Why are you running away when you are felling behind with tasks on your to-do list? Is it because your workflow is not good enough? Maybe not. Peter Flaschner has wrote a pretty interesting article on his experience on this. He also link this topic to how brain functions. You will get all the answer…

Interruptions is one of the time killers, a Sith against your time. How do you avoid or fight interruptions? OnlineOrganizing has one tip sheet that can show you how to do this: What are the different types of interruptions? What are the external interruptions? What are the internal interruptions? Ways to keep track of interruptions. How to be proactive…

… It is called Webolodeon: The original hack was a witch’s brew of PHP and a Perl http proxy. I’ve hacked the basic idea into a script for plugin-de-jour GreaseMonkey. Your last unconfined act of browsing, then is to the user script page, where you should be able to install it using Tools->Install User Script. (This…

Bert Webb over Open Loops wrote a two parts of article called “How to Lose Friends and Alienate People With Email”. Head over there if you want to lose friends quickly, or you want to save your friendship by avoiding those wrong doings. His articles are pretty entertaining yet aimed for the point. This is…

QuickVerbalTactics.Com has some good tips on how to handle conflicts verbally. It describes two steps: Respect Phrase and Outcome Phrase and examples on how to use it. An example is like: Boss: “You are such an idiot! You’re always screwing up!!” You: “I understand you’re frustrated.”…

I like Ta-da List, but one of the things that it lack of is the nagivation system that does not up for scratch. Rich Manalang has the similar issue on it, but he went ahead and use Greasemonkey to add on todo menu on the right hand side of the page, which really spice up…

After lifehack.org received some referred visitors from Japanese blogs and sites, I started to look into some Japanese blogs and sites (not that I understand Japanese, but I can guess some of the contents and links). Surprisingly, they actually have a great community on life hacks. Last month they had their fifth conference on lifehacks

Exciting news. Due to the popularity of the site, this site has to be moved to a faster server and with bigger bandwidth. The old connection just cannot sustain the load anymore. :) During the transition time, I will be updating both locations with new posts. I will also migrate comments between databases. If your…

Fast Thinker Jeffrey went on and talk about the idea on having an agenda on a meeting. Meeting can be a time waster if it is not productive or it does not have a ‘theme’. How does agenda able to help this issue? … So, in one sense an “agenda” can be a set of stated…

jazzmasterson has developed a set of good photos at his flickr. He showed his “Next Action Board”, his reference filing, his work area, his project board – all powered by Index Card. Here is the his comment on his next action board: These are the next possible actions I can take to move forwards towards…