Grow These Herbs In Water

Autumn is fast approaching, but fresh-grown herbs don’t have to end with your garden. There are many herbs that you can grow inside with only water: Oregano, basil, sage, thyme, rosemary, peppermint, and stevia to name a few.

The Recipe

Several jars of water
Herb stems
6 hours of light a day

Like other perennials, clipping the leaves of herbs when they have become well established encourages the herb stem to produce more leaves.

3 Counterintuitive Health Tips

Most health tips are straightforward: get more sleep, stress less, eat natural foods, exercise. Others, however, and completely counterintuitive. Here are three tips that sound strange, but work.

  • DON’T brush your teeth immediately after meals. After eating, tooth enamel is softer so brushing can erode the enamel faster. It is best to wait 30-60 minutes after eating to brush.
  • Skip caffeinated drinks when you’re tired. Caffeine’s boost is fleeting, leaving you more tired than you were before. Exercise instead. It jump-starts your metabolism and causes you to be more alert.
  • Drink water when you’re bloated. What?! Yes. Gastroenterologists tells us that dehydration is what starts the bloating process in the body and that drinking more water reverses this.

: ) You’re welcome.

Organize Your Paperwork

Come on, admit it. You’ve been putting paperwork here and there ‘to go through later’, knowing it wasn’t the best way to handle it. You know it’s only a matter of time before you’ll be searching for something you lost track of…


Today’s To-Do List

  • Collect every last envelope and scrap of paperwork you need to go through and place them in the middle of the floor or on a spacious counter.
  • Sort them into categories — bills, receipts, things to read, things to file — and put them into file folders.
  • Throw away anything you don’t need and put things that need a response on your desk so you can go through them bit by bit when you have a few minutes. The goal is to keep things moving until the visual clutter they cause is gone.

Just do it. You’ll thank me later