Tag: Productivity

  • The Fifteen-Weed Formula

        The other day I read a short article called “The Fifteen-Weed Formula“. The basic idea of the story is that there was a lady who suffered from multiple sclerosis which made it difficult to do physically demanding tasks. One day she noticed a whole bunch of weeds in her back yard and noted that she…

  • Finding yourself

        This past weekend my wife’s family had a reunion.  We drove out to the mountains and stayed in some cabins out in pretty much the middle of nowhere.  It wasn’t really rouging it, but it was a good deal of fun!  One of the things I had the opportunity to do was late Friday…

  • Perspective is king

    So I graduated in April, and started full time work. It has been tough working for 8 hours a day. My work is very flexible in what times I need to work, and I started with the best intentions of getting in early and leaving early. Well it has been really really difficult to keep…

  • RescueTime – What do you do with your computer time?

    Well, a few weeks back I found a program called RescueTime. Cleaning out my RSS feeds today I found that JD at Get Rich Slowly had a similar post earlier this month discussing this program. I decided that I wanted to chime in myself. What this program does, is run on your computer in the…

  • Faster Gmail Loads

    So today when I logged into gmail I noticed something – for one thing it didn’t just say “Loading…” it said “Loading XXXXX@gmail.com…” – AND it loaded faster – or seemed to. I thought well maybe it was just a figment of my imagination because I was reading the loading thing and didn’t notice the…

  • One thing at a time.

    So I still have too much on my plate, but I have realized that all I can do is one thing at a time.  Instead of trying to multi-task everything, I have decided that I would just try to do one thing at a time.  I have noticed that once this is done, I can…