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How to Hack Your Sleep – Sleep Less, Do More, Feel Better: Part 3

In the first parts of this series, we talked about why using and recognizing our natural tendencies as sleep-deprived humans can help us get more sleep, feel better, and get more done. Mostly, it’s through the use of naps, specifically and purposefully optimized and placed at a point in our day that provide us the benefits of the different sleep cycles. Depending on what we need, or have going on in our lives, that means we can use naps to give us more productivity, a quick motivational or fo...

How to Hack Your Sleep – Sleep Less, Do More, Feel Better: Part 2

In part 1 of this series, we talked about why using and recognizing our natural tendencies as sleep-deprived humans can help us get more sleep, feel better, and get more done. Sleeping is great, and looking at what we need out of it–namely, what benefits we’d like to receive from our sleep–we can use different times of the day to enter into REM sleep, Stage 3, or another stage of sleep. These different stages help benefit us in different ways, all covered in last week’s post.

This particular p...

How to Hack Your Sleep – Sleep Less, Do More, Feel Better: Part 1

Maybe sleep is for the weak, but letting our workloads get the best of us is for the lame. Today, we’re faced with more options—more work, more opportunities, more of life in general. We’re also expected to doÂmore—but no one has given us more time to do all of these things. Why not take advantage of the remedy nature has provided us? Napping is free, easy to learn, doesn’t require special equipment, and is actually hardwired into us! Read on to find out more about this “secret” life-opti...

Want Scrivener for Half the Price? Check Out the Scrivener Sale!

Just a friendly public service announcement from your friends here at LiveHacked.com:

Scrivener is currently 50% off!

Yup, that’s right — grab our favorite writing software forÂ1/2 the price!

Normally retailing for $40 (Windows version) and $45 (Mac version), Amazon.com has both version selling for only:

$20 – Windows version
$22.50 – Mac version

For all you math nerds out there, that’sÂjust about 50% off.

Actually, it’sÂexactlyÂ50% off…

So go grab it now! If you’ve been wanting to check it out, I’ve...

If You Haven’t Been Sleeping Well… Here’s How to Change It!

I’m currently on my way to Texas to visit family and friends, and the days leading up to the week-long trip were filled with a lot of work, catching up, and trying to get ahead.

Consequently, my sleep suffered.

This isn’t the first time!

Interestingly enough, it’s been just about a year since I completed a month-long fast. Part of what I learned during that process was that sleep cycles, getting enough sleep, and generally taking care of your body has an amazing effect on your overall health and...

The Results Are In: Reader Survey 2013!

The moment you’ve been waiting for…

No?

Well, for me it was.

I had wanted to do a “reader survey” ever since I started blogging, but I couldn’t ever bring myself to send a questionnaire to to the handful of people on my mailing list.

It’s been a year since LiveHacked.com officially launched, though, so I thought it was high time to get it in gear!

And here are the results!

First, let me say: thank youÂto everyone who filled out the form — I REALLY will take this information to heart (most of it…)...

Want to Sell More Books? Do These Things NOW!

So you wrote a book. That’s quite an accomplishment, and don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise. You’ve overcome hurdles, dodged obstacles, and pushed through to the finish line — not too shabby of an accomplishment.

There’s just one thing: when most people get to “The End,” they realize they haven’t evenÂbegun to think about their long-term marketing strategy.

“Marketing?!?” they say, “That’s a dirty word!”

Or: “Gross — who wants to doÂmarketing?“

The answer is, well, me.

I want to do marketing...

Would you mind taking a brief survey?

Well, it’s been almost one (official) year since LiveHacked.com has been alive.

It’s a one-year-old baby, but it’s amazing how fast it’s grown! However, there’s still a lot more I’d like to do.

But I need your help.

You’re reading this for some reason or another — you subscribe to the email/RSS feed and updates, you clicked through from Facebook or Twitter, or you found the site via a search engine. Whatever the case, you’re here, and I’d like to ask you a few questions.

I’ve prepared a “reader s...

Crowdfunding: What it is and What it Can Do for You

Note from Nick: This is a post by Jessica Burde, who’s been around here before. If you’re interested in writing for us, check out the guidelines here.Â

Crowdfunding is a relatively new way to get the needed money for a project or start up. Unlike traditional, business oriented methods of getting large sums of money, crowd funding does not make you give up control of your dream (like venture capital) or demonstrate that you already have money before anyone will give you money (like business loa...

5 Awesome Scrivener Facts

I’m aÂhuge fan of Scrivener.

Like, a big enough fan that I wrote an entire series on it (read the Scrivener series here).

But why?Â

Why all the Scrivener hype over here?

What’s the big deal?

In a word, it’s awesome.Â

In more words, it’sÂhands-down the best option for writers who regularly write longer articles, books, reports, novels, and technical papers.Â

But let’s start at the beginning. Here are five Awesome Scrivener Facts to give you the “best of” rundown:

Scrivener Awesome Fact #1: It’s REALLY...