Archives for July 2008
GTD Cafe: GTD and … Construction? [Productivity in Context]
Today’s post is from Mike St. Pierre of The Daily Saint
Walking around town last night, I spotted a contractor’s vehicle with a startling name on the side in large print:
“Lar Roy Contracting”
Not being familiar with the word “lar roy”, I kept walking until I had to turn around and look at the truck again. There [...]
GTD and … Construction? [The Daily Saint]
Walking around town last night, I spotted a contractor’s vehicle with a startling name on the side in large print:
“Lar Roy Contracting”
Not being familiar with the word “lar roy”, I kept walking until I had to turn around and look at the truck again. There it was- a company built on the labor of two [...]
Création d’un moteur de recherche du développement personnel [C'éclair!]
Savez-vous ce qu’est un moteur de recherche personnalisé google? C’est un moteur de recherche qui permet de rechercher dans une sélection de sites choisis à l’avance et qu’on peut inclure via un formulaire sur son propre site web.
Ceci est particulièrement intéressant quand on connaît déjà un ensemble de sites spécialisés autour d’un thème précis. C’est [...]
Self-Help Pitfalls [Productivity in Context]
Craig Harper has some insights into personal development in his new post “Seven Self-Help Pitfalls“. I recommend everyone read this:
While the benefits of working on ‘us’ are seemingly obvious, I believe there are a few challenges, pitfalls and curve balls that the would-be, self-helper needs to be mindful of in his or her search for [...]
The Perfect Time to Study [Gearfire Productivity]
I’ve been a student for most of my life (I still am), and the one thing I’ve learned in my collective experience with academia is that the more time you think you have to prepare for an exam, the less time you spend studying. I know it sounds like convoluted logic, but it’s happened to [...]
8 Great Anti-Hacks to Fundamentally Change Your Life [Zen Habits]
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Clay Collins of Project Liberation and The Growing Life.
Albert Einstein started that “problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” Einstein, of course, was right. Sometimes our problems require more than life hacks, tips, tweaks, etc. Sometimes our lives [...]
using spaces as blinders [Creativityist]
This is part of an ongoing series called Blinders where I explore some of the ways I streamline my computer workflows to minimize distractions.
I’m often surprised by how many Mac users I see that aren’t using Spaces. It does require a new way of thinking about the desktop, but once you have put it to [...]
Can a Family Eat on $100 a week? [Productivity @ Home]
Can a family eat on $100 a week? - MSN Money
A writing colleague forwarded me this link, to an interesting story about a family of four’s attempt to live on a weekly food budget of $100. In light of my blog post earlier today about family food finances, this seems appropriate to share as [...]
Use Jott to Help with Family Food Crunch [Productivity @ Home]
I’m enjoying using Jott.com to help get my life under control (a continual challenge!). As I wrote earlier today, I am currently working on managing our family food budget more efficiently. Today, I set up a grocery list on my Jott account, enabling me to call myself and record items to the list as I [...]
Making the Most of the Family Food Budget [Productivity @ Home]
This past weekend, one of my Twitter friends posted a photo of his lovely wife, surrounded by groceries, with the caption “What $500 worth of groceries for $200 looks like”. Since I had just returned from a grocery trip that cost $257 and yielded many fewer bags than in the photo, it caught my eye. [...]