Archive: Productivity category
On page 70 of Stephen Covey's The 8th Habit, I found a quote from Willam James that I've swiftly become a fan of:
Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. We all have reservoirs of energy and genius to draw upon of which we do ...
Out with the old...
Last year I wrote 355 blog posts, which seemed like a lot until I went back to my 2006 New Year's post and found that I wrote 452 in 2006. Goodness. But I do think this year's posts were better, at least to some ...
Oscar Wilde says it best: "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
It's been a long while since I went back and read any of my journals, but this morning I found myself with a little extra time and inexplicably decided ...
Time for another potpourri post.
1. Here's a bit on eye contact from the SIRC flirting guide which puts into words something I've been thinking about for a while but hadn't solidified:
Eye contact -- looking directly into the eyes of another person -- is such a powerful, emotionally loaded act ...
It's always kind of weird coming out of a holiday, like emerging from the womb out of a surreal floating kind of dreamlike stupor into real life. And this has nothing to do with alcohol, either. :P
No, really, it's back to work again (though there's another holiday hot on ...
Make that five posts. Lifehacker has a wonderful article on practicing simplified GTD (Getting Things Done), where Gina Trapani condenses GTD into eight words: Make three lists. Revise them daily and weekly.
I read part of the original GTD book (and keep meaning to read the rest -- better ...
Yesterday at the ward conference I was attending, the elders quorum president read this little story which I rather liked. I spent a couple minutes trying to track down its original source, but so far it seems to be anonymous. If you know who wrote it, please let ...
This morning on my walk up to campus, I passed a girl with purple eye shadow and light red lipstick, and my first thought, inexplicably, was that she reminded me of Gmail labels. There's no hope for me, is there. :P
But on a more serious note, I got to ...
This morning I noticed that my labels in Gmail had a slightly off-color background. Checking the Gmail blog, I found this rather nice little bit of goodness on the next evolution of labels:
Today, we're happy to announce the next evolution of labels: the colored label. Until now the ...
I've started trying to keep up better with my blog reading (and yes, I'll be weeding down the list of feeds I'm subscribed to so it'll be manageable), and as a result, I've come across some goodies to share.
First, today's Dilbert:...
