Well February has come and gone for another year. Here at PickTheBrain we wish to thank you for your continued support. We particularly appreciate those readers who subscribe to our RSS feed, take the time to leave thoughtful comments and/ or vote for our articles on the social media.

In case you missed them, the following articles were the most popular in February:

• 5 Ways To Help Your Children Turn Their Dreams Into Reality
• Embracing the Beauty of Sadness
• 10 Effective Productivity Tips for Writers
• Seeking Solitude: 17 Ways to Find Time for Yourself
• Why Intelligent People Tend to Be Unhappy
• The #1 Way To Shake Up Your Life

Here are a few other links I recommend checking out:

• Epictetus’ Top 7 Timeless Pearls of Wisdom - The Positivity Blog
• Learn More, Study Less Released - Scott H Young
• Punk Rock Your Life: The Simple Six-Letter Word That Determines Success - Zen Habits
• Learning to Dream…. Again - Iwillchangeyourlife
• What Makes You Come Alive? - Awake At The Wheel

Competition Winners

The winners of the 15 copies of No More Mondays by Dan Miller (see Monday’s article The #1 Way to Shake Up Your Life) are: Jack, Amir, Terhi, Smith, Joanna, Shawn Williamson, Evan Pederson, Lola Broadus, Adam Chamness, Julie, Erin Marie, David Fromoz, Erin, D, Carole.

If you missed out on a copy of this book, stay tuned as we have another great book to give away this coming Monday.

This week I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by 2 insightful bloggers.

• Over at Adversity University, Stephen Hopson posed some questions about the origins of PickTheBrain and my personal experiences online.
• At The Next 45 Years, Alex Blackwell included me in the Blogging Heroes Series where I answered his questions about building a successful blog.

If that sounds interesting, go check it out. Hopefully you’ll enjoy reading the interviews as much as I did participating in them.

Also, for the Twitter users out there and those of you thinking about trying it, PickTheBrain is now officially on Twitter via the badge in the right sidebar.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Twitter, it’s a microblogging platform that allows people to send short messages back and forth. I’ll use it to post links to all the great articles I come across online but don’t have time to blog about.

So go ahead and start following us! And if you’re active on Twitter, my personal account is jwesley, where I post all the non-PTB stuff I find interesting. Start following me and I’ll do the same, or just leave your Twitter handle in the comments.

One our goals for 2008 is to increase the level of conversation on PickTheBrain. To help you keep track of all the discussions going on, we’ve added a couple new community features:

1. Recent Comments - The right sidebar now contains a section near the top for recent comments. This highlights the last 5 comments made on PickTheBrain and provides a link back to the thread so you can hop right in to the discussion.
2. Threaded Comments - If you want to reply directly to a specific comment, rather than posting all the way at the bottom of the thread, you can now post directly below it with the thread comments feature. Just click the “reply” link next to the commenter’s name that you’d like to reply to and your comment will automatically be nested below it.

Any other features or content ideas that you’d like to see on PickTheBrain? Shout em out in the comments.

PickTheBrain has two new sponsors for the month of November that we’d like to briefly thank and introduce.

Lumosity is a brain fitness program, comprised of games and exercises, scientifically designed to improve your memory, attention, and processing speed. I first discovered them in PC Magazine’s list of the Top 100 Undiscovered Sites. They offer a free trial of the brain games — I’ve tried it myself — the games are fun and high quality.

ChargedAudio specializes in unlocking the power of the subconscious mind through subliminal messaging. They offer a free trial CD and ebook, so you can test their products at minimal cost.

There are still sponsorship spots available for November. If you have a product or service that you’d like to share with the PickTheBrain community, check out the advertising page for more information or send us a message.