formation.

Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness. If we have habits that work for us, we’re much more likely to be happy, healthy, productive, and...

Best Money Tips: Surprising Ways to Beat Stress

Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some great articles on surprising ways to beat stress, bad habits you may have when you shop for clothes, and simple ways to be inspired.
Top 5 Articles

31 Little Known Ways to Beat Stress That Really Work — Consume more...
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Best Deals for Tuesday 12/16

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Ralph Lauren Holiday Sale: Extra 30% off, $100 Sears Gift Card for $80, Christmas Decor at Target: Up to 50%...

36 Workouts You Can Do in Your Living Room While It's Cold Out

It's cold enough to reasonably excuse yourself from running, but it's not too cold to workout inside. So move your coffee table out of the way, roll out your yoga mat and make your TV the focal point of your workout, because we've rounded up 36 exercises you can do in your living room. (See...

Integration vs. Features

There are hundreds and thousands of devices, apps and systems that promise to make you more productive. If you spend all your time looking for the perfect set of tools, you’ll never get anything done. In this article, I want to look at one useful way to quickly evaluate tools to help avoid...

Ask the Readers: What Is Your Favorite Holiday Tradition?

There are certain holiday traditions that we come back to year after year. They reflect our values, they are fun, or they taste really, really good. They're often the things we look forward to most when winter rolls in.

What is your favorite holiday tradition? Did you pick it up from other...

Holly jolly clutter

While it’s such a fantastic privilege to be able to share gifts with friends and family this time of year, this privilege often comes with the side-effect of discovering clutter in your home.

Post written by David Caolo

Let Unclutterer help you get your home or office organized. Subscribe to our...

7 Personal Finance Tips for Animal Lovers

The pet industry is big business — $56 billion in 2013 to be exact. And while you want your pet to be happy and healthy, you don't need to contribute any more to that $56 billion than is necessary. (See also: 10 DIY Dog Toys You Can Make for Pennies)

So check out this set of personal...

How to work from home and not become a vegetable!

Wow! They are paying me a great salary but it is a ‘work from home’ opportunity: I wonder ‘how that works out in the long run’! Working from home can be easy or difficult – it all depends on our belief. We may get a work from home opportunity without even asking for it; or we may actually ask for...

10 Lies That Even Honest People Tell

Thomas Jefferson once said, "honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." But the second chapter in that book might be be: "except for these little white lies." (See also: How to Tell If Someone Is Lying)

Being honest about the things that really matter is...

18 Little Food Shopping Mistakes You Need to Stop Making Today

Think you've got your grocery game on lock? Check yourself before you wreck yourself with this list of food shopping mistakes that could bruise your ego — and your wallet.
1. Never Go on an Empty Stomach

This is a no-brainer, for sure, but we're all guilty of taking a trip to the...

Ta-Da! Check Out the Updated Look of My Site

Take a look around! My site has been redesigned (slightly).

I hope you like the changes.

The improvements will be most noticeable if you read this site on your phone or on a tablet. The experience should be much, much better.

Also, you’ll see that I’ve started to add a lot of...

My 2014 Successes and Failures

By Leo Babauta This has been quite a year for me: I moved to a new city, wrote and launched a book, traveled, got leaner, and failed at a bunch of things. I don’t normally do a review of my year, but looking back on the massive amounts of things I succeeded and failed at, […]

Best Money Tips: The Worst Bad Habits to Have

Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some great articles on the worst bad habits to have, side hustle money mistakes, and rules for holiday tipping.
Top 5 Articles

The 5 Worst Bad Habits to Have — Manipulation leads to unhealthy relationships. You'll get...

The Churchill School of Adulthood – Lesson #2: Establish a Daily Routine

When Winston Churchill left the military at age 26 to pursue a writing career and a seat in Parliament, he looked forward to being free of “discipline and authority, and set up in perfect independence in England with nobody to give me orders or arouse me by bell or trumpet.” Yet even though his...

Last Day of Guaranteed Christmas Shipping From the AoM Store (Plus 10% Off Coupon)

Just a friendly reminder that today is last the day of guaranteed Christmas shipping in the Art of Manliness Store. If you order today, your package will in all likelihood arrive well before Christmas Eve and while you can order after this date and up to about the 20th, your order isn’t...

80 Stocking Stuffer Ideas for $10 or Less

It happens every year. You think you have your holiday spending under control, only to get tripped up by the stocking stuffers. This year, stay on track with some budget-friendly stocking stuffer ideas, which include everything from sensible finds to unusual goodies, all of which you can score...