Archives for July 2007
21 Strategies for Creating an Emergency Fund, and Why It’s Critical [zen habits]
Every Tuesday is Finance & Family Day at Zen Habits.
Building up an emergency fund, if you haven’t already, is one of the most important things you can do to help your finances.
But you knew that.
It’s common financial advice, actually, but what’s not so common is how to actually do it. Obviously those who haven’t saved [...]
7 Reasons why Journaling Makes Sense [The Daily Saint]
I was reading Runner’s World magazine yesterday and the May 2007 edition listed 101 ways to jump-start your running life. Right there at #62 is "Keep a log"- while I don’t enjoy running, #62 hit home with me because I am an avid journal writer.
I’ve kept journals (not diaries, for all of you guys out [...]
¿Por que aun no lo has finalizado? [El Canasto]
¿En que estás trabajando y por que aun no lo has finalizado?
Seguro que tienes tus razones, pero siempre es una buena pregunta de hacerte a veces. ¿Que causa el retraso?
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Original post here: Jeroen Sangers
The Real Value of GTD [Getting Things Done]
Did I survive 2 weeks of vacation with (almost) no access to the internet? Yes, I did, and not barely but almost easily — much to my own surprise!
Two weeks may not sound like a long time to some people, but to somebody like me it sounds like an unusually long period without writing blog [...]
GTD - Back to basics 2 - Dealing with stuff [Flipping Heck! Productivity, Technology and Motivation blog]
In the first part of the GTD: Back To Baisc series, we looked at Collecting stuff. In this installment, we’ll look at what do do with that stuff once you’ve collected it.
The first rule of processing stuff is:
If it’s going to take less than 2 minutes just do it!
Too often we put off the simplest [...]
Ainda não dá para desprezar o Orkut [Além Das Curvas' blog]
Vou falar rapidinho: o mal-falado (e às vezes injustiçado) Orkut já me foi útil diversas vezes. Justamente por ser a rede social mais difundida no Brasil atualmente, é lá que se encontra de tudo! Peneirando, dá pra encontrar trigo no meio do joio.
Uma das coisas a favor do orkut é a expertise Google [...]
Reutiliza carpetas usando cinta adhesiva [El Canasto]
Si quieres reutilizar tus carpetas, pega un trocito de cinta adhesiva transparente en la pestaña antes de etiquetarla. De esta manera es fácil de sacar la etiqueta.
VÃa Tricks of the Trade [inglés]
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Original post here: Jeroen Sangers
14 Numbers Your Cell Phone Can’t Live Without [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
Not so long ago, cell phones were reserved for society’s wealthy and privileged. Yes, carrying around that small suitcase only for the pleasure of spending $.50/minute to call your stock broker or nail salon - that’s what separated the haves from the have-nots.
Thankfully, those days have ended. Everybody and their freakin’ mother has [...]
100 Tips to Improve Your Life; and LifeRemix.net Launched [zen habits]
I’m pleased to announce that Zen Habits has joined LifeRemix, a network of a handful of excellent personal enrichment blogs. LifeRemix blogs explore the topics of productivity, happiness, work and family balance, personal development, organization, and the environment.
To help with the network’s launch, I wrote a post called 100 Great Tips to Improve Your Life, [...]
Merlin Mann on Inbox Zero [Setting Contexts]
I was able to watch Merlin Mann’s presentation at a Google Tech Talk from Last week (7.23.07). At Inbox Zero, you can download the actual presentation, watch the video of his actual talk, as well as the article that make up the series.
This is a great resource to keep going back to and refining [...]