Posts Tagged ‘Productivity’

10 Productivity Myths That Hold You Back

What are the myths and mistaken beliefs that are preventing you from being more productive in both your work life and your personal life? How are you actively undermining your efforts to pull it all together?

Yeah, I mean you.

The sad fact is that the beliefs that we hold about productivity and organization often prevent us from doing and being everything we want to do and be in our lives. While… » Continue

July 28 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: failure, gtd, myth, Productivity, success, system | 26 comments»

Readers Recommend: 15 More Productivity Blogs You Probably Never Heard Of

Last week, I recommended over 60 productivity blogs, from the big name sites to some of the little-known discoveries I’d made in my travels through the productivity Web. At the end, I asked readers to recommend the sites that they’d come across that they felt deserved wider recognition, and this is what you came up with.

Aim for Awesome: Vern Lovic shares his simple recipe for life (“smiles +

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July 21 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: community, link, Productivity, website | 20 comments»

50+ Personal Productivity Blogs You’ve Never Heard of Before (and about a dozen you probably have)

The personal productivity niche on the Web has grown by leaps and bounds since Lifehack launched only a few years ago. While a few sites dominate the rankings, there are lots and lots of lesser-known sites that are as good or even better than the “A-list” productivity blogs.

Most of them are solo operations — the GTD newbie documenting his or her quest for greater control over their life, the coach… » Continue

July 16 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blog, coach, link, Productivity, website | 72 comments»

How to Avoid Getting Stuck in the Past

Do you have a trophy room? This is a place where you keep your various trophies, certificates, award plaques, autographed trinkets and other things that remind you of past accomplishments. This could be a fireplace mantle, space on a bookshelf, a downstairs room or a building depending on what you have been up to. If you have one of these, be careful to avoid getting stuck in the past. They… » Continue

July 16 2008 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: development, growth, motivation, past, Productivity | 3 comments»

4 Firefox Add-Ons to Ease Your Online Life

I’ve experienced 100s of Firefox add-ons, and have whittled them down to about two dozen I use on a regular basis — even out of these, I have favorites. Here are 4 I find both casually enjoyable and sheerly indispensable; I hope they add value to your browsing. Even if you’ve heard of them before, I share specific reasons why they’re so useful + fun (usefun!). All are compatible… » Continue

July 3 2008 | By Torley | Tagged: add-on, extension, firefox, internet, Productivity, software, tool, utility | 16 comments»

One System To Rule Them All

I first became interested in what is now known as lifehacking because of a simple problem: I wanted to be able to get through all of my emails in 15 minutes, rather than the 15 hours it seemed to take. Then I became interested in personal finance. After that, it was study skills, and then project management. These areas are fairly disparate, but my exploration of each came down… » Continue

June 24 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: application, Productivity, tool | 11 comments»

6 Signs Your Lifehacks Aren’t Working

Upping your productivity isn’t an exact science — and it isn’t something you can do overnight. Instead, you will probably need to try out a few things, see what works and throw out what isn’t working for you. Of course, to get rid of things that aren’t working, you have to recognize the warning signs before your productivity hacks turn into problems. Here is a spotter’s guide to a… » Continue

May 20 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: frustration, Lifehack, Productivity, tasks | 5 comments»

The Lifehack Productivity Bookshelf

I just received my copy of Lifehack contributor Pamela Skilling’s new book Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams. Pamela’s book is a guide for people fed up with the corporate lifestyle — the lack of creative expression, the lack of spiritual reward, and ultimately the lack of control over the conditions of your own employment — who are looking… » Continue

May 19 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: book, leadership, learning, Management, organization, Productivity, reading, thinking | 2 comments»

When A Cuppa Will Do You Good: Brief Breaks & Productivity

There are points when the only thing you can do — despite desperately wanting to be productive — is to step back for a few minutes. And while conventional productivity wisdom seems to dictate that you should use those few minutes to get a small task done or get a bit ahead on a future project, there are often situations when the best thing you can do is to sit… » Continue

May 15 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: break, Productivity, rest, tea | 5 comments»

The Productivity Family Tree

Famous families are all around us, from the Clinton dynasty to Mylie and Billy Ray Cyrus. They evoke in us so many things because we can relate, on some small level, to them. Not that many of our daughters are famous pop singers or that many of our parents are presidents. Sometimes we hate the very mention of family and at other times the thought warms our… » Continue

May 13 2008 | By Mike | Tagged: Productivity, website | 8 comments»

Helping the Family to Get Things Done

Ever had a conversation with your brother about how he feels like he never seems to get anything done beyond checking his email? Or talked to your mother about her difficulties finishing a project?

Have you ever tried to help them set up a system — make their lives a little simpler or a little more productive? And had that attempt blow up in your face?

My experiences with helping my family… » Continue

May 6 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: family, help, Productivity | 12 comments»

Invoicing Web 2.0 Style: A Quick Guide to Your Options

Invoicing is a part of every self-employed or freelancing individual’s life. Many of us are still using clunky old Word templates and those strange antiques known as printers—but why go to all the hassle, when there are so many web applications that offer reliable and efficient alternatives?

Digital invoices eliminate so much time and hassle that it’s unbelievable. Eliminating the need to go to the post box and send off an… » Continue

April 30 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: freelancing, invoicing, Money, organization, Productivity | 22 comments»

7 Reasons to Borrow Grandma’s Egg Timer

If you’ve been looking for the edge in getting your task list done, you should consider investing in a timer. Picking up a timer stands out as the one thing I’ve done that significantly increased my productivity.
What’s so great about a piece of plastic with a couple of wires on the inside? After all, something that you can pick up at the dollar store can’t be a huge influence on… » Continue

April 29 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: Productivity, scheduling, task, timer | 12 comments»

Fight Downhill Battles: Let Laziness and Inertia Make You More Productive

Did you know that you can cancel a magazine subscription at any time? Return unwanted Book-of-the-Month Club selections? Cancel unused credit cards? Put an end to unwanted junk mail?

You probably did know that, and yet you still receive magazines you don’t read anymore, have a stack of books or CDs from membership clubs that you’ve never even opened, pay yearly fees on credit cards you neither use nor want, and… » Continue

April 28 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: habit, inertia, laziness, Productivity | 8 comments»

How Your iPod Can Make You More Productive

The iPod is an incredible organizing device! It takes many shelves worth of CDs and condenses them into one tiny gadget, thereby reducing clutter. The iPod (and iTunes) also took away the classic dilemma highlighted in the movie High Fidelity: Should you organize your music collection alphabetically by artist? Or by genre first? Now you can organize it any way you want with a couple of clicks.

Looking at the… » Continue

April 22 2008 | By Lorie | Tagged: collection, distractions, ipod, music, organizing, Productivity | 21 comments»