Maybe you should be eating more beets or chopped cabbage.

Nutritionist and author Jonny Bowden has created several lists of healthful foods people should be eating but aren’t. But some of his favorites, like purslane, guava and goji berries, aren’t always available at regular grocery stores. I asked Dr. Bowden, author of “The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth,” to update his list with some favorite foods that are easy to find but don’t always find their way into our shopping carts. Here’s his advice.

1. Beets: Think of beets as red spinach, Dr. Bowden said, because they are a rich source of folate as well as natural red pigments that may be cancer fighters.
   How to eat: Fresh, raw and grated to make a salad. Heating decreases the antioxidant power.
2. Cabbage: Loaded with nutrients like sulforaphane, a chemical said to boost cancer-fighting enzymes.
   How to eat: Asian-style slaw or as a crunchy topping on burgers and sandwiches.
3. Swiss chard: A leafy green vegetable packed with carotenoids that protect aging eyes.
   How to eat it: Chop and saute in olive oil.
4. Cinnamon: May help control blood sugar and cholesterol.
   How to eat it: Sprinkle on coffee or oatmeal.
5. Pomegranate juice: Appears to lower blood pressure and loaded with antioxidants.
   How to eat: Just drink it.
6. Dried plums: Okay, so they are really prunes, but they are packed with antioxidants.
   How to eat: Wrapped in prosciutto and baked.
7. Pumpkin seeds: The most nutritious part of the pumpkin and packed with magnesium; high levels of the mineral are associated with lower risk for early death.
   How to eat: Roasted as a snack, or sprinkled on salad.
8. Sardines: Dr. Bowden calls them “health food in a can.'’ They are high in omega-3’s, contain virtually no mercury and are loaded with calcium. They also contain iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, copper and manganese as well as a full complement of B vitamins.
   How to eat: Choose sardines packed in olive or sardine oil. Eat plain, mixed with salad, on toast, or mashed with dijon mustard and onions as a spread.
9. Turmeric: The “superstar of spices,'’ it may have anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties.
   How to eat: Mix with scrambled eggs or in any vegetable dish.
10. Frozen blueberries: Even though freezing can degrade some of the nutrients in fruits and vegetables, frozen blueberries are available year-round and don’t spoil; associated with better memory in animal studies.
    How to eat: Blended with yogurt or chocolate soy milk and sprinkled with crushed almonds.
11. Canned pumpkin: A low-calorie vegetable that is high in fiber and immune-stimulating vitamin A; fills you up on very few calories.
    How to eat: Mix with a little butter, cinnamon and nutmeg.

You can find more details and recipes on the Men’s Health Web site, which published the original version of the list last year.

In my own house, I only have two of these items — pumpkin seeds, which I often roast and put on salads, and frozen blueberries, which I mix with milk, yogurt and other fruits for morning smoothies. How about you? Have any of these foods found their way into your shopping cart?

звідси: well.blogs.nytimes.com

However, those nice chaps over at the Lifehack website have put togather a handy list of web-based alternatives. These tools can help you stay on top of the whole process, from beginning to end. By managing your invoicing system more efficiently, you can concentrate on whatever it is you set up business to do in the first place.

The full list goes into greater detail, but includes:

Paypal: Simple and classic for the minimalist approach.

Blinksale: Greater control over the look and feel of your invoices

Freshbooks: its free account gives unlimited invoicing

Invotrak: another simple and free tool.

Whilst most of these support multi-currency invoicing, it's worth checking out the full article for greater detail on what each service offers and at what price.

Read the full article at Lifehack here.

In addition to Pile, don’t file, I am suggesting to get rid of all your folders and subfolders in Outlook (or whatever mailclient). It is not worth the time setting them up, structuring, changing, adding new stuff to it! So, stop doing it ;-)

What’s next? Just create 3 folders instead. For me it works best if I place them as subfolders of my inbox. Less to drag ‘n drop, right! I named the last one “On hold”. Why? I park here all the (incoming) emails that require input or feedback from others before I need to process them.

My second folder is called “Followup”, because this is for all the emails I need to followup and take more than 2 minutes to execute. This is like a personal todo-list.

And finally the first folder (biggest 1!) is “Archive”. This is the pile of emails. Everything that is dealt with or doesn’t need any action or attention any more, is moved here.

