30 Dec 09 Send A Solider Some Holiday Spirit

Well the holiday season is pretty much over, but that doesn’t mean your giving spirit needs to end with the time of year. Think of those less fortunate than us this holiday season. Namely those men and women stationed overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, who could desperately use a little help to make their lives easier. I think it’s only right that we try and make the lives of those committing themselves to government service, a little brighter. All it takes is a little effort, and knowledge of the right place to turn.

Websites like Anysoldier.com provide you with a fantastic resource to help those in need. The website is set up to help you find soldiers and the items that they desperately need, and gives you directions for donating those items to them. It’s a great and inexpensive way to do what you can for the troops.

Consider making a money donation through a company like the USO. There your money will be used towards any number of good causes, like providing soldiers with the necessary resources to call their families back home. You don’t have to make a big donation, any little bit will help, and it’s infinitely better than giving nothing.

If you got a new cell phone for Christmas, instead of throwing out the old one, consider donating your phone to the troops. You can get a free package postage paid package at your local post office that you can use to donate your old phone to the troops. That means giving a soldier a chance to call home and talk to their loved ones again. Isn’t that worth the effort?

Finally, when you’re shopping any of the after Christmas sales, try to be mindful of the stores around you. Many offer opportunities to donate to troops, whether through in store purchases, or actually taking direct donations. Take advantage of those opportunities, and try and shop at the stores that donate more to the troops, especially if those donations are influenced by sales numbers.

Tags: Afghanistan, cell phone, Christmas, Christmas Sales, Donations, Government Service, Holiday Season, Holiday Spirit, Iraq, Little Bit, Local Post Office, Men And Women, Money, Necessary Resources, Sales Numbers, Soldier, Solider, Store Purchases, Time Of Year

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17 Sep 09 Stop Procrastinating

Procrastination is a very bad trait for you to have in your personal inventory. Mostly because if you’re a procrastinator, you’ll find that you almost never achieve the things that you intend to achieve. Whether in life in general, or at your job, or in the small accomplishments you want to make in your personal life. Procrastination can be a hard habit to break, but with some work it can be done, and it’s worth your time. All you have to do is stop procrastinating about breaking that habit for good.

First ask yourself what the biggest problem causing your procrastination is. Do you get distracted easily when you try to do something? Do you lack motivation? By targeting what the problem is, you can look towards changing that aspect of your personality, and hopefully eliminate your tendency to procrastinate.

First off, whether you are distracted easily or unmotivated, try breaking up large tasks into smaller ones. If it’s a big yard project you’re trying to tackle, try accomplishing the whole by just doing a little at a time. Like tending to a garden, try just doing one short task each day, and you’ll find that you’ve accomplished everything before too long. This is a good first step to stopping procrastination in the future, as it gets you on the horse accomplishing the tasks you set for yourself.

Try eliminating distractions if you find yourself easily taken from your tasks. Try leaving your cell phone inside while you’re out in the yard. Or try turning off the background noise of a television or radio, or your iPod, so that you can have full concentration on your tasks. Sometimes that little bit of background noise can distract you enough that you can’t keep your thoughts together. That simple of a change can help you stop procrastinating.

Tags: Background Noise, cell phone, Concentration, Distractions, Habit, Ipod, Job, Lack Motivation, Little At A Time, Little Bit, Personal Inventory, Personal Life, Personality, Procrastination, Procrastinator, Radio, Television, Tendency

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08 Jul 09 5 Ways To Help The Environment You Hadn’t Thought Of

There are plenty of ways to be more environmentally friendly without really changing your lifestyle in a way that will affect your daily routine in any sort of negative way. In fact there are plenty of ways to be much more environmentally friendly, that are also fairly easy to accommodate, that you probably haven’t even thought about. And here are five tips that you may not have considered that will bring you five steps closer to reversing that carbon footprint you’re leaving behind:

Eat a meatless meal at least once a week.
Unplug chargers when not in use.
Don’t preheat your stove.
Read the news online, opposed to buying a newspaper or magazine.
Use compact fluorescent light bulbs.

If you’re a meat eater, one thing you probably don’t realize is that meat exhausts a massive amount of resources to maintain and produce. From feeding/transporting the animals, to processing their carcasses, a lot of irreplaceable fossil fuels are exhausted, not to mention carbon emissions are released into the environment. Fruits and Vegetables cause far fewer resources to be exhausted in route to you at the grocery store. I’m not saying go vegetarian, but just cut it down a little bit. You’ll be healthier, and the environment will become a little bit more healthy with you.

Your charger for your cell phone, or any other portable device, will continue to draw power when plugged in to a wall socket, whether your device is present or not. This wastes energy, and also costs you more money on your electricity bill, for absolutely no reason. So save some green, and help yourself go green by unplugging any charger that isn’t currently in use.

When cooking a meal that will take over an hour in a stove to cook, don’t preheat your oven. The preheat time will only waste energy that doesn’t need to be consumed through a preheat process. Something like a roast doesn’t need a preheating process beforehand, and you’ll save energy this way. Also you can turn your oven off ten minutes prior to the meal’s cooking time ends, and the heat will remain to cook the food, but you will be consuming a little bit less energy by shutting the stove off early.

Newspapers and magazines are recyclable, but the problem is that very few people dispose of them in the proper fashion, so most newspapers and magazines just end up as more trash polluting our world. Instead cut down on the amount of trash, as well as the resources consumed to produce them, by just reading the same articles and news online via the internet instead.

Compact bulbs might be more expensive at the store, but they use 75% less energy than conventional light bulbs, and they last 10 times longer, making the energy savings alone worth the price. Plus it will actually save you more money in the long run. And Mother Earth will thank you for your efforts to conserve power.

Tags: Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Carcasses, cell phone, Chargers, Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs, Daily Routine, Electricity Bill, Five Steps, Fluorescent Light Bulbs, Fossil Fuels, Fruits And Vegetables, Fruits Vegetables, Grocery Store, Lifestyle, Little Bit, Meat Eater, Meatless Meal, Wall Socket, Ways To Help The Environment

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