31st May - 28th JunMonthly Top Blog Posts on Productivity

27 Jun

The Product Management Manifesto : Write That Down

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This is a monster post. Is it really a manifesto? Probably not. I hope we can turn it in to one together. It’s a group effort and I’m pushing hard on some things that I really believe will help take our role to the…

Do Nice Guys Finish Last?

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Source: kk+As I was walking into a building, I tried to be nice and opened the door to let a woman behind me go first. Before I knew it, a group of guys just quickly and carelessly walked out through the door I was…

Notes on productivity | my journey getting things done with Lotus Notes and other productivity tools

www.notesonproductivity.com8 commentsSocialRank

My blogging’s been pretty limited for the past six months — I’ve been hard at work on the public launch of eProductivity™ for Lotus Notes®   As you may know, we completed the eProductivity beta program in early…

24 Jun

Fusion Table lets you have your pool table too

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So you’ve wanted a pool table ever since your parents said you don’t have room for one. Now you are old enough to make your own decisions as to what you bring into your home and you want a pool table. Oh, you…

23 Jun

Are You a Control Freak?

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Does our attempt to control reality create suffering?Alan Watts discussed the concept of Ziran (or Spontaneity) on the Alan Watts Podcast “Ziran means spontaneous, it happens as your heart beats, you don’t do…

21 Jun

How To Find A Good Customer Support Person (Or Any Outsourced Staff) - Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

www.entrepreneurs-journey.com16 commentsSocialRank

In this final piece of a four part article series on customer service we look at one of the key components of a successful Internet business - a good customer support person.If you have been following along this journey…

19 Jun

What Lessons Do You See Here?

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Click the comment link below and tell us what life/tim/parenting lessons you see in this picture… and fun and humor in not only allowed… it’s encouraged.time management

16 Jun

How To End The Multitasking Madness And Regain Your Sanity

www.organizeit.co.uk4 commentsSocialRank

In this age of instant access information, always available entertainment and bottom line obsessed business our time, energy and focus is always at a premium. It seems to be a common and accepted part of life that we…

15 Jun

Top 10 Productive Activities While Stuck in the Traffic

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So you find yourself stuck in traffic once more.  Instead of just sitting there in your seat seething and berating yourself for not taking that critical turn earlier or for waking up when the alarm clock started…

14 Jun

What Thomas Edison Can Teach You about Blogging

www.problogger.net51 commentsSocialRank

Thomas Edison was one of the most prolific and influential inventors that the world has seen. Inventing world changing technologies such as the light bulb, phonograph and the motion picture camera - Edison is someone…

Total, Relaxed Organization [Stuff for Getting Things Done]

www.mygtdstuff.com5 commentsSocialRank

A while back I wrote about a nicely put together list comparing 100+ GTD software titles.  The list is maintained by a company called Priacta.  I had never worked with Priacta so I asked the readers of this blog if…

13 Jun

Ringing in some changes

www.diyplanner.com14 commentsSocialRank

From now on, things will be a bit different here on DIYPlanner.com .and in a good way. I’ll be detailing some of the proposed site changes in the next little while, especially as we tackle the technical parts. First o…

12 Jun

My Summer of Seeking Simplified Sustainable Success! : )

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Dear Readers, I'm just dropping in with a brief update to let you know why you haven't heard from me for quite some time and what's in the works.  Since I started this blog about 3 years ago my personal…

My book is now available in Dutch: Happy Hour is van 9 tot 5

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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay - my two favorite Ernos (that’s Erno Mijland and Erno Hannink) just announced that the Dutch version of my book Happy Hour is 9 to 5 is now out.You can buy it on paper, as a pdf e-book or you can read…

11 Jun

What kind of sports car are you?

