Posts Tagged ‘fun’

Toward a New Vision of Productivity, Part 7: The Joy of Lifehacking

 

This is the seventh part of a 12-part series I am posting from the end of December and into January 2009, examining the current understanding of productivity and where the concept might be heading in the future. I invite Lifehack’s

Happiness at Work - 12 Simple Ways to Make it Happen!

If you are a relatively junior employee at your company, though you carry out a very important role, you may not always be recognised. You might also face some of the following challenges:
  • Little fulfilment at work
  • Long working hours
  • Conflicting demands on your time and loyalty
  • Little balance between personal life and work commitments
  • Tight deadlines
  • Time management pressures
  • Strained relationships with the important people in your life
  • Tight personal finances
  • Lack of any say at

How to Live Mini-Adventures on a Small Budget

Believe it or not, having life adventures is not in the exclusive realm of eccentric billionaires and jet-setting entrepreneurs. Life adventures don’t even require a lot of time, so you don’t need to quit your job or cash in sick days. Having adventures is more about attitude and a skill than resources. What is an Adventure? Adventures don’t have to be African safari’s, base jumping or flying around the… Continue reading

The 8 Principles of Having Fun

SlowLeadership.com came across an interesting site defining the 8 principles of fun, at eightprinciples.com. It's a site that is so in love with a few simple rules to enjoy life more, that they're selling screensavers and things promoting them. However, SL did something nice and gave a little run down of the 8 rules, while adding an important one of their own.
  • 1. Stop hiding who you really are.
  • 2. Start being

The Wheel of Lunch

If you're at all like me, at meal times you find the task of picking a restaurant to be surprisingly difficult. The Wheel of Lunch does all the leg work for you. The Wheel of Lunch is a web application that you enter your zip code into and then you give the wheel a spin (think Wheel of Fortune). The Wheel of Lunch automatically creates a… Continue reading

Going to the Dogs

What Singing Dogs Can Teach Us About Success I really like coyotes. They’re tough, adaptable and always themselves, without concern for what anyone else—especially any so-called civilized human being—thinks of them. They’re original, authentic, proud, and expressive. And they can also teach us a lot about being successful in this world. Where I live, in southeastern Arizona, coyotes are common. I see them often and hear them at night too, joining… Continue reading

Super Glue

A short while back I did a series of articles on the greatest tools of all time. The response was pretty fair. But, it has come to my attention that I may have left out one tool that may be the greatest of all. Ladies and gentlemen I give you Cyanoacrylate. CA to closest friends. Super glue is so strong that a single square inch bond can life a ton of weight. Here… Continue reading

Open Thread: Humor and the Bottom Line

If you "google" humor and business success you'll pull somewhere over 13 million hits. With that much interest the topic must surely be worth a deeper look.

Humor can provide a lot of energy to help a business succeed. Humor can help increase productivity, improve communicatoins, and boost morale.

Think about how you use humor in your business and what the benefits are. Does your company use… Continue reading

A Dictionary of Useful Research Phrases

Looking for some quick references on how to sounds good in your research paper? Or don't understand whata are the phrases there for? The follow page could help you, for you to refer on and make your research paper more professional, or help you understand what does the researcher really want to say. For instance: Research Phrase: It has long been known... Translation: I didn't look up the original reference. Reserach Phrase: It… Continue reading

Celebrate the World

Lots of websites and blogs are celebrating the US holiday, Independence Day, and that's swell! But we here at Lifehack.org realize that you're a worldly bunch. Heck, the founder of the site is from Australia! So, in the spirit of celebrating the world, here's a completely off-topic but very buzzed video that's circling the blogosphere as well as the globe. Basically, it's a guy doing a silly dance all over the… Continue reading

Work is Not a Game

Sport and competition go together. Taking the competition away from sport would reduce it to a pointless, illogical activity. Competition and business go together too, and many links are made between sporting achievement and business success. But work and business are not games. Competition is no longer healthy in the workplace when it gets out of hand. The essential difference between sporting competition and competition in the business world is choice… Continue reading

How Civilized is Your Workplace?

A civilized workplace is one where people have the time and freedom to do their jobs to the best of their ability. No one is bullied or hassled by some boss high on ego and testosterone. Leaders trust their subordinates to do what they're paid to do; and subordinates trust their leaders to act with their interests in mind as well as the firm's profits (and the executives' stock options). Continue reading

Post-it Decor

From Apartment Therapy, here's a cool idea on decorating with post-its. The texture is actually pretty cool, you must admit. And apparently they say they haven't fallen off yet. Still, I think I'd get myself in trouble using these for to-dos. Nick Senzee is membership director of a professional design society in the DC metro area. He likes to read and write and puts his thoughts down in his

Top 10 ways to look busy at work

Over at Okdork.com, there is a funny article on top 10 ways to look busy at work. Look around your office guys, see who is doing anything like these: ... 1- walk really fast when you are going anywhere as to appear something important is going to happen 2- carry a notebook with you at all times. seems like you are suppose to be somewhere taking notes. if at your desk keep it… Continue reading

Have fun at work

There is no much point to work if you are not enjoying your work and its environment. If there are no fun in the job, you may not have passion on the tasks, or the tasks are dull and repetitive. If that is the case, Keith's suggestion on how to play at work can make you feel better and recharge yourself. Short list of what he suggested are:

  • Have toys at

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