We’re well into the new year, and chances are you’ve made resolutions. They’re the same ones as last year: lose weight, stop smoking, drink less, exercise more… After all, the new year is a great opportunity to have a fresh start. You can evaluate what you’ve accomplished during the last year, and clarify what you want…
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Why Fear is Your Friend
Lots of people give you advice on getting past fear, suggesting if you can break free of the shackles of fear, you will be unstoppable. OK, all well and good. It is important to master fear in order to feel free and to get things done. AND, I want to tell you that a…
The Lifehack 2008 Gift Guide
It’s that time of year again – time to sally forth in search of the perfect gift for the special and not-so-special-but-they’re-family people in your life. Given the economic situation this year, I made up a list with a few criteria in mind: Nothing crazy expensive. Everything on this…
A Basic Guide to Thrift Store Shopping
We live in expensive times. As prices go up and up and up (gas is hovering around $3.00 a gallon across the U.S., milk is expected to top $5.00 a gallon before the end of the year, and so on), even the normal discount stores are starting to feel a little pricey. For many of…
Getting Things Done (GTD) summary and use-case study
R. Emory Williamson-Lundberg has done a very useful whitepaper on GTD. This is one of the best organized summaries on tools and use-case for getting things done. It shows two different set of tools that can use with GTD mythology – HiFi – things like software, and LoFi – paper and physical filing stuff. The…
Effective Email Tips
Stakeholders (Audience and related people)? Subject? Importance? Sender & Recipient Internet Connections? Are all issues that you have to think of while sending and email. If you wish to send email messages in a more effective manner following the broad email etiquette standards, then DO continue reading. In this article, we will try to touch upon…
E-Mail Etiquette
I will Follow… has a really good guideline on E-Mail Usage and Etiquette. You may know some of the key points in there, but some tips may be the wake up call for you on how to use email properly. It has contents about how to use to, cc, bcc fields, how to format your…
Beginner’s Guide to Making a Planner
If you are not willing to shell out $50-60 to buy a ready to use planner, what are the alternatives? One of the popular methods are spending time and create a set for your self. Douglas Johnston over D*I*Y Planner has written an article on teaching you to create an planner system using his template…
