1. Start a Weekly/Monthly/Yearly Review.
I love Chris Guillebeau's Annual Review. It works like this: every year at a consistent time, take a week to look back on the previous year and evaluate every category of your life. What worked, what didn't work, and so on. Then plan the next year based on that knowledge.
 
Start thinking about where you want to be in a year. What projects do you want to complete? Use this review to put it all on paper, and start cracking away at these goals every day. The process of putting pen to paper oftentimes helps make the goals happen. It's part of being deliberate.
 
The key to the Annual Review is to also review your progress on a weekly and monthly basis as well. Fine-tuning your goals regularly makes a big difference over time.

If you feel like you clean up but never really get rid of clutter perhaps you need a perspective shift. Use a still or video camera to record your spaces and get a fresh look at things.

More than just another to-do app, 101in365 aims to inspire and get your life moving by persuading you to list 101 things that you plan to do in the next 365 days. Your first challenge comes in thinking of 101 goals, but as the site points out, these don't have to be huge: "learn how to boil an egg" is just fine, as is anything else that will personally make a difference to you.

thanks for the mention, @techradar! and welcome to the new members of the 101in365 community! :)

Eating cheap is easy. Given $10 to buy ingredients for a meal for four, even the most hopeless home cook could whip up grilled cheese and tomato soup or a simple spaghetti-and-meatballs combo.

But putting together a gourmet dinner for under $10 is more challenging. So we asked food and finance bloggers, as well as home cooks, to send in their best suggestions. (We’ve shared them below with recipe details, or, where available, linked to their blogs.)

Now Frugal Foodie has a challenge you: what’s your best super-cheap yet gourmet meal? Post it in the comments, and don’t forget to “like” your favorite submissions.

(All cost estimates are based on non-sale New York City supermarket prices. If it’s a cheap meal inNYC, we figure cooks in most other places in the country will spend even less. Prices are also adjusted for quantity: if a recipe calls for half an onion, you’ll probably find something to do with the other half. Finally, estimates don’t take into account basic ingredients you likely already have, like flour, olive oil or dried spices.)

One Pan Chicken and Rice

by Hilary Allard of Sliced and Diced

Cost: $5.73, or $1.43 per serving.

Allard’s sauté uses one pot and is finished in the oven, minimizing dishes as well as cost. Even better, cooks can swap out Mexican flavors (black beans, cumin, scallions and tomatoes with green chilies) for Indian and Mediterranean variations without affecting their bottom line.

via mint.com

Going to try to post some useful links here on the blog in addition to news about 101in365. Let us know what you think! If you have any tips, send em to contact@101in365.com.