Year in Review: The 70 Best Lifehacks of 2007

2007 was a great year for personal productivity at lifehack.org! We’ve added more than a dozen new writers, who have brought new perspectives, new topics, and most importantly new hacks and tips to our virtual pages. 

If you want to be more productive in the New Year, take a look at these 70 best lifehacks of 2007 now, and subscribe to our feed so you don’t miss any of the great advice and information to come in the year ahead. These were the most popular posts of the last year, based on their popularity, your comments, and links from other sites. As 2007 winds down, invest some of your time and read them all. Or bookmark this page and make reading them one of your New Year resolutions.

Networking and Communication

1. How Not To Suck At Socializing – Do’s & Don’ts
2. How To Initiate Conversation
3. Using Compliments To Control Communication
4. How To Exit A Conversation
5. How to Cut Crutch Words When Giving a Speech

Writing and Studying

1. Advice for Students: 10 Steps Toward Better Research
2. Advice for students: Beware of thesaurus
3. Advice for Students: How to Write Research Papers that Rock!
4. Advice for Students: Taking Notes that Work
5. How To Study
6. How to study with a full-time job
7. How to Take Notes like Thomas Edison
8. Improve Your Writing with these Editing Tips
9. Design Better with CRAP
10. How to punctuate a sentence

Productivity, Creativity, and Motivation

1. 11 Tips for Nuking Laziness Without Becoming a Workaholic
2. 20 Productive Ways to Use Your Free Time
3. 50 Ways To Increase Your Productivity
4. 6 Rules to Work Less and Get More Accomplished
5. How to Become a Creative Genius
6. How to Boost Your Creative Output
7. How to Break Out of Your Comfort Zone
8. Simple Productivity: 10 Ways to Do More by Focusing on the Essentials
9. The Top 4 Misapplications of the 80/20 Rule
10. Thirteen Tricks to Motivate Yourself

Leadership, Work, and Money

1. Hack Your Boss
2. Lead, Follow, and Get Out of the Way
3. Bringing More Efficiency When You Work from Home
4. Why One Partner Needs to Go Out and Work
5. How to Live on a Tight Budget

Body and Mind

1. 10 Unconventional Diet Tips: How to lose 50 pounds in three months
2. 15 Tips to Restart the Exercise Habit (and How to Keep It)
3. The Secret to a Healthy Body
4. 13 Tips to Actually Enjoy Exercising
5. Power Napping: How To Fall Asleep Anywhere
6. 7 Stupid Thinking Errors You Probably Make
7. Your Brain is Not Your Friend
8. Three More Reasons Why Your Brain is Not Your Friend
9. Nine Brain Quirks You Didn’t Realize You Had
10. Writing and Remembering: Why We Remember What We Write

Software and Technology

1. 10 Free Ways to Track All Your Passwords
2. 10 Smart Hacks for Google Reader
3. 5 Ways to Use Twitter for Good
4. Beginner’s Guide: Run Linux like any other program in Windows
5. Beginner’s Guide: Start a blog, get 100,000 page views and make over $100 your first month
6. How to Survive as the Family Tech Support Guy (or Gal)
7. Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Improve your Productivity
8. Top 10 Greasemonkey scripts to improve your productivity
9. Top 10 Ways to Use del.icio.us
10. 9 Ways to Get More Out of Windows Live Writer

Family, Home, and Life

1. Things I wish I’d known when I was younger
2. Getting Rid of Yesterday: How to Start Your Day Fresh
3. Hacking Church: How to attend service 52 weeks in a row
4. How to raise the odds that it’s going to be a fantastic day
5. My 7 Year-Old Son’s Life List
6. The 7 Energy Sinkholes (and How to Avoid Them)
7. The Seven Essential “Stations” Every Home Should Have
8. Throw a lifeline to your future.
9. Why being yourself matters
10. Why Your Free Time is Boring

Success

1. Success Lessons Most People Know But Too Few Follow
2. The Ten Videos to Change How You View the World
3. 10 Reasons You Aren’t Achieving Success
4. How to Find Your Passion
5. To Be Motivated and Successful, First Forget How You Feel
6. 10 MORE ways to create a breakthrough in your life.
7. 10 simple ways to save yourself from messing up your life
8. 10 virtually instant ways to improve your life
9. 18 Tricks to Make New Habits Stick
10. How to Set an Appointment With Yourself

Were there any other posts that you enjoyed which haven’t mentioned here? Was there anything you learned here that changed your approach to work, family, or life in general? Let us know in the comments!

Finally, let’s take a moment to recognize all the contributors whose incredible work in 2007 made lifehack.org a must-read resource for personal development:

• Lifehack.org Staff: Leon Ho, Scott Young, Craig Childs, and Dustin Wax
• Contributors: Reginald Adkins, Marco Adragna, Brian Armstrong, Leo Babauta, Chris Brogan, Lawrence Cheok, Tony Clark, Rob Crawford, Raj Dash, Jonathan Fields, Lisa Gates, Brett Kelly, Donald Latumahina, Michael Leddy, Shane Magee, Rowan Manahan, Rory Marinich, Lorie Marrero, Tatsuya Nakagawa, Tom O’Leary, Tejvan Pettinger, Kyle Pott, Vishal Rao, Gleb Reys, Kim Roach, Susan Sabo, Adrian Savage, Rosa Say, Nick Senzee, Alex Shalman, Pamela Skillings, Mike St. Pierre , K. Stone, George Tee, Bob Walsh, and Rob Witham

Thanks to all of them, and to all the lifehack.org readers who have made lifehack.org successful.  We wish you all a happy, healthy, and productive 2008!