US-centric: If you want to block your cell phone number from showing up on other phones (for whatever reason), you can do it temporarily simply by dialing *67 before the number you’re calling. According to tech how-to site How To Do Things, you won’t have any way to tell this is working (it does), but if you want to reassure yourself just call another phone number that has caller ID to double-check that your number, indeed, is blocked. AU – To block your number being call-ID’d in Australia, I believe you need to dial 1831 before the number.
How To Block Your Cell Phone Number [How to Do Things]If you’re trying to lose a few pounds, self-improvement site Better Life Forum suggests that you’ll want to make your goals as definite as possible: A simple statement like, “I want to lose some weight,” is an ambiguous and an indefinite statement. What is important is to be precise on your goals. It would be better if you will set some detailed amount of pounds that you really want to lose. Envisage yourself what you will look like after reaching your desired weight. Doing this will inspire you to lose weight. In fact, maybe even more than what you have planned in mind.
Anything that helps with the difficult process of losing unwanted weight is a good deal—if you’ve successfully managed to lose pounds, please share what made you successful in the comments.
Staying Motivated to Exercise [Better Life Forum]Your vacuum cleaner doesn’t need much to keep it going, but if you want to keep it around for as long as humanly possible, you’ll want to read wikiHow’s detailed list of tips for maintenance. Keeping the various removable parts clean as well as replacing parts before they break is a biggie, as well as dumping the filters/bags/bins periodically. Your vacuum is definitely not the most sexy of the household appliances, but you might as well keep it running at top speed. How to Maintain a Vacuum Cleaner [wikiHow]
You may not be a troublemaker, or someone who raises hell in the workplace. But sometimes trouble has a way of finding even the best employee. Workplace miscommunication and conflict can add stress to every day and make your life miserable. But there’s an easy way to protect yourself from accusations, blame and disrespect at the office: by keeping great notes.
Anyone with hard water in their community can relate to the problem of some pretty impregnable stains. Cool Tools has a nifty solution for this: I used to scrub fruitlessly at toilet bowl rings until one day I tried pouring in some white vinegar (maybe a cup or two) and leaving it overnight. Everything came off in about a minute after that.
The tip goes on to add that if you’re in a hurry, you can leave the vinegar in there for as little as twenty minutes; I’ve gotten this to work on showers and sinks as well.
Tips 23 [Cool Tools]Ever have one of those dragging days? The Happiness Project suggests you can get an instant short-term energy boost simply by going outside: Go outside into the sunlight; light deprivation is one reason that people feel tired. Research suggests that light stimulates brain chemicals that improve mood. For an extra boost, get your sunlight first thing in the morning.
This is especially important for those of us who spend our workdays behind a computer screen; natural light not only can energise you, but it also saves your eyeballs from getting too tired. This Wednesday: Nine tips for giving yourself an energy boost in the next TEN MINUTES. [The Happiness Project]
When negotiating your fee for a job with a potential business client, it can be tricky to come up with a reasonable estimate. Web Worker Daily suggests that you estimate your numbers from small to large: Estimate in inch-pebbles, not milestones. When you’re faced with a large piece of work to estimate, don’t try to come up with a single number to cover the entire job all at once. Break it down into pieces, and then break those pieces down into pieces until the pieces are small enough that you can see how you would do each one and put a number on them.
If you regularly estimate your costs for a potential job, please share your best tips for doing so in the comments.
Estimating Basics [Web Worker Daily]
