![View Tight Clothing as Motivation to Lose Weight Instead of an Excuse to Go Shopping [Mind Hacks]](http://www.thatsovietguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/b115f4d558816fe95711.jpg)
It seems obvious to many that your pants, jacket, or skirt fitting a little more tightly is a sign that you need to lose weight, but if you're busy with work, a young family, or other pursuits it can seem easier just to buy a pair of bigger pants and worry about it later. Personal finance blogger Mr. Money Mustache contents that this is life telling you that your current lifestyle is unhealthy and you need to make some changes. Every time your...
![View Tight Clothing as Motivation to Lose Weight Instead of an Excuse to Go Shopping [Mind Hacks]](http://www.thatsovietguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/b115f4d558816fe9571.jpg)
It seems obvious to many that your pants, jacket, or skirt fitting a little more tightly is a sign that you need to lose weight, but if you're busy with work, a young family, or other pursuits it can seem easier just to buy a pair of bigger pants and worry about it later. Personal finance blogger Mr. Money Mustache contents that this is life telling you that your current lifestyle is unhealthy and you need to make some changes. Every time your...
![View Tight Clothing as Motivation to Lose Weight Instead of an Excuse to Go Shopping [Mind Hacks]](http://www.thatsovietguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/b115f4d558816fe95712.jpg)
It seems obvious to many that your pants, jacket, or skirt fitting a little more tightly is a sign that you need to lose weight, but if you're busy with work, a young family, or other pursuits it can seem easier just to buy a pair of bigger pants and worry about it later. Personal finance blogger Mr. Money Mustache contents that this is life telling you that your current lifestyle is unhealthy and you need to make some changes. Every time your...
!["Keep Giving Them You, Until You Is What They Want" [Quotables]](http://www.thatsovietguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/e7c0779f6a6ba1b79db.jpg)
This quote comes from Dennis Palumbo, a former screenwriter-turned-psychotherapist, writing about rejection. He says it as a reminder that rejection is often arbitrary and impersonal, so if you take it as a reason to be somebody you're not you're making a mistake.
Title image from a poster for the 1979 film Being There.
Dennis offers an anecdote from his days as a screenwriter in which he and others were casting a young woman for a small guest...
![Look for a ‘Print This Page’ Link When Reading Articles Split into Several Pages [Internet]](http://www.thatsovietguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/7ccc6b7aa5f09f57f7d.jpg)
Many web sites force you to click through several pages to read a full length article, but often if you click on the print link you'll get the entire article on one page. Reddit user 404_terror submitted this tip to that site's life hacking section. It's one of those little tips that you can usually come up with on your own but sometimes need a reminder to use it effectively.
Why do sites do this? Usually for page views and additional...
![Mindful Displays iCal Events and Reminders on Your Desktop [Mac Downloads]](http://www.thatsovietguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/9d1252f833620116ca5.jpg)
Mac: If you use iCal to manage your to-do list you may want to consider Mindful. This app creates a desktop view of your events and reminders for the day similar to the daily view function of most calendars. The best thing about Mindful is that you never need to open iCal to see what's coming up for the day. By default the app displays events in blue and reminders in pink, but every color used by the app is customizable (as is the opacity) so it...
![Share Your 2012 Goal in This Week’s Open Thread [Open Thread]](http://www.thatsovietguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/afc3711f9c84afc86bc.jpg)
We're one week into 2012, and if all's going well, the resolution-makers among us are still on track. Get a motivation refill in this week's open thread.
Same drill as always, open-threaders: You can chat and ask questions with your fellow readers all week long at the #openthread hashtag page, but our weekly open thread post is your opportunity to reach the most people. Ask questions, offer advice, discuss productivity tips, or just chat about...
![iDoneThis Tracks Your New Year’s Resolutions, Matches You with Others Who Have the Same Goals [Webapps]](http://www.thatsovietguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/562ec15b6862107defd.jpg)
Most new year's resolutions are doomed to failure, either because they're vague and difficult to accomplish, aren't real goals, or are lacking a plan to get from here to there. iDoneThis is a new webapp that takes your goals and habits you want to build, reminds you to work towards them daily or weekly (you can choose), and puts you on a virtual team of people with similar goals so you can work together, support each other, and know you're not...
![MyPermissions Is One Convenient Place to Start Cleaning Up Your Apps Permissions [Privacy]](http://www.thatsovietguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/c57c836835ce8fbd478.jpg)
The start of the year is as good a time as any to check which apps have access to your private information. MyPermissions makes this process very easy by linking directly to app permissions pages for services like Google and Facebook.
MyPermissions doesn't require access at all to your accounts. It's basically a simple but really useful bookmark to the permissions pages for Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Instagram, and...
![Koubachi Tracks and Reminds You When To Water Your Plants [Ios Downloads]](http://www.thatsovietguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/d0340f692d14ee3948c.jpg)
iOS: Not everyone has a green thumb and keeping plants alive indoors can often be a fruitless act for those of us who can't remember to water, let alone care for a plant properly. If your thumb is more black than green, Koubachi is an iOS app that helps you keep your plants alive and well.
Unlike setting up a simple reminder system to water your plants, Koubachi requires some calibration on your part. When you first load up the app, you're...
