Life Tricks - Page 33

On December 27 2010 02:15 Dreaming11 wrote:
For those in the UK - dont feel obliged to tip, waiters in the US are exempt from minimum wage due to some law so they NEED the tips. In the UK, its completely different because waiters get paid as much as anyone else so tips should be reserved only for when you feel the service has been exceptional. The tips are often confiscated by the restaurants in the UK anyway and used to cover 'waste'.

Be sure to set yourselves some life goals and targets for where you want your life to be headed. This is one of the biggest things most people never do, they just end up coasting along. In 5 years time do you want to be a trainee systems analyst, do you want to have a long term relationship and moved in with your partner, do you want to be living in Thailand? Once you have assessed what you want out of your life, it becomes a million times easier to work towards that. Its like in Starcraft 2, when you get cheesed and dont know how to deal with that you panic - but make a plan where you want to be in the mid game, and when the cheese comes, you know just to deal with it and get back into your mid-game plan.

I can attest to this, as soon as I started listing things I wanted I started doing things about them. E.g. 'to look good' was one of them - next day signed up at the gym, lost 8lbs in 2 months and a -lot- more muscle definition now (I didnt know what exercise to do, so I just asked at the gym for a 'general' workout plan :p - walk before you run!).

FOCUS your thinking. Your mind is incredibly powerful - your subconscious will automatically filter out information it deems not relevant to your interests. Example: you buy a red Ford Focus. All of a sudden every car on the road is a red ford focus. This is because your conscious has told your subconscious 'I have a Red Ford Focus! Yea!'. If you consciously focus on the things you want to achieve (and, these should be the things that make you feel good and get you closer towards your 'life goals'), whether its a better job or a new girlfriend - all of a sudden your subconscious will start shouting at you and you will notice every job advert in the window or every hot girl walking down the street. If you consciously focus on the things you hate about your life, they will invariably bother you more and you will notice it more. Bringing down your mood like this is only ever bad for you, there's no 'good' side to being miserable!

I took some of these tips from Maximum Achievement by Brian Tracy which is a good read, I would recommend it but don't want to spam so if you can get it a library and flick through its interesting - nothing groundbreaking but just puts forward ideas in a very approachable way and forces you to ask yourself questions you might not have otherwise. Setting yourself life goals, then each day working towards those goals and focusing your subconscious on those goals will soon have you on your way!!

On December 28 2010 06:35 NIIINO wrote:
<---- people with names wrote with caps lock love to be combo brakers

On November 10 2010 15:47 rayofpain wrote:
pretty sure everyone knows this but

press windows key+tab in win7
my friend laughed at me when i found this out after 6 months of using win7

On December 28 2010 14:30 Two_DoWn wrote:
Whenever you are in an argument with someone, and they are obviously wrong, but refuse to acknowledge that you are in the right, stop, remind yourself that nearly everyone besides you is an idiot, feel sorry for them for being an idiot and move on with your life.

Saves a lot of time.

On December 28 2010 13:46 Mawi wrote:
Type F6 if you want to change domain ( instead of moving cursor to the top and write www.)

On December 28 2010 10:52 CarlyZerg wrote:
My friends and I in college would go frisbee golfing in the park every day, and we'd bring my little puppy Asha with us to chase ducks and shit.

When we'd see a group of age-appropriate girls, we'd point Asha in their direction and be like, "LOOK! What's that? Do those people have food for you?", then let her go and she'd run up and start barking at them (she's a chihuaha mix, so it's sorta what she does).

100% of the time the girls thought it was cute and a conversation got started. My friends got several dates out of it (I had a gf the whole time, so did not benefit personally).

It might be cliche, but it totally works.

On December 08 2010 19:32 BasilPesto wrote:


Life trick: Ignore most of the quote above. I don't know how else women gain muscle (and strength) except through strength training/weight lifting. The info about stretching sounds like rabid ranting from a gym junkie.