Everybody wants to have an optimized life. In fact, there are hundreds of books, seminars, and trainings devoted to this topic. Nevertheless, there is actually one simple thing you can do to optimize your life: do what you love. Sounds simple, right? Yet doing what you love can really maximize many aspects of your life. [ Read More ]
Archive for January, 2007
To continously optimize yourself, there is no other way but by being a lifelong learner. Fortunately, there are so many learning resources available for free on the Internet. Eliteskills.com puts a list of those free resources in Massive Resource List for All Autodidacts. Whether you want to learn a new language, science, or business, there [ Read More ]
Categories: Learning
To use your time in a day effectively, I think it’s a good idea to divide your time into two parts: thinking time and doing time. Thinking time is the time for you to plan your day. You spend this time thinking about how you should spend your day. Here you should consider all your [ Read More ]
Categories: Time management
There are many tools which can be used for Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), but for me Microsoft OneNote is one of the main tools. Of course, I also use other tools such as Google Desktop (desktop search), Google Reader (RSS) and del.icio.us (social networking), but in term of idea management, OneNote is the tool for [ Read More ]
Categories: Knowledge management, Thinking, Tools
In the end-of-year service of my local church, my pastor said that his vision for year 2007 is the year of opportunity. He said that so often people don’t realize how precious their life and time is. As such, they waste their time and do not make the most of the opportunities they have. He [ Read More ]
Categories: Purpose
I’ve written about how keyboard shortcuts can boost your productivity when working with computers. The next step is – of course – putting it into action. Most (if not all) popular applications have keyboard shortcuts to help you use them efficiently. Therefore, once you are inside the applications you can use those shortcuts to improve [ Read More ]
