Rands in Repose has an article called Taking Time to Think. It talks about thinking needs time and rooms. If you are busy, you won’t be able to think. When you are busy or you are resolving problems in the urgent environment, Rands classified this as reacting, not thinking. Rands gives some examples on software engineering project:
…I will respond and my response might look like thinking, but I’m not doing… » Continue
August 31 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 3 comments»
You always wanted to try to predict on your life isn’t it? How about do it in mathematical way? Dean P. Foster, Lyle Ungar and Choong Tze Chua have written a script to accept your health information and able to use those data to estimate how long will you live. By no mean it is accurate, but it will give you an indication how healthy are you:
Predicting life expectancy is… » Continue
August 31 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 3 comments»
Tollefson/Peterson over UC Berkeley has made a tips sheet on how to make public speaking more effective. The document mentioned couple of good areas on delivering speech, for instance:
How to handle questions in my opinion is one… » Continue
August 31 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»
Rosa Say has written a synchronized matching between her managing philosophy with Tom Ehrenfeld’s philosophy on entrepreneurship. She created three synchroized view between two:
This is not something you can apply to start up a business, or managing others, you can also use this to govern your life to pursuit your goals:
… Being true to your core values, and… » Continue
August 30 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 2 comments»
Finding a job that satisfying your needs and desire is pretty hard. Many people may feel the current job is not rewarding for your life. Other people may feel the job is lacked of opportunities. Your career is life long, so how do you manage it? To able to find satisfying career, David Lassiter suggested there are four key questions to ask yourself:
1. What are your core… » Continue
August 30 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
From Sound Money Tips, one of the good tips for saving gas expenses is to cut down the travel time by avoiding traffic jams. There are several services on the Net that able you to do that. One is called Traffic.com which gives you latest information on traffic on your city. Not only will save your gas, it will also save your time - pretty handy.
August 30 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 2 comments»
Problem solving is hard, but there are strategies on tackling problems. Runel Soria has given eight strategies which lead you to think productively. Those are thinking styles that should able you to apply in anywhere that you need to come up with creative solutions:
August 29 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»
Remember we have talked about Coffee - Is it the evil drink?. Recent study showed that Coffee contributes antioxidants, which linked with fighting heart disease and cancer. It is also surprised that the research showed coffee has more antioxidants than fruit and vegetables.
It has not proved on how much the body can absorb Coffee’s antioxidants. It is also noted that both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee has similar level… » Continue
August 29 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»
Desperately Wandering has made a list of sites that you should visit if you want to increase your Photoshop skills. I especially liked these tutorials and sites:
Become a Photoshop Expert - [Desperately Wandering]… » Continue
August 29 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 6 comments»
Eileen Shapiro, the co-author of Make Your Own Luck : 12 Practical Steps to Taking Smarter Risks in Business, has written a ChangThis Manifesto called Bet This! A Gambler’s Guide to Leadership. She believes that betting is a part of everyday life. She believes leadership is the ability to bet well on action to create futures from uncertainty. There are four tests which reflects to four requirements to lead… » Continue
August 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»
The best career is the one that is your passion and hobby. Don’t torture yourself with jobs you don’t enjoy. Kate Lorenz at CareerBuilder.com Article and Advice column has advised 5 steps on achieving this:
Experts say that many of today’s small businesses are a result of a person following their passion. So don’t waste another day doing something you don’t enjoy. Follow these five easy steps for turning your hobby… » Continue
August 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
When you have some spare time for reading on the weekend, make sure to check out some good posts from this week:
And remember, Lifehack.Community needs your support! If you… » Continue
August 27 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
John Buckman has put up a page on reviewing couple of good brainstorming tools in Windows, including FreeMind, the software that we have introduced for mind mapping. If you are looking for mind mapping or brainstorming tool, be sure to check out his list first. He has introduced tools like Inspiration, Axon, Mind Mapper, Visimap, The Brain, BrainStorm and FreeMind.
Overview of Windows Graphical Brainstorming Tools - [John Buckman]… » Continue
August 27 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
Want cooking ideas wherever you go? Want to check ingredients at the grocery store, plan BBQ menus anywhere or decide dinner at work or on the train? How about just like you can bring along your music anywhere with iPod? How about download recipes into your iPod? Kraft has made over 100 recipes in iPod notes format, including BBQ ideas, desserts and much more.
August 27 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
I came across an article today on electronic implementation for GTD. Steven Frank wrote down his methods on how to use Palm (Treo) and Mac to manage his tasks, projects, emails and notes. If you are using Treo or Mac you should look into his implementation - it’s pretty neat:
Archival Layout
There are a lot of ways you can set up your permanent archive. I have a root level archive folder… » Continue
August 26 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 4 comments»
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