Archive: Productivity category
[Cross-posted from Blank Slate.]
From the 37signals post Workaholics fixate on inconsequential details:
Good advice for anyone who wants to be more efficient: When you’re sweating for hours over a tiny detail, stop and ask yourself, “Is this really worth the amount of time I’m spending on it?†If not, ...
From the 37signals post Workaholics fixate on inconsequential details:
Good advice for anyone who wants to be more efficient: When you’re sweating for hours over a tiny detail, stop and ask yourself, “Is this really worth the amount of time I’m spending on it?†If not, declare “good enough†and ...
This afternoon while manning the box office and concession booth at our matinee of Swallow the Sun, I decided to finally start writing a mission statement for myself. I frequently find myself noting that "I need to do this" or "I need to do that" in order to become ...
I haven't done a very good job of keeping up with this blog lately, have I. :) As it happens, I got a little, um, distracted, but I'm happy to report that the distraction has left as abruptly as it came, and life is now back to normal again.
It ...
I've started using Google Docs in earnest again. Before, I hadn't really used the folders at all, and I'd left everything on the "inbox" page, which made it rather cluttered. But today I organized my folders and put everything in its proper place, then cleaned up the ...
First, does anyone know if writing on your hand (in pen, of course) has any long-term side effects of the not-so-good variety?
Second, it's really hard to get to bed on time -- so much to do (like all of these comments on here I need to respond to :)), so ...
As I mentioned on Top of the Mountains a few minutes ago, I'm going to try to simplify my life. I've got too much going on, and it's crazy. I've been addicted to busyness.
And it's hurting me as a writer and as an artist.
You see, I spend ...
If you haven't noticed, I have a tendency to collect irons and stash them in the fire. :) (Why are golf clubs coming to mind? Wrong image. :P) I love having projects, love filling my to-do lists to the brim and beyond, love being busy.
But at the ...
For a while my alarm clock has gone off at five o'clock every morning, because that's when I'm at my prime. Sure, it's slightly less sleep (I try to go to bed around 10 or 10:30), but I'm very much more a morning person than a night owl.
And yet ...
On Saturday I tidied up my room, and all weekend it's felt wonderful having a mostly empty floor to walk on, instead of having to negotiate my way through piles of books and papers. It's great, but at the same time I know that before long it'll degenerate into ...
