Posts Tagged ‘organization’

Invoicing Web 2.0 Style: A Quick Guide to Your Options

Invoicing is a part of every self-employed or freelancing individual’s life. Many of us are still using clunky old Word templates and those strange antiques known as printers—but why go to all the hassle, when there are so many web applications that offer reliable and efficient alternatives?

Digital invoices eliminate so much time and hassle that it’s unbelievable. Eliminating the need to go to the post box and send off an… » Continue

April 30 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: , , , , | 15 comments»

Following Email Etiquette

In Simplifying Your Information Intake, we looked at strategies to reduce the amount of email you need to deal with, and how to deal with what’s left much faster. Anyone who undertakes the task of clearing out their inbox for good and getting a handle on their email habits inevitably discovers that the biggest reason email is plaguing so much of their time is the amount of unnecessary… » Continue

April 16 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: , , , | 13 comments»

How to Maximize Efficiency by Grouping Tasks

There’s a metaphor many of use on a daily basis that compares our brain to a car or a bicycle with gears. I need to shift gears or my head’s in the wrong gear for this indicates that the human brain, for the sake of efficiency and concentration, hones in on the task at hand to the point where it takes time to remove our concentration from the subject… » Continue

March 26 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: , , , | 8 comments»

Lifehack Live for March 10, 2008: Lorie Marrero

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This week, I spoke with Lorie Marrero, creator of The Clutter Diet, about home organization, dealing with family, and getting rid of clutter..

Stay tuned for next week’s show, when I’ll speak with Brett Kelly of The Cranking Widgets Blog.

Thanks for listening.

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March 10 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: , , | 2 comments»

Join Me Today for Lifehack Live at 10am PST: Clutter Diet Creator Lorie Marrero

Come join me this morning at 10am Pacific time for the live recording of Lifehack Live. This weeks’s guest is Lorie Marrero, creator of The Clutter Diet. As always, I’ll be taking your calls during the show, so call in with your questions and comments. The number is (347) 838-8244 (US-based phone number). Listen to the show’s stream at blogtalkradio.com/lifehack

The podcast is officially released the Monday… » Continue

March 6 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: , , , | 4 comments»

Lifehack Live for March 3, 2008: Regina Leeds, the Zen Organizer

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This week on Lifehack Live I spoke with Regina Leeds, “The Zen Organizer”. Her book, One Year to an Organized Life is out now; find out more at ReginaLeeds.com.

Due to a technical failure at BlogTalkRadio, the show drops out at one point for about a minute (all callers, including me, were disconnected); please be patient, as the show restarts pretty quickly. I’m sorry… » Continue

March 3 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: , , | no comments»

Join us for Lifehack Live, 10am PST, with Zen Organizer Regina Leeds

Join me for today’s (Thursday) live recording of Lifehack Live at 10am PST. I’ll be talking with “The Zen Organizer”, Regina Leeds, author of recent bestseller One Year to an Organized Life. We’ll be taking your calls during the show, so call in with your questions. The number is (347) 838-8244 (US-based phone number). Listen to the show’s stream at blogtalkradio.com/lifehack

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February 28 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: , , | no comments»

Do you REALLY need to get yet more things done?

Maybe today’s fashion for increasing personal productivity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

Increasing your personal productivity is the subject matter of a slew of books, magazine articles, and more than a few successful blogs. It’s fashionable, popular, and, most of all, highly profitable for the authors and writers of software. But does that make it right?

I believe that more cookery books are published each year that any other… » Continue

February 21 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: , , , , | 27 comments»

Motivational Tips to Hack Your Day

Admittedly most of struggle with increasing workloads. Getting through a regular day isn’t as straight forward anymore as it was maybe ten years ago. With the increased pressures we face every day, it only makes sense to find ways that help us hack our days to keep some sort of mental balance.

The sooner we take back control, the more we can eventually relax and enjoy life.

A definition of “hack”… » Continue

February 15 2008 | By Monika | Tagged: , , , , , , , | 12 comments»

Dealing with Information Overload

In a world full of information we seem to be constantly toggling between managing all the new impressions we get on a daily basis and feeling totally overwhelmed by information overload. With the arrival of the Internet we were told that things would become easier - less paper clutter to worry about and more time to enjoy life.

But this isn’t so, as we’ve all found out in recent years… » Continue

January 31 2008 | By Monika | Tagged: , , , , | 15 comments»

How to Use a Todo List to Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever

Ah, the humble todo list. With all the high-tech, whiz-bang productivity applications, mobile gadgets, office tools, and genuine Corinthian leather dayplanners out there to spend our money and attention on, in the end the single most productive tool we can use boils down to a list of crap we need to do. Look under the hood of any GTD app or productivity system, and the engine that drives them… » Continue

January 4 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: , , , , | 35 comments»

Year in Review: Lifehacks, lifehack.org, and Your Changing Life

With 2007 winding down and 2008 ready to storm in, it’s a good time to look at what’s changed, and what’s stayed the same, here at lifehack.org — and in our lives in general. The idea of a “lifehack” has changed a lot since Danny O’Brien introduced the term at NotCon in 2004. For O’Brien, life hacking was about applying the lessons of computer programming — the systematic… » Continue

December 28 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: , , , | 7 comments»

We Ask, You Answer: GTD 2.0

Every Monday, we pose a question for the lifehack.org community to answer.  The following Monday, I post my answer along with a selection (depending on how many there are) of your responses. The idea is to give you a chance to share your knowledge with the rest of the lifehack.org community — and to give you the opportunity to see what your fellow lifehack.org readers are doing!

This… » Continue

December 24 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: , , , , | 29 comments»

Review: Leo Babauta’s Ebook "Zen to Done"

David Allen’s book Getting Things Done has become a classic of personal productivity, but not everyone finds his simple “what’s the next action” philosophy fully compatible with their lives. Allen himself admits that the book is directed specifically at business executives and may not fit everyone’s needs perfectly, and sites like lifehack.org, 43 Folders, and others in the personal productivity blogosphere, have dedicated a lot of time and pixels… » Continue

December 12 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: , , , , | 21 comments»

Teaching Kids Charity and Clarity with Pre-Christmas Cleaning

Today is “Black Friday”, the busiest shopping day of the year in the US and the official start of the Christmas buying season. If you have kids, that most likely means a new crop of the latest toys and video games.

The wholesale (maybe I should say “retail”) celebration of consumerism makes a lot of people anxious, with good reason. What kind of values are we modeling for… » Continue

November 23 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: , , , , | 31 comments»

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