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Lifehack, The Power of Rituals, and Flourishing

Scott over at Lifehack recently wrote about the rituals and how they help maximize time. There are two rituals that I think are especially important: waking up and working. The Wake Up Ritual Few things make as much of an impact on the day as when and how you wake up. Fighting with the alarm [...]

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Lifehack: The Importance of a Central Project List

Chris over at Lifehack has a brief article on his morning routine. I’ve found a similar technique to be especially helpful for the day. I try to get up two hours (yep, two hours) before I absolutely have to be anywhere. Half of the time is spent on either exercise or stretching, and the other [...]

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R.A.F.T: Managing Email Rather Than Letting Email Manage You

Email has become the primarily method of communication for most people in nearly all organizations. Unfortunately, too many of us have yet to really understand how to work with email yet and the management of email correspondence has become a major source of work in and of itself. As with most of the meaningful components [...]

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Morning Person Tester: Are You Working At the Wrong Time?

Glen has recently posted an article on LifeDev that resounds quite true. My original peak-time was in the morning from about 7:30 to 11:30, but I stopped getting up earlier and have actually managed to collapse onto the time of 8:30 to 12:30. Sometimes I catch another sprint from 1:30 to 5pm, but that’s highly [...]

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To Work or Not To Work…That is the Question

Some days you wake up knowing that you’re not going to get much done (today was one of those days for me). Popular wisdom would tell you to drink your joe, open up your work, and get to it. In this case, I think popular wisdom is wrong. Let’s suppose that you’ve got a 20-page [...]

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