Reunion Online

So you made a vow to spend less in 2012 than you did in 2011, eh? Even if all the flash sales have distracted you from your budget, get back on track by picking up a digital sharing habit. Making sharing part of your lifestyle will save you money and you'll get to know your friends a little better too!

Keep the buzzing mind at bay with a practice to get you in a meditative state: the Humming Bee Breath—named after Brahmari, meaning bumble bee. This practice is touted for its anger-reducing abilities. It calms the mind, reducing stress, anxiety, insomnia and even blood pressure.

Milestones: weddings, birthdays and graduations frequently leave us frustrated when searching for that perfect gift. So instead, make an impression by giving inspiration. Enter: The Wisdom of Others, a website that creates personalized quote books.

We all know that when it comes to dry and itchy skin, sometimes lotion just doesn't cut it and even the fanciest moisturizer is no match for clogged pores. The solution? Exfoliation. The best way to do it? Yourself.

Thomas Edison failed a thousand times before he invented the lightbulb. "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" a reporter asked. "I didn’t fail 1,000 times," Edison responded. "The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps." Living in a world full of risk and failure, it's inevitable that we'll come face-to-face with it; it's what we learn from confronting failure that matters most, which is why we love Tina Seelig's introduction of the idea on the failure resume.

The Internet is great. My favorite resources are videos. If I don’t know something, I can quickly learn from an 18 minute presentation. A Google time-suck can uncover gems to make me smile, help me find tools and stoke my creativity, so don’t feel guilty; get lost in a video. There are so many good teachers waiting to find you.

Did you know that after around age 30, bone mass begins to diminish? And without proper care, our bones can become more brittle, which in many cases, can lead to bone disease. Make no bones about, maintaining bone health is just as important to our life as breathing is.

We hear it all the time: "change your story, change your life." Sounds so simple, but it can be an overwhelmingly tall order if you're stuck in a rut. What if instead we were to focus on the minor narratives—the small-but-significant stories we’ve been telling ourselves for so long that we don’t even think of them as stories, but as second nature? Stories that we picked up somewhere along the way and ran with: I'm not athletic enough to work out or I'm not creative enough for a project like that.

We're all over the upsides of social media and using apps to organize our lives, but sometimes you've just got to unplug to connect. Forgot how to send a message that's more than 140 characters? Get meaningful with these 4 ways to connect for real.