How do I find mails back? Easy, with Xobni (link with LinkedIn now!) or Google Desktop. I’ll bet you, that I am faster at retrieving any mail than you and your (old) tree of folders! And I can keep up much better with larger amounts of incoming mails as well, because it takes less time to save them “somewhere”.

Enjoy this lifehack,

Bert Verdonck
Lifehacker

Download Rapidreader and go through the training exercise (max. 15 minutes). I am normally not a big fan of tutorials, but in this case I am glad I made an exception :-)

What does Rapidreader do for you? It trains you to read faster. Not just a little bit, but way beyond your dreams! It looks like so simple, but it's so effective, wow!

Last week I took the train to Brussels and read more than 60 pages of an ebook in under 30 minutes! My reading speed went up to 350 words/minute. If you know that average people read about 100 words/minute on paper and about 80 words on screen, you'd agree this is pretty awesome, right? And of course, in the train, I got distracted several times, people passing by, showing my ticket to the conductor, etc. At home in my office, my speed goes up to 500 words/minute quite easily! Full throtle...

Still sceptic about it? Download it and testdrive it! It sounds too good to be true, but hey, that's what lifehakcing is all about :-) How often do you find a free tool to increase your reading speed with at least 300% in under 15 minutes!?!

Final remark : you do read all the words, nothing is left out like in other smartreading or speed reading courses...And you do remember a lot, according to studies even more than that you would have read at a slower pace.

Enjoy every day,

Bert Verdonck
Lifehacker

OneLoupe is simple, easy to use, just one-click away. It helps your read all the small print, and also blows up images, in fact any part of your screen. It comes with adjustable zoom range (mousewheel), window size (arrow keys) and a snapshot (pasted to the clipboard).

Testdrive it and start using it!

Enjoy every day,
Bert Verdonck
Lifehacker

Le problème

L'appartement est dans un état bordélique permanent.

L'objectif

L'appartement doit être net, propre et rangé. Il faut créer des espaces de rangement. Aucun objet ne doit trainer hors de son espace de rangement après utilisation.

Dans le prochain billet, nous allons répondre à l'expression des besoins.

D'ici là, vos suggestions et conseils sont les bienvenues.

Attention, c'est un site qui va vous rendre accros. Vous voilà prévenu!

Time to share another lifehacking tip with you. Stop filing documents and start piling! Use search engines to retrieve documents. Use Google Desktop instead. Win the time back you are spending on ever-changing structures, creating folders, saving files 8 levels deep in your system or within your network. Nobody ever keeps track of your system anyway.

Simply create 1 folder and pile all your documents there. No hassle, simple!

When you need any document, you are searching for it anyway. So, use Google Desktop and save yourself more time.

Enjoy every day,
Bert Verdonck
Lifehacker

Whew! this is exhausting!

Now for plain English: I was just looking at Twitter as a way to supplement blogging as a way to stay connected to people that I care about. I already use facebook, skype, iChat, sms and email on my blackberry, sometimes i use the phone. Its been over a year since I've sent someone a letter - a real one. So, I'm checking out twitter and i watch a video on how it works, and I'm blown away. Simple, concise, old-school paper cut-outs: brilliant. Look below for the video I saw. And you can find others at their website here.

Lifehack.com is a website devoted to getting your shit together. Its about productivity, getting things done, systems to get our lives together. I am sometimes devoted to that task, however, there never is a day that I am not riveted by reading great cures to our lives' illnesses. Lifehack has capitalized on many people like me who want some change, and are addicted to being "in process". At some point, I would like to write a long essay on just why the self-help industry is so huge. But in the meantime, I'd like to point to a wonderful article that I read on lifehack.com a couple months ago. "Are You Lifehacking Too Much?" Here is a quote from the article and it points to an addiction that I have on a broader scale; I am addicted to learning, and it gets in the way of me doing.

So, is lifehacking and productivity making you less effective because you’re addicted to the information, but not to actually implementing things? Or are your efforts sabotaged from the get-go because the system you’re using was designed to sell, not work?

And now for the Twitter in plain English video by CommonCraft. Look for twitter info in the sidebar soon. I'd really like to set up a simple way to send inspirational quotes and ideas as the come during the day or night.

