Uncommon Sense: An Intelligent Approach to Doing Things

Practical tips on how to lead a sensible lifestyle by saving time and money and by conserving resources and energy. Focuses on a common-sense approach to achieving a fruitful and sustainable way of life. We often need not-so-common sense to come up with intelligent approaches to doing things. Offers sensible guidelines, saving tips, effective how-to's, and practical lessons to start you up on living a sustainable way of life. Also offers ideas on how one can reshape one's mental and emotional constructs to make a person better equipped to face the challenges that lie ahead in the pursuit of one's personal objectives. The ideas focus on a more effective belief system and attitudes that enable one to overcome the difficulties that one has to face while working for the achievement of one's goals.

An Intelligent Approach to Doing Things
There is an intelligent approach to doing things. Here are some ideas that may help you stimulate your mind to coming up with alternative ways of performing your tasks based on your particular circumstance. At this particular stage in your life, what things you do and how you do them should help you come closer to your tactical and strategic objectives.

A Common Sense Approach to Living a Financially Sustainable Life
People make mistakes that invariably cause major upheavals in their lives. Some mistakes can cause suffering and misery later on when the person gets older. A good number of these mistakes relate mostly to how a person has handled money matters in his life.

A Few Ideas for Cutting on Household Costs
Everyone is in a unique opportunity in planning for household cost reduction so not every saving tip can be applicable to everyone. These saving ideas are meant to stimulate your mind to possible cost-saving opportunities in your particular situation. Adapt any one of the ideas to your specific circumstance.

Beauty can both be a Blessing and a Curse for Beautiful People
If you're an average looking person, you could have sometimes wished that you're more handsome or beautiful. There's nothing wrong with this. It\'s a fact of life that beautiful people generally have an edge over those who do not look as good. Yet, persons who have the physical characteristics that you long for may not be so convinced.

Danger Signs to watch out for in Women
Choosing a woman to have a serious relationship with is a road full of dangers. One mistake in this particular decision could have a disastrous impact for the rest of a man's life. That is why this choice must be made with great care and the decision should be based on the best information available at the time.

Dare to Dream
I wrote this poem to underscore the importance on acting on your dreams if they are to ever have the opportunity of being realized. Dreams not acted upon deteriorates into the category of wishful thinking. Today is the best moment to launch the start-up activities that would lead you to achieving your goals. I hope the poem inspires you into doing something to make your dreams come true.

Dealing with Harassment by Psychotic Individuals
There will be a time in your life that you will be forced to relate to a few psychotic individuals who are bent on harassing you. You may have caught such individuals vandalizing your property and had a spat with them. Then that person would do evil things designed to make you mad like leaving garbage in front of your gate or sticking bubble gum to your car. The evil deeds are done surreptitiously while you are busy with other things.

Don't Let Hatred Consume You
Not letting the emotion of hatred get the best of us is something very difficult to do especially in the face of intentional harassment acts by psychotic individuals. I have been exposed to this type of attack so many times that to me, it doesn\'t come as a surprise anymore. In fact, sometimes I ask myself what mischievous act the perpetrator will do next.

Don't Play the Blame Game
Blaming is an act of making a situation look worse for the purpose of making someone look bad in the eyes of others. Its real aim is putting the perpetrator of an act down as a way of punishing him. As the reason behind doing it has no redeeming value whatsoever, it is something that should be avoided. All of us should make ourselves immune to the effects of blaming so that this behavior can be banished from the face of the earth forever.

Exposing and Conquering Fear
Fear is a learned response to a situation. It is acquired during childhood in response to threats from adults as a way of controlling children\'s behavior. Some children get just enough threats and develop a healthy relationship with fear. Others received too much threat and fear has become a habit, taking away from them the opportunity to engage the world and losing their chance to develop self-confidence.

Get Proactive and Be Happier, says a Sorry Old Man
A dejected, sorry old man advises young men to be more assertive toward others and don\'t make the mistakes that he made which he says resulted in his personal ruin. He gives young men the following lessons he learned with the hope he says that they would not make the same mistakes as he did.

Harness the Power of your Self-Consciousness
There is a certain kind of people who are shy and self-conscious. They consider these qualities as reducing their worth as compared with others who seem to act naturally. But self-consciousness in people also has positive benefits. Rather than try to banish self-consciousness, it may be a better alternative to overcome its negative results and promote the positive ones.

How Secure is your Windows Password?
It may be time to review the Windows passwords among millions of Microsoft operating system users around the world. With the ready availability of Windows password crackers which can easily be downloaded from the Internet, it might be a good practice to review and reset your Windows passwords now.

How to Avoid Loving the Wrong Person
One of the greatest mistakes a person can ever make is getting committed for life to the wrong person. It can cause you a lot of pain and suffering later on or it could totally ruin your life. It is one of the most important decisions that a person has to ever make in his brief sojourn on the planet earth.

How to Use the Law of Thirds in Framing a Good Photo Shot
The law of thirds is a useful device to aid the photographer in coming up with a good framing for a photo shoot. It is based on an old principle of design that has remained valid throughout the ages. Pay attention to how television cameramen frame the total picture on your television screen and you will notice how the principle of the law of thirds is observed by professional photographers.

Never Give Up when the Going Gets Tough
So you have been very busy lately with doing something that you\'re passionate about, trying out all sorts of things to see what works, and spending a great deal of time on activities focused on achieving your goals.

