Posts Tagged ‘prioritizing’

Making Fake Deadlines Real: Completing Projects with Self-Assigned Deadlines

As a freelance writer, nothing annoys me more than a client who tells me, “Oh, just get it to me whenever you can.” I hate it! I need deadlines in order to schedule and prioritize my work. I do what I can to get clients to nail down a deadline, but sometimes that just doesn’t happen. That’s when I have to go to Plan B: the ‘fake’ deadline.

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February 21 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: deadline, prioritizing, Productivity, time-management | 15 comments»

10 simple ways to save yourself from messing up your life

Stop taking so much notice of how you feel. How you feel is how you feel. It’ll pass soon. What you’re thinking is what you’re thinking. It’ll go too. Tell yourself that whatever you feel, you feel; whatever you think, you think. Since you can’t stop yourself thinking, or prevent emotions from arising in your mind, it makes no sense to be proud or ashamed of either. You didn’t

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May 21 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: career, feeling, life, personal, pressure, prioritizing, stress | 219 comments»

How To Make Your Wallet Super Slim

This actually came up yesterday in my house and I think, to be honest, some people will always have a massive George Costanza wallet.

LifeClever have put together a list of ways to get things down to size. You really don’t need all that stuff in there, so I guess the basic principle is prioritize and think about what you actually need.
The first step to a super-slim wallet, is to… » Continue

April 11 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: clothing, prioritizing, simplicity | 8 comments»

Eat the Frogs First - A Guide to Prioritizing

WOWNDADI wrote an article about a particular line of thinking in regards to prioritizing the tasks in your day.

The idea is to do put each task into one of four categories:

1. Things you don’t want to do, and actually don’t need to do.
2. Things you don’t want to do, but actually need to do.
3. Things you want to do and actually need to do.
4. Things you want to do

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April 2 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: prioritizing, procrastinating, procrastination | 13 comments»

Avoid Getting Crazybusy

Dr. Edward Hallowell, a Sudbury psychiatrist, has written a book about the world we live in in regards to information overload and the attention deficit disorder it causes.

“They’re juggling deadlines, games, rehearsals, and school meetings,” says Hallowell. “They’re worrying about how the grocery shopping, cooking, and laundry will get done. People want to do all these activities. But they take on more than they can reasonably do. E-mail tends to… » Continue

March 8 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: information, overwork, prevention, prioritizing | no comments»

Visualize Your Commitments

Taking on a new job is a great time to spot-check the power of your organizing and executing systems. Mine came up severely lacking (as evidenced by how few posts I’ve sent to LifeHack recently). But with all things, “That which does not kill us…” Here’s what I’ve learned lately about my organizing needs, and here’s a few tips that might be useful to you, if you’re not already… » Continue

December 4 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: organizing, planning, prioritizing, rememberthemilk, stikkit, thinkature | 1 comment»

No More Mr Yes

Phil Gerbyshak is exhuberant. You can see this the moment you land on his site. But one downside to being such a positive person (you’re this way too, right?) is that we tend to say YES all the time, when we should really consider saying no a little more often. Phil did a personal assessment, and immediately realized the impact this decision was having on his life:

I realize… » Continue

August 11 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: development, Lifehack, Management, prioritizing | 2 comments»