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To-Do Lists and Keeping It Positive

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Recently, we highlighted a method of planning your day that consisted of asking yourself what you’d say “No” to. Just as important is to ask yourself “Why?” when it comes to the items on your to-do list. Psychologist Michael V. Pantalon recommends making a Why-Do list to increase your motivation on those items that just never seem … Read more

Just Slow Down: A Note on Busyness

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Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.

Tim Kreider writes about modern life’s worship of busyness and how to slow down in The “Busy” Trap for the New York Times Opinionator.

Find the balance between idleness and hustle, for “Life is too short to be busy.”

Slow down!

What Is The Ultimate Life Hack?

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Giving and receiving undivided attention, even briefly, is the least that one individual can do for another — and sometimes the most. And yet, attending to others doesn’t just help them — it helps us, by evoking responses that help the listener feel cared for, useful, and connected to the larger world.

Kare Anderson, “What Captures Your Attention Controls Your Life”, HBR

We’ve said before that the ultimate true lifehack is to figure out what to pay attention to. Anderson explains the positive impacts of being conscious how we devote our attention on not just ourselves but those around us.

Paying attention to others is the path not just toward being a better leader but leading a better life.

Lessons in Lifehacking

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Life — the only one you get — consists of what you pay attention to. There is literally nothing else.

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 cares of life. The ultimate true lifehack is to figure out what to pay attention to. Then, pay attention “effectively, meaningfully, and relatively unselfishly.”

The Kindness of Users

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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 you guys. I saw it pop up on my phone with the from address showing “IDoneThis Today.” Without really thinking I typed idonethistoday.com into my browser and off I went to…nothing. I realized and righted my mistake pretty quickly. But, later I checked the whois on idonethistoday.com and saw it wasn’t registered. It is now and is pointing to your site. I’ll be happy to hand it off to you if you’d like (free of charge of course). Just figured you might have some folks out there like me who wound up in the wrong part of town, and I didn’t want them to miss out on your great service.

 

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When Procrastination Becomes Useful

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Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause.

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 terms of delay management!