Also, as weird as it may seem, the "why" can be an anti-motivator. Ultimately, my "why's" break down to feeling happier and more fulfilled. If I say to myself "I have to go the gym and eat healthy to have a happy and fulfilling life," I will eventually notice that doing those things can make me very unhappy, so what's…

The "why" should be the occasional prod, not the main focus. My why's are weight and strength to feel good, look good and do my hobbies. My system is the gym and healthy eating. I don't say "I have to go the gym to get these things. Ugh." Instead, I go the gym, because that's what I do. My only qualification for not…

By focusing on note-taking, I found that I was missing little nuances that would made the lecture easy to remember. Instead, I doodled intensely, only jotting a note if they said something I didn't understand. Doodling restrained the restless mind-wandering and allowed me to fully process what was being said. Later…

As someone who is almost terminally shy, I have to apply a few tricks to get through social situations, and one of them is taking the focus off myself.

Me too. I'll have to buy a different mug.

Me too. I'll have to buy a different mug.

So, those times when I gave in, I probably should have distracted myself more.

Let's say you're having one of those nights. It's Friday night, you want something fattening or sweet. Would you say there's a 10-20 minute break between waves of craving? Maybe 30 minutes?

And like a wave, it comes back again. And again. And again.

The fuss of prepping glow sticks? Breaking the glow sticks is the best part of glow sticks!

But our only big problem on Halloween is that I buy way too much candy and we have it left over.

I don't care about the bangs. Why is she wearing a $20 prom dress from 1980?

1. I realized it was time to grow up. As a young 20-something, I had this sudden visualization of how hard it would be on my mother if anything were to happen to me. She'd have to go through all this confusing paperwork and a lengthy probate process with debt collectors. Awful.

It had never crossed my mind to blur over account numbers. I always color over them in a strip matching the color of the document. I help to manage a shared account, and the unobtrusive invisible strip just seems nicer to me. No one knows what they're missing.

Me, too. With a spreadsheet it's easy to compare month-to-month and year-to-year. I started doing it for tax purposes, but I like being able to track the service fees and my own usage.

There are some items I will always buy in bulk simply because it saves me time. It may not be cheaper to buy a huge pack of toilet paper, but not running out on the weekend? Priceless.

I don't know about animal abuser... but his methods are great for teaching dogs that owners can be unpredictable a-holes.

So true. There's a reason (maybe the work that goes into formatting a pdf?), but I can't remember the specifics because it seemed like BS. They explained it here on Lifehacker or on io9.

You can find this tip and others in Patricia McConnell's The Other End of the Leash. She's a behaviorist and sheep dog trainer with years of observing and rehabilitating dogs. It's a fun read, with anecdotes from her life on the farm and in the office. My relationship with my dogs completely changed after reading this…

It has more to do with avoiding the words "they" or "them". In articles like these, writers will go back and forth between him and her because we don't have a non-gendered singular pronoun to indicate a single person.

Maybe the point is to get over the anticipation. If you're expecting things to play out in a certain way, you may miss opportunities or be stressed by the unexpected. For myself, it's important to get past the imaginings, the plan, and whatever meaning I've applied to the event and just be in the moment.