• Outlook Duplicate Items Remover Automates That Boring Job
• Email This! Sends Selected Text via Right-Click (firefox)
• Pronounce Tells You How to Say It (firefox)
• NextAction Keeps You Focused on What's Next (windows)
• Easy2Add Creates Outlook Events from Plain English (windows)
• Clean and Optimize Windows Systems with nCleaner (windows)
• Outlook Attachment Remover Frees Up Inbox Disk Space (window)
• xMod Tweaks Leopard's Hidden Settings (mac)
• IsMyLcdOK Answers That Question (windows)
• Acebit backup (windows)

Overall, the trick saved me from 3 speeding tickets and allowed me to go around 85 the majority of the time.

First, I would stay in the front of a pack of cars traveling roughly 5-10 over the speed limit.  Then, when I saw another vehicle trying to speed up, I would stay in the left lane and keep increasing speed to see what limit that the driver was comfortable with.  I would then move over and let them pass.  Next, I let the driver gain a sizable distance on me, but never far enough away where I could not see him.  Finally, I would trail him at the same speed (generally around 85), but from further back.  Two times on I-95 and one time on a random interstate, the car I picked out was pulled over and I was able to set off the speed trap before I passed through.

When you're driving alone and your estimated driving time is 12ish hours, every little bit helps!

Mark Twain for some of his very popular books like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He was a writer and also a humorist, satirist and lecturer.Twain is known for his many – and often funny – quotes. Here are a few of my favourite tips from him.

Mark Twain’s Top 9 Tips for Living a Kick-Ass Life

На самом деле, это не так просто - придумать хорошее доменное имя за две минуты (мне вот сегодня понадобилось - надо было срочно потратить некоторую сумму денег. Потратил, на хостинг. К хостингу давали бесплатный домен. Если бы было побольше "домашних заготовок", зарегистрированное в итоге имя было бы более осмысленным).

Так что читайте советы по ссылке, держите в запасе списочек идей доменных имен. Может быть, в итоге займетесь домейнерским бизнесом :)

Fifty Habits of Highly Successful people takes "the important lessons from every self-help book I’ve read and every life experience I’ve endured, condenses all that into fifty key points and save everybody a whole bunch of reading time."

You can read the full list over on the Lifehack website, or click 'more' to stay right here and read the list anyway...

1. They look for and find opportunities where others see nothing.

2. They find a lesson while others only see a problem.

3. They are solution focused.

4. They consciously and methodically create their own success, while others hope success will find them.

5. They are fearful like everyone else, but they are not controlled or limited by fear.

6. They ask the right questions - the ones which put them in a productive, creative, positive mindset and emotional state.

7. They rarely complain (waste of energy). All complaining does is put the complainer in a negative and unproductive state.

8. They don’t blame (what’s the point?). They take complete responsibility for their actions and outcomes (or lack thereof).

9. While they are not necessarily more talented than the majority, they always find a way to maximise their potential. They get more out of themselves. They use what they have more effectively.

10. They are busy, productive and proactive. While most are laying on the couch, planning, over-thinking, sitting on their hands and generally going around in circles, they are out there getting the job done.

11. They align themselves with like-minded people. They understand the importance of being part of a team. They create win-win relationships.

12. They are ambitious; they want amazing - and why shouldn’t they? They consciously choose to live their best life rather than spending it on auto-pilot.

13. They have clarity and certainty about what they want (and don’t want) for their life. They actually visualise and plan their best reality while others are merely spectators of life.

14. They innovate rather than imitate.

15. They don’t procrastinate and they don’t spend their life waiting for the ‘right time’.

16. They are life-long learners. They constantly work at educating themselves, either formally (academically), informally (watching, listening, asking, reading, student of life) or experientially (doing, trying)… or all three.

17. They are glass half full people - while still being practical and down-to-earth. They have an ability to find the good.

18. They consistently do what they need to do, irrespective of how they are feeling on a given day. They don’t spend their life stopping and starting.

19. They take calculated risks - financial, emotional, professional, psychological.

20. They deal with problems and challenges quickly and effectively, they don’t put their head in the sand. They face their challenges and use them to improve themselves.

21. They don’t believe in, or wait for fate, destiny, chance or luck to determine or shape their future. They believe in, and are committed to actively and consciously creating their own best life.

22. While many people are reactive, they are proactive. They take action before they have to.

23. They are more effective than most at managing their emotions. They feel like we all do but they are not slaves to their emotions.

24. They are good communicators and they consciously work at it.

25. They have a plan for their life and they work methodically at turning that plan into a reality. Their life is not a clumsy series of unplanned events and outcomes.

26. Their desire to be exceptional means that they typically do things that most won’t. They become exceptional by choice. We’re all faced with live-shaping decisions almost daily. Successful people make the decisions that most won’t and don’t.

