Rethink the Season of Giving

Next Thursday, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and other charities across the US will be fully staffed with smiling-faced, happy volunteers eagerly doling out food and other assistance to those whose need is greatest. Families across the country will come together in the spirit of giving, and will return home beaming with pride and contentment, knowing deep in their hearts that they have made a difference. It’s the finest side of… Continue reading

November 20 | By Dustin | Tagged: | 4 comments»

10 Best Productivity Books of 2009

November 18 By Dustin | 15 comments»

Granted, the year’s not done yet, but publishers start to slow down new releases right about now, so it’s not likely we’ll see another contender for “best of 2009” until January. Plus, Christmas is coming up, and I wanted to give you plenty of time to read some of these books before you give copies to your friends and relatives.But really? It’s never the wrong time to recommend a list… Continue reading

Review: aNobii for iPhone

aNobii.com is a cataloging and social networking website for booklovers. On aNobii you can catalog your book collection on a beautiful wooden shelf and meet people with similar reading tastes. aNobii has an international following with information on over 10 million books, including 200,000 book reviews spanning 15 languages.aNobii has just released an iphone app, and we've had a chance to try it out. The bottom line: this is… Continue reading

October 29 | By Leon | Tagged: app, barcode, book, iphone, organizatoin, scanner | 8 comments»

Being a Man in the 21st Century (Part 1)

Manhood is changing. It's as simple, and as complicated, as that.Two recent events prompted me to write about manhood today. The first was the release of The Shriver Report, a study of the status of women in the United States. The second was the publication of The Art of Manliness, a book of advice on manhood based on the popular blog of the same name.The Shriver Report's… Continue reading

October 27 | By Dustin | Tagged: body, culture, identity, manhood, masculinity, men, work | 30 comments»

How to Give a Great Speech: Part 2 Delivery

An important speech can be a worry. The keys for success are good preparation and confident delivery. If you have prepared your talk well and memorised the key points then you are ready to give a great performance. And it is a performance. Giving a talk should be much more than simply conveying information - it involves an element of drama and of theatre. Here are some tips: 1… Continue reading

October 26 | By Paul | Tagged: address, delivery, keynote, presentation, public-speaking, speech, talk | 12 comments»

What Will You Learn Today?

A Typical Life? I gotta be honest, I really like my life. Of course I have my moments (being human and all), but for the most part, it rocks. Not a day goes by where I am not thankful for, or totally aware of, what I have and what I’ve been given. Of course it’s not always a normal, conventional or typical life by any means (but who has that?) –… Continue reading

October 23 | By Craig | Tagged: attitude, learning, lifelong-learning, personal growth | 14 comments»

The Science of Motivation

What motivates you? While there are thousands, millions, maybe billions of answers to that question, a growing body of research, some of it dating back 50 years, shows two things that don’t motivate us very well – the promise of rewards and the threat of punishment.It seems counter-intuitive, since after all we take it for granted that we need incentives to do work. It’s the basis of our whole economic system… Continue reading

October 22 | By Dustin | Tagged: goal, growth, learning, mission, motivation, personal growth, reward | 22 comments»

Getting Things (Re-)Started: Dealing with Mental Blocks

In any significantly big project, there are bound to be times when you lose the track of what you’re doing, when for whatever reason you stop moving forward and, what’s worse, can’t seem to find the motivation to get going again. When we “fall off the wagon” like that, a kind of psychological wall starts building up, making getting back in the swing of things seem more and more daunting… Continue reading

October 20 | By Dustin | Tagged: creativity, mental-block, motivation, procrastination, work | 12 comments»

How to Give a Great Speech, Part 1: Preparation

If you have to give a keynote speech, an after-dinner talk, or an address to a group of customers or colleagues then preparation leads to success. Here are some key tips: 1. Investigate the audience. Find out as much as you can about your audience, their interests and their likely mood. What is it that they will want from your session - information, entertainment, tips, ideas, guidance? What will they have heard… Continue reading

