Best of the Best#1 iStudiez Pro
($2.99, app2.me/129)
A super-organizer app. Keep your courses, tasks, assignments, grades and deadlines in order and up to date. Set separate alarms for each task or assignment, and secure data easily with one-tap email back up.
2. Grammar Up HD
(iPad only: $4.99, app2.me/3947)
Over 1,800 grammar questions across 20 different categories. Improve your word selection and vocabulary, and track your progress with these great self-timed quizzes.
3. Sky Safari
(Lite version: $2.99,
app2.me/3079; Pro version: $14.99, app2.me/3070)
This celestial travel guide puts 300,000 stars and 30,000 deep space objects within your reach. Point your device towards the sky, and use this app as a telescope controller over Wi-Fi or 3G.
Made for iPad
1. Grammar Up HD
(see "Best of the Best" top)
2. Super Why! for iPad
($3.99, app2.me/3347)
Adapted from the PBS children's series, this app is a collection of four interactive Super Why! games to help your child read and write. Did I mention you can collect virtual stickers?
3. WikiPanion for iPad
(Free, app2.me/2483)
This app offers the perfect way to access Wikipedia quickly and easily. It's designed for streamlined navigation and clear display of Wikipedia entries. It also saves and organizes your browsing history.
Elementary School
1. Stack the States
(Free version, app2.me/3948;
Full version: $.99, app2me/3337)
This app is a colorful and dynamic game that makes it fun to learn about each of the 50 states.
2. Rocket Math
(Free version, app2.me/3949;
Full version: $.99, app2me/3866)
This app has 56 different "math missions" with touchable objects like stars, coins, clocks, and even pizzas! Lots of fun for parents and kids.
3. Great Migrations HD
(iPad only: $3.99, app2.me/3865)
Help migrating animals through forests, rivers, and desolate plains while avoiding hungry predators and other environmental hazards. A great educational game for both young and old.
High School
1. iStudiez pro
(see "Best of the Best" top)
2. CourseNotes
(iPad only: $4.99,
This app offers a great way to take notes during classes or meetings. You can also sync with your iPad calendar, keep to-do lists and track assignments.
3. Graphing Calculator
($1.99, app2.me/2442)
This app is a fantastic replacement to the Ti-83 graphing calculator for a tiny fraction of the price.
College
1. Awesome Note
(Free, app2.me/2970; Full version: $3.99, app2.me/220)
This app puts a very powerful organizer at your fingertips. Create notes, manage to-dos, create shopping lists, and much more. It syncs to Google Docs and Evernote.
2. Evernote
(Free, app2.me/130)
The award-winning Evernote app helps you remember and sync everything. Organize image snapshots (which it reads if there's text on them), notes, voice recordings, and much more.
3. GFlashPro
($3.99, app2.me/3873)
This app is a fantastic flash card app, where you can create and edit flash cards, or choose from over 50 million card sets from Quizlet and StudyStack.
Space
1. Sky Safari
(see "Best of the Best" top)
2. Star Walk
($4.99, app2.me/2550)
This award-winning app allows you to point at the sky and see what stars and constellations you're looking at in real-time. No internet connection required.
3. Nasa App
(Free, app2.me/2659)
You can't have a "best of space apps" list without including the NASA app. Images, video, and a whole wealth of information straight from the leaders of space exploration.
Alphabet
1. Monkey Preschool lunchbox
($.99, app2.me/2658)
A collection of six fun educational games that works best for kids ages two through five. Your preschooler can learn about colors, letters, counting, shapes, sizes, matching, and differences.
2. Interactive Alphabet
($2.99, app2.me/3331)
In this app, every letter becomes an interactive toy. A great app for babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
3. Dr. Seuss's ABC
($3.99, app2.me/2345)
Dr. Seuss teaches young readers the ABC's through hilarious words and pictures. This beloved classic is guaranteed to entertain your child for hours.
