I started this blog June of last year. It started off as my art blog but morphed into a personal development one and now a guide for better sleep and a repository of sleep news and trivia.

On that note, I just wanted to run a quick refresher of my first personal development posts on Quickie Sheets. Hope some of you can enjoy them as I have enjoyed writing them over the past months.

• Breathe To Relax
• Implementing Habits
• Posture Techniques
• Modified To-Do List
• Warrior Diet, The First 2 Weeks
• How To Make Your Month’s Salary Gambling
• Build Your Own Social Circle From Scratch
• Sleep Every Other Day

If you’ve ever been curious what the sleeping sickness bacteria looks like but can’t be arsed to visit a lab and peek under a microscope, here’s your chance not only to see it, but actually own a cute replica of the microbe.

Thinkgeek is selling cute, soft and fluffy replica dolls of different microbes including our favorite Sleeping Sickness bacteria.

How cute can it get to own one of these giant plush microbes and keep as a reminder of those invisible organisms making your life a living hell?

I used to frequent a personal develoment forum where a guy posted pretending to be a famous European rocker posting hilarious comments to personal development threads like “I read self-analysis by the poster and it cause me head explosion in both complexity and rigor! ”

None of the moderators banned him because he provided a breath of fresh air from all the overly serious threads that personal development forums tend to encourage.

The image of head explosions pretty much stuck with me - even dreaming about it at times - and I remember it everytime I get into long, winding self-analysis. Anytime I find myself acting out theoretical events, I imagine a head explosion as a metaphor for an unnecessary excursion into events that can, may, and could happen but no one really knows.

It’s a great reminder how we can sometimes, during the course of our personal development activities, get too locked up in our heads and away from what really matters - how are the things we engage in enriching our lives and the lives of those around us?

I’ll end this now as further thoughts suggest the cartoony image of my head blowing up like a New year firecracker.