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How to Deal With a Self Centered Friend
Everyone behaves in selfish and self-centered ways sometimes, but some people seem to do it more often than others. If you are frustrated with a friend’s selfish behavior, you'll need to know how to do something about it. There are several things that you...
How to Calculate Your Waist to Hip Ratio
Your waist to hip ratio is a measure of how fat is distributed around your body. Those with a higher percentage around the waist are sometimes considered "apple-shaped," while those with bigger hips are often noted as "pear-shaped." Women with a waist-to-...
How to Bake Chicken Breast
Baked chicken can be a healthy, quick meal to make any night of the week. To bake chicken, you just need to season your chicken and add it to a baking pan. Once it's ready, you can serve it immediately or store it for later. You can flavor your chicken wi...
How to Be More Efficient at Work
In today's world, coping with job-related pressure is really tough. Anyone who's held down a full-time job knows that an average work day is not always long enough to get everything you need to do done. However, your productivity can be greatly improved b...
How to Hook Up a Laptop to a TV
By connecting your laptop to your TV, you can turn almost any TV—even TVs that aren't "smart"—into a full-fledged media center. Whether you connect with an HDMI cable or wirelessly through AirPlay, Miracast, or Chromecast, hooking up your PC or Mac laptop...
How to Whitewash Cabinets
Whitewashing can spruce up any old set of cabinets and totally transform your kitchen or living room. But how exactly do you do this from home? The process is actually way easier than you'd think, and luckily, we're here to help! We'll teach you how to pr...
How to Read and Pronounce Military Time
Military time is a precise, 24-hour timekeeping system used by the military, law enforcement, hospitals, and more. Converting standard 12-hour time to military time is simple—just start with midnight (12:00 a.m.) as 0000, and continue counting through hou...
How to Motivate Teenagers
Being a teenager is an important stage of life. However, teens can be easily distracted and parents, teachers, and older relatives sometimes find motivating teenagers to succeed to be a difficult task. By listening to your teen's wants and needs, and buil...
How to Feel Happier
If you've been feeling low recently (or for a while), you're definitely not alone. The good news is that you don't have to feel this way forever—there are steps you can take today to start feeling happier and enjoying life. From quick happiness hacks you...
How to Begin Selling Avon
Avon is one of the best-known cosmetics companies around the world. It is also one of the most popular ways to start your own business through direct selling. With beauty products, bath and body items, clothing and household goods amongst its product line...
How to Format a Manuscript
There are many types of manuscripts, from works of fiction to scientific treatises, and even more places where you can submit a manuscript for consideration for publication. Formatting expectations vary by manuscript type, subject field, and editorial pr...
How to Change the Language of Your Computer (Windows XP)
If you want to use a different language in Windows XP, there are a few different ways you can go about it. Changing the display language can be a little complicated, as it can be difficult to change after Windows is already installed. You can also change...
How to Be a Music Video Director
If you have a passion for telling a visual story to music, you may be wondering how to become a music video director. There's a lot of technical knowledge that goes into producing a video, so you should be prepared for some hard work. Even so, when you lo...
How to Bounce Pecs
Muscle pro wrestlers and action movie stars know how to look intimidating just by flexing a couple of muscles. If you want to learn to flex your pecs like Hulk Hogan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, you can learn to practice your bounce and workout to emphasize...
How to Put Together a Welcome Home Party
If someone you know has been away from home for a long time, you might want to celebrate their return with a special event. Whether they were travelling for work or pleasure, away for college, deployed with the military, or living overseas, a welcome home...
How to Use a Binding Spell
Binding spells serve a variety of purposes. They range from relatively easy to difficult. They can be used for personal protection against others' spells. They can bind forces of nature, spirits, and even people. And they can be used to reduce someone's i...