Maximizing your work happiness should be the theme of your working life. Happiness creates success. When you stop putting in the hours and start extracting joy from work, you'll be successful.
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The PocketMod is a small book with guides on each page. These guides or templates, combined with a unique folding style, enable a normal piece of paper to become the ultimate note card. It is hard to describe just how incredibly useful the PocketMod is. I
The key to managing these important messages is to evaluate each one for the response it requires and then quickly convert that evaluation into action.
Knowledge workers attend lots of meetings. We also have tons of loose bits of information that need collecting during the day. It all needs to be processed. I use David Allen's GTD system and now buckle it into Gmail as my sole collection bucket.
And she has techniques for getting out of a mingle, including one she calls "the human sacrifice." That's where you escape a boring conversation by grabbing some other poor guest and throwing him into the conversation in your place.
'Tis the season for sharing home movies--but don't try your friends' and relatives' patience waiting for something good to happen in the hours of tape you shot on vacation. You need to learn how to edit your video, to turn boring footage into compelling m
The premise of this essay is that those exquisite but all too rare moments when we experience 'flow', when we are truly creative, happy and intuitively know exactly what is needed, are simply those instances when we glimpse our original and true nature. I
The following is an "Incompletion Triggers" list to assist you in evaluating your current commitments. This list has been taken from Getting Things Done.
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Plain text is the most portable, munge-able, searchable, dependable, and software-agnostic file format there is. We've covered how to track your tasks and projects in a todo.txt file; today we're going to extend our plain text personal information manager
Work is a sort of conditioning. It's not natural to sit at a desk for hours on end, nor is it natural to perform dull, repetitive tasks, but we train ourselves to do it. Unfortunately, it's easy to lose that conditioning, and it takes a while to get it b