Archives for the 'Self-Help' Category
7 Ways You Can Stop Wasting Food And Help Save The Earth [Organize IT]
This month it emerged that in the UK, a staggering eight billion pounds worth of food goes to waste, which equates to 6.7 million tonnes or a third of our total purchases. Those are scary stats that are echoed in many other countries around the world. This effects us two ways. Firstly, with food prices [...]
Organize IT Recap: Time Audits, Public Speaking [Organize IT]
Organize IT recap for 25th April 2008.
Organize IT can now be found on on Alltop under the lifehacks category. Thanks for including me guys! If you have problems with too many RSS feeds this site is a good way of distilling them down. One quick glance through the lifehacks page (or indeed under any category [...]
The Organize IT Habits: Everything Is A Next Action [Organize IT]
Welcome to the third of my ongoing series of posts looking at habits you can implement that will bring about definitive improvements in your life. For the third habit I will look at the next action. It is one of the simplest but most effective pieces of advice that came out of Getting Things [...]
Organize IT Recap 18th Apr 2008 [Organize IT]
Organize IT recap for 18th April 2008
On Wednesday I introduced the first stage of my Organize IT trigger list. Thanks to your feedback I have expanded it even further and I now believe it to be a huge, definitive list. I have also published it in PDF format for easy printing when you need it [...]
7 Practical Ways To Clear Your Head And Regain Focus [Organize IT]
Ever feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff swirling around in your mind? Sometimes feel lost and lacking in focus? The reason will likely be that you have amassed many unresolved thoughts in your head, and our brains simply aren’t very good at dealing with these never ending loops in our minds. Whenever I [...]
Organize IT Recap 11th Apr 2008 [Organize IT]
Organize IT recap for 11th April 2008
The Scotsman has an article discussing how anxiety is just a normal reaction. It looks at the increasing attitude for over-medicating and over-diagnosing. While there is no doubt that for some people anxiety can develop into a disorder which can be debilitating, there seems to be a lot of [...]
8 Ways For Dealing With Doubts [Organize IT]
Doubts. We all have them, it is part of being human. Depending on how you deal with them, they can guide you away from potentially difficult/dangerous situations or cause you to miss a great opportunity. It is important we learn to understand why we get them and what purpose they are serving us under [...]
Habit Building: Laying The Foundations [Organize IT]
There are a lot of intelligent posts written about building new habits. However a lot of them seem to focus on the later stages of the process, rather than those difficult early days where you seem to have more failures than successes. At this stage a lot of people become so disheartened when they give [...]
Make Your Own Luck [Organize IT]
Luck and being lucky is a funny concept. Nobody is born naturally more lucky than anyone else. Those people who are always in the right place at the right time and get the big breaks in their careers largely make their own luck, whether they are aware of it or not. Compared to something like [...]
How To Gain Perspective [Organize IT]
You did a poor presentation and your boss is giving you an hard time, your friends have all deserted you, and your marriage is on the rocks. Or so it seems. In actuality things are rarely as bad as they seem. More often than not you need to gain some perspective.
Firstly, try and get away [...]