Prepare for a Layoff [Career]
With all this recent hype about the stock market and rising unemployment rates, the best way to protect yourself from being laid off is to consistently look out for other opportunities. Always stay in the game. Even if you’re feeling smug at work, look around for the perfect dream job and keep your resume up-to-date. This will give you a head start if your company is negatively impacted by the economy. If you’re feeling worried, build upon your emergency fund and limit leisure spending. Ideally, you should have three to six months of expenses in your bank account. See these other ways to recession-proof your career.
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If keeping a clean household is a top priority for you but you can’t make the time, simplify the task as much as possible. Keep your home clear of clutter on a regular basis. It is a lot easier to clean an uncluttered room than it is to clean a room that is filled to the brim with stuff. Tackle the task of cleaning different rooms consistently. The bathroom, for example, should be cleaned every other week and as you notice a mess to decrease the amount of labor required at any given cleaning period. If you see a spill, it only take a minute to clean it up, so don’t let it sit there. If you accumulate dirt and grime, it will only add to the clutter of your mind and your humble abode. By keeping everything simple, you avoid making cleaning seem like such a chore. What are your secret cleaning weapons? Let’s hear them in the comments.
The Unusual Food Handler weblog has whipped together a home-made method for making Coca-Cola that by their admission is slightly sweeter, slightly less acidic, but remarkably delicious. If you’re a Lifehacker with a tinkerer’s streak in the kitchen, then brewing your own frosty mug of home-made Coca-Cola is the perfect weekend project for you. Indulge your inner chemist and share the results with us. Photo by 
With the right type of thinking, you can vastly improve your concentration skills. Exercising your mind takes time and commitment but will ultimately translate to a sharper focus. To align your mind with your body and bring a heightened awareness for a much deeper concentration, go to a completely isolated room. Sit on a chair or on the floor with your spine erect. 
Vista: Head to “Set up file sharing” or “Network and Sharing Center” from the Control Panel. Make sure “Network discovery,” “File sharing,” and “Password protected sharing” are set to “On.” Right-click any folders you want to back up on your system, select “Share,” “Change sharing permissions,” and follow through the prompts.
Mac OS X: Enable “Remote Login” in the “Sharing” section of the System Preferences menu. That’s it—although take note of the IP address listed at the bottom of the “Sharing” screen.
Type the IP address of the system you’re connecting from into the “Hostname” field in the prompt that comes up, and then the username and password you use to log onto that computer. You’ll be greeted by a collapsible list of folders that you can grab from. Ignore any “invalid argument” lines, select the data you need to copy and hit “Next” in the lower right. Give your selections a “Target Name” that relates to your selections (like “My Pictures Backup”), then hit “Save.” You’ll end up at that target’s settings page. Hit the button that looks like “Play” on the far right to manually launch a snapshot backup if you’d like, but now we’ll head to the “Schedule” tab.
Hit the “+” next to “Snapshot schedules” at the top of the left-hand column to choose how often Restore will reach out for a backup attempt. The “Simple” settings should be enough for most folks’ needs; give your schedule a name and hit “Create.” Now choose the “+” next to “Revision Schedule” on the right-hand column. This actually lets you set how many of your snapshots are saved and for how long, giving you a Time-Machine-like ability to choose from numerous versions of a file over time. Hit “Create,” and you’re done. When you need to get at your files, simply head to the “Restore Data” tab in each Target and choose which version you want to bring back.
You’ve probably proved this theory to yourself and groaned about it, but researchers the Stanford Graduate School of Business can prove it—buying one item reduces the amount of deliberatoin that goes into buying the next item, and the next one, and so on. In other words, as Get Rich Slowly’s J.D. puts it:
Reader’s Digest rounds up twenty-four tips for changing your habits to improve (or stop harming) your vision, like this gem for those of us who sit in front of a computer all day:
