productivity

Being routinely creative

Posted 5 weeks 2 days ago by Philip Brewer

Productivity

Steps on a forest trail

It might seem like creativity would flourish best in the absence of any constraining routine. In fact, the opposite is true: Having a routine is very useful for protecting your creativity.

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A One Touch Approach To Managing Household Finances

Posted 9 weeks 9 hours ago by Jason White

Life Hacks, Productivity, Budgeting

Over the years I've implemented elaborate tickler systems, email reminders and various other ways to remind myself not to forget to pay a few paper bills. At some point they all fail, usually due to my own procrastination or some technical or procedural glitch. That was, until I implemented a fool-proof plan I call the "One Touch System" for household productivity. Read on to learn how to implement this perfectly simple system to improve the management of your own household finances.

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The weird logic of economic growth

Posted 15 weeks 6 days ago by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance

Grass sprouting in empty sand

Ever notice that we have names for a period when the economy isn't growing (recession or depression), but there's no name for when it is growing?  If they call it anything, economists and politicians call it a "period of normal growth."

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Don't Have A Sven? Sandy Might Be the Next Best Thing

Posted 22 weeks 4 days ago by Kate Luther

Life Hacks, Technology, Productivity

Managing Your Calendar - Photo Courtesy of Stock.Xchg

If you've seen AT&T's latest smartphone commerical , then you know just how handy having a "Sven" would be. Sven tells you when to get up, notifies you of your daily schedule and reminds you of things you need to know to get the most from your day.Wouldn't it be great if we all had a Sven?For those of us that don't, Sandy might just be the next best thing.

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Scheduling time versus scheduling tasks

Posted 37 weeks 5 days ago by Philip Brewer

Life Hacks

Today's schedule

I never feel like I'm being as productive as I'd like. Every few years I try to do something about it, usually starting with reading a book or two on time management. Of late Getting Things Done by David Allen has seemed like the book to read. I read it a year or two ago, and internalized a lot of its methodology. One thing about it, though, has never quite worked for me: I like to schedule blocks of time for certain kinds of activities.

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Give it a REST!

Posted 1 year ago by Sarah Winfrey

Filed Under: Personal Finance

relax and rest

So you've heard of a sleep debt. You know that not getting enough sleep effects your body and your concentration, and that when you don't get enough sleep, you accumulate hours of sleep that you need to make up before your body feels rested and functions as such. But did you know that not getting enough sleep can cause you to spend more money than other people and not make as much?

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Fifteen Minutes of ...

Posted 1 year ago by Tannaz Sassooni

Filed Under: Life Hacks

timers

One day when i was in fourth grade, my parents sat me down at the dining room table. Their faces were very concerned and it all seemed very serious; I thought I was in trouble. Not really, they just wanted to have a talk, about a subject that to 9-year-old me was a bit nebulous. They told me i was bazigoosh, a word that translates directly to game-ear in Persian, but basically means I'm a slacker, easily distracted, a procrastinator, too fun-loving for my own good.

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