Posts Tagged ‘Projects’

Small Projects Generate Good Feelings

Small projects are the best way to generate good feelings. Go ahead and create a small project, whether it be a shoe box diorama birthday present to a friend or even washing the dirty dishes. After you finish the project, take notice of how you feel after you finish it. You can’t deny the positive feelings that come along with finishing a small project.
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March 12 2008 | By Karl | Tagged: happiness, play, Productivity, Projects | 7 comments»

I Won Science Fair with A Failed Project: The Skill of Presenting Failures

For my first three science fairs, I received a participation ribbon — no prizes, no other acknowledgment. For my fourth, I walked away with $600, a first place award from AFCEA, a Discovery Science award and the Yale Science & Engineering Association Award.

My science fair project that year wasn’t any different from my past projects: I failed to prove anything, learned nothing about science, and did the project in… » Continue

February 5 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: failure, presentation, Projects | 31 comments»

5 Things to Do If You Aren’t Celebrating Christmas

Christmas is a great holiday — you get to spend a day with your family, wallowing in nostalgia and familial love, and you get presents on top of that! But what if you don’t celebrate Christmas? What if you’re not Christian, or your family is too far away, or you have no family, or you just aren’t in the mood?

If you aren’t celebrating Christmas, it can be

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December 24 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice, annual_review, christmas, holiday, Projects, volunteering, work | 7 comments»

Nail Meetings Down Tight

Meetings can have lots of loose flow to them. They start a little late because people show up a little late. There’s that spot where you haven’t seen Jumpha in a while and you ask about her children. You pass out the agenda and people face-down a while browsing it and shuffling papers. Some folks are reading and answering mail via their BlackBerrys.

I think that’s all crap. Meetings are often… » Continue

June 22 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: bestpractices, business, Communication, hack, howto, meetings, projectmanagement, Projects, worklife | 9 comments»

Timeslicing for Humans

I’m wired wrong. I’ll be the first to admit it. To be in the Getting Things Done crowd, I’m supposed to blissfully work along on a project until I’ve completed all the next actions, pausing one might assume, for lunch and bathroom breaks. Not me. I can’t do it. I need chunking.

Computer processors can work on lots of things at a time by taking chunks of resources and throwing… » Continue

June 9 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: gtd, hacks, Lifehack, Productivity, projectmanagement, Projects, timemanagement | 3 comments»

Summer Projects Podcast

O’Reilly Media puts out a great podcast series called Distributing the Future. They cover the technology you use and the people behind it. This week’s episode talks about summer projects, and it was really inspiring. Have you thought about what you might do differently as summer approaches?

Are you looking for something fun or interesting to do this summer? This week, we begin with an interview with Julieanne Kost… » Continue

May 10 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: mp3, Podcast, Projects | no comments»

Learn to Love Projects

Project work is a fact of life for most of us. Within our Managing with Aloha coaching curriculum, we have a course with which we coach managers to look at project work in a way they may not have considered it before. We turn need-to-be-done-anyway projects into fun campaigns, assigning them to groups or teams, and pulling them out of the realm of strictly-individual work as much as possible.

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May 4 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: Campaigns, Projects, work | 2 comments»