Archive for July, 2007

15 Steps to Cultivate Lifelong Learning

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” - Marcel Proust“I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” - Abraham Lincoln

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” - Mark Twain
Assuming the public school system hasn’t crushed your soul, learning is a great activity… » Continue

July 31 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: book, intuition, learning, study, thinking | 29 comments»

Opportunity Overload

You’re not alone if at the end of each day you feel like you didn’t accomplish enough. And it’s no wonder. Everywhere we turn we see and hear messages about ways we could be making more money, how to be a one minute manager, businesses we could start, technology that could make our lives easier, 1001 places you should visit before you die, cars & trucks that you should… » Continue

July 31 2007 | By K. | Tagged: goals, life, opportunity, overload | 16 comments»

New Microsoft Works Will Be Free

The next version of Microsoft’s productivity suite, Works 9.0, will be available free and ad-supported, according to Bink.nu

For the time being, however, the new version of Works will be ad-funded, according to Satya Nadella, the newly minted Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Search & Advertising Platform Group. Nadella told me during an interview on July 27 that Microsoft recently released the new ad-funded version of Microsoft Works.

No official news… » Continue

July 31 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: microsoft | 3 comments»

14 Numbers Your Cellphone Must Have

Emergencies: you must be prepared for them. What better device to load some just-in-case items than your cell phone?

From broken cars to rabid dogs, CrankingWidgets has 14 must-have numbers to dial in to your mobile’s address book. For me, that’s 14 more I have to find.

ICE (In Case of Emergency) - If you’re ever in an accident and are incapacitated or killed, the authorities who find you will… » Continue

July 31 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: mobile | 21 comments»

Are Temporary Pleasures Preventing Your Long-Term Goals?

The easiest thing to do is get stuck in immediate gratifications; those little things that you keep doing but are inevitably preventing you from getting down to something more important.

Not only those time-wasting activities or instant pleasures, but also the smaller projects that may make you money but actually hold back more profitable jobs. Are you living paycheck to paycheck, or building your dreams?

There is an initial push that… » Continue

July 31 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: goal | no comments»

How To Answer Common Job Interview Questions

Most job interviews run the same way, with the same kind of questions. “Why do you want this job?” and “Why should we hire you?” are just a couple that you’ve probably heard a hundred times. But are you preparing yourself for these common interview questions?

With managers looking for specific things during the hiring process, ComputerWorld has asked a few what their important and common questions are, and what… » Continue

July 31 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: job | 5 comments»

The Importance of a Central Project List

I can’t escape the fact that having a real centralized project list for the things I’m doing is helping. I want to believe that I have tons of excess capacity in my brain. I want to think that I remember everything I’ve got on the go. But I don’t. And maybe you don’t, either.

I’ve recently started using the Mac program iGTD as a central repository. It does a… » Continue

July 30 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: gtd, igtd, Productivity, software, workflow | 19 comments»

Design Better with CRAP

The power and ease-of-use of today’s computer applications has raised the bar drastically on the quality of design expected in the documents we produce. As recently as ten years ago, it was typical to produce business letters, memos, and other documents using a courier-like, monospaced typeface, often with only underlining available for emphasis of key passages or section headings. The only options for correcting typos and other mistakes… » Continue

July 30 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: design, documents, layout, software, tips, writing | 56 comments»

Success Tips: Why you should broaden your patterns of thought

Discover your thought patterns, then act on that knowledge.

We all develop habitual patterns of thinking: channels along which our minds run all too easily into recurring patterns of mental behavior. People often aren’t fully aware of these patterns precisely because they are so much part of their lives. It’s terribly easy to miss the role they play in limiting your options and determining how things will nearly… » Continue

July 30 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: habit, pattern, success, thought | 8 comments»

Find Free Dates With An Iteration List

Trying to organize a day where everyone is available? A work meeting or drinks with your enormous entourage; it can be difficult to find that one day when we’re all free. In comes the Iteration List.

This is a very simple, bare-bones, text-based calendar that allows each person to edit in their free and not-free days. Forward this one through everyone’s emails and you’ll have that special day set in a… » Continue

July 30 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: timemanagement | 5 comments»

10 Grocery Store Secrets

Working at a supermarket for a few years I can attest to these tips. Many are quite obvious for most grocery shoppers, but still good to keep familiar with.

Dates are open to interpretation.
Except for baby formula and food, product expiration dates are not required by Federal regulations (some states, however, have their own rules requiring product dating). Labels that give a “Best if Used By” date are more of… » Continue

July 30 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: shopping | 1 comment»

20 Ways To Use The 80/20 Rule

The 80/20 is based on the principle that 80% of results are produced by 20% of the effort. This comes into play in many circumstances, such as marketing, sales and productivity.

i.e. Most of the work you do may actually be the result of only 20% of your time, the rest you’re procrastinating etc.

Scott H Young has extended this idea into almost all facets of life including relationships… » Continue

July 30 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: Productivity, time | 2 comments»

Think Like An Entrepreneur: Effectual vs Causal Reasoning

Many people wonder what the big difference is between those who are constantly entrepreneurial and those who aren’t. A big part may be in the difference between these two kinds of thought processes.

Causal Reasoning is based on having a goal and defining what means and choices can be made. The opposite, Effectual Reasoning, involves being given the means and choices and defining what the goal is.

If you are interested… » Continue

July 30 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: entrepreneurship | 4 comments»

Advice for Students: 10 Steps Toward Better Writing

Writing well is easily one of the most sought-after and useful skills in the business world. Ironically, it is one of the rarest and most undervalued skills among students, and few professors have the time, resources, or skills to teach writing skills effectively. What follows are a handful of tips and general principles to help you develop your writing skills, which will not only improve your grades… » Continue

July 27 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: academic, education, howto, student, writing | 27 comments»

Why Your Free Time is Boring

How do you spend your off hours? Do you watch television? Do you surf the web? Read articles here at Lifehack.org? There are many ways you can spend your leisure time. But is it really possible to get more out of your time off? Not just making this time more productive, but actually making it more enjoyable.

Breaking the Work/Play Distinction

I believe the answer… » Continue

July 27 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: free, habit, leisure, Lifestyle, time | 46 comments»

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