June 2012
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“Life — the only one you get — consists of what you pay attention to. There is...”
– John Pavlus’s Confessions of a Recovering Lifehacker should be required reading for anyone interested in 1) productivity or 2) a life well-led. Hopefully that covers all of you.
Tips and tricks aside, lifehacking neither reaches the roots of the how’s and why’s nor the wants and...
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The Kindness of Users
One of our awesome users, Nate Graves, basically performed the web equivalent of taking the time to return some cash he found on the ground to whoever dropped it.
He landed on idonethistoday.com by mistake, realized it wasn’t registered, bought the domain name, and passed it onto us.
Here’s the email we got back in the beginning of this year:
So, today I got my daily reminder from...
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“Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our...”
– Frank Partnoy, “Waiting Game”, Financial Times.
Partnoy, author of the forthcoming book Wait: The Useful Art of Procrastination, writes about the value of delay and taking the full time we are given to make better decisions.
Maybe the best way to think about time management is in...
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Start off your week with some cans!
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Get some productivity ideas from some famous artists, writers, and musicians. Our particular funny favorite, Henrik Ibsen. Nothing like those mortal enemies to get the motors running!
Source: Lapham’s Quarterly via TNW
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“If you don’t give a damn about anything, no one will give a damn about you.”
— Jessica Hagy offers great advice and brilliant illustrations over at Forbes on How to Be More Interesting (In 10 Simple Steps). Her points are also spot on for how to get awesome stuff done. Our other favorites? Embrace your inner weirdness and ignore the scolds!
Check out Hagy’s other relational...
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“Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: “Have I done a...”
– 37signals’s David Heinemeier Hansson writes in his post, A good day’s work, about the frustration from those ever-continuous waves of work that seem to lap up against our mind’s shore.
David’s helpful suggestion to deal with that worried and anxious mind is to simply reflect...
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Just a reminder that happiness and health is just as important as working hard in getting more awesome stuff done! Happy Friday!
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The key to success is not just focusing on what’s important but knowing what to ignore, to say “No” to. The decision to achieve something requires decisions not to achieve other things.
HBR’s Peter Bregman recommends looking at Focus and Ignore lists every morning to direct your day to success:
List 1: Your Focus List (the road ahead)
What are you trying to achieve?...
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“We always assume that you get more done when you’re consciously paying attention...”
– Jonathan Schooler explains his forthcoming paper on the power of daydreaming in Jonah Lehrer’s blog post, “The Virtues of Daydreaming”. According to Schooler and Benjamin Baird’s research, questions need time to marinate and incubate in your brain in order for you to come up...
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This 1932 quote from FDR may be about the U.S., but it stands as pretty good personal advice too!
The country needs, and unless I mistake its temper, the country demands, bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
(Image from Note to Self)
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“Like accolades ought to be, the fulfilled life is a consequence, a gratifying...”
– English teacher David McCullough Jr. delivered a rousing commencement speech at Wellesley High School, advising the graduating class to reach for achieving something good and genuine rather than for accolades.
The entire speech is worth a read, or watch the video:
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Ever sage advice from the unflappable, stylish Tim Gunn. Garbage can be made into couture? Whatever you’re doing, you can make it work!
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“Motivation and inspiration can go a long way toward helping you get where you...”
– Alexis Grant writes about how the way to kick your butt into gear isn’t by doing other things, no matter how helpful they seem.
Step away from the push itself and get stuff done!
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“Productivity — the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy —...”
– In a recent NY Times op-ed, Tim Jackson reminds us that with a narrow definition of productivity and the fact that “we’ve become so conditioned by the language of efficiency,” we risk neglecting parts of our lives that matter, such as a focus on care and craft.
We tend to agree. What...
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You’ll get to success if you keep going!
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“1. Get paid.
2. Get fit.
3. Make something cool.”
– Rich Jones’s 3 super simple steps to daily satisfaction in work, health, and getting stuff done. 