October 19 | By Paul | Tagged: presentation, public-speaking, speech | 19 comments»

9 More Apps to Help You Get More Out of Your Android Phone

With new android phones just out and even more on the way, I thought it would be a good time to release another list of neat-o Android apps. My last Android post (part 1 and part 2) focused on apps specifically for increasing your productivity; this post includes all manner of apps. Some will help you be more productive, some will just help you have more fun.(Note… Continue reading

October 16 | By Dustin | Tagged: android, app, google, mobility, smartphone, software | 5 comments»

The Nature of Commitment

In a comment on my recent post about breaking up, someone asked if I'd write a follow-up about staying together. I've actually written about successful relationships before, based less on my own experience than on the work of relationship psychologists, so I'll just refer you there if you're looking for relationship advice. But thinking about what goes into a committed relationship got… Continue reading

October 14 | By Dustin | Tagged: choice, commitment, mission, personal growth, purpose | 12 comments»

The Perfect Breakup?

Someone on our Skribit page (that’s the little widget on the right-hand side of Lifehack’s pages where you can make requests, which I or other Lifehack writers look at for ideas) requested a post on how to act when you break up with someone. While it’s never easy to break up with someone (assuming it’s someone you actually do like), I feel like I’ve been through enough breakups to… Continue reading

October 12 | By Dustin | Tagged: breakup, dating, love, relationship, romance, spouse | 17 comments»

Scoring 100% in Time Management

"Most people who attempt to learn a new time management system fail."I can't prove the above statement with hard facts, but I have a sense that it's true, based on my personal experience and observations. If success is defined as 100% successful implementation, then that statistic is most certainly true.On the other hand, perhaps 99% of the people who take a time management program put down the book, or drive… Continue reading

October 9 | By Francis | Tagged: gtd, habit, time, time-management | 18 comments»

Roll Your Own TwitPic-like Media Hosting Using Posterous

One of the more useful aspects of Twitter is the ability to quickly broadcast images, videos, and other media to your followers, making it an effective “mo-blogging” (mobile blogging) platform. Twitter doesn’t have this ability built in, though; sending pictures or video clips to Twitter requires using third-party services like TwitPic. Most Twitter clients will automatically upload images to these third-party hosts and add a link to your tweets… Continue reading

October 8 | By Dustin | Tagged: image, lifestreaming, online, Technology, twitter, video, web-2.0 | 8 comments»

Face Adversity with a Smile

I told my friend Graham that I often cycle the two miles from my house to the town centre but unfortunately there is a big hill on the route. He replied, ‘You mean fortunately.’ He explained that I should be glad of the extra exercise that the hill provided.My attitude to the hill has now changed. I used to grumble as I approached it but now I… Continue reading

October 7 | By Paul | Tagged: adversity, attitude, bader, confront, hardship, keller, positive, problem, thinking | 13 comments»

Self Doubt: A Disease that Doesn’t Discriminate!

What if… What if I forget the words when I stand up there? What if I go completely blank? What if I totally suck? What if I look or sound stupid? What if they hate me? What if I’m not pretty enough? Cool enough? Smart enough? Qualified enough? Experienced enough? Talented enough? Thin enough? What if they see through my act? What if they discover what I’m really like? What if… Continue reading

October 6 | By Craig | Tagged: fear, procrastination, self, self-doubt, worry | 17 comments»

The Work of Worry

I admit, I'm a worrier. Always have been – when I was a teenager, I used to lay awake nights worrying about… well, whatever teenagers worry about. In college, I used to worry about classes, girls, money – and eventually about the fact that I was laying up nights worrying instead of sleeping. Today, I worry about… well, I worry about the same things, I guess, except now I'm on… Continue reading

October 5 | By Dustin | Tagged: anxiety, energy, organization, procrastination, work, worry | 24 comments»

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