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When we’re this close to the holidays, we have to be mindful of where we spend our money because every cent counts. Holidays are expensive events. We have to think about gifts, decorations, travel, food, and don’t forget incidental expenses that we incur along the way. It’s no fun putting yourself on a financial diet […]

Taking care of your mental health is just as important as taking care of our physical health. We routinely take our vitamins, exercise religiously, and try to watch what we eat to make the best possible food choices in order to take care of our bodies. Shouldn’t we make the same meticulous effort to take […]

A few days from now, streets are going to be flooded with monsters and characters demanding tribute, otherwise, they will wreak havoc on your yard. No, it’s not the apocalypse. It’s just a bunch of trick or treaters – kids dressed up as monsters or heroes shaking their candy bags or pumpkin pails in your […]

How long ago have you taken a break? And I don’t mean for lunch or coffee. I mean a mental break where you relax and decompress without your work laptop present or your phone on call. I get it, you’re busy, you’re important, you’re indispensable at work. People rely on you. You can’t stop now. […]

Procrastination is the action of delaying or postponing something. It is a very bad habit. Or so we’ve been told. But we always hear stories about some of history’s most excellent work done by famous procrastinators. Among these legends are Hunter S. Thompson, Margaret Atwood, Herman Melville, Frank Lloyd Wright, and one college friend who […]

October 1 is special. It falls on a Monday and signals the start of another productive week. It also signals the start of the last quarter of the year and tells us that – fall is here! There’s another thing that makes October 1 extra special. October 1 is International Coffee Day. In honor of […]

Ah, Microsoft updates…don’t you just love them? They take up a chunk of time and you don’t always like what they have changed – this time around. But, it is prudent to always update your OS, not to mention your antivirus. Keeping your devices running smoothly takes a lot of work. You’d have to defrag, […]

A survey done by Gallup in 2015, reports that 37% of the US labor force is working remotely…and that number is rising. The option to do remote work is one of the perks that is being made available to employees today. It certainly is one of the perks that millennials look for when job hunting. […]

Aside from the bed, in front of a computer is where we spend most of lives. Well, that’s very true today. CNN reports that the average American spends more than 10 hrs a day staring at a screen – with computer screens taking up an average of 7 hours of that time. That number is […]

It’s September and as the weather starts to get cold, we start to heat up with excitement for the holidays. In the next few months, a plethora of holiday celebrations are about to arise – and expenses are expected to rise along with them. We’re looking at clothing and costumes, candy, decorations, trips, gifts, and […]

The average shelf life of a desktop PC is 5 years. After that, bugs and kinks start to show up, and they show up earlier if you’re a heavy (and quite careless) user. If you want your desktop or laptop to run smoothly and prolong its life, you should set time aside to do annual […]

There is an epidemic that is slowly killing the working population. In 2013, a Minnesota based company called Ergotron conducted a survey about the effects of too much sitting. It comes as no surprise that the survey results show that we sit too much. We sit at work, while watching TV, during leisure time, and […]

Some employers have an open time policy. They set a window of log in hours, say from 7 am to 10 am and then it’s up to the employees to come as they please provided that they finish 8 working hours. Having a flexible schedule is one benefit that most employees look for in a […]

The freedom and flexibility of being able to work from home is something that many people are discovering. Having complete control over your workspace and (most times) your working hours is one of the many benefits of working from home. But while it is a joy to be earning money from the comforts of your […]

A famous and overused tip is to “follow your dreams” and a hundred other iterations of it. We’re all told to dream big and then do whatever it takes to achieve that goal. That tip is, more often than not, followed up by proclaiming your goal to the whole world. You know, to keep yourself […]