Archive for December, 2007

Year in Review: The 70 Best Lifehacks of 2007

2007 was a great year for personal productivity at lifehack.org! We’ve added more than a dozen new writers, who have brought new perspectives, new topics, and most importantly new hacks and tips to our virtual pages.

If you want to be more productive in the New Year, take a look at these 70 best lifehacks of 2007 now, and subscribe to our feed so you don’t miss… » Continue

December 31 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: Lifehack, Productivity, review | 64 comments»

Who? What? When? Where? Why? Questions to Ask BEFORE Asking “How” to Live Your Life

Do you want only simple, specific tips, or something wider and deeper?

It’s a very old journalistic cliché that stories should always contain answers to these six questions: What? Who? Where? When? How? Why? For example, a story about a murder could accomplish all of this in a single sentence: “Jones was murdered in his own home last evening by a neighbor using a shotgun in revenge for Jones’ insults… » Continue

December 31 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: career_choice, change, decisions, life_choice, new_year_resolution, options, reflection | 5 comments»

We Ask, You Answer: Inspiration

Every Monday, we pose a question for the lifehack.org community to answer. The following week, I post my answer along with a selection (depending on how many there are) of your responses. The idea is to give you a chance to share your knowledge with the rest of the lifehack.org community — and to give you the opportunity to see what your fellow lifehack.org readers are doing!

This… » Continue

December 31 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice, inspiration, question | 12 comments»

Lifehack Digest for December 30

Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google ReaderMicro Persuasion offers an unorthodox take on Google Reader, with instructions to set up, use, and mine Reader like a giant database. With tagging and Google’s search capabilities at your disposal, Reader puts vast amounts of data within easy reach.Tags: productivity googlereader research information

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December 31 2007 | By Lifehack | Tagged: links | no comments»

Lifehack Digest for December 29

New Productivity Tool: JUST DO IT ALREADY!!The Executive Assistant reminds us that when allthe organizing, planning, mindmapping, idea capturing, and task listing is done, we still have to roll up our sleeves and JUST DO IT ALREADY!Tags: productivity motivation tasks

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December 30 2007 | By Lifehack | Tagged: links | no comments»

Year in Review: Lifehacks, lifehack.org, and Your Changing Life

With 2007 winding down and 2008 ready to storm in, it’s a good time to look at what’s changed, and what’s stayed the same, here at lifehack.org — and in our lives in general. The idea of a “lifehack” has changed a lot since Danny O’Brien introduced the term at NotCon in 2004. For O’Brien, life hacking was about applying the lessons of computer programming — the systematic… » Continue

December 28 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: Lifehack, organization, Productivity, review | 7 comments»

6 Guilt-Free Steps To Review Your New Year Resolutions

(Photo by brungrrl)

The end of the year is always a good time for me to review my resolutions and take stock of what I have done over the past year.

However, for some people, reviewing New Year resolutions can be a painful affair. Some of you may have goals unaccomplished. A resolution review is just a stark reminder of how little you have achieved… » Continue

December 28 2007 | By Lawrence | Tagged: goal, new_year, resolution, review | 15 comments»

Lifehack Digest for December 27

Blogger Interview - Lisa GatesHD BizBlog interviews lifehack.org contributor Lisa Gates. She was recently a guest on Lifehack Live; this interview takes a completely different tack, focussing on her blogging and writing life.Tags: interview blogger
10 Foolproof Tips for Better SleepSleep is often seen as a luxury these days — a guilty pleasure. It’s not. We’re learning that sleep is essential notonly to general health

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December 28 2007 | By Lifehack | Tagged: links | 1 comment»

14 Tips For Resolutions That Stick in the New Year

Statistics show that only about 15% of New Years Resolutions are kept. With an 85% failure rate, it’s no wonder that the amount of resolutions made is dropping. You wouldn’t buy a product that is defective 85% of the time, so why buy into the annual hype about resolutions? A strategy that fails over four fifths of the time is broken. The question… » Continue

December 27 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: change, commitment, diet, exercise, goal, habit, improvement, new years resolution, Productivity | 35 comments»

20 Questions to Help You Reflect the Past Year

Now we are approaching the end of the year, and it’s the perfect time to reflect how we have done in the past year. We can then take some lessons for the new year. One good way to reflect, I believe, is using four facets of prosperity:

Material prosperity
Spiritual prosperity
Physical prosperity
Social prosperity

These four facets give us a complete and balanced view of prosperity. By reflecting on them, you… » Continue

December 27 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: achievement, health, planning, question, relationship, self, success | 20 comments»

8 Ways to Achieve Success in 2008

I don’t believe in resolutions. The idea that a trick of the calendar should be the driving force for real change in my life seems silly. And yet, there’s no denying that a year is a good block of time to think with — long enough to carry out big projects and short enough to keep the end-goal in sight. Plus, a year is a good block of… » Continue

December 26 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: commitment, goal, motivation, resolution, success | 22 comments»

How to Sell Yourself on Lifestyle Change

It’s coming up on that time of year again. You know, the time where you seriously commit to the same resolution that you seriously committed to last year… before life got in the way and it evaporated into thin air.

Depending on who you ask, up to 85% percent of all New Year’s resolutions involved some element of lifestyle change, be it weight loss, exercise, better nutrition, improved life-balance or… » Continue

December 26 2007 | By Jonathan | Tagged: change, motivation, planning, resolution, selling, success, weightloss | 19 comments»

10 Reasons Gift Certificates Make Horrible Gifts

I don’t know who came up with gift certificates, but they should receive an award for one of the best marketing jobs ever pulled on the unsuspecting public. How else can you explain how people are willing to trade money, for a less useful and more restrictive form of money at a one-to-one ratio?

For those of you who can’t think of what to buy your miserly Aunt Josie… » Continue

December 25 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: christmas, consumerism, gifts, humor | 79 comments»

Merry Christmas

Happy Christmas to all lifehack.org’s Christian readers.

And to everyone, peace on earth and goodwill towards all humanity. Celebrate it today, and practice it every day.… » Continue

December 25 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: | 7 comments»

Lifehack Digest for December 24

A Modest Proposal: Learn a New Skill This Holiday at LifeClever Tips for Design and LifeLifeClever suggests you take some time this holiday season to learn a new skill, and offers up a few ideas ranging from the sublime (learn a musical instrument) to the silly (yo-yo, anyone?). Why not challenge yourself if you have some free time?Tags: goals learning
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