One More Thing to Do
This is a story of how an old man who was about to commit suicide found out that he was not meant to die yet because he had one more thing to do. The thing that he has yet to accomplish will take a long time to undertake and so it was meant to extend his life indefinitely.

Positive Ideas to Live By
Negativity leads to despair. Faith and hope lead to positive actions. Giving positive ideas more prominence in your thinking process can turn out amazing results. As long as you are able to do something about your situation, you cannot lose hope. Here are positive thoughts that are worth playing over in your brain. The aim is to banish all negativity from your life forever. Give them a try.

Sensible and Safe Driving Habits
Your car is a relatively major investment, coming in second after your house. It deserves your careful attention if you want to spend wisely on using and keeping it. Have as much good information about your car as possible so you can make good decision regarding its maintenance and upkeep.

Sensible Guidelines for Washing the Body of your Car
The general principle that should be observed when doing anything is to save on time, resources, and energy. You should avoid having to clean a portion of the body of your car twice or more times. Here are a few sensible tips for cleaning the external surfaces of your car.

Showing Off can be a Self-defeating Act and an Expensive Proposition
The act of showing off is a way to let other people know that we have something that they should be envious of. All of us, in our life time, have in one way or another committed this act. It can take many forms depending on what we want other people to notice about us. Most everything that I know about the results of showing off are disastrous to us to say the least. But the most dangerous of them all is the drain on our financial resources that we have to overcome.

Simple Ways to Avoid Wasting your Time
Time is the most valuable resource that all of us are given. It is something that we have less and less of until we ran out of it when we die. Time is the most precious commodity that we have. That is why wasting time exerts a negative impact on how well we fare in life. We should always be concerned that we avoid wasting it.

Strengthen your Defense against Depression by Giving
Depression is a serious ailment that can affect anyone. The rise of the Internet has left people with less time to do actual socializing. As a result, people have become more alienated from one another. If you live alone and you spend a lot of time in the Internet, you will be more likely to be affected by depression.

The Benefits of Writing
I would like to explore the benefits that people can derive from writing and point out a few facets of writing that you may not be aware of. In the process, I may be able to provide a few reasons why you may want to improve your writing skill.

The Nature and Purpose of Writing
A good number of men, more erudite and intelligent than me, have written about the nature and purpose of writing. I ask your indulgence for adding my contribution with the hope that this addition will serve to further rather than confuse the discussion.

The Three Things you need to give a Person that you want to Succeed
You invariably have someone that you earnestly want to succeed in life and want to ensure that you provide them with all the assistance that they need. The person you want to succeed can be your boyfriend or girlfriend, your spouse, your child, or a good friend. What you want to give him or her are these three vital things: love, help, and encouragement.

Things that you can do While Waiting for the Traffic Light to Change
It's incredible how much time is wasted while on your way and waiting for the traffic light to change. It would be sensible thing to do if this time could be put to more practical uses. You could make it a point not to waste this portion of your valuable time by thinking about what activities you can accomplish within the time frame between a change in the traffic lights. Here are some ideas that can get you started saving this valuable time.

Toward a more Sensible Buying Behavior
Buying something is a common activity that people engage in almost every day. In fact, there are small items that we buy too frequently that buying this particular item has become a habit for us. Because of this, doing it has become an automatic response that we don\'t think much about.

Unmasking the Nature of Shame
Shame is a mental construct that can determine human behavior. It is an old concept that still persists despite the explosion of new knowledge in human psychology. It has been used by some religions to control the behavior of its followers. It has also been used by governments in forcing compliance to the laws.

What if you can Start All over Again?
There was an old man who said he made a lot of mistakes in his life that has led to his rather difficult situation at his later years. I asked him how he would have done things differenttly if he were given a second chance at being young again. Here are the things that he said he would have done if he were given a chance of starting over again.

What to do if your Vista Password Stops Working and you only have One Log On Account
Has this happened to you? You own a Vista laptop computer with only one account that was made by the salesperson who sold you your computer. Both the Administrator and the Guest accounts in your laptop are hidden and the single account that you\'re using belongs to Administrator Group which gives you the power to perform administrative tasks on your laptop computer. Unfortunately, you changed and forgot the password for that single account that you\'re using and now you\'re unable to log on to your laptop.

Why it's Important for Young People to Listen to their Parents
Young people don't normally listen to their parents. It seems that the youth prefers to ignore their parents' advice altogether as old fashioned and irrelevant. The world indeed has been changing rapidly lately. Old ideas are continually being supplanted with new ones. Old methods are steadily replaced with new approaches.

Writing the Different Types of Abstract
An abstract is a summarized version of a report or any written output. It contains in brief form, the essential facts, conclusions, or recommendations of a particular written report. It is like a small window into the contents of the written object that gives an indication of the content of the whole article or written work.

Use the Google DNS Service to Speed Up Internet on your Vista Laptop
Are you experiencing slow Internet access on your Vista laptop? If so, read on for a solution that might solve your problem. Every time that you click on a link on any web page that you are reading, your Vista laptop needs to look for the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the server that is hosting the web page. Your computer uses a Domain Name Service (DNS) server to look up for this IP address. If you happen to use a very busy DNS server, then your laptop needs to wait every time you click on a link on the web page displayed on your Internet browser.

A Few Techniques for Transforming Yourself
Transforming yourself is one of the major events that could happen in your life.

How Music can Save your Life
Teach others how you want to be treated. Use music to recover from an intense emotional experience