So you’ve spent the day baking in the summer sun and despite the fact that you used sunscreen, your skin is still tomato red. Now what? Before you rush to your local grocery store to grab some name-brand aloe vera, try these at-home remedies. Not only are they inexpensive, but you most likely have all of them on hand already. Baking Soda If your sunburn covers a large area like your legs or back, try making a baking soda bath [...]
Sometimes when you are just starting to date, many feelings come to light. You might be shy, nervous, and not know how to approach a girl or a guy — you may even do something silly during your first date. But doing something silly or funny during the date is not nearly as worse as getting a relationship advice from someone who doesn’t know much about relationships. You want to avoid getting dating relationship advice from someone of a lesser [...]
Though it may sometimes seem like getting out from under a mountain of debt or other financial messes is impossible, it’s honestly not. By following the following six steps, you will be in the process of clearing it up: 1. Face it. It’s always easier to bury your head in the sand and continue blindly paying the minimum each month on your credit cards or otherwise ignoring your debt and hoping it goes away. Well, it won’t, so sit down [...]
We all have dreams in our lives, we have passions and purpose, and it seems that as children these are so present in our experience. Yet as we get older, many of us lose touch with that passion. Perhaps we get busy with school or work, or are in so much pain from the loss of loved ones that we just can’t seem to lift our head. In a way, you could say we’re in “recovery” (sort of like Alcoholics [...]
Vacations are fun and adventure-filled. They help us relax and release. Being in a different place, away from the day to day activities of our lives, often gives us new perspectives and a renewed sense of ourselves. Vacations breathe new life into us. But we don’t have to wait until we can get away on that two-week dream vacation in order to enjoy the benefits of time off. Instead, we can take ourselves on Instant Vacations — without ever leaving [...]
You know the feeling when you get when meeting a new person or making a difficult decision – the one that guides you, for some reason or another, in a specific direction? While some people are extremely in tune with this inner voice, others tend to ignore it all together. Studies show, however, that those feelings in your gut are actually the result of your brain bringing forth knowledge that you have accumulated, and have been proven to be correct [...]
Despite each of our differences (and there are many), most people are driven by the same basic desires: success, and human connection. Of course the idea of success is open to a wide variety of interpretations, but underneath them all is the need to feel fulfilled in all aspects of our lives. So in truth, it’s not our desires that set us apart but the way we go about achieving them. Most of us have been programmed from a young [...]
