Partners

At this moment, my husband and I are both unemployed. And although this sounds nuts, we are actually trying to maximize the duration of his unemployment. I want my husband to be able to find a job that makes him happy, not just the job that comes along first. This means we may have to live on a...

A corporate career was once the dream for middle class America. It provided financial security, social respect, and a shot at reaching the upper class.

Today, the corporate career track is profoundly different than in the past. Billion dollar startups and average-joe media sensations have robbed...

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By Leo Babauta I’ve been happily married 11 years, and I’m still as in love with my beautiful wife Eva now as when I first fell for her 13 years ago. That’s not to say we don’t have our problems and arguments, but we’re getting better and better at making it work. I...

2013 Six ways to successfully manage laundry Frustrated with doing laundry? Here are six ways you can make the process a little easier. Keep your Someday list from being clutter Avoid the clutter and guilt of Someday/Maybe lists and start … Continued
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I’ve written a lot about loopholes. In my forthcoming habits book, I identify the multiple strategies we can use to shape our habits. I love every strategy and every chapter — habit-formation is an intensely interesting subject — but my favorite chapter is the one on the Strategy...

Job interviews are tough, if you're lucky enough to get one. A recent study found that 80% of the available jobs in the US are never advertised. And only 20% of people who apply for any given job actually get an interview.

So, if you do have an interview lined up, congratulations; you've already...

“Vacation Time” From The Book of Camping and Woodcraft, 1918 By Horace Kephart To many a city man there comes a time when the great town wearies him. He hates its sights and smells and clangor. Every duty is a task and every caller is a bore. There come visions of green fields and...

As I’ve mentioned many times before, I’m hard at work on a book about how we make and break habits. This masterpiece will hit the shelves in 2015 (sign up here to be notified when it’s available). When it comes to habits, most of us — well, perhaps not the Rebels — have habits that we’d like...