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Screen Real Estate, Productivity, and Idiots
Ran across these thoughts on how minimizing your screen real estate might actually boost your productivity: Having a big screen is a good excuse to stick a Twitter client here, mail client there, have list of files pane constantly open, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Creativity, Food For Thought, Productivity, Quotes
Tagged Advice, Idiots, Internet, Productivity, Screen
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Why Your To-Do List is Hurting You
Interesting thoughts from the Harvard Business Review: Stop making to-do lists. They’re simply setting you up for failure and frustration. Consider the to-do lists you’re currently managing: how many items have been languishing since Michelle Bachman was leading the field … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Productivity, Psychology, Quotes
Tagged Harvard Business Review, Productivity, Quotes
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Why Sharing Your Goals Dooms You To Failure
If you want to accomplish something, it makes sense to tell people about it. After all, you might be able to collaborate with someone already working on something similar, or gain some ideas and insights from someone who has done … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Persuasion, Productivity, Psychology, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Failure, Goal, Productivity, Success
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Productivity Tips, From 1932
Despite, or in fact because of, the 80 years of technological advancement, these tips are even more relevant today. Â Courtesy of Henry Miller: COMMANDMENTS Work on one thing at a time until finished. Start no more new books, add no … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Create, Production, Productivity, Writing
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It Will Be There Later
A quick tip on preventing procrastination: Whatever it is you want to do, whether it’s check email or facebook, or read the news, or play a game, or whatever, recognize that it will be there later. The news will always … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Productivity, Self-Improvement, Time Tracking, Tips
Tagged Procrastination, Productivity, Time Tracking, Tips
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The First Thing You Do When You Sit Down At The Computer
What’s the first thing you do? Â Check your email? Â See who needs you? Â Whose problems need solving? Â Maybe you “warm your brain up” by checking news, or gossip, or sports, or playing a game. (hint: you’re really warming your brain … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productivity, Self-Improvement, Time Tracking
Tagged First Principals, Fresh, Productivity, Seth Godin, Ski
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Productive Procrastination
Everyone needs a mental break at some point during the day. Â It’s biological: mammals are programmed to experience two intensely sleepy periods during the day, the first between 2 and 4 am, and the second between 1 and 3 pm. … Continue reading
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Tagged Body, Brain, Hack, Nap, Physiology, Procrastination, Productivity, Time Tracking
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You Are Not Too Busy
Richard Branson owns and operates more than 400 companies under his Virgin Group. He sells everything from music to trips to space. He sets world records on sailboats and hot-air balloons. He appears in movies and television shows. He writes … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Inspiration, Productivity, Quotes, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Goal, GTD, Plan, Productivity, Richard Branson, Work Out
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Hemingway’s Productivity Hack
One of the things I’ve made an effort to get good at is to do the little things as I notice them. As soon as I notice something that needs to be picked up, or put away, or moved, or … Continue reading
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Tagged Ernest Hemingway, Hack, Productivity, Writer's Block, Writing
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On Being Prolific
Picasso created somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 pieces of art during his life. If we take the low estimate and assume he starting making real art at about 6 years old, this means he had to create about two pieces … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Business, Create, Creativity, Output, Pablo Picasso, Productivity, Prolific, Work
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How to Beat Procrastination, Maintain Balance and Avoid Burnout
How do Olympic athletes train for the biggest event of their lives? What separates the top tennis players in the world from those that are merely world class? A big part of it is what they don’t do. If you … Continue reading
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Tagged Burnout, Power of Full Engagement, Procrastination, Productivity, Techniques, Work Life Balance
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How To Get Anyone To Help You Do Anything
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.†– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Posted in Advice, Business, Food For Thought, Negotiation, Persuasion, Quotes, Rationality, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Motivation, Negotiation, Persuasion, Productivity, Quotes
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The Necessity of No
Most people saw the iPad as a revolutionary, unexpected device. Some people thought it would never sell, or that it was a useless, stupid device. But, journalists and people on tech blogs and forums had been clamoring for Apple to … Continue reading
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Tagged GTD, No, Productivity, Renaissance, Steve Jobs, Success
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Beat Procrastination By Being Self-Centered
If you work any sort of normal job, you’re probably forced to do a lot of stuff you’re not terribly enthusiastic about doing. Paradoxically, this work can often take longer because we tend to lose focus. We stall, we procrastinate, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boring, Job, Procrastination, Productivity, Work
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Why Motivational Speakers Don’t Motivate
Dr. Jim Taylor, who has a PhD in psychology, says the “inspirational-industrial complex” is a sham. Why, you ask? Because the inspiration that comes from other people is manufactured from the outside. This “synthetic” inspiration simply can’t last long because … Continue reading
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Tagged Gurus, Inspiration, Motivation, Productivity
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