Perhaps the best free self-help website with no ads
Welcome to perhaps the best free self-help website that is also free of advertisements. The documents below, over 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 that they can then edit and share with your ensuing generations. I suggest downloading the files since this website won't be here forever; you do not have to give any personal information to do so, such as an email address. 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: - assess your personality type & learning style (4 pp.) - assess your religious & philosophical beliefs (1 p.) - brainstorming your life purpose (11 pp.) - simplifying life to crystallize your purpose (5 pp.) - connecting your purpose to daily tasks (35 pp.)
Help for teachers:
- teaching social studies and English (318 pp.) - a Web bookmark for these subjects (250 sites) 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.) - online groups, forums, & communities (14 pp.) - business letters (3 pp.) - doing humanitarian work elsewhere (3 pp.) - finding a co-founder (3 pp.)
- freelancers and consultants (11 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.)
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 (35 pp.) - nutrition and 550 low-fat recipes (194 pp.) - health costs and physical healing (14 pp.) Help for your relationships: - managing your feelings and emotional needs (52 pp.) - managing & expressing anger cheatsheet (2 pp.) - "earned-secure" attachment cheatsheet (2 pp.) - being an empathy buddy (8 pp.) - dating, couples communication, & getting engaged (56 pp.) - PG-13 romance with your partner (49 pp.) - holistic intimacy with your partner - NSFW (246 pp.) - parenting (134 pp.) - caregivers, the dying, the bereaved, & executors (20 pp.)
Help for your health: - building strong habits (4 pp.) - exercising (35 pp.) - nutrition and 550 low-fat recipes (194 pp.) - health costs and physical healing (14 pp.) Help for your relationships: - managing your feelings and emotional needs (52 pp.) - managing & expressing anger cheatsheet (2 pp.) - "earned-secure" attachment cheatsheet (2 pp.) - being an empathy buddy (8 pp.) - dating, couples communication, & getting engaged (56 pp.) - PG-13 romance with your partner (49 pp.) - holistic intimacy with your partner - NSFW (246 pp.) - parenting (134 pp.) - caregivers, the dying, the bereaved, & executors (20 pp.)
Some time ago, I had a vision of the best possible peace process for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, involving a day school for the children of the Israeli and Palestinian politicians themselves, especially of the extremists on each end. It is based on the concept of a line house, a structure built to straddle the border between two jurisdictions. There has yet to be a line house in the world that is a school, let alone a school designed to attract the children of those themselves who have political power, enough wealth to send their child to any school, and whose ideologies are at the two extreme ends of the political spectrum.
When I went to explain this 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 very important and potentially game-changing, and this of course just made me more anxious. I also envisioned, as seen in this image, a school straddling the border between Gaza and southwestern Israel, exactly where an attack later happened on Oct. 7, 2023, along with similar line-house schools in about ten other intransigent conflicts in the world, including one in the Korean DMZ. I own the URLs shown in the image and will develop them eventually to push forward this vision.
Struggling to articulate the vision, I grasped I could only decrease my anxiety if I first put this concept aside and systematically de-cluttered the rest of my mind.
So, I handwrote hundreds of letters to heal past interactions or to let go of feelings of indebtedness towards certain people. I then gave away my tangible possessions that conflicted with the identity of this path, especially if I would suddenly have to move abroad. I also eliminated most of my paper files and digital data. However, I still felt quite anxious. Therefore, 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 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 seed 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. Regarding the holistic-intimacy document, I made that synthesis from a lot of books and shared it here to help prevent children's parents from getting divorced. I figure that the happier a couple's bedroom life is, the happier their marriage will be, their chances of divorce in the future will then lessen, and as a result their children will less likely experience that unnecessary pain. I continue to have a lot of second thoughts about posting this document and how it might make me look, but I think it is more important to help even just one child's parents stay together than to not post this document here. It is the best document on this website, perhaps the best free document on the Internet on this topic, and the one to forward to your closest adult friends as it might strengthen their marriages too.
One other website worth mentioning here is the best personal-finance website that is free with no advertisements, the Bogleheads Forum, named after John Bogle, the founder of Vanguard, the mutual-fund company. You can create a free profile, anonymously explain your finances in exact detail to 130,000 other members, and ask for investment advice or for a confirmation that you are doing okay with your budget or 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.
So, I handwrote hundreds of letters to heal past interactions or to let go of feelings of indebtedness towards certain people. I then gave away my tangible possessions that conflicted with the identity of this path, especially if I would suddenly have to move abroad. I also eliminated most of my paper files and digital data. However, I still felt quite anxious. Therefore, 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 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 seed 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. Regarding the holistic-intimacy document, I made that synthesis from a lot of books and shared it here to help prevent children's parents from getting divorced. I figure that the happier a couple's bedroom life is, the happier their marriage will be, their chances of divorce in the future will then lessen, and as a result their children will less likely experience that unnecessary pain. I continue to have a lot of second thoughts about posting this document and how it might make me look, but I think it is more important to help even just one child's parents stay together than to not post this document here. It is the best document on this website, perhaps the best free document on the Internet on this topic, and the one to forward to your closest adult friends as it might strengthen their marriages too.
One other website worth mentioning here is the best personal-finance website that is free with no advertisements, the Bogleheads Forum, named after John Bogle, the founder of Vanguard, the mutual-fund company. You can create a free profile, anonymously explain your finances in exact detail to 130,000 other members, and ask for investment advice or for a confirmation that you are doing okay with your budget or 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.