Archives for the 'Lifestyle' Category
The 3 Key Steps For Keeping Promises To Yourself [Organize IT]
We all know the importance of keeping promises to people. Keeping promises leads to trust which is one of the bedrocks of any good relationship, whether it be with friends, work colleagues or your partner. However there is one element of keeping promises that gets overlooked - keeping promises to yourself.
When it comes to [...]
Automatically delete empty folders [Hack Your Day]
A tool I found while browsing Lifehacker looks like one that deserves a place in the productivity hall of fame. Remove Empty Directories or simply put, RED, enables you to scan for and remove empty folders on your hard drive. Those pesky folders have always been bugging me, and with the advanced features RED offers [...]
Organize IT Recap: Myths About Work, Albert Einsten [Organize IT]
Organize IT recap for 13th June 2008.
Still collecting productivity tips from you all! Already had some very good contributions so keep them coming. I intend to bring them together and publish a big compilation in the near future so keep an eye out for it.
When I shared this link about six work myths with a [...]
EEE PC and MSI Wind for productivity? [Hack Your Day]
I’ve been trying to find a laptop I really like for a while now and I realized that the fancy new EEE PC and the MSI Wind are great for productivity. While they don’t exactly fit in your pocket, they’re pretty damn small, they’re very cheap and have enough power for normal use.
Right now I [...]
Why You Should Think Twice Before Downloading [Organize IT]
The internet is great. Many people use it everyday and it has become an integral part of people’s lives. One element of the internet that has massive repercussions for how we entertain ourselves is downloading, whether it be films, music or even computer games. Downloading has made access to all that media incredibly easy and [...]
How overorganizing can help [Hack Your Day]
I’m an avid believer in the saying that “too much of anything can be bad”. I probably just made that up, but it’s true nevertheless. I have found though in my own experience that over-organizing may be a suitable action plan for some people.
The organizational curve
I think the against arguments are fairly obvious. Organization works [...]
The blogger’s link between planning and reaction time [Hack Your Day]
Reaction time is very important nowadays, especially if you work as a blogger or as someone else who feeds on info. I need to fix some problems at my day job again so I didn’t write new posts, but had a few draft titles written up. I had a Prism review on my agenda [...]
Comfort or productivity? [Hack Your Day]
In many cases in my own life I find that I am either productive or comfortable. By this I don’t mean that I have to sleep on the floor after a productive day, what I mean is that many times you need to trade your personal freedom to work productively according to GTD and other [...]
Wake up early for productivity [Hack Your Day]
Waking up early is one of the tips many productivity people will give you, and it seems to me that many established CEOs and professionals tend to follow this, so it is probably a good idea to try it out at least. I recently read that Leo Babuta of Zen Habits gets up at 4:30 [...]
How to wake up easily in the morning [Hack Your Day]
If you are one of those people who feel their life ends each morning, and waking up is like the worst torture ever, you have my total sympathies, I’m probably worse. About once or twice a year I wake up refreshed and ready for action, and it feels so good. I believe I can hunt [...]