Posts Tagged ‘habit’

Don’t Wait for a Breakthrough Moment: Create One!

Potential and Possibilities We’ve all had breakthrough moments in our lives. Moments when a switch flicked, a light went on and a door to a new world of potential and possibilities opened up for us. For most of us, the door was always there to be opened but, for a range of reasons, we never turned the handle. Until that day. Ignoring Reality Invariably, the switch-flicking and door-opening (the internal shift) was… Continue reading

March 2 2010 | By Craig | Tagged: growth, habit, self-development, transformation | 15 comments»

Scoring 100% in Time Management

"Most people who attempt to learn a new time management system fail."I can't prove the above statement with hard facts, but I have a sense that it's true, based on my personal experience and observations. If success is defined as 100% successful implementation, then that statistic is most certainly true.On the other hand, perhaps 99% of the people who take a time management program put down the book, or drive… Continue reading

October 9 2009 | By Francis | Tagged: gtd, habit, time, time-management | 22 comments»

13 Ways of Looking at an Index Card

Ah, the lowly index card. So basic, so common, so cheap -- so useful. Index cards are one of the most versatile parts of the productive person's toolkit -- small enough to travel anywhere, cheap enough to keep hundreds or even thousands on hand at all times, and basic enough that one never hesitates to mark up, scribble on, cut up, or otherwise torture them.The number of uses for index… Continue reading

April 10 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: capture, habit, index-card, photography, task management, tickler-file, wiki | 16 comments»

Don’t Buy a Gadget, Change a Habit (or Putting the “P” in PDA Productivity)

A few months ago as I was travelling through LaGuardia airport, I caught site of a fellow traveller with his two hands clicking away on his Blackberry. What looked a bit different was the fact that both his hands were above his head, clicking away on the keyboard as he stared upwards at the device. What was… Continue reading

April 2 2009 | By Francis | Tagged: blackberry, gadget, habit, iphone, Productivity | 12 comments»

Why You Should Learn a Productivity System

One of the biggest barrier to productivity in most people’s lives is their resistance to adopting a productivity system. Some read a lot of productivity books and sites like Lifehack and feel like they can take a little bit from here and a little bit from there and call it a day. Others hate the idea that someone like Stephen Covey or David Allen could know their own needs better… Continue reading

January 22 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: 7-habits, david_allen, gtd, habit, Productivity, skill, stephen_covey, system | 21 comments»

The 80 Best Lifehacks of 2008

And so we arrive yet again at the end of another year. 2008 was at best a mixed bag – while the world was electrified by the US election and it’s promise of change, the global economy was shaken to its core as a decade of financial mismanagement and willful blindness finally caught up with us. Gas prices spiked, leading us all to ask some difficult questions about sustainability, efficiency… Continue reading

December 31 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: 2008, achievement, app, back-to-basics, Communication, creativity, goals, gtd, habit, iphone, networking, new year, Productivity, review, success, web | 40 comments»

How to Be Awesome at Followup

Photo by MarloesMost people are unexceptional at following up: it sounds obvious, but it shouldn't be this way, because followup (I spell it as a single word) is key to combining smaller achievements into bigger ones. Actively following up on conversation is also a trait of people who're successful, focused, and relentless about living their dreams. Lofty yet elegant — and if you excel at followup, you can be… Continue reading

August 27 2008 | By Torley | Tagged: batch-processing, conversation, desktop, firefox, flow, followup, habit, honesty, process, rss, thread, time-management | 18 comments»

Don’t Become a Gym Gerbil

When you're at the gym do you sometimes feel like you're just spinning your wheels? You show up every day, put an hour in and get nothing back in terms of results.Don't let yourself turn into THAT gym guy. Making a daily trip to the gym is a good habit but really how good is it if you're not making any progress? Time and time again I see the… Continue reading

August 1 2008 | By Jamie | Tagged: exercise, fitness, gym, habit, health, variety | 7 comments»

A Shove with Love – A Kickstart to Change.

Stepping into reality Thought we might be a little less theoretical and philosophical, and a bit more practical today. Always nice to get out of our head and into reality. We all have behaviours and habits that we need to change and from time to time we all need a little encouragement and support, possibly a vigorous shove, to get under way. So I'm here today to give you a

June 19 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: change, habit, personal growth, personal-development, self-improvement | 31 comments»

Fifty Habits of Highly Successful People

So I thought that I might write a quick review of every self-help book ever written all right here in this one little article. Simple enough. I love the easy jobs. Surely it couldn't be that hard, could it? I figured that maybe I could take the important lessons from every self-help book I've read and every life experience I've endured, condense all that into fifty key points and… Continue reading

May 12 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: habit, personal-development, self-help, self-improvement, success | 70 comments»

Fight Downhill Battles: Let Laziness and Inertia Make You More Productive

Did you know that you can cancel a magazine subscription at any time? Return unwanted Book-of-the-Month Club selections? Cancel unused credit cards? Put an end to unwanted junk mail?You probably did know that, and yet you still receive magazines you don't read anymore, have a stack of books or CDs from membership clubs that you've never even opened, pay yearly fees on credit cards you neither use nor want, and… Continue reading

April 28 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: habit, inertia, laziness, Productivity | 10 comments»

Five Ways to Pick up the Exercise Habit Again

Even people who consistently stick to an effective health and fitness routine can sometimes fall out of the exercise habit from time to time. Getting back on track can be challenging unless ways are found to rebuild a strong desire to start exercising again.Here are 5 ways to give yourself the mental kick in the pants that you need to stop procrastinating, get up off the couch, and get… Continue reading

February 7 2008 | By Aaron | Tagged: exercise, fitness, habit, health | 46 comments»

10 Tips For A Good Night’s Sleep Without Pills

(photo from flickr)

A few months ago, I had a terrible time sleeping and getting up. After a party one night, I slept late and for the next 20 days, couldn't get my sleeping pattern back on track. I fell asleep very late every night at around 3 AM and wasn't able to get up till at least 11 AM each day. For someone like me who… Continue reading

January 30 2008 | By Kavit | Tagged: alcohol, caffeine, exercise, habit, health, sleep, wellness | 58 comments»

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 reading

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

Bad Habits Aren’t All Bad

You drink to much coffee and you know it. You have to cut back but you have tried and it is just too hard. You succeed for a day or two, but something always happens and you are back to where you started. The problem may be that you are trying to give up all of your habit, not just the negative parts… Continue reading

December 4 2007 | By Tom | Tagged: addiction, habit, self_improvement | 7 comments»

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