Being Happy: How Not to Love Stuff
Do you want to live a happy life? I’ve written before about being happy, but here I want to take a different angle and look at one important cause of unhappiness: loving stuff. Many people try to fill the void…
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Stop Focusing on “Then” and Work With the “Now”
Note: This is a guest post by Jeff Grundy of 30 Wasted Years There are some people who are completely happy with themselves, their lives, and their prospects for the future. While they can be considered to be more fortunate…
A Simple Way to Diversify Your Knowledge
Do you want to have creative ideas? The Medici Effect (a book I review a few months ago) has an important advice to follow: live in the Intersection. As the book says: When you step into an intersection of fields,…
Happiness of Another Dimension
Note: This is a guest post by Vern Is it still called happiness when every muscle in your face is pulling to make you smile so hard that you fear your skin may rip? Happiness feels incredible. Our mind is…
How NOT to Set Priority for Tasks
Can you imagine being productive without setting priorities for your tasks? It may seem counterintuitive, but it’s a characteristic of Getting Things Done (GTD). The lack of priority in GTD makes it different from many time management practices that use things like…
Review: The Now Habit
One of the most common pitfalls to productivity is procrastination. While being productive means accomplishing something, procrastinating is just the opposite. If we procrastinate, nothing will get done. Time will pass by without results and before long we may notice…
Finding the Best in You: Can You Hit the High Notes?
Finding the best in us is important, and I recently read a thought-provoking article related to it entitled Hitting High Notes by Joel Spolsky. There is a lot of wisdom in it to help us find our best place. While…
Avoiding Failure: 7 Tips NOT to Try to Please Everybody
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby We often spend so much time to think about how to succeed that we forget to think about how to fail.…
How to Live Your Books and Not Just Read Them
Reading books is one thing, but actually living them is another thing. Many people just read a book without ever living it. But as you know, you can never get full benefit from a book if you just read it…
Top 10 Ways NOT to Become a Productivity Ninja
Often it is not the things that we don’t do that hinder our productivity, but rather the things that we do. There are productivity pitfalls in which we might be trapped without realizing it. Recognize and avoid them before they…