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The last corner of the triangle is love. 1. Family The people you spend much of your time with. Requires a high level of commitment and provide a steady flow of support and pleasure. 2. Friends The people you spend some of your time with. Requires a low level of commitment and provices occasional bursts of support and pleasure. 3. Self The person you spend all your time with. I'll leave it at that.

 We are quick to get rid of inconveniences, but maybe we shouldn't be. 1. We aren't as good at choosing how to spend our time as we think. While we think that getting rid of an inconvenience will give us more time to do the things we like, we may just waste that time instead. If you get a dishwasher so you don't have to wash up, how will the time saved really be spent? Within a few days, you could take that time for granted and waste it on the internet. 2. Inconveniences are healthy. A large portion of our energy expenditure is comes from NEATs (non-exercise activity thermogenesis), so much, on a day where you've done a heavy workout in the morning, making you feel less active the rest of the day, you may end up burning fewer calories than if you hadn't exercised at all. Replacing an inconvenient walk/cycle with a convenient drive, or conveniently parking close to the supermaket door, cutting out an inconvenient walk across the car park just cuts out your vital NEAT...

You work during the week and live during the weekend - 5 days on, 2 days off. I touched on this in a previous article, the  Work-Life Ratio , but fortunately reality isn't quite like that. There are 2 methods that I use to offset this grim outlook (yes, I know things are much worse in other places but with modern manufacturing and farming techniques this still seems like more work than is needed). 1. This first method is rather straightforward and it is to see going to work as just an activity that you will do 5 times a week. What I mean by this is not looking at Monday to Friday and Saturday & Sunday as relaxation but rather on Monday to Friday you go to work for your 8 hours and that is just a single activity you do during that day. It's a bit like planning to go to the gym for 90 minutes three times a week or practising a new language for 20 minutes a day. If you can look at working as a single activity, albeit a rather long-one, that you do during that day then perhaps ...

The second corner of the triangle is wealth, which, as the other corners of the triangle, is further divisible into 3. 1 - Career Your career is your source of wealth and the main way in which you provide wealth to the world, and the primary consumer of your time, so it’s important. There are a couple of things that I think make a good career: firstly, it provides value to the world, even if it’s not immediately obvious who is the recipient of the value is. This is only positive if you feel that the recipients of your value are deserving of it (providing arms to the KKK provides value, but to the wrong people) ... and secondly, it has some intrinsic level of interest to you as an individual - which isn’t to say that you enjoy doing it every day. A good rule of thumb is to aim to find a job doing the things you did for fun as a child, when you were free of the prejudice that some tasks were productive and others were a waste of time. 2 - skills This category includes your education and ...

My life has changed a lot over the past few years, more than I could have imagined, which only being out of university a few years is perhaps quite normal but will things ever stop changing so much? My guess is that the rate of change isn't going to be slowing down for quite some time. I'm not talking about just the rapidly evolving technology that is changing the very fabric of our society, but, the rest of our lives too. Going into the details of the biggest semi-recent changes of my life would show you that we are all quite similar - meet girl, fall in love, move in together, get married, get a house, get a pet, get a baby (the last 4 can be changed into any order). These big milestones are clear changes that we prepare ourselves for whether we know it or not - so how about the rest of life? So much is changing constantly, be it our own doing or otherwise, and it can be difficult to ever feel truly settled and ready to start . Perhaps you want to start a diet or exercise pl...

Our allegiance or rivalry with or against a party changed based on what level we are viewing them at. Homer is rivals with Ned because they compete within the street Homer would be allies with Ned in a contest against Shelbyville Springfield would be allies with Shelbyville in a contest against China America would be allies with China in a contest against Kang and Kodos Ultimately, the wider the view you take on your alliances, the more you find yourself allied with others, as we are all in a contest with the forces of nature