Free self-help
Welcome to perhaps the best free self-help website that is also free of advertisements. The documents below, close to 2,000 pages, are full of tips and resources I collected for living happily and wisely. Sharing them is the best way I can uniquely help you in life. There is no catch.
I kept the files in Microsoft Word so you can edit, expand, and share them with your children and grandchildren as a collection of written family wisdom, which they can then pass on to their descendants. I suggest downloading the files since this website won't be here forever. No personal information such as an email address is needed from you. Farther below I explain my motives.
The six categories: your purpose in life, tips for teachers, other careers, your possessions and travels, your health, and your relationships
The six categories: your purpose in life, tips for teachers, other careers, your possessions and travels, your health, and your relationships
Help for finding your life purpose: - assessing your personality type and learning style (4 pp.) - assessing your religious and philosophical beliefs (1 p.) - brainstorming your life purpose (for retirees too) (11 pp.) - simplifying your life to crystallize your purpose (5 pp.) - connecting your purpose to daily tasks (35 pp.)
Help for teachers:
- teaching social studies and English / language arts (318 pp.) - a bookmark for your internet browser with over 250 websites for teaching these subjects Activities for teaching history (PDF files): - World: prehistory - 1600 C.E. (135 pp.) - World: 1600 - present (124 pp.) - U.S.: 1492 - 1900 (72 pp.) - U.S.: 1900 - present (119 pp.)
Help for other careers: - advocacy and activism (22 pp.) - building a nonprofit (187 pp.) - building online groups, forums, and communities (14 pp.) - business letters (3 pp.) - doing humanitarian work elsewhere (3 pp.) - finding a co-founder (3 pp.) - intra-enterprise collaboration software (1 p.) - leadership, delegation and feedback (12 pp.) - negotiating (11 pp.) - picking a crowd-sourcing provider (4 pp.) - pitching and selling (12 pp.) - public speaking (19 pp.) - self-publishing your book or e-book (117 pp.) - using online video (22 pp.) - website design and analytics (27 pp.) - wikis and social bookmarks (5 pp.) - working with or being a freelancer or consultant (11 pp.)
Help for your possessions and travels: - your money (58 pp.) - your home (35 pp.) - your automobile (10 pp.) - budget travel & overseas relocation (25 pp.) - buying a mattress (5 pp.) - buying a carpet (2 pp.) - using a personal lawyer (5 pp.)
Help for your health: - building strong habits (4 pp.) - exercising (21 pp.) - nutrition and 550 low-fat recipes (171 pp.) - health costs and physical healing (14 pp.) Help for your relationships: - labeling & managing your emotions (37 pp.) - listening and building rapport (17 pp.) - dating, communication, & getting engaged (63 pp.) - PG-13 romance with your partner (49 pp.) - parenting (134 pp.) - caregivers, the dying, the bereaved, and executors (20 pp.)
Help for your health: - building strong habits (4 pp.) - exercising (21 pp.) - nutrition and 550 low-fat recipes (171 pp.) - health costs and physical healing (14 pp.) Help for your relationships: - labeling & managing your emotions (37 pp.) - listening and building rapport (17 pp.) - dating, communication, & getting engaged (63 pp.) - PG-13 romance with your partner (49 pp.) - parenting (134 pp.) - caregivers, the dying, the bereaved, and executors (20 pp.)
In 2002, I had a vision of the best possible peace process for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a day school for the children of the Israeli and Palestinian politicians themselves, especially of the extremists on each end. When I went to explain it to important people, I was so anxious that I could not articulate it; my intuitive mind had jumped out ahead of my rational mind. Meanwhile, friends said I was onto something extremely important and potentially game-changing, and this of course just made me more anxious.
I grasped I could only decrease my anxiety if I put aside this concept and systematically de-cluttered my mind.
I first handwrote hundreds of letters to heal past interactions or to let go of feelings of indebtedness. I then gave away most of my tangible possessions after analyzing each one's purpose. I also eliminated most of my paper files and digital data. Lastly, I obsessively researched topics that made me feel anxious in the slightest regardless of how pertinent they were to this concept. I formatted the findings for each of these topics in a MS Word document with its own table of contents.
Originally I was going to keep these documents to myself, but then I realized they might be able to help anyone who knows English. When I was 21, both my last grandparent and my father passed away. All the wisdom they had yet to share was gone forever. I saw in that moment that if I were to have a child and then die when that child was still young, the wisdom I had yet to impart would also be gone forever. This applies to all families, and thus these documents can serve as a starting point for any family's trove of written wisdom that can then be put onto a hard drive at home and frequently edited.
Besides some general topics, I added ones for the professions I have been in as well as for stuff like buying a carpet or a mattress that are surprisingly technical and that I had to research for my own home. Most of the information is solid wisdom, but I now know that the healthiest recipes are low-calorie, low-glycemic, low-gluten, and high-fiber, and not just low-fat.
One website worth mentioning here is the best free personal-finance website, the Bogleheads Forum , named after the founder of Vanguard, a mutual-fund company. You can create a free profile, anonymously explain your finances to 120,000 other members, and ask for investment advice or for a confirmation that you are doing okay with your portfolio. You will likely get several good responses, including one or two from investment advisers who are happy to both help you and reveal their real name. They know that doing this lets them be found in a Google search by prospective clients who might be thinking of hiring that adviser and thus want insight into that person's mind. It doesn't matter if your net worth is $50 or $50 million.
If this site helps you in some way, please share it with others. You never know how they might benefit.
I first handwrote hundreds of letters to heal past interactions or to let go of feelings of indebtedness. I then gave away most of my tangible possessions after analyzing each one's purpose. I also eliminated most of my paper files and digital data. Lastly, I obsessively researched topics that made me feel anxious in the slightest regardless of how pertinent they were to this concept. I formatted the findings for each of these topics in a MS Word document with its own table of contents.
Originally I was going to keep these documents to myself, but then I realized they might be able to help anyone who knows English. When I was 21, both my last grandparent and my father passed away. All the wisdom they had yet to share was gone forever. I saw in that moment that if I were to have a child and then die when that child was still young, the wisdom I had yet to impart would also be gone forever. This applies to all families, and thus these documents can serve as a starting point for any family's trove of written wisdom that can then be put onto a hard drive at home and frequently edited.
Besides some general topics, I added ones for the professions I have been in as well as for stuff like buying a carpet or a mattress that are surprisingly technical and that I had to research for my own home. Most of the information is solid wisdom, but I now know that the healthiest recipes are low-calorie, low-glycemic, low-gluten, and high-fiber, and not just low-fat.
One website worth mentioning here is the best free personal-finance website, the Bogleheads Forum , named after the founder of Vanguard, a mutual-fund company. You can create a free profile, anonymously explain your finances to 120,000 other members, and ask for investment advice or for a confirmation that you are doing okay with your portfolio. You will likely get several good responses, including one or two from investment advisers who are happy to both help you and reveal their real name. They know that doing this lets them be found in a Google search by prospective clients who might be thinking of hiring that adviser and thus want insight into that person's mind. It doesn't matter if your net worth is $50 or $50 million.
If this site helps you in some way, please share it with others. You never know how they might benefit.