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I had to make some serious changes to make my life simpler, easier, and more enjoyable. Here’s what I figured out.

Consider the sock. Some overlook this mundane undergarment, but don’t let its unassuming nature fool you — the history of hosiery is anything but humble.

There is always something happening at the parks, which truly are "cities that never sleep". Here are 10 essential tasks that are completed every single night at Walt Disney World, the Disneyland Resort, the Disneyland Resort Paris, the Tokyo Disney Resort and Hong Kong Disneyland.

Allen Klein had a contract to manage the Beatles. Unfortunately, there were no longer any Beatles to manage.

Learn one of these 10 things in the next 10 minutes, and you'll be more productive for the rest of your life.

A practical guide to minimizing risk and maximizing success while living the entrepreneurial dream.

The words Cuba Libre - meaning Free Cuba - had a special political significance, and were frequently used by Cubans and Americans alike. The drink remains popular to this day and for many is a hope for a freedom in Cuba from another oppressive government.

What can protect you from toxic people, keep painful memories in their place, keep you safe and strong, and help you manage your feelings?

Investing is the most important element of our financial future — but sometimes it takes a while before we really get it, so to speak. Fortunately, I think it’s fair to say most of the readers here at Get Rich Slowly get it. But I’m willing to bet that there are still a few who might get the concept but have yet to put it into action.

By now, we all know that a little bit of healthy fat is good for us. But a lot might be even better—at least, in the case of avocado.

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. But what if your direct reports are smarter than you? How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? How do you coach them if you don’t have the same level of expertise?

Fast Company recently collected productivity tips from several dozen top designers, and one of the recurring themes was the power of the reading break to re-energize and reflect.

How can masters like Picasso, Monet, Warhol and Pollock inspire you to be more creative? Come in and find out!

Events by Eye Candy, Doreen Lecheler, and Tremendous Life Books are proud to present four fantastic seminars that will educate, empower, and engage you to personally and professionally raise the bar on life…

Walk, Don’t Run: A Rockin’ and Rollin’ Memoir is about passion and dreams — and music. That’s why this incredible book comes complete with an incredible soundtrack! When you get the book, you’ll also get the album that The Pacific Ocean featuring Edward James Olmos singin’ and screamin’ on vocals while Steven “Rusty” Johnson pounds away on the drums.

Every day life is a negotiation. I’m not talking in this post about the every day negotiations although the same rules apply. I’m talking about negotiations where careers and money and reputations and maybe love is at stake.

Building wealth is simple. Not easy, but simple. We'd all like to make more money, but if your long term prize is financial independence, there aren't any shortcuts. There are only these four basic rules.

Time management, we believe, is the solution to our busyness: if we could organize our time better, we’d be less overwhelmed, happier, and more effective. We are completely wrong on all three counts, and it’s damaging our lives and our careers.

In watchmaking, there are essentially three different types of movements, also called calibers. And, of late, there are also solar powered watches, but that is a different story. Here, we bring you a brief look at exactly what a watch movement is and how the three most common types differ.

What I'm talking about is fruit that's not quite at the point where it's totally spoiled, but it's not really enjoyable to eat out of hand anymore. The kind of fruit that looks past its prime; sort of wrinkled and worn. There's more life in that produce than you might expect, so step away from the compost bin!

Everyone of us caught ourselves doing nothing and pretending to be busy. Admit it, every day we’re wasting our time surfing through the web, watching funny videos and other things. But when we come face to face with a meaningful work, we say “I’ll do it tomorrow." And every time tomorrow becomes the busiest day of the week.

Hill’s 1937 "Think and Grow Rich" proffered a detailed program for using the mind to attain one’s desires – and virtually laid the template for the modern field of business motivation. By the time Hill’s follow-up work "Think Your Way to Wealth"appeared a decade later, he was seen as the pioneer of the self-help genre.

Good news, readers formerly known as bookworms: there are words for all these things! You might be a bibliophagist rather than a bibliophile. A sesquipedalian rather than just something who likes words! Here are 9 words about books and reading that all true book nerds need in their lives.

“Read the best books first,” Henry David Thoreau once admonished, “or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” So here they are, some of the best Russian books I suggest you read first.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) “Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay…”

Here is a list of many different ways to tie a tie, for every and any occasion, many of which you probably never knew existed. We've gathered 30 of the best tie knots ever created by mankind to give you just the edge you need to look your best at all times.

