10 useful skills you can master in just 10 minutes

No wonder they say that knowledge is power. Just learning something new and improving existing skills, people can achieve real success. But time visiting different courses, reading books and learning languages is not at all.

Therefore, we have prepared for you a selection of ten useful, but simple skills to learn which can be just ten minutes. Believe me, they will be very useful.

Speed reading

You always envied those who could read per month 10-20 books and still remember the whole getting the information from them? The secret of success of such people is quite simple — practice of speed reading. Thanks to her, people manage to read books in a very short period of time, without losing any important details.

To learn speed-reading and you can. It is enough to remember a few important rules.

In addition, you can find on the Internet various simulators for training speed reading. In the future development of this skill will greatly save your time and have a positive impact on productivity.

Fire

You never know what to prepare for. And suddenly one day you find yourself in a forest and you have an urgent need to build a fire? Matches or a lighter on hand, of course not... How to handle this situation? Quite simple!

Learn in advance some of the ways a fire using improvised means.

There are many other ways of producing fire, we told you about the simplest and most effective. Spend ten minutes of your time and examine the video tutorials on this topic. It is possible that this valuable skill will come in handy during a hike or travel.

Drawing

I think that the ability to draw is given to artists from birth? But, no! For this we need to study a lot and work hard, but we will tell you about the way to learn the basics of drawing in just ten minutes.

In the above picture you can see how quick and easy to portray on a piece of paper a cute little dog. On the Internet you can find a lot of similar lessons phased drawing. Of course, there are more complex and serious "paintings", but rest assured — with such detailed instructions you can easily repeat the drawings.

Cooking

You just started a family life and want to surprise my husband for his gourmet cooking? It is not obligatory to sign up for cooking classes. On the Internet you can find lots of detailed descriptions of the preparation of various dishes ranging from simple salads and desserts to the real delicacies.

Also learn tips for cooking for beginners Housewives. Below are some of them.

Cooking tricks you can list forever, but to see the major, you will take no more than ten minutes.

Fast falling asleep

Deep sleep — the guarantee of health. But to go to bed and immediately to sleep far from over. If you are one of those who used before bed for a few hours to toss and turn in bed, check out methods of quick sleep. To master this technique, do not need a lot of time.

First, relax completely, physically, in bed, all your muscles need to rest: the muscles of the eye, shoulders, neck, chest... Take three deep breaths and with them "exhale" from the body of all tension.

Once you were able to relax physically, relax mentally will not be easy. For ten seconds, do not think absolutely nothing, imagine lying in the black hammock, enveloped in pitch darkness. Repeat to myself the words, "don't think, don't think, don't think", keep in mind of any extraneous thoughts.

Effective use of computer

Modern technology greatly simplify a person's life. But as you know, there is no limit to perfection! You can make using the computer even easier, memorized the combination of "hot keys".

Probably, all already know that using Ctrl + A can select all the text, then copy (Ctrl + C) and paste (Ctrl + V) to your desired location. But this is not all that capable of "hot keys". Below are a few basic combinations:

This is only a small part of the useful combinations, memorization which will take no more than ten minutes. When you start applying at least some of them in practice, the speed and efficiency of your work at the computer will increase significantly.

Advanced search on the Internet

The ability to find desired information on the Internet in some cases can be useful even more than the ability to make fire. To most effectively use search engines, read on for some tips that will help you to get more accurate results.

It's not all "chips" that will help you to improve the efficiency of the Internet. To learn more about search operators here here Google and Yandex.

To tell time without a clock

Have you ever been in such a situation, when urgently needed to know the time, but end up hours? Next time you are confused, because you will know several alternative ways to do it.

Management attention

Some people can be very difficult to concentrate on a certain task, because there are many distractions: work colleagues, social networks, noise outside, etc.

To learn how to control your attention, periodically perform this exercise.

After 10 minutes of this exercise, you will learn to focus on the specific tasks and cease to be distracted by trifles.

Quickly to tie my shoelaces.

Hard to call this skill is one of the most necessary in life, but why not save yourself a few seconds on this daily ritual?

See how easy and quickly you can tie the laces on shoes! You can try to do it right now. Sure this method is different from that which you used to enjoy in early childhood.