Archives for August 2007
7 Web Apps of Highly Effective Students [Gearfire Productivity]
Make this school year easier by incorporating some useful web apps into your life. Whatever you need to manage: homework, your time, your roommates, or your files, these 7 applications have got you covered!
Google Docs for creating and storing documents for access on multiple computers. If you are going to be using the school computers, [...]
Más feliz al trabajo [El Canasto]
La excelente bitácora Life Learning Today ha publicado una lista de 25 consejos para ser más productivo y feliz al trabajo. Desde preguntarte si realmente sacas el mejor rendimiento de tu dÃa hasta evitar conflictos con tus compañeros y clientes, siguiendo estos consejos te hace más feliz con lo que estas haciendo. Unos ejemplos:
18. Pide [...]
Get Off Your Butt: 16 Ways to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump [zen habits]
Every Thursday is Happiness Day on Zen Habits.
Even the most motivated of us — you, me, Tony Robbins — can feel unmotivated at times. In fact, sometimes we get into such a slump that even thinking about making positive changes seems too difficult.
But it’s not hopeless: with some small steps, baby ones in fact, you [...]
How Do You Use Projects in GTD? [What's the next action]
The following is a guest post from Geoff R from Gearfire.net
In my opinion, projects are one of the least talked about and most diversely used components of GTD. In Getting Things Done, David Allen leaves a lot of room for interpretation on the topic of what kind of project you should have. That is why [...]
Listen to the Voices in Your Head [HD BizBlog 1.2]
Here is a great idea from Success from the Nest:
We all carry around a YouTube library in our heads. This is a real You-Tube because it’s all about events from your life — hopes, fears, successes, failures.
By taking control of the clips in your library, you create a powerful tool.
Use the memories of past successes [...]
When Help Doesn’t Help [Productivity @ Home]
Every Wednesday, I share my thoughts on Learning and Professional Development.
I’m a greedy learner. When I am trying to master a new skill or ability, I want competency and I want it quickly. I try to avoid the temptation to quit when something proves too challenging to master on the first attempt. Lately, I’ve been [...]
GTD for Bloggers; Mistakes Freelancers Make; and Losing 50 Pounds a Year [zen habits]
I thought I’d share some of my articles that have been published on other blogs, in case you’re interested:
Web Worker Daily: GTD for Bloggers - The Art of Stress-free Blogging
Dumb Little Man: Easy (and Sexy) Ways to Lose 50 Pounds a Year
FreelanceSwitch: The 10 Biggest Mistakes Freelancers Make, and How to Avoid Them
FreelanceSwitch: 10 Easy [...]
Five Tips for Finding Writing Time [Ian's Messy Desk]
A couple or so weeks ago, I decided to set fixed time for writing blog posts. While I’ve always had some kind of content schedule, getting the posts written often ended up being a hit-and-miss proposition.
I’ve picked after supper, five days per week, as my scheduled writing time. Getting into this groove, I’ve discovered three things:
Having this [...]
Weekly Review Outline [7Breaths]
gtdfrk over at Getting Things Done has a post of his weekly review checklist. He wonders about other peoples weekly reviews so I thought I’d post an outline of my current one. I keep this of course in OneNote and have just copied it over, so some formating etc is missing but the basic scheme [...]
Best4c -Best for chart- online diagram tool beta [Ian's Messy Desk]
My wife and I are giving some thought to remodelling our kitchen. As we’re discovering, a lot of planning and organizing goes into such a project. One of the key elements is deciding what layout we would like, working with the space we have.
I’ve been playing around with several diagramming tools, both on-line and desktop [...]