Archive for June, 2005

The Power of Positivity

Phil Gerbyshak has posted an article on the power of positivity, which inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography:

If you wish to instruct others, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may occasion opposition and prevent a candid attention. If you desire instruction from others, you should not, at the same time, express yourself fixed in your present opinions. Modest and sensible men, who do not love disputation, will leave… » Continue

June 26 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»

To Do Tracker Widget for Tiger

To Do Tracker is a MacOSX Tiger widget which is to-do list into different list. This is a very suitable application to have tasks categorized into different contexts for Getting Things Done:

To Do Tracker helps you stay organized by helping you keep track of all the things you have to do. Making lists couldn’t be easier- it works like a little word processor. To make a… » Continue

June 25 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»

eBay Buying and Selling Tips

Raven at StudentDump has posted a message on tips for buying and selling in ebay. Those 15 tips should help you some ways or the other. Tips like this is very useful:

Offering To Close Early
A nifty way to save cash on items is by offering sellers an end bid early option. The key here is that you will have to find recently listed item (less then 100 views) and from… » Continue

June 25 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Shortcuts for Windows Media Center Edition

Microsoft official homepage has released a very big cheat sheet on shortcuts for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. The Media Center tends to be harder to navigate around, having keyboard and shortcuts should increase your speed to access functions like:

Fast forward live TV or recorded TV - CTRL+SHIFT+F
Rewind live TV or recorded TV - CTRL+SHIFT+B
Play live TV or recorded TV - CTRL+SHIFT+P
Record a TV show - CTRL+R
Go to live… » Continue

June 25 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 2 comments»

Finding Time for Personal Finances

You work nine to five per day - you are successful on your day job. However sometimes it is just very hard to find time to handle your personal projects after work hours - such as personal finances. However you still have to prioritize your life to able to handle personal finance for successful life. Here are some tips: Terri at Wall Street Journal has written an article on finding… » Continue

June 24 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»

Hack your pocket

Are you carrying too many stuff in your pocket or briefcase? Have a look Johnny Huh’s Briefcase (@ his flickr) on the right - It is pretty cool to have so many gadgets, but will it make your arm sore to carry all these around? Robert Daeley has realised the same thing when his lower back was hurting because he sat on his wallet in his back pocket all… » Continue

June 24 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Clean up your life

Betterme.org has released a Clean Sweep Program which can assist you to achieve personal freedom. It is a checklist of 100 items for four areas in the life: Physical Environment, Well-being, Money and Relationships. Tick anything that you have completed or achieved. Anything you haven’t complete yet, and setup a specific and measurable tasks for them. The Clean Sweep Program promises you three things:

You will have more energy and

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June 24 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Why Not? Open Source Movement for Ideas

WhyNot.net is a open source movement (licensed under a Creative Commons) which allows people to contribute their ideas on things that they have never thought of. The site’s inspiration is coming from the book WHY NOT? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small:

In WHY NOT? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small (Harvard Business School Press; October 24, 2003), Yale… » Continue

June 24 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 2 comments»

How to Make Great Decision

In Fortune 75 Special Edition online, it has a series of articles and interviews on “How to Make Great Decisions”.

Articles:

They interviewed ten successful people on describing what guides their decision-making. It is a short but It is very good read.
They analysed nine decision-making pitfalls you should look out for and how to beat them.
They showed some best and worse calls in business history for you to think

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June 23 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 3 comments»

How To Deal With Burnout

Burnout can happen to anyone - I had couple of burnouts recently. Sometimes it is hard to deal with it. Over To-Done, Kevin has some good tips on how to recover from burnout:

Learn to recognize burnout.
Take some time off.
Get some sleep.
Play.
Eat.
Work on something new or different.
Work on something you love.

I really like the first tips. It is hard to even recognize the fact that you are burning out from your… » Continue

June 23 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Five Rules for Better PowerPoint Presentations

Michael Hyatt over Working Smart has a post on five rules for better PowerPoint presentations. Those five rules hit to the bulleye - The most important point for me is “less is more”. It reminds me keeping things simple in powerpoint presentation will decrease distractions and increase the concentration on the talk:

… So if we can’t outlaw it, at least we can regulate it and, hopefully, try to improve it… » Continue

June 23 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»

Ten Things You Can Do Today to Jump-start Success

Best tool for the Job has a post regarding ten tips that can make you success on your life. They are tips for many different aspects of life including motivation, goal setting, note taking, sleep pattern etc. For instance, I like the goal setting tips:

Make goals and re-write them every day. Your goals will change, don’t worry about making goals that right now feel unattainable or baseless. The hardest part… » Continue

June 22 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Links to Essay in Best Software Writing I

Joel Spolsky has put together a book of his favorite writings on Software called Best Software Writing I. The quality of those articles are pretty high and they are recommended to anyone who is interested on computer software. The good thing about it is that most of the articles inside the book can be found online for reference. Neil Kandalgaonkar has spent his efforts on finding the originial sources… » Continue

June 22 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

The Guide on Learning Styles and Style Discovery Test

Everyone has different styles of learning - some people learn knowledge through visual diagrams and charts, some people learn things from logical reasoning and analysis system. To able to increase your learning speed and quality, it is important to understand which types suit you:

… Many people recognize that each person prefers different learning styles and techniques. Learning styles group common ways that people learn. Everyone has a… » Continue

June 21 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 4 comments»

Getting Things Done & Covey Planning Diagrams

Over a million monkeys typing, Douglas has updated his diagrams on Getting Things Done and Covey Quick Reference based on the book First Things First:

The 8-page kit includes the following diagrams, both on odd pages (”fronts”) and even pages (”backs”), so you can choose how you want to print them:

* The original Getting Things Done diagram from the ubiquitous David… » Continue

June 21 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 2 comments»

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