Last month, I read a book titled The Reading Life by C.S. Lewis. It wasn’t really a book that C.S. Lewis wrote, although he wrote all the meaningful text in the book. An editor went through Lewis’s writings – essays and letters, mostly – and collected everything he’d “said” or “written” about life as a…
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Managing Time and Money More Effectively with Tiny Budgeting
The old adage “time is money” has never been truer for millions of Americans. We live in a highly monetized society. We equate time with money in ways our grandparents would not have recognized. Everything we do is organized into microtasks and micropayments because we want to spend as little time as possible on any…
7 Ways to Save Time and Money When Traveling
Whether you are traveling for business or vacation or have to make an emergency trip back home, sooner or later you will find yourself in emergency travel mode. Here are a few tips on how you can save time and money when traveling. This blog post only includes tips where you can save both time and…
How to Save Time Cooking
Mankind has been cooking food for hundreds of thousands of years. We have come a long way since our hunter-gatherer ancestors roasted a fresh kill over an open fire. We have learned to convert raw foods into intermediate materials that we use in cooking: spices, herbs, sauces, flours, flavorings, and more. But the more foods…
Organize Your Entertainment by Mood
Have you ever been so bored you just thumbed through all your CDs and DvDs looking for something to break the monotony? We all have. But what most people don’t know is that boredom is most often associated with another state of mind, either anxiety or sadness. We are rarely bored while in a happy,…
How to Save Time While Investing In Stocks
The stock market presents great opportunity for all of us but as in all media of exchange there are winners and losers. In order to maximize your gains it almost certainly necessary and at the very least prudent to exercise due diligence. That means you must study the markets and choose companies that are poised…
How to Save Time in Preparing Food
We will never be able to get away from food. That is the one common requirement for all forms of life. Everything must consume some sort of energy. Plants get their energy from the sun. Everything else gets their energy from plants or from things that eat plants. It would be a great time-saving feature…
How to Save Time While Making Important Decisions
You may have heard “sleep on it” at some point in your life as the best advice you can receive when facing a difficult decision. But is sleeping on it always the right choice? Science has been wrangling with this question for the years. When it comes to saving time in making decisions, it is…
Manage Your Time Better by Creating a Budget
It seems so simple to say: you save time when you save money. But is that because “time is money” or is it because you’re not spending as much of your time spending money? The number one personal financial management strategy recommended by all experts and monetary soothsayers is that you should create a monthly…
How to Save Time When Using Coupons
People use coupons to save money on everyday items and large ticket purchases. But how much time do you save when using coupons? Time is money, and the more time you spend using your coupons the less money you actually save. In fact, many people waste a lot of time looking for coupons and then…
How to Use Twitter as a Personal Alert Service
Elon Musk bought Twitter and rebranded it as X after I wrote this article. I’m not going to change “Twitter” to “X” in this article. Using a smartphone to schedule alerts and reminders[/caption]Smart phones are nice devices that are fast becoming personal assistants but some of their features leave something to be desired. For example,…
How to Use Delaying Tactics to Save Time
It seems counter-intuitive, does it not, that you can save time by stalling or delaying. Nonetheless, this is a pretty clever way to manage your time and get things done more quickly than most people expect. So let’s take a look at the how and why of using delaying tactics to improve your time management…