Your Guide to Smart Living


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Unlock the secrets to transforming your living space into a modern marvel with "Your Guide to Smart Living: Creating a Cost-Effective and Efficient Smart Home." This comprehensive guide takes you step-by-step through the process of setting up a smart home that saves you time, money, and energy, all while enhancing your quality of life. What's Inside: Chapter 1: Introduction to Smart Homes Discover the benefits of smart living and how interconnected devices can simplify daily tasks. Chapter 2: Choosing the Right Smart Devices Learn how to select the best smart devices for your home, focusing on features, compatibility, and budget. Chapter 3: Setting Up Your Smart Home Follow detailed instructions on connecting devices, setting up a smart hub, and configuring your system for optimal performance. Chapter 4: Creating Smart Routines Automate your home with smart routines that streamline daily tasks and enhance convenience. Chapter 5: Smart Home Security Protect your home and personal data with robust security measures tailored for smart devices. Chapter 6: Smart Home Energy Efficiency Implement energy-saving strategies to reduce your utility bills and environmental impact. Chapter 7: Troubleshooting Your Smart Home Resolve common issues with practical troubleshooting tips to keep your smart home running smoothly. Chapter 8: Future of Smart Homes Explore emerging technologies and trends that will shape the future of smart living. Preface: Transition your home into a sanctuary of efficiency and cleanliness with smart technology. From automating daily tasks to enhancing security, this guide offers practical insights and expert advice on creating a smart home tailored to your needs. Why A Smart Home? Smart homes are not just for luxury; they are an investment in convenience and cost savings. Discover how smart devices can help you save on utility bills, improve efficiency, and create a more comfortable living environment. About the Author: Passionate about smart living and technological innovation, the author shares personal experiences and expert knowledge to help you make the most of smart home technology. Whether you're new to smart home technology or looking to upgrade your existing setup, "Your Guide to Smart Living" provides everything you need to create a smart, efficient, and cost-effective home. Start your journey towards smarter living today!




Starting Out on Your Own


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Starting Out On Your Own is a short guide with advice that can help when starting a life out on your own. This guide reminds us of some basic rules to follow when faced with life's issues. Perfect gift for high school students and college graduates.




The Illustrated Guide to Smart Living: Custom Design Your Life


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John Boyd shows you how to use street-tested techniques to achieve your goals and have the life you want. If you feel a longing to make a change, learn how to attract work opportunities that are aligned with your personal and professional goals.




A Canadian's Guide to Money-Smart Living


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A Canadian’s Guide to Money-Smart Living will help the reader to understand how to live money-smart, providing step-by-step instructions on how to take control of his or her financial future. Many of us feel that managing our money and financial future is hard work and out of our control, which often leads to us ignoring the issue or putting it off for another day, week or year. Simple everyday solutions are available. These start with learning the basics, being comfortable with the topic of money in the household and finally, asking a financial expert the right questions.




You Get to Make It Up * a SMART Living 365 Guide to Creating a Happy and Meaningful Life


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Are you happy? If not, why not? It could be because you've accepted that you have little or no control over your life and can't imagine any other way. Or is it because you've been beaten down so many times that you've learned to just settle for whatever comes along? But what if there is another option? What if you really can create or at least influence your future? What if you can "make it up?" Included in this book are a series of articles from the blog SMART Living 365 with a focus on the ways those possibilities exist for us all. No, we can't stop the lumps and painful hurts of life from hitting us now and then, but we don't have to live a life of suffering if or when they do. And most of all, while we can't control the actions of others--those we care about or those who might try to control us--we always have the ability to choose how we respond. No matter what your age, where you live, or what is happening in your life, a great deal of what occurs in your future is up to you. If you would like to find hope for a better life in the days to come, this book is for you.




