Live Well Do Good

Welcome to this website, which is a source of tips and ideas on the theme of "Living Well, Doing Good." 

Getting a proper night's sleep is one of the best ways to be truly healthy. Doctors recommend healthy adults get at least 7-8 hours of sleep per night. Conditions for great sleep range from finding the best mattress possible to making sure your bedroom is dark and quiet.


What's new:

Surfing World Wide Web Breeds Shallow Thinking   A review of the book by Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. See also: Deepening Our Thinking in the Internet Age: Ten Tips.

Charitable Donations:  Top Ten Canadian Tax Tips   Make your donations count again when doing your income taxes.

Reflecting on Consumption   Thoughts about the Occupy Wall Street protests and our consumerism.

Helping Families Deal with Death "Most Satisfying Work" for Funeral Celebrant   A chat exploring the changing ways we recognize and remember life and death.  


Some Featured columns:

Live Well, Do Good   Reflections on global citizenship in the 21st century.  

Tax Time Offers Folks a Chance to Reflect   Our income tax return tells a lot about what we value as we go about our lives.  

It’s Only Fair to Care, Downtown, Over Coffee   A conversation about "thinking globally, acting locally" over a cup of fair trade coffee.  

Learning to Step Lightly   “Buy Nothing Day” challenges us to stop spending for one day. A new book by Manitoba author Mark Burch invites us to consider living more simply all the time.

Tours, Book Bring Cemetery to Life   Invitations to connect with this part of our community.

Healthy Eating – 15 Tips   Great and really usable ideas from a Registered Dietitian. 


website sections:

"Living Well, Doing Good"

"Thinking Globally"

"Acting Locally"

"Death"

"TAXES"

"Citizen Active"

"Manitoba history"

"Reviews"

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The Marquis Project "Live Well, Do Good" Gift Baskets   A concrete way to live well and do good.