Posts Tagged ‘habits’

Personal Productivity in the 21st Century

What does it mean to be productive? The "gurus" have given us a few ideas -- it means to "get things done", to be "highly effective", to know who it was, exactly, who moved your cheese. What things, effective at what, and who is bringing cheese to work anyway are questions that these books don't -- and can't -- answer. There's something profoundly old-fashioned about much of our productivity literature… Continue reading

March 5 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: gtd, habits, knowledgework, Productivity, working | 41 comments»

The Power of Ritual: Conquer Procrastination, Time Wasters and Laziness

Life is wasted in the in-between times. The time between when your alarm first rings and when you finally decide to get out of bed. The time between when you sit at your desk and when productive work begins. The time between making a decision and doing something about it. Slowly your day is whittled away from all the unused in-between moments. The solution to reclaim… Continue reading

January 22 2008 | By Scott H | Tagged: energy, habits, procrastination, Productivity, ritual, time | 39 comments»

How to Engineer Your Day

A single day is one of the core cycles in life. In your lifetime you are probably going to experience about 29,000 of them, so you might as well make them count. A habit, run once, may seem unimportant. But a single change can add up when you consider you will be doing it thousands of times. Engineering your day also requires you to take a different outlook… Continue reading

September 27 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: daily-engineering, habits, Lifehack, Productivity, simplicity | 7 comments»

How to Be Happier with What You Have

“There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.” - Benjamin Franklin Misery shouldn’t be the price for ambition. Somewhere I believe many people got the idea that to want more, you have to be dissatisfied with what you have now. Believing this, your choice is either to dampen your… Continue reading

September 25 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: gratitude, habits, happiness, Lifehack, self-help | 18 comments»

Eliminate Negative Payoffs

Most people have negative habits they are holding on to. Smoking, procrastination, Freddy Prinze Jnr movies; how do we quit? Dr. Sharon House indicates the problem isn't battling your, maybe, weak will, but rather that you're not identifying the habit's payoffs. These negative payoffs are really what keep you involved in the habit. The key, explains House, is knowing what the payoffs are and why you still want them… Continue reading

May 31 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: break, habit, habits | no comments»

Break Bad Habits by Substituting Good Ones

John Wesley from PickTheBrain.com wrote an interesting article for ZenHabits based on a simple idea. If you have a bad habit you want to break, instead of just taking that part of your life away, leaving an 'empty' space, you could substitute it with a good habit. It's a two step process that first requires you to realize a bad habit and want to stop it, and then find a… Continue reading

April 2 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: break, habit, habits | 2 comments»

The Daily 5 Minutes; 9 Questions

After reading my article here last week, and clicking through some of the related links to find this one, a Lifehack.org reader sent me an email with this request; “I notice you mention the Daily 5 Minutes pretty frequently, and seems you’ve written a lot about it. Can you point me to one how-to kind of post that I can share with the rest of my managers?” I didn’t have… Continue reading

March 1 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: Communication, D5M, Daily5Minutes, habits, workflow | 1 comment»

Milking it whole, not skim

It used to be that the phrase “milking it” carried a pretty negative connotation with it for me, for as kids we only used it about people we thought were taking advantage of some situation without earning the right to do so. People who were “milking it” were the human equivalent of leeches. However I’ve recently found that the phrase is very useful when I turn it around to be about… Continue reading

October 5 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: comprehension, habits, learning, MilkingIt, reading, retention | 1 comment»