Why Smart People Hurt


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Make the most of your creative and intellectual gifts by overcoming the unique challenges they bring with this guide by the author of Natural Psychology. Many smart and creative people experience unique challenges as a result of their valuable gifts. These can range from anxiety and over-thinking to mania, depression, and despair. In Why Smart People Hurt, creativity coach Dr. Eric Maisel pinpoints these often-devastating challenges and offers solutions based on the groundbreaking principles and practices of natural psychology. Are you still searching for meaning after all these years? Many smart people struggle with reaching for or maintaining success because, after all of the work they put into attaining it, it still seems meaningless. In Why Smart people Hurt, Dr. Maisel will teach you how to stop searching for meaning and create it for yourself. In Why Smart People Hurt, you will find: · Evidence that you are not alone in your struggles · Strategies for coping with a brain that goes into overdrive at the drop of a hat · Questions that will help you create your own personal roadmap to a calm and meaningful life




Shacking Up


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The must-have guide for any woman who’s ever thought about saying “yes” to the other big question: Will you move in with me? More and more couples are choosing to live together before tying the knot—for convenience, to save money and, most importantly, to see if they’re compatible. While living together can be an exciting way to take your relationship to the next level, it can also present a host of new questions and challenges. With its fresh, girlfriend-to-girlfriend manner, Shacking Up walks you through every step of the cohabitation process, from making the initial decision to breaking up or getting married. Beginning with a readiness quiz to help you decide if you and your honey are prepared to take the plunge, authors Stacy and Wynne Whitman provide a wealth of hands-on advice from lawyers, psychologists and financial planners as well as entertaining, true-life stories from couples with shacking up experience. Topics include: breaking the news to your family; managing and merging your finances; protecting yourself legally; real-estate decisions; and day-to-day dilemmas such as chores, privacy, and keeping the spark alive. Whether you opt for wedding bells or decide he’s not the one for you, Shacking Up is a stylish, empowering handbook for staying smart, savvy, and true to yourself along the road to happily ever after.




Diabetic Living Eat Smart, Lose Weight


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A practical and innovative guide to weight loss for people who want to take control of their health with simple changes to their diet and lifestyle—from the experts at Diabetic Living This newest addition to the Diabetic Living collection is ideal for people with diabetes who want to lose weight by learning how to eat healthfully and move more. The first part of the book features more than 100 healthful, calorie-conscious, and carb-counted recipes—from budget-friendly meals to perfectly portioned snacks—plus tips on how to conquer cravings and stay on track. The second part shows easy ways to add movement every day. Everyone will find ways to meet their weight loss goals and get fit, including how to get started with stretching exercises tailored to specific needs. All exercises include variations so that readers will not have to buy gym equipment to complete a workout.




The Smart Guide to Accomplishing Your Goals


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The Smart Guide to Accomplishing Your Goals is the perfect resource for readers who want to improve their career prospects, have happier home lives, and be effective and persuasive in interpersonal exchanges. Offering readers a broad look at the process of setting and reaching goals the book explores topics such as what is a goal as a opposed to a wish, the opportune times to set goals, assessing where you are, the secrets of master goals-setters, why your goals must be specific, contracting with yourself, and much more.




Living the Savvy Life


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Learn to master your finances with this practical guide full of tips and techniques that help you live rich while spending less. Money isn’t the most important thing in a woman’s life—but it effects every aspect of how we live. So if you want to enjoy the best of life, it’s important to be money savvy. Living the Savvy Life teaches you how to be mindful about money so that you have it when you need it—and also when you truly want to splurge or treat yourself. Living the Savvy Life isn’t about being a cheapskate, a miser, or a tightwad. It’s about having security and peace of mind by spending less than you make. It’s about knowing where you stand financially on a daily basis so you can make intelligent fiscal decisions. It’s about cooking at home more often so you can afford an occasional dinner at your favorite restaurant. It’s about having a wardrobe made entirely of clothes that fit and look great on you. It’s about enjoying your time off because you planned for it and know you can “afford it.” It’s about attaining and maintaining a balance that can sustain the life you love.