Today Daniel Ternes, author of Sleep Hack Dojo, shares a comprehensive primer on sleep optimization, including power naps, brainwave entrainment, polyphasic sleep, and other sleep hacks.

One shortcut to change your internal state is to change your external state. To overcome a big hurdle, change a persistent negative behavior, or make some other kind of big leap in your personal development, maybe you need to change more than yourself… maybe you need to change your surroundings?

Sean Ogle took a huge risk and made a big life change. Sean is someone who quit his office job working in finance, and took a huge leap. He moved to Asia and started a new life abroad, experimenting with working as a digital nomad.

2009 was an incredible year for me and for Thrilling Heroics! I got to wrap it up by spending Christmas on a sailboat with friends and seeing my little sister. Here are my goals for 2010; what are yours?

So as I write this I’m sitting on the beach in Railay Bay, Krabi. My parents came to visit me in Bangkok and I’ve been on a ten-day excursion to the islands in Phuket and Krabi. We are staying on a quiet, isolated beach at West Railay Beach near Ao Nang. It’s about 11PM here, and all that can be [...]

Ever since I discovered Google Custom Search, I’ve been using it to pinpoint the exact kind of awesome articles, tips and tricks I’m looking for much quicker, and to increase my efficiency and decrease the time it takes me to find answers or write up blog posts. Personally, I’m a big fan of productivity lists, how-to’s, and life hacks, so [...]

Well the day has finally come… now you can finally synchronize your Google Calendar (gCal) with your own local calendar application on your laptop or desktop machine easily and automatically! Outlook, iCal, Thunderbird, whatever! And without investing in an expensive application to do it for you. At Lifehacker: “As of yesterday’s announcement of CalDAV support in Google Calendar, you can [...]

If you’ve been on the net as long as I have, you’ve most likely run into the “GTD” acronym before. But, do you know what it means? GTD is a productivity and organization system that was created by management consultant David Allen in his 2001 national bestseller Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. Allen calls his system the [...]