27. While many people are pleasure junkies and avoid pain and discomfort at all costs, successful people understand the value and benefits of working through the tough stuff that most would avoid.

28. They have identified their core values (what is important to them) and they do their best to live a life which is reflective of those values.

29. They have balance. While they may be financially successful, they know that the terms money and success are not interchangeable. They understand that people who are successful on a financial level only, are not successful at all. Unfortunately we live in a society which teaches that money equals success. Like many other things, money is a tool. It’s certainly not a bad thing but ultimately, it’s just another resource. Unfortunately, too many people worship it.

30. They understand the importance of discipline and self-control. They are strong. They are happy to take the road less travelled.

31. They are secure. They do not derive their sense of worth of self from what they own, who they know, where they live or what they look like.

32. They are generous and kind. They take pleasure in helping others achieve.

33. They are humble and they are happy to admit mistakes and to apologise. They are confident in their ability, but not arrogant. They are happy to learn from others. They are happy to make others look good rather than seek their own personal glory.

34. They are adaptable and embrace change, while the majority are creatures of comfort and habit. They are comfortable with, and embrace, the new and the unfamiliar.

35. They keep themselves in shape physically, not to be mistaken with training for the Olympics or being obsessed with their body. They understand the importance of being physically well. They are not all about looks, they are more concerned with function and health. Their body is not who they are, it’s where they live.

36. They have a big engine. They work hard and are not lazy.

37. They are resilient. When most would throw in the towel, they’re just warming up.

38. They are open to, and more likely to act upon, feedback.

39. They don’t hang out with toxic people.

40. They don’t invest time or emotional energy into things which they have no control of.

41. They are happy to swim against the tide, to do what most won’t. They are not people pleasers and they don’t need constant approval.

42. They are more comfortable with their own company than most.

43. They set higher standards for themselves (a choice we can all make), which in turn produces greater commitment, more momentum, a better work ethic and of course, better results.

44. They don’t rationalise failure. While many are talking about their age, their sore back, their lack of time, their poor genetics, their ‘bad luck’, their nasty boss and their lack of opportunities (all good reasons to fail), they are finding a way to succeed despite all their challenges.

45. They have an off switch. They know how to relax, enjoy what they have in their life and to have fun.

46. Their career is not their identity, it’s their job. It’s not who they are, it’s what they do.

47. They are more interested in effective than they are in easy. While the majority look for the quickest, easiest way (the shortcut), they look for the course of action which will produce the best results over the long term.

48. They finish what they start. While so many spend their life starting things that they never finish, successful people get the job done - even when the excitement and the novelty have worn off. Even when it ain’t fun.

49. They are multi-dimensional, amazing, wonderful complex creatures (as we all are). They realise that not only are they physical and psychological beings, but emotional and spiritual creatures as well. They consciously work at being healthy and productive on all levels.

50. They practice what they preach. They don’t talk about the theory, they live the reality.

So there you have it, your days of reading self-help books are done!

Okay, maybe not. I may have missed a few. Feel free to add a habit or two of your own to the list.

All I need now - Apple SDK developers, take note -- is a superior high-res PDF viewer in my mobile.  The OCR software that came with the ScanSnap lets me search for any words (correctly recognized) in any article, so I'm no longer dependent on the document title for its retrieval.  And so now, I can search for all the keywords that will engineer a dynamic sample of my interests.  I can search for an ingredient at the farmer's market and see which recipes I've scanned use it, and what else I need to get.  No more paper!  Downsizing!  It's all good.

Ich kann jedem, der selber gern mehr Selbstmanagment haben möchte, nur Getting Things Done empfehlen. Mein erster Eindruck von David Allen und seinem Buch ist nämlich auch das Gegenteil von so anderen "Beratern". Er nevt nicht. Man wird nicht in ein fertiges Produktivitätsgefangenenlager gesteckt, sondern bekommt PRAKTISCHE Hilfen für den ALLTAG

Bereits jetzt habe ich ein neues Problem: Was tun, in der Zeit, die ich bereits jetzt schon frei habe, weil ich effektiver arbeite? =)

Links:

• http://imgriff.com/serien/gtd-grundlagen/
• http://www.zeitzuleben.de/artikel/persoenlichkeit/getting-thins-done-david-allen.html
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done
• http://www.43folders.com/
• http://www.davidco.com/
• http://del.icio.us/popular/GTD