Back to Basics: Projects (7)
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Dustin Wax (898)
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One of the things that is so hard to grasp about “next actions” or “tasks” is that they are single actions – buy something, call someone, go somewhere, look something up. In and of themselves, they have no end goal other than their own immediate completion. People don’t think like that way, for the most part, and it is the challenge of productivity experts like David Allen or Stephen Covey to lead their students to ...
4 Personally Proven Steps To Become A Calmer Person - Stepcase Lifehack (9)
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Mohamad Zaki (48)
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I love weekends. Why? I can wake up and just spend a few minutes lying awake without the need to do anything. No need to rush to work, or to speak to anyone. Just lying there with eyes wide open and nothing in mind. I realized then that those are some of the calmest moment in my life. It has always been a personal mission for me to be calm in every thing I do. ...
Apply a Noise Gate to Your Life (28)
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Torley (79)
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Chances are you’ve heard — or rather, not heard — the effects of a noise gate, but unless you’re into audio engineering, you probably didn’t realize it. Ever been at a concert or listen to a radio broadcast where it sounds great when there’s music playing or a voice speaking, but no hiss in the pauses between? Unless the signal happens to be really clean, odds are that was a noise gate at work, removing ...
Life Hacks: Marc Andreessen's guide to personal productivity (2)
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Lifehacker (33990)
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Co-author of the Mosaic web browser Marc Andreessen loves "productivity porn" and serves up an extensive list of his favorite life hacks on his blog. This list is stuffed with immediately-applicable, easy advice, like:Each night before you go to bed, prepare a 3x5 index card with a short list of 3 to 5 things that you will do the next day.And then, the next day, do those things.I sit down at my desk before I ...
How to give yourself the best chance of a good life (Part 1) (1)
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Adrian (138)
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1 year, 2 months
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The greatest and most persistent blockages to your progress in life usually come from a single source—yourself. Here are some simple, practical ways to give yourself the best possible chance of living a good life. Make the time to work out what’s most important to you. What’s so important you wouldn’t give it up, save in the most extreme circumstances? What feels like part of your deepest nature? What would it really hurt you to ...
10 Diet Hacks to Keep You Slim & Trim (1)
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KimRoach (22)
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1. Just say no to fruit juice. Juice is fruit with the fiber removed. Not to mention, most of them are packed with sugar. Opt for the real thing instead. 2. Stick to water. All of those sugary soft drinks are simply adding excess calories to your diet and to your waistline. Start drinking only water and a bit of tea and you could start seeing changes in your body very quickly. This is especially ...
6 Tips To Reach A Human Operator (1)
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Craig Childs (141)
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Get past annoying and time wasting dial selections over the phone with these tips to get through to a live operator. They come from the GetHuman database of shortcuts for more than 500 individual call centres. These tips are good for general use when those robot voices are driving you mad. Interrupt. Press 0 (or 0# or #0 or 0* or *0) repeatedly, sometimes quickly. Unfortunately the same keystroke does not always work for each ...
19 Stress Relief Tips For Work (1)
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Craig Childs (141)
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Building stress at the workplace is often unavoidable. We can attribute the amount of stress related articles here at Lifehack to that. The Ririan Project has, what I think, is an excellent list of tips to help handle work-related stress. Throw your head back and shout loudly. Shout and screaming is a great way to let go of all that pent-up tension that causes stress. Rather than risk being carted off to the asylum by ...
Other people are not broken . . . (1)
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Adrian (138)
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All of us depend on relationships with others—in our work, in our communities, in our families, in our social lives, and in our most personal and emotional attachments. A great deal has been written about building and maintaining relationships. Some of it is useful, some less so. Much of it is too complicated to carry around easily in your head, which limits its usefulness in practice. So here are some very simple, easily remembered notions ...
Benefits of MicroNapping (1)
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Craig Childs (141)
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Get tired in the middle of the day? You might not need a proper sleep, but rather just a quick nap to get back in gear - because we can’t be productive when we’re tired. Micronaps are those moments you catch yourself having fallen asleep, usually for somewhere under 5 minutes. However, if you schedule these in your day you can give yourself some easy pick-ups. Could a nap replace coffee? It may sound as ...
A Guide to Cultivating Compassion in Your Life, With 7 Practices (1)
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Leo (2543)
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1 year, 2 months
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“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” - Dalai Lama “My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness. These things are very useful in our daily life, and also for the whole of human society these practices can be very important.” - Dalai Lama I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term ...
Your “personal stress detox program” (1)
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Adrian (138)
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I have been thinking recently about the importance of taking enough vacation to get a real break from work. Here’s how to use the upcoming vacation season to make a huge impact on the load of stress that you’re almost certainly carrying around. Make sure that you take a long-enough vacation for the program. You need at least seven days, preferably more if you can manage it. Any less won’t give you the time to ...
50 Ways to Be Romantic on the Cheap (1)
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Leo (2543)
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Every Sunday is Family Day on Zen Habits. Normally my Family Day articles are about spending time with your kids, but today we’ll talk about another important aspect of families: couples. If you’ve got a significant other, I highly recommend you keep the spark of your relationship alive and find ways to show you appreciate each other, every week and every day, if possible. Look for little, inexpensive ways to be romantic, and it will ...
Why Fast Food Salads Wont Help You Lose Weight (1)
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1 year, 3 months
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[ why fast food salads wont help you loose weight]Ah, salads. The food of the perpetual dieter. You all know a few fast food salad eater. She’s the girl at your office who eats nothing but salads and yet never seems to lose any weight. He’s the guy who eats a salad because he’s on Atkins, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Why is that?
Women Rule (1)
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Women Rule by Nancy We've done Man Law already, so lately I've been thinking about Woman Rules Regarding Stubborn Men, which has nothing to do with what went down at my house or anywhere else over the weekend. Really. How about: Don't tell a man he can't go on his honeymoon, even if he has TB. (We're going to hear more on that story, aren't we? I suspect there's a Bridezilla lurking behind the CDC ...
10 Ways to Simplify Your Budget (1)
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Leo (2543)
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Every Wednesday is Financial Tips Day at Zen Habits. I’m always looking for ways to simplify my finances (I’m weird like that, I know), and recently I’ve been scrutinizing my already-simple budget to make it even simpler. I thought it would be helpful to share some of the ways to make your budget as simple as possible. The goal is to reduce headaches, eliminate the need for complicated tracking schemes, and reduce the time you ...
