Posts Tagged ‘simplicity’

Save Your Sanity: Have a Communications Blackout Day

Technology is great, but there can be too much of a good thing. E-mail results in faster communication, but it also leaves overflowing inboxes, spam attacks and the need for lengthy messages. RSS, Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon and instant messaging programs can also be great, if the 24/7 uninterrupted stream of information doesn’t drive you crazy first.

My suggestion is that for one day each month, have a… » Continue

January 15 2008 | By Scott H | Tagged: Communication, e-mail, internet, messaging, network, simplicity, stress, unplug | 9 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

September 27 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: daily-engineering, habits, Lifehack, Productivity, simplicity | 6 comments»

Confessions of a Late Adopter

I love gadgets, I really do. But unlike your typical fanboy or -girl who can be found standing in line at Best Buy or the Apple Store days before a new product’s release, I’m more likely to be found trolling the aisles of the local thrift store, surfing eBay, or scrounging through the clearance bins at Office Max looking for my gadget fix. I’d like to say it’s… » Continue

September 26 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: consumer, simplicity, Technology, tool | 10 comments»

Sticky Ideas Workshop (Part 1): Simple

“Just Do It.” Those words make up perhaps the stickiest marketing slogan of the past couple decades. In three words, only eight letters, Nike manages to say everything they want you to think, feel, believe about their brand. Three words to sum up the competitive edge Nike shoes and sports equipment promises, the can-do attitude that Americans so strongly believe, the strength, control, and optimism that Nike… » Continue

August 10 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: Communication, idea, madetostick, simplicity, teaching, writing | 3 comments»

10 Steps to a Zen-like Working Environment

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” — Hans Hoffman

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” — Henry David Thoreau

For today’s knowledge workers, every distraction is a drain on productivity and sanity. Every ringing phone, instant message, flashing email reminder, pile of papers, cluttered sticky notes and phone messages and knick knacks and memo posted on the wall –… » Continue

June 7 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: desk, habit, Productivity, simplicity, workspace | 22 comments»

How to Pare Your To-do List Down to the Essentials

Do your days seem to be crazy busy and your to-do list filled up with an endless supply of tasks? Is your calendar full and your work day a non-stop rush from one thing to another?

If so, you may have too much on your plate. It’s time to step back, take a few minutes, and pare down that to-do list to just the bare essentials.

Imagine, for a moment… » Continue

May 25 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: Productivity, simplicity, todo | 31 comments»

Simple Productivity: 10 Ways to Do More by Focusing on the Essentials

These days our lives are busier than ever. We work more than ever. We are more stressed and exhausted than ever before. And yet we get less done and are not as happy.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

The problem is that we are overloaded with information and tasks, and we try to get everything done instead of just the most essential things. Solution: focus on… » Continue

May 7 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: gtd, produtivity, simplicity | 78 comments»

The Gentle Art of Saying No

It’s a simple fact that you can never be productive if you take on too many commitments — you simply spread yourself too thin and will not be able to get anything done, at least not well or on time.

But requests for your time are coming in all the time — through phone, email, IM or in person. To stay productive, and minimize stress, you have to learn the… » Continue

April 30 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: Communication, Productivity, simplicity | 49 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»

11 Ways to Use Less to Make 2008 Your Best Year Yet

A few days ago, Dustin suggested that I write a post about “ways to use ___” to kick off the new year. At first, I was at a loss to fill in that blank. I couldn’t think of any gadget, program or trick that was important enough to make a year-long impact.

Then it hit me. Maybe the reason I was having trouble coming up with a… » Continue

January 1 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: 2008, diet, exercise, frugality, reading, resolutions, simplicity | no comments»

Tales of a Simple, Frugal Life

Ronsan had a goal.
When I was in my early 50s, I began to question the lifestyle my husband and I were living. I longed for a simpler lifestyle: I knew I wanted less stress, I knew I was tired of working for someone else, and I felt there had to be a way to achieve my goal of quitting the corporate world for good. Quitting was going to be easy… » Continue

June 11 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: frugal, hack, lifehacks, Lifestyle, simplicity | no comments»