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I'm a Ferrari 360 Modena! You've got it all. Power, passion, precision, and style. You're sensuous, exotic, and temperamental. Sure, you're expensive and high-maintenance, but you're worth it. …

Getting Religion from comedians

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Every once in a while it helps to release a bit of the spleen - so apropos of nothing, here's a blog about how muddled our thinking has become.I was listening to NPR on a long drive yesterday and two stories…

24 Daily Habits to Make the Most of this Life

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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us - John DrydenI have previously written about how the habit of Exercising Every Day has helped me tremendously. Doing something every day is such a powerful way to…

10 Jun

Summer Enrichment Ideas for Teens

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Education blogger Vicki Caruana shares an insightful post called School’s Out, but Not the Brain! In the post, Vicki addresses the issue of summer for teens. Communities and schools tend to offer great enrichment…

09 Jun

I'm Having a Cocktail (…or Parrot Bay and The Law of Scarcity)

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Christmas Boy is out of town for a few days and tonight, along with my gourmet dinner of a Lebanon Bologna sandwich on white bread, I decided to have a cocktail. Yes, by golly, I’m DRINKING ALONE!  As I was mixing my…

08 Jun

Hacking Japan: Inside Tokyo for Less than NewYork | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

www.fourhourworkweek.com31 commentsSocialRank

(Photo: e-chan)Several dozen of you asked for Tokyo hacks after the How to Live Like a Rock Star in Buenos Aires how-to guide. Summer is upon us, and to encourage all of you to dream of traveling eastward, this is Part…

Miss the Big Sale? Claim Your Savings Anyway | Wise Bread

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By Linsey KnerlThe sudden aggravation of my son’s allergies became the last straw for this frugal family. While we had suffered through a summer or two in our old farm home with little to no air-conditioning in most…

06 Jun

Wells Fargo’s Exciting ATM Redesign

www.lifeclever.com8 commentsSocialRank

Holger Struppek, Design Director at Hot Studio and formerly of Pentagram, has a nice case study showcasing the redesign of Wells Fargo’s ATM interface.Check it out:Maybe, it’s time for me to ditch Bank of America.…

7 Websites You MUST Check Before You Go On A Vacation

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Written on 6/06/2008 by Abhijeet Mukherjee, of Jeet Blog.Summers are on and it’s time to take that trip you’ve had been planning since last year. There is no doubt that the internet has a lot to offer for those who are…

John Wooden’s 12 Lessons In Leadership [For Kids]

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Is “leadership” applicable only in sports or corporate world? How do you become a leader for your kids? How do you lead them to become a better person, a better citizen, a better worker, a better leader?Same rules…

05 Jun

20 Useful Things You Can Accomplish In 15 Minutes | PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement

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“Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count.”~AnonymousLife is made up of nothing more than a series of moments. If you can find some way to pull 15 extra minutes out of a hat, you’d…

04 Jun

Transitioning to Office Labs

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It’s been about a month since we went live with officelabs.com. Of course as a team we’ve been operating a little over a year, but only now do I get to talk about that period. I thought I might fill you all in on my…

Great leaders hire great people and build great teams!

www.thepracticeofleadership.net4 commentsSocialRank

Great leaders surround themselves with great people. Lone ranger leadership is doomed to fail, there is no one great person that is going to transform an organisation it takes a strong team and a great leader. If you…

Dial2Do Offers Free Transcription

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We know many web workers who depend on Jott - the service that takes your phone calls and transcribes them to emails, to-dos, and other things. But Jott is only available in the US. A new competitor, Dial2Do, offers…

Pen Pr0n: Montblanc Skeleton 333 Limited Edition

www.persistenceunlimited.com3 commentsSocialRank

There’s just something about my secret love of fine writing pens I really can’t explain. The right pen feels comfortable to hold.  The ink flows freely.  Writing feels smooth and effortless.  The words come a…

Ultimate Virtual Assistant Guide

www.productivity501.com16 commentsSocialRank

I have been experimenting with using virtual assistants. I’ve worked with two, one in the US for about two weeks and one in India for two months. It has been an excellent learning experience and I wanted to share it…

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