Posts Tagged ‘selfimprovement’

Cut Your Clutter Calories!

As Professional Organizers, we talk often with our clients about how getting organized is a lot like losing weight, since they both require a program of prevention, reduction, and maintenance. Preventing clutter from being created is the first step toward reducing your organizational “weight gain.” Here are a few tips to help you cut those clutter calories:

Control your “clutter cravings.”
People often seem to have an appetite for… » Continue

March 6 2007 | By Lorie | Tagged: clutter, gift, organization, prevention, selfimprovement, shopping | 5 comments»

Your Second Life

Note from Chris - No, not the game of the same name

Related to yesterday’s post about process flows, I’ve got a concept that I call My Second Life that I want you to consider. It takes just a little explaining, but then, the idea’s fairly easy to understand, adopt, and modify to your personal needs and schedule.

My life has the following rough time structure:

6:30AM Wake up.
7:30AM Leave… » Continue

July 28 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: business, career, execution, gtd, Productivity, secondlife, selfimprovement, timemanagement, workflows | 4 comments»

Role 3d6 for Personal Development

Any oldschool Dungeons and Dragons readers get that reference? If not, here’s my basic premise: view your personal development like you would character development in role playing games.

Capabilities- Some things you are born with, and others can be trained. For instance, strength can be developed to certain end points, but intelligence is something that one possesses a certain degree of, regardless of training. Training becomes more of a skill or

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June 19 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: development, gametheory, hacks, Productivity, selfimprovement, skills | 4 comments»