Archives for February 2008

10 Annoying Things to Do at Work [Ian's Messy Desk]

Posted in Friday Funny
Okay, you’ve annoyed them at Wal-Mart and in an elevator. Now it’s time to unleash your aggravating behaviour at work.

Page yourself over the intercom. Don’t disguise your voice.
Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
Put your garbage can on your desk and label it “In.”
Put [...]

29 February 2008 | Humour | No Comments

The Bleeding Edge [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]

Clay at The Growing Life is on to some very thought-provoking ideas.
This is number 3 on his list:
Here’s one of way measuring productivity:
P = W/t
Productivity (P) is work accomplished (W) divided by time (t). We’ve traditionally tried to increase productivity by amping up work output (e.g. Getting Things Done by David Allen). But there’s [...]

29 February 2008 | Community, GTD | No Comments

Are You a Spectator or a Participant? [The Daily Saint]

Photo by HometownInvasion If there is one thing that GTD teaches us it’s to close the open loops in our life. These often revolve around our project list. It’s often the seemingly small projects (’buy gift for Claire’) that we…

Original post here: Mike

29 February 2008 | At Work, Faith, Family, Ministry, Stress, motivation | No Comments

Die Broschüre zum Web 2.0 [ToolBlog]

Für die Profis unter den Lesern wird es ein alter Hut sein, ich bin erst jetzt beim Durchforsten meiner Linksammlung auf die Broschüre zum Web 2.0 (pdf) gestoßen. Für diejenigen unter Ihnen, die eine leicht verständliche Einführung in das Thema suchen, bietet die Publikation eine erste Übersicht über die wichtigsten Angebote. Beschrieben werden Personal Publishing, [...]

29 February 2008 | Internet | No Comments

20 Money Hacks: Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Finances [Zen Habits]

“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” - Woody Allen

We had the Parent Hacks earlier this week, and I was thinking it would be fun to do the same with finances — ways to trick yourself, to get around obstacles, to boost your accounts, without it hurting.
Improving your finances improves your happiness, [...]

28 February 2008 | Finance & Family | No Comments

GTD Mastery 100: Step 21 [Gearfire Productivity]

To read my complete journey to GTD Mastery see the main post.
Step 21 to GTD Mastery is: I have a mobile office space set up, if needed.

As a student, it is definitely needed. Utilizing the time inbetween classes, events, and extracurriculars is crucial. This alone can make or break your academic success. [...]

28 February 2008 | GTD | No Comments

Aprende a Exprimir los periódicos y revistas [El Canasto]

Normalmente leemos decenas de periódicos y revistas en tan sólo una semana. Leemos periódicos económicos, generales, locales, gratuitos, y múltiples revistas relacionadas con nuestro trabajo y nuestro ocio. Un montón de papel que se acumula día a día sobre nuestra cabeza ¿No sería interesante saber cómo exprimir [...]

28 February 2008 | Organízate con Eficacia, archivo, leer | No Comments

How to make the right choice [FruitfulTime Blog]

Life can be described as follows:
Choose between this… this… and this.
Live consequences
Repeat Until you die
You work hard… you get the promotion or you earn a lot of money but you have to sacrifice time off or time with your family. You study hard at university you get your A+ but as a consequence you might [...]

28 February 2008 | personal skills, skills | No Comments

Dos entrevistas para el fin de semana [El Canasto]

La semana pasado han salido dos entrevistas con dos gurus de productividad.

La entrevista con David Allen de Web Worker Daily ha salida muy interesante, porque no habla solo de la productividad, pero tambien de la salud y estrés.

Lea todo en Interview GTD author David Allen: Part 1, Health [...]

28 February 2008 | Recursos, davidallen, entrevista, estrés, salud, stephencovey | No Comments

Crowdsourcing With Kluster [The 4-Hour Workweek Journal]

I came across a site this morning called Kluster:
kluster is a place to harness the power of community collaboration to get stuff done. everyone has ideas, we provide a platform to get them out of heads and into the world…where they belong.

Source: Kluster
Crowdsourcing refers to outsourcing a task to a large group of undefined people [...]

28 February 2008 | Crowdsourcing, kluster, outsourcing, outsourcing jobs | No Comments