Lifestyles

• 3 Steps to Reaching Every Goal

  Having goals in our lives is important. For some, merely creating goals brings about a positive change. When you make a goal, you are creating an exciting challenge for yourself. To make sure you meet that challenge with the right tools, you will need to do three things.

• 3 Steps to Staying Motivated

  Now that you have found initial motivation to be happy and successful, you need to stay motivated. These are some ideas that will definitely keep you going in the right direction.

• We Are Slaves To Technology – Official

  New technology and sexy gadgets are making us less productive, more stressed and removing what little life we have left. Or so says a new survey by Priority Management.

• Slower Than a Three-legged Poodle

  This insanity started a few weeks ago when I decided (with a little constant nagging by my wife), at my age I need to start going into the doctor for an annual physical. I don’t know about you, but doctors’ offices make me uneasy. It’s like taking your car in for a simple oil change, only to come back to find a repair bill amounting to several hundred dollars. The car was running just fine before going into the shop . . .

• Five Tips for Healthier Houseplants

  If your plants have dusty leaves, give them a shower. I’m lucky enough to have a sprayer on my kitchen sink to do this with ease. If you don’t have a sprayer, give them a shower in the bathroom. Doing this will automatically improve the health of the plant and make it look a lot better.

• Pruning Weeping Grafted and Budded Plants

  What do the terms grafting and budding mean? Budding is a form of grafting. Grafting is the art of attaching a piece of one plant to another plant, creating a new plant. Grafting is usually done because the desired plant is extremely difficult if not impossible to propagate through other means.

• Transplanting Tips

  Early spring is a great time for transplanting trees and shrubs, but you must do so before they wake up. Transplanting a plant is a very traumatic experience for the plant if it is awake. Its like doing surgery on a person while they are awake.

• Winning the Battle of the Weeds

  Keeping your landscape plantings, flower beds, and nursery crops free of weeds is a battle, but if you approach it with a strategic plan, you will prevail. In order to develop a plan, you first must understand how weeds work, and what kind of weeds you are dealing with.