Bored with setting the same goals every New Years, because you write them out in January and then forget about them until December?

Here’s a tool that can be used to plan anything from racing camels around the Pyramids to Tango classes in Buenos Aires. It’s the work of Timothy Ferriss, a master of Lifestyle Design. He living proof that the dream life is up for grabs, and he’s nice enough to share his secrets.

Using technology like Google Reader and RSS feeds, saves us from getting distracted by irrelevant ‘breaking news stories’, and boosts our productivity by receiving only what’s relevant to us, when we want it.

Many of us visit the pharmacy or engage in homeopathy when we’re not feeling chipper… but could it be that the thought of taking something makes us feel better – not the actual treatment?

The definition of The Placebo Effect is: “a beneficial effect, produced by a placebo drug or treatment, that cannot be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself, and must therefore be due to the patient’s belief in that treatment“.

It doesn’t look good when, as professional salespeople, we turn up at client (or potential client) meetings, coughing and sneezing.

As well as looking bad from the clients perspective, a cough can be super irritating to colleagues, family and friends. Blaming the chilli weather is one excuse, but most people know it’s either down to smoking or a breakdown in health. Fortunately, there is a way to avoid coughs, colds and runny noses forever…

The Mediterranean diet is well known for being quite a healthy one: lots of fresh fruits, veggies and olive oil (and a little red wine:) One of the most popular dishes, which originates from Valencia on the East Coast of Spain, is Paella. It’s packed with goodness and very tasty. Here’s a quick version

A poor sleep isn’t just annoying because it’s boring lying in bed looking up at the ceiling all night, it can also make us far more susceptible to poor health, such as catching colds.

A group of boffins from various hospitals and universities, all PhDs, recently carried out a study of people’s sleeping habits and their chances of developing a common cold. They basically injected rhino-virus up 153 volunteers hooters and then monitored their sleeping habits to see who caugh a cold…

Juicing is basically the extraction of the juice from raw fruits and veggies. The fibre, also known as pulp, is what’s left over and usually takes a few hours (if you’re Gillian McKeith) or a day for most of us, to pass though the body and come out the other end. By extracting the juices and drinking them in a raw form, we get the benefit of all the goodness immediately. Juices tend to be veggie-based and smoothies tend to be fruit-based, but both can contain both fruits and veggies – did you know that cucumbers and tomatoes are actually fruits?

Modern day gyms are now called Health Clubs, because they are good for more than just building muscle and/or loosing weight. Great reasons to join one include:

A lot of us have heard about the lemon detox diet, which effectively means fasting for 3-5 days and consuming nothing but a mixture of syrup, cayenne pepper and lemon juice – but how does it actually work?

The promoted benefits on the website www.lemondetox.com include: weight loss, increased energy & vitality, shinier hair & stronger nails, clearer skin & eyes, better digestion and a greater sense of well-being. Good stuff, but is it dangerous and is there an alternative?

No matter how many times it happens, we always promise ourselves – never again!

Until the next opportunity for some drinks comes along, and we go out with the utmost resolute and unshakeable intention of ‘only having a few’. Several hours later however, we’re at it again…ordering shots of sambuka from the bar before moving onto the dance floor for some John Travolta moves. Sunday morning arrives and we gradually come to with a throbbing head and furry tongue. Damn, another hangover. Never again! Fortunately, there is a hangover cure like no other…