Archive for March, 2007

HiTask is My New Favorite Organizer

I have been between organizing systems for a little while. I've tried a bunch of things: Google Calendar, Stickies (the built in Mac program that makes little Post-It notes), and a few easily forgettable PIM software apps. I've used Backpack in the past, and a few of the various To-Do software products that so many readers of Lifehack.org write or support.But my new favorite is HiTask.First, it's clean and… Continue reading

March 31 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: calendar, gtd, hitask, schedule, software, web2.0 | 19 comments»

Reader requests: What do you want to know?

The title pretty much says it all. We want to hear from you! What questions do you have for your fellow readers and your lovable lifehack.org editors. Do you have any burning questions you would like to have answered? Dying to learn about a new technology? Let us have it. We'd be glad to address your topic ideas come Monday. I've… Continue reading

March 30 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: Communication, community, requests | Comments Off

What empty calories and productivity have in common

The Scott H. Young weblog has a very interesting post that draws several parallels between unhealthy eating and your productivity.Sweet, greasy and delicious, empty calories are filler food that keep you feeling full while offering little nutritional value. In the short term, these empty calories are great. They let you feel good and are easy to swallow. But their glory is short lived when they leave… Continue reading

March 30 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: calories, food, Productivity | 2 comments»

Find European properties with properazzi

Properazzi is a property search engine specifically designed for Europe. It blends searching technologies with a pinch of Web 2.0. You can click on a location somewhere within Europe and it will give you all the relevant properties in and around the city you choose. Currently Properazzi has over 1,800,000 properties indexed in 45 European countries. I'm not familiar with the property market… Continue reading

March 30 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: Money, property, real+estate, Technology | 4 comments»

Manage Stress with Daily Goals

You’ve got your big project to work on. The deadline for your goals is looming over your shoulder. You are starting to feel it’s hot breath of guilt whenever you aren’t working. Socializing with your friends, taking a break, even just going to sleep now seems like it is just wasting time. When you are working you feel tired and drained and when you aren’t… Continue reading

March 30 2007 | By Guest | Tagged: goal, motivation, Productivity | 9 comments»

4 GTD Basics To Help Get Started, properly

We've covered a few posts regarding getting started using GTD, David Allen's Getting Things Done system. It definitely requires some discipline and training, really, to get working well.Kelly Forrister brings to light four steps that are important to creating a system that works for you, because no one GTD process works for everyone. 1. Start with what you know."...start with a tool you already know. Lots of people… Continue reading

March 30 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: gtd | no comments»

The Top 10 Nutrition Myths Busted

Medical News Today turn Mythbusters in this rundown of ten well known nutritional mottoes. Just because you hear it a hundred times doesn't mean they're entirely true.

10. Eating carbohydrates makes you fat.
9. Drink eight, 8-oz. glasses of water per day.
8. Brown grain products are whole grain products.
7. Eating eggs will raise your cholesterol. This myth began because egg yolks have the most concentrated amount of cholesterol of any

March 30 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: myth, nutrition | 14 comments»

Happiness is the Best Productivity Tool

Not to discourage the use of any productivity system around, Positive Sharing would like to stress the importance of being happy in what you're doing, and how beneficial it is to your work.

1: Happy people work better with others
2: Happy people are more creative
3: Happy people fix problems instead of complaining about them
4: Happy people have more energy
5: Happy people are more optimistic
6: Happy people are way more motivated
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March 30 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: happiness, happy, Productivity | 4 comments»

The Golden Rule Of Referrals: Learn to Give a Perfect Referral

The subject of getting referrals has been written to death. Unfortunately, when you read and follow one of those articles or networking books on the subject of getting referrals, you are probably starting on the wrong foot. A better approach is to become really good at giving great referrals. It is a bit like the “giver’s gain” concept in networking which basically goes that those who give great service… Continue reading

March 30 2007 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: networking, referral, relationship | no comments»

Bring your plans to life with PlanHQ

Similar to the previously mentioned JourneyPage, PlanHQ is a website that helps you "take your static document out of the bottom drawer and into the real world." A vague description, I know...Plan HQ is really a resource to help you do the following:Goals See the goals you have upcoming for completion over the next few months. Find out which goals your team feels confident about… Continue reading

March 29 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: goals, Productivity, Technology | 3 comments»

Dilbert’s Happiness Formula

Scott Adams, creator of the wildly entertaining (and my personal favorite) comic "Dilbert," gives his take on the formula for happiness. Some of the article is written in jest, however it is still a very interesting read.I fantasize about writing a book called The Happiness Formula. The idea would be to create a simple formula for troubleshooting your life and improving your happiness. On… Continue reading

March 29 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: happiness, Lifestyle | 6 comments»

Listen to a TV show or movie at work

If you're a cubicle worker and you are striving to find new media to listen to at work, give Listen To A Movie a try. Listen To A Movie is a Web site that streams the audio of many popular movies and television shows. This seems like a perfect idea for the office workers out there. Listen To A Movie literally has thousands… Continue reading

March 29 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: audiobooks, Communication, Lifehack, movie, tv | 4 comments»

Productivity & Organizing Myth #10 – We need to be at all those meetings!

Myth: We need to be at all those meetings and events that have made their way onto our calendars. Reality: We can succeed at work and be happy with a modest number of meetings and activities. Do you say any of these things?

I haven’t been home at 6 o’clock in the evening for weeks.
We are constantly trying to balance work with kids’ activities with family commitments.
I have to schedule a

March 29 2007 | By Susan | Tagged: Management, meeting, priority, Productivity | 3 comments»

The Macaroni and Cheese Project

If you live in a civilized nation (especially the United States), chances are you've had occasion to make yourself up a batch of Macaroni and Cheese. It's something of a staple of young adult life, especially in college dorms where cash is scarce and any meal that costs less than $2 to make is just fine. And even though it's a… Continue reading

March 29 2007 | By Brett | Tagged: gtd, Productivity, project-management | 3 comments»

10 Reasons You & I Aren’t Rich

Jeffrey Strain from TheStreet.com has a few hints to why we're not rich yet. Mostly, it appears, this is due to how we spend money and not how much money we make. You be the judge. 1. You Care What Your Neighbors Think2. You Aren't Patient3. You Have Bad Habits4. You Have No Goals5. You Haven't Prepared6. You Try to Make a Quick Buck7. You Rely on Others to Take… Continue reading

March 29 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: Money, spending | 3 comments»

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