Think about it – Once your office becomes messy and your files are not filed properly, you can hardly search any information to preform your work. Organizing your office through filing, acting, or tossing it method, or Taming paper tiger is how Barbara Hemphill, author of Taming the Paper Tiger at Work and…

Scott Berkun is one of the writers on the web who known by many people – articles such as Why smart people defend bad ideas, How to learn from your mistakes, Work vs. Progress are linked by many blogs and discussed by many people. He was a program manager at Microsoft, leading…

There are several people who have attended Getting Things Done: The Roadmap seminar and wrote some great posts about it. 1. Terrie from O’Reilly has written a short and neat summary on concepts and/or off-the-cuff quotes from Allen. Several highlights: “You’ll give as much bandwidth to buying a quart of milk as you will to buying…

What is Urgent and Important in term of tasks? Some people confuses both and mixes them together. Do we have to really do tasks when it becomes urgent, or can we tackle important tasks before it becomes urgent? Seth Godin posted an article and try to answer this question using some good examples: … The most…

If you are a regular reader of lifehack.org, you know I am into creativity researching – finding what are the tips and ways to improve my creativity. I believe creativity (and/or innovation) is one of the key factors to drive you to success on any front. This is something that I need to improve on…

Few months ago, I sat down and worked out estimation on time needed per day for my usual projects. The outcome is pretty shocking to me: I sleep for 6-7 hours, spend around 1 hour for lunch, dinner and bath, 8-10 hours for my work and 1 hour for commuting. Adding them up, I already…

For anyone who missed the web presentation by David Allen, the author of Getting Things Done yesterday, there is a recording with slides online now. Thanks to David for his presentation. He pretty much summarized the whole GTD process on the presentation. The information may overwhelm one who has not encountered the GTD method…

Yet another online todo list system, but voo2do is more advanced compared to other similar product on the Net. It tracks priority, due date, and time estimates for each task. It also groups tasks by project which give you a more defined view and more suitable to GTD contexts. Here are some requirements that inspired…

It is Hello Dollar’s turn to talk about setting goals. Frank has a short and nice article putting financial into the perspective for setting goals. One of the key aspects he mentioned on setting goals is to specifically write down things you want to achieve, but not with vague statements like “get rich”: …So do you…

Problem Solving is the fundamental thing for our human life. This is one of the reasons we are hired to do our full-time job. Think about when you are trying to find a solution and you get stuck. Are you going to give up? Probably not, you may need to be creative. Innovation Marketers suggested…

In usual job environment, you are probably required to jiggle couple of tasks or even several projects at once. In this situation, people tend to be unfocused and spread the energy into different tasks at one time. By using your fastest speed to finish those tasks and move on, you seems like productive on completing…

Richard Koch, the author of Living The 80/20 Way and The 80/20 Principle, created a page to talk about some pressing topics on 80/20 Principle. For one does not encounter 80/20 Principle – what is it? … You’ve probably heard of the law the pesky Pareto principle. It’s also called the 80/20 principle…

A while ago, Seth Godin stated one can receive same knowledge as MBA course and able to better use of time and money than actual experience combined with a dedicated reading of 30 or 40 books. This statement would be correct if we take out the following aspects/advantages of attending MBA courses: Networking Discussions during the…

Dave Pollard synthesized a list of nine reasons we don’t do what we should from Bret Webb’s What’s Happening When It’s the Manager Who’s Not Performing? and 16 Reasons Managers Can’t Get Employees to Perform. He started to aware why we don’t do what we should by having worked with Getting Things Done…

Isaac Garcia shared his experience on using stand-up desk after making himself a poor-man’s stand-up desk. He spent $99 in Ikea and bought off a height-adjustable computer workstation and adjusted to the height that suitable for standing and bar stool. After using it for a while, he have found some benefits: … Come to find out…