This is a great habit to develop.

Some great ideas here. Another approach to distraction — especially if you find activism too daunting — is to practice kindness. Find a way to help someone nearby, or you local community. It’s an absorbing diversion and will likely increase your overall happiness.

That’s a wonderful photo. Also, one of the best tips for photographing kids (which Shumilova demonstrates here) is to frame the shot from the child’s eye level, or even lower. It really brings the perspective into their world and can transform an otherwise mundane photo into something special.

You can potentially strengthen this effect even further by thinking about it in terms of how many of one particular day in the week away it is. For example, if your favorite day of the week is Saturday, 30 years is only 1560 Saturdays away. You get the benefit of perceiving the timescale in terms of days, but with an…

Healthy and very versatile. I use it as a substitute all the time — with tuna instead of mayo, with baked potatoes instead of butter, on sandwiches instead of dressings.

Quicker, with less prep and clean up: use a plain hummus. :)

This is great! I’ve also found that, if a baby/toddler resists a particular vegetable, there’s a few other things that worked for us:

Both curiosity and emotional intelligence also fuel overall happiness. There’s a very powerful reciprocal link between both curiosity and emotional intelligence, and life satisfaction :)

To take the separation of work and play a step further, I’ve set up an additional profile on my Android tablet. Just the minor inertia of having to log out and back in to my ‘Play’ profile is enough for a modest productivity bump.

One of the best ways to keep your whole identity fluid and adaptable is to distinguish it from moods and behaviors. So then, rather than ‘I AM shy,’ it becomes ‘I’m feeling shy,’ or ‘I’m behaving shy.’ It’s a great way to prime yourself (i.e. your identity) to become flexible and open to new ideas.

I quickly reverted back to the old bookmarks. I found the new system quite buggy — moving bookmarks back to their original save position and label, losing bookmarks altogether.

An alternative: 1. Always carry a spare large hydration bladder (like the Platypus 3 liter or similar). 2. Inflate and seal it around some clothes.