Garden tips for buying the best cold hardy flower bulbs for planting outdoors

Buying flower bulbs to plant and grow is an exciting experience that begins in the fall and continues through the spring. Dutch flower bulbs are typically delivered to US ports in the month of September for fall planting. Major Dutch bulb offerings include Dutch amaryllis and African amaryllis; daffodil bulbs and the famous tulip bulbs. …

Drying a Soggy Mind in the Sun: 6 Suggestions for Thinking About Your Way Out of a Black Hole

You enter. You can think of how to go out again! The human mind is an amazing bowl of oatmeal. But despite their best efforts, every now and then everyone’s mind sinks into the subterranean sludge of deep blue funk, and ironically, that’s when we need our faculties the most, because hard times and heartbreak …

Hoodia – How long does it take before it starts to work?

Since Hoodia Gordonii is a completely natural plant material, it does not work like drugs that are designed to work the same way for everyone. Everyone’s body chemistry is slightly different and each person will react to herbs differently. It may take time before it starts to work for you. Some people have found that …

10 habits of people with high self-esteem

1. People with high self-esteem think positively. Self-esteem is essentially the ability to think positively about yourself, so developing the habit of positive thinking in general will increase your chances of having a positive attitude toward yourself as well. 2. People with high self-esteem regularly participate in activities to raise self-esteem. Whether these activities are …

12 reasons to visit Malta during the winter holidays

Winter weather can be schizophrenic in Malta. But overall, the clouds over this small outcropping of an archipelago in the heart of the Mediterranean have their silver lining, as we can experience four seasons in one week. Another peculiarity of a Maltese winter is the temperature difference between inside and outside; while northern Europeans hunker …

Effective selection of ideas is essential for systematic innovation

“The key is to pick the things that you think are really important and then focus on them like a laser.” –Jeff Bezos, founder and president of Amazon.com Of all the ways to discover new ideas, the Walt Disney Company, during the Eisner years, had one of the most unconventional methods. Modeled after a 1970s …