The reality is that most investors see many more deals than they invest in. Using the ultimate pitch will help you save time and grab an investor’s attention. Your first pitch is likely to be virtual and in the form of a PowerPoint. The key is to keep it simple (no more than 10-15 slides), tell a great, engaging story and hit on the key questions every investor wants answered.

Today, the ‘secret’ to SEO is no secret at all. It’s common sense. Brands that rank high on search engines have great content, address their target audience’s search intent, and take the time to optimize their sites from a technology standpoint. Here are 9 SEO ‘secrets’ that will lead your brand to awesome.

Motivation is great when you’ve got it. It makes you excited about things and you’re eager to put your nose to the grindstone and start working. When you don’t have it, however, your productivity can plummet. Instead, stop relying on motivation and start creating systems of habits to get things done.

The following seven truths are what I consider the most valuable things you can learn from the past few decades’ best books on brains. They’ll offer you some insight into why you make decisions the way you do, what that potential client is thinking, and why you should worry about your slightly sinister boss.

Toward the end of the VHS-dominated 90s, he was looking for ways to get in on the Digital Versatile Disc, and noted a hole in the market of ambient video. Tapes needed to be rewound and replayed, which made them difficult to blend seamlessly into the background. Discs, on the other hand, could play endlessly, and that's where Denning made his mark.

Scientists have discovered a huge monolith at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea near Italy.

When people want history in Pennsylvania, they normally head to Philadelphia to see the Liberty Bell or Gettysburg to admire the battlefields. There are rich narratives to be found in the smaller towns, also, though… And by visiting historic towns, you can learn about the lives of past communities. Here are eight historic towns in PA.

Instead of questioning where your life went wrong, you can start, today, to live it on purpose.  That means you actively take charge of your life; you’re responsible for the outcome, and where you are now is a sum of all the decisions you’ve made to date. That’s wonderful news because that means: if you don’t like where you’re at, BOOM you have the power to change it.

Billionaire Bill Gates wishes that if he had one superpower, it would be the ability to read faster. Warren Buffet has claimed that he has “wasted ten years reading slowly.” Information is the most valuable commodity out there, and our ability to read faster can undoubtly speed up how fast we learn. So how do we read faster?

The smallest of tweaks or a change of color can make all the difference between a good design and a great one. This may be especially true for web design. While we might tend to focus on the large photo headers or nice typography in a design, there’s much more going on than just the aesthetics. There are people who spend a lot of time studying and testing how users interact with websites — where their eyes travel first, what they click on, how much time they spend on certain pages.

If you’re on the beach, it winds up in the ocean; in the country, it’s up a tree. Will you, the errant Frisbee-tosser, ever be able to get your disc game into shape?

The ability to work anywhere can be incredibly freeing. You should know, though, that not all home office spaces are created equal. If your workspace is poorly designed, it could harm your health.

To mark 125 years since the Queen of Crime’s birth, experts analysed the methods, motives and locations in her detective stories to find out how to deduce the killer.

Are you wondering what it is like to ride on a Japanese Passenger Train? If your tour itinerary includes a train ride to the countryside, you better be excited for it means you are hopping on a sightseeing vehicle.

We all have habits. But when they get between you and your goals, it's time to pinpoint those habits and put a stop to them.

Whether it's landing your dream job or getting the girl, a basic mathematical principle can help you in almost any situation.

Eleven entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) share the tasks they delegate to their employees so they can focus more closely on their business.

Recurring dreams can really grab your attention in a profound way, especially if they’re bad dreams. They just seem to happen over and over and over again without stopping. Why does this happen? It’s hard to say. Some believe that your subconscious is trying to send you a message through symbolism of the dream. Many believe that once you’ve gotten the message the dream was trying to send to you, the dream stops happening.

Self-made millionaire Steve Siebold, who has interviewed 1,200 of the world's wealthiest people during the past three decades, agrees. As backwards as it sounds, getting rich often has less to do with the money than the mentality, he writes in his book "How Rich People Think." Here are 21 mindsets of the wealthy that you could adopt today...

Gratitude leads to greatness.  It can literally turn what you have into more than enough, jobs into joy, chaos into order, uncertainty into clarity, and bring peace to an otherwise chaotic day.

You can move closer to your ideal work and life. Here's how.

As car enthusiasts, driving roads are magical places in which we can rev our engines, row our gears and roast some rubber. However, good driving …

But if I had to pick one habit that has really changed everything for me, I would have to say it is this: being able to reverse-engineer the finish line of my career in real time.

Say goodbye to creases and wrinkles with this simple traveling trick.