Skydiving in Las Vegas on April 14

It’s time to tackle one of the items on my bucket list. Rachelle and I now have a reservation to go skydiving — first time for both of us.

We opted to go with Skydive Las Vegas. We’re signed up for the 8am skydive on April 14.

We jump from about 2.5 miles above the ground. I believe we freefall for about a minute, then parachute for 5-7 minutes. It looks like we’ll have a nice view of Lake Mead as we jump out of the plane.

You’re welcome to join us if this sounds like something you’d like to try. If you want to jump with us, you can make a reservation here (April 14, 8am). I’ve heard from at least a few other people who are interested in joining. Let’s see how committed they are…

The cost is about $200 for one jump, with upsells for pics or a video.

The location is an airfield in Boulder City, which is about 20 minutes southeast of Vegas. The skydive place has a free shuttle service from the south end of the Vegas Strip if you’re visiting from out of town and need a ride.

We’re supposed to be there at 7:30am. Supposedly it takes about 4 hours for everything.

There’s no guarantee that we’ll be able to get onto the same plane if more people show up, but we can try to arrange that when we get there of course. They only take 7-8 jumpers per plane.

I’ve never jumped out of a plane before, so I’m curious to know what it’s like. People who’ve done it tell me it’s a lot of fun.

If you decide to join us, please drop me a message via my contact form to let me know, so we can look for you when we get there.

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Berlin Meet-up Details – April 25

I just arrived in Berlin, Germany a few hours ago. I promised to have a meet-up while we’re in town, so here are the details:

Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013

Time: 7:00 pm (19:00)

Location: Tiergarten (exact location)

Please come hang out in the park with us, meet other locals, talk about personal growth, and teach Rachelle and me a thing or two about Berlin. This is our first-ever trip to Germany.

We’ll be staying in Berlin for a week, then heading to the Netherlands to visit with friends there.

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The Best of Lifehack: April 2012

April has come and gone, and so it’s time for another installment in our Best of Lifehack series. This series showcases articles from the month just gone by, just in case you missed some of what we offer each and each every day at Lifehack.

This month we delivered posts on a wide variety of topics, focusing on fitness, nutrition, communication and overall productivity. You may have also noticed a lot of new contributors have joined the fold, largely as a result of our “How to Write for Lifehack” post that was published back in March. The result has been a slew of great articles from some very talented writers — and we’re going to bring even more of that to you from this month onward.

As we bid April farewell, here is The Best of Lifehack from the past month.

Have you ever felt like your to do list is completely out of control and you’re just not getting anywhere? You have jobs piling up and you just don’t know where to start? Zoe B. has put together a primer on how to get stuff done that’s well worth checking out.

You probably make lists of things to do and follow them through. But what about the things you should stop doing? Successful people do not do the following things but chances are you still do. Paul Sloane recommends that you make a decision to add 7 things to your “stop doing list” starting today.

A weight loss workout doesn’t have to be boring. It shouldn’t require you to workout for hours every day to be effective either. You can actually lose weight and excess body fat in just 15 minutes a day. Lifehack contributor Curt Pedersen explains how you can do just that.

Regular Lifehack contributor Royale Scuderi has discovered many very useful apps in her quest for better life management. Here are a few of the best iPhone apps to help your remember and that she has found to be very helpful.

Fixing minor issues can sometimes play a big role in enhancing your overall productivity and allow your creativity to flow like never before. Uttoran Sen offers up 8 things that are hurting your productivity — and how to hack them.

Lifehack Associate Editor CM Smith has been assembling some excellent mini-guides over the past couple of months, and this one is no exception. If you’re a guy who’s looking to lose some excess pounds, give this a good read. And then follow through!

With everything that happens around us, it is sometimes difficult to reach our goals. Robert Chen hasn’t just listed the top 10 reasons why people don’t reach their goals, but he’s also included a quick fix for each of them.

With everything that happens around us, it is sometimes difficult to reach our goals. Robert Chen hasn’t just assembled the top 10 reasons why people don’t reach their goals, but he’s also included a quick fix for each of them.

Remember when you got a raise and bought a new car, and you were happy ever since? Neither does Cara Stein. So rather than dwell on that, she outlines ways that you can be 25% happier in just five minutes — each and every day.

In this excerpt from the book Kiss That Frog: 12 Great Ways to Turn Negatives into Positives in Your Life and Work, Brian Tracy and Christina Tracy Stein explain that no matter where you are today, or what you have done or not done in the past, you need to accept seven essential truths about you as a person.

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Mike Vardy is the Managing Editor at Lifehack. An independent writer, speaker, podcaster and "productivityist", you can read more of his writing at Vardy.me. He is @mikevardy on Twitter.

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April 16: Watch a TED session live online from Doha, Qatar

Next week, in Doha, Qatar, we’re launching a four-day-long workshop called TEDxSummit — where 700 TEDx organizers from around the world will meet to take classes and learn from one another how to make great local TEDx events.

And to kick off the summit, we’re throwing a session of TED — and inviting the world to watch live!

Mark your calendar for TEDxSummit Opening Night, a two-hour session featuring global TEDTalks stars and powerful, creative, funny voices from the Middle East. TEDGlobal’s own Bruno Giussani curated the program around this theme: “The Power of Reframing.”

The session happens on Monday, April 16, at 7:30pm AST / 4:30pm GMT / 12:30pm EDT, and will stream from this page.

Speakers include TEDTalks star and health-data guru Hans Rosling … boundary-breaking artist Raghava KK … TEDx teacher Diana Laufenberg … “solar cracking” expert Nesrin Ozalp … and the wonderful young singer Zain Awad!

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