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Baseball player Don Carman had grown so tired of mundane post-game interviews by 1990 that he decided to forego them altogether, and instead attached a handwritten list of stock responses to his locker along with a message to reporters: “You saw the game. Take what you need.” 1. I’m just glad to be here. I just want to help the club any way I can.LISTS OF NOTE: TAKE WHAT YOU NEED →
2. Baseball’s a funny game.
3. I’d rather be lucky than good.
4. We’re going to take the season one game at a time.
5. You’re only as good as your last game (last at-bat).
6. This game has really changed.
7. If we stay healthy we should be right there.
8. It takes 24 (25) players.
9. We need two more players to take us over the top: Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig.
10. We have a different hero every day.
11. We’ll get ‘em tomorrow.
12. This team seems ready to gel.
13. With a couple breaks, we win that game.
14. That All-Star voting is a joke.
15. The catcher and I were on the same wavelength.
16. I just went right at ‘em.
17. I did my best and that’s all I can do.
18. You just can’t pitch behind.
19. That’s the name of the game.
20. We’ve got to have fun.
21. I didn’t have my good stuff, but I battled ‘em.
22. Give the guy some credit; he hit a good pitch.
23. He, we were due to catch a break or two.
24. Yes.
25. No.
26. That’s why they pay him _____ million dollars.
27. Even I could have hit that pitch.
28. I know you are but what am I?
29. I was getting my off-speed stuff over so they couldn’t sit on the fastball.
30. I had my at ‘em ball going today.
31. I had some great plays made behind me tonight.
32. I couldn’t have done it without my teammates.
33. You saw it… write it.
34. I just wanted to go as hard as I could as long as I could.
35. I’m seeing the ball real good.
36. I hit that ball good.
37. I don’t get paid to hit.
Think you have big goals? Think again. Several years ago, I read an article in Wired magazine about a long-distance runner named Dean Karnazes.
Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/skodonnellGet this:
- He ran fifty marathons in fifty states on fifty consecutive days.
- He once ran 350 miles in three days—without stopping and with no sleep.
- He’s run the Badwater Ultramarathon seven times. It starts in Death Valley, 250 feet below sea level and concludes, 135 miles later, halfway up Mt. Whitney, at 8,360 feet. He won the race in 2004 on his fifth attempt.
- He runs 100 to 170 miles a week.
- He couldn’t find time to run 4–6 hours a day, so he began sleeping less. He currently only sleeps four hours a night.
- His resting heart rate is 39 beats per minute!
I was so inspired by the article, I bought his book, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All Night Runner and devoured it. I then made a commitment to run my first ever half marathon. I have run one per year ever since.
In another interview in Outside magazine, Dean makes an important point that many of us have forgotten:
Western culture has things a little backwards right now. We think that if we had every comfort available to us, we’d be happy. We equate comfort with happiness. And now we’re so comfortable we’re miserable. There’s no struggle in our lives. No sense of adventure. We get in a car, we get in an elevator, it all comes easy. What I’ve found is that I’m never more alive than when I’m pushing and I’m in pain, and I’m struggling for high achievement, and in that struggle I think there’s a magic.
This rings true for me. I think there are three reasons why you and I should embrace discomfort, whether we deliberately choose it, or it simply happens to us.
- Comfort is overrated. It doesn’t lead to happiness. It makes us lazy—and forgetful. It often leads to self-absorption, boredom, and discontent.
- Discomfort is a catalyst for growth. It makes us yearn for something more. It forces us to change, stretch, and adapt.
- Discomfort is a sign we’re making progress. You’ve heard the expression, “no pain, no gain.” It’s true! When you push yourself to grow, you will experience discomfort.
A few weeks ago, I started participating in a Pilates class with Gail. It sounded easy enough. Boy, was I wrong. It has proven to be incredibly challenging. I hurt when I am doing it, and I am sore afterwards.
But that’s the very reason I love it. I feel like I am making progress and becoming stronger with each class.
The bottom line is this: you can either be comfortable and stagnate or stretch yourself—become uncomfortable—and grow. You may think that comfort leads to happiness. It doesn’t. Happiness comes from growth and feeling like you are making progress.
Question: Where are you uncomfortable in your life right now? In what way could this be a sign you are growing? You can leave a comment by clicking here.Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in the post above are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will add value to my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
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