A wave is a disturbance. It is an interruption of space. So everything is just perfect until you get an idea that competes with the pre-existing emptiness for your attention. And this disturbance propagates through space, often transferring energy.
Once your work on your novel is under way, one of the toughest foes you'll face in your quest for ultimate success—outside of your lack of talent or limited access to famous or powerful people—is the devilish problem of procrastination.
Free software application for collecting and processing your thoughts following the GTD methodology. A lot of our mental energy is directed towards trying to remember and manage all the things that we want or need to do.
When I’m at home, I find I would make excuses not to sit at my desk. I’ll be flicking through some catalogue, turning on the tv or playing on the Xbox. When I’m in the office, I’ll gravitate towards social bookmarking sites like Digg, Delicious an
Discipline is like a muscle. The more you build it, the more you can rely on it. Basically it comes down to taking on little challenges, conquering them, and gradually progressing to bigger ones. It’s like progressive weight training.
Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. The solution was to go to bed when I’m sleepy (and only when I’m sleepy) and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time (7 days per week). So I always get up at the same time (in my c
I have personally rediscovered techniques, which did not work in the past, but do now. I believe they did not work before because I was not ready for them. Do not be discouraged. It is how the universe works.
I believe there is a threshold associated with Procrastination. This action/inaction boundary is determined by both Pain and Payoff. These simple tips are all designed to either reduce the Pain associated with a given task or increase the Payoff.
Let me first start by saying that waking up early has made a huge difference in my life. I used to be the complete opposite - late sleeper and late riser. These days, I wake up at 5:30am everyday.
You'll eat back procrastination, get peace of mind, and free up time. You get guidance, inspiration, social connections and support, focus, strategies, and solutions...Plus, a report called "28 Ways to Stop Procrastinating." * Give yourself more pe
Organize Yourself Online is a comprehensive service designed to make it easier than ever for you to get yourself organized. Your personalized program offers unique tools and ideas to organize yourself when and where you need it most - right at your PC des
t’s true that the hunt and intensity of multitasking can be fun — there are thrills in chasing things, physical or virtual, but most evidence shows we perform worse at all things multitasked. Despite how it feels, it appears our minds don’t work bes
Tracks is a web-based application to help you implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done™ methodology. It was built using Ruby on Rails, and comes with a built-in webserver (WEBrick), so that you can run it on your own computer if you like. It can be
I want to tell about my method to fight laziness. To apply it, you do not need strength of will, a special mindset, enthusiasm, non-depression, ants in your pants, or to attend NLP courses or Shaolin Monastery.
Stikkit will pick up appointments, to-dos, people, bookmarks, tags, and other salient details and pop them into your Stikkit calendar, to-do list, peeps (or contacts), bookmarks and tags lists. Here's a brief cheatsheet to get you going. Notice the wor
You can use Highrise to... Review a colleague's notes before calling her contact at the printer See all the follow-ups scheduled for this week Set a reminder to write your client a thank-you note next Friday Keep all important emails from a customer t