5 apps to thrive

  Nowadays most people have a smart device. We often use them to browse the internet, find tasty restaurants, book movie tickets etc. Do you know they can be used to learn as well? I would love to share 5 apps we can all download in order to make 2013 a fruitful year.

1. SUCCESS magazine

Price: $158 HKD for 12 issues

- Easy to read and carry
- Key ideas and strategies to help you excel in every area of your personal and professional life
- Composed of articles, videos and audio interviews
- Up to date
- Attractive interface (a lot of visuals)

2. HBR tips

Price: Free

- Updated everyday
- Capitalize this app by loading it on our spare time (queuing for bus/ using the washroom etc)
- Spend 3-5 minutes everyday to learn something new

3. Stumbleupon

Price: Free

- This app will randomly show you popular sites on the subjects that you are interested in
- Not only for business
- Categories you can choose from include: computers, arts/history, regional, commerce, hobbies, music/movies, home/living, health, media, society, sports, outdoors, religion, sci/tech
- In each category there will be sub-categories
- You might stumble upon some mind blowing sites
- If you don't like the site generated, you can quickly stumble to the next one

4. Business secrets

Price: $23 HKD

- There is an app called Mindtools that is similar to this app which is free
- But hands down this app is much more superior
- Superior on its design and also scope of knowledge
- This app covers topics from NLP to dealing with difficult person
- For each category, we can choose to learn new things in 4 different ways
- Secrets, case studies, insights, quotes and 1 min wonders
- A knowledge meter is at the bottom of the screen to indicate the level of our knowledge

5. Gorilla workout

Price: $8 HKD

- Having a healthy body is extremely important
- 4 different difficulties to choose from
- 175 different fun workouts
- Videos to teach us how to complete the exercises are included
- Don't need excercise equipments
- Fun exercises include "pistols", "supermans", "tuck jumps" etc

  I would update the list if I find more apps that are value for money. If you have apps that you highly recommend, please feel free to share as well.