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Are you being choked by the weeds of information? Richard Saul Wurman, in his book Information Anxiety, said that “a weekday edition of the New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England.” With so much information, advertisements, conflicting views and other noise jostling for our attention, you need to actively filter out the useless from the useful. And how do you do that? Well…it’s through a little process I call Information Gardening.

Being successful is largely about gaining control over some aspects of the external world.

When I was growing up, my life went through a lot of changes. I started off living in Canberra and going to school there. It was a comfortable life in a nice quiet neighborhood.

Modern Western culture is obsessed with the benefits of hard-work. Sometimes, it seems to consume our lives. We put in all sorts of hours improving ourselves and our financial situation in order to "get ahead in life".

Informative site on the mental foundation of Yoga and Success. Great newsletter and blog with interactive examples.

Here is my list of things to give you a short-term "hit" of happiness. Of course, these things won't solve your long-term problems, but they are useful tricks to giving yourself some relief when it all seems too much.

"How To Develop SELF-CONFIDENCE IN SPEECH & MANNER" By GRENVILLE KLEISER