How to Spend Time with your Family and Still Write Articles

Writing articles for websites like eHow, Bukisa, and Associated Content is a great way to express your thoughts and to also put some extra money in your pockets each month. Just like any activity, writing articles needs to be added to your schedule in a responsible way so that you don’t neglect your family.

Budget your time wisely. Writing articles for websites has become a popular way for writers on every level to express themselves and harness the power of the Internet to generate traffic and ultimately revenue for their work. Writing can consume a large portion of your time and can draw your attention away from other responsibilities. Like any other activity, time for writing should be isolated into its own time slot in order to allow time for other activities.

Experiment to find the best time of day for you to write. The most obvious time to write articles is late at night after everyone in the house has gone to sleep. By then, your chores are done and the house is quiet because everyone is sleeping. The problem with late night writing is that you could begin to lose more and more sleep and you don't typically have anyone to tell you when it's time to go to bed. If you are going to stay up late on the computer, set an alarm for yourself, but nothing audible or you'll wake everyone up.

Utilize break time and down-time. If you have access to a computer at work, you could use your break time or lunch time to write an article. The only problem with this is that if people see you sitting at your desk, they may think you are on the clock and approach you with business. Don't start writing articles on company time. It's dishonest and you shouldn't lose your job, while working on secondary income. If you can afford it, a laptop or netbook is a good investment because you can take it to a quiet place outside the office and write.

The most important thing is to use discipline and spend writing time for writing and family time for family. If you want to try both, you could brainstorm with your family for ideas and they could help you write articles, but if they aren't interested, then don't impose it on them. Everyone has different tastes.


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How to Set Daylight Savings Time Change Reminders on Google Calendar

Have you ever forgotten to change your clock for “Daylight Savings Time?” Here is a simple way to set reminders so that you’ll never forget again.

Log onto your Google Account and navigate to your Google Calendar.  Select the "Month" tab to change to month view. Beside the month and year indicator, click the navigation arrows until you are on March of the current year.  Click on the second Sunday and for the event type, "Begin Daylight Savings - Set your clock forward one hour at 2:00 am." Then click the link for "edit event details >>."

Under the "Repeats" drop-down box, choose "Monthly." A box should appear below that says "Monthly on the second Sunday." In the "Repeat every" drop-down box, choose the number 12. This will make an entry on your Google Calendar every year on the second Sunday of March to display the "Begin Daylight Savings" event.

To set up an email reminder, look under the "Options" section and set the first drop-down box to "email." In the next box, type 1. In the last drop-down box, choose "days". This will send you an email the day before to remind you to change your clock.  Be sure to click the "Save" button at the bottom. If you make any changes later and click save, a message will pop-up asking "Would you like to change only this event, all events in the series, or this and all future events in the series?" Click the "All events in the series" button.

Another neat thing that Google allows you to do is to send reminders to your mobile phone. Look in the top right corner of the browser window, beside where Google displays your user name or email address. Click the link for settings and then click the "Mobile Setup" link.

To set a reminder for the end of Daylight Savings Time, repeat steps 1 through 7, but instead of the second Sunday in March, navigate to the first Sunday in November. For the event, type "End Daylight Savings - Set your clock back one hour at 2:00 am." Everything else is configured identically.


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How to Travel through Time

Do you long for a way to relive your past? Are you looking for creative ways to improve your future? It’s not as difficult as you think.

What exactly is time? Time is a man-made invention that was created centuries ago by humans allowing them the ability to record events in order to remember them and to create markers to reference when the events happened in relation to one another. There are two basic ways to travel through time, forwards and backwards. In this article, I will discuss some of the best methods for making forward time travel a unique and rewarding experience; so much so, that it should eliminate the need for reverse time travel altogether. For this journey, prepare yourself with some basic recording tools, such as a journal and a digital camera, so that you can easily document your experiences.

One of the most important tools for a time-traveler is a time marker. A time marker can be anything of significance created so that you, or future generations, can remember a specific moment in time. A time marker doesn’t have to be created on a grand scale, like the Great Wall of China or Mount Rushmore. It may be something as simple as a photograph. Many people have created time capsule markers, which offer a collection of items from a certain time period. In most cases, these capsules are opened anywhere from fifty to one hundred years after they are sealed. The idea is to mark a reference in time in a way that will allow you or other people to experience it many years later and return to that point in time. For forward-only time travelers, returning to a previous point in time, means simply remembering the events of that moment or dreaming about it, but not physically visiting it.

I mentioned earlier in this article, the notion of making forward time travel a rewarding experience. Create a marker right now, consisting of a journal entry expressing how you are doing in life at this very moment. Include your thoughts, feelings, financial situation, and anything significant that represents who you are. Create a collection photos or a video of yourself. Be sure to actually print the photographs as you cannot be certain that the digital method that you currently use to store photos now will still be used in the future. (ex. the floppy disk) Place all of this in a safe place, like a time capsule, and don’t read or watch it again for at least one year; even better, five or ten years. Now create a list of goals outlining things that you wish to accomplish by the next time you view these stored materials. Do you want to be more successful, build something, lose weight, or have children? Focus your time and energy towards reaching these goals and constantly improving yourself.

When the time is right, open the capsule and read your journal entry, play the video tape, or look at the pictures you took. Did you accomplish the goals that you set for yourself? This simple practice has the potential to make a great impact on your life and possibly eliminate the regrets or wishes that cause people to desire traveling backwards in time to change earlier events. Isn’t reverse time travel what interested you in searching for this topic in the first place? Using a simple series of time markers to travel to the past in your mind should always be sufficient if you are living a fulfilling life.

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