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Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life
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Welcome to Dumb Little Man. We provide tips that will save you money, increase your productivity, or simply keep you sane.
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Seven Lessons to Reboot Your Life

In 2008, I was like most dynamic women: running on life’s treadmill, overbooking myself, pursuing all my passions at once.Ha. Trying to “live my best life” almost stole it from me.I almost died from ...

2 days ago

How to Make Each Day a Downhill Stroll Instead of an Uphill Struggle

Back in college, I came across a life-changing personal development concept. It made an immediate difference to my academic work – and it’s still something that helps me every day.That concept was th...

2 days ago

How To Use Food To Keep Off Of The Energy Roller Coaster

Does this sound like your day? You drag yourself out of bed grumpy and fuzzyA large coffee and muffin or donut perks you upAround 10:30 you grab another coffee when you start to drag3PM is snack time...

4 days ago

Save Money and Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck

Living paycheck to paycheck is extremely common nowadays. But, did you know that this trend occurs in families regardless of how much money they make? Even after a substantial pay increase, somehow w...

4 days ago

10 Undeniable Reasons Why You Should Exercise Your Self-Awareness (And How to Start)

Lets say you want to travel from the East coast to the West. You have your car, but realize that the tires pressure is unbalanced, the car is in need of an oil change, very little wiper fluid, and th...

4 days ago

One Uncomfortable Difference Between Successful and Unsuccessful People

Are you one of those people who jealously adore successful people and think, “Why am I not successful? Why haven’t I reached fame - even if I’ve worked hard every day? What’s wrong with me?”Because o...

5 days ago

Are You In Control of Your Life?

A sentence that our cycling instructor told us a while back made me think. She reminded us that we are in control of our workout. She could be there to motivate us to push harder and try to keep us f...

6 days ago

Time to Dig in and Get It Done

What do you do when you put loads of time and energy into a project … and you still don’t get any results?It’s often tempting to just give up. Even if you normally find it easy to stay motivated, the...

6 days ago

How to Focus When You’re Juggling Lots of Different Tasks

Have you ever noticed that the times when you really need to focus are the times when it’s toughest?On days when you have far too much to do — an overflowing inbox, meetings to prepare for, chores to...

12 may 12 1 person likes this

7 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Triathlon

Triathlons can be intimidating.The mere mention of one conjures up images of genetically perfect athletes speeding through race segments so fast that theyre blurry. Fortunately, you dont have to be a...

08 may 12

One Simple Way to Impress: Do What You Say Youll Do

Over the past week, two people have – independently – thanked me for simply doing what I said I’d do.In a perfect world, we’d take it for granted that people would actually come through on their prom...

07 may 12 1 person likes this

14 Action Inducing Lessons from Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was a man of action. Over his lifetime, his curiosity and passion fueled a diverse range of interests. He was a writer (often using a pseudonym), publisher, diplomat, inventor and o...

29 apr 12 1 person likes this

Youve Got One Change Left. What Do You Do?

Something extraordinary happened while you slept last night. Your world has changed forever, because today you woke up being able to make just one more change before you die. You get to make a single...

16 apr 12 2 people like this

How to Stay Motivated When the Worlds Against You

As a blogger, an entrepreneur or even an employee you can tend to feel a lack of motivation when times are rough or your products and services simply don’t get the attention they deserve. It is easy ...

15 apr 12 1 person likes this

3 Easy Ways to Improve Your Brain Power

Google "improve brain power" and youll find all sorts of tips, techniques, books, and games explaining how you could improve your brain power. Most of them involve physical exercise, balanced...

10 apr 12

Incredibly Simple Steps to Living a Truly Great Life

Living a truly great life seems impossible. Days and weeks go by and is just feels like were stuck in this never ending world of mediocrity. I dont know. Maybe were all defining great life the wrong ...

09 apr 12 1 person likes this

Increasing Your Productivity: The Big Picture AND the Little Picture

Everyone wants to boost their productivity, whether it’s at your day job or your personal development goals. Why does it seem so difficult?One of the reasons many people fail to see results when atte...

06 apr 12

Why You Need to Delegate More

Do you live by the motto, “If you want a job done well, do it yourself?” And do you feel stressed out, rushed, or anxious a lot of the time?Perhaps you’re worried about forgetting one of the many tas...

03 apr 12

No Free Handouts – You Have to Work for your Happiness

Are you waiting for happiness to fall in your lap? Are you waiting for someone to drop it in the tin cup of your life? Well, sorry to break it to you this way, but it won’t happen. It can’t happen. H...

01 apr 12 1 person likes this

15 Simple Changes That Will Quickly Improve Your Health

Did you start January full of health resolutions, determined that this would be the year that you ate better, lost weight and exercised regularly?If you’re back to your usual habits – skipping breakf...

24 mar 12

How to Find Happiness Without Buying It

Our materialistic society has led us to believe that happiness cannot be obtained without having money.Rather than learning to be satisfied with what we have, we are taught to want more. We learn fro...

22 mar 12 1 person likes this

10 Ways to Find More Hours in Your Day

We all wish we had just a bit more time.Just think what you could do with an extra hour or two each day: you could finally stick to an exercise routine, or spring-clean the house, or write your novel...

20 mar 12

21Tips For Building the Body of Legend Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee had one of the most iconic bodies in the film industry. Even the big-shots of bodybuilding like Joe Weider and Arnold Schwarzenegger have nothing but praise for him. Here’s what Arnold Schw...

16 mar 12

Time to Kill Your Mental Boundaries

What do you believe about yourself? It is remarkably easy to become convinced of your limitations. Frequently, people discuss what they would love to have or do but “can’t” for one reason or another....

12 mar 12

Five Surefire Ways to Kill Your Marriage

I don’t have to tell you that marriages and lifelong partnerships are tricky and unfortunately, many fail. However, most of us dream of the one woman or man to spend the rest of our days with, blissf...

10 mar 12

The Hard Truths About Building Your Own Success

Have you noticed that society often looks at successful people in hopes of somehow copying their magic formula? I know I have done this and fallen into the trap - the trap of thinking, praying even, ...

07 mar 12

Your Willingness to Fail Will Determine How Often You Succeed

Learning how to surf was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. I have zero natural athletic ability, and I’ve never been good at sports. To add to that, the conditions are different every single ...

05 mar 12

Do You Have Too Many Goals? Heres How to Prioritize Them

How many goals are you chasing right now?Theres a good chance that youve got too many. Its a classic productivity mistake – and an understandable one. We all want to achieve the best were capable of,...

03 mar 12

16 Websites to Super Charge Your English Vocabulary

It wont be an exaggeration if I say that English is the language of this world. Although Mandarin (Chinese) tops the list of most widely spoken languages, we know that its English which connects peop...

01 mar 12 1 person likes this

12 Techniques to Help You Live a Happy and Fulfilled Life

It seems that everything comes in a list format nowadays. “Wash, Rinse, and Repeat” or “Open box, Remove Contents, Try and Assemble”. Maybe it is because when we see things in a list format our brain...

01 mar 12

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