14th Jun - 12th JulMonthly Top Blog Posts on Productivity

12 Jul

iPhone 3G- jkOnTheRun first impressions

www.jkontherun.com26 commentsSocialRank

I’ve had the iPhone 3G in my hands for less than a day but as tradition dictates I’m offering up my first impressions of real world usage for your amusement. Granted my impressions will no doubt firm up as I use it in…

10 Jul

Answering Services for Small Businesses [Productivity @ Home]

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Does your small home business revolve around telephone customer service?  Today's guest columnist Nancy Hardey recommends considering an answering service for your small business.Sometimessmall businesses need an…

KiGoo: Linking Your Google Calendar to Outlook [GTD Wannabe]

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I’ve just received an email promoting an interesting product that I thought I would share with you here.  Note: I haven’t tried it out myself, since I’m a little busy.  (Thesis?  What thesis?  I’m busy…

3 Very Odd To-Do Lists

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Want to make sure you don’t replace your to-do list? Write it on your hand, using these to-do temporary tattoos. [via Popgadget]Or maybe you’d prefer a to-do paper mousepad. [via GeekSugar]And then there’s the list for…

07 Jul

Skill

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What role does skill play in the path to success? Are good intentions enough? Or do you actually need some talent?Why So Many Bloggers FailI’m often asked why so many people who jumped on the blogging bandwagon failed…

04 Jul

Open Thread: Web Worker Independence

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It was 232 years ago today that a bunch of colonials got fed up with the king and announced that they weren’t going to take it any more. While I certainly don’t think the situation of web workers is comparable to…

03 Jul

How to "Peel" Hard-Boiled Eggs Without Peeling - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

www.fourhourworkweek.com32 commentsSocialRank

The baking soda is optional, but if you choose not to use it, be sure to move the eggs to cold water (use ice) immediately after boiling. Blow from the tip to the broader base for faster de-shelling.My preferred eggs…

02 Jul

Enough time: a new hire’s reflections

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After one of the new hires read my blog, she asked me, “How do you find the time to do what you do?” This was after I’d sent her a couple of useful links, so I didn’t think she meant it in the “You have too much tim

29 Jun

EffTD Tool Of The Day: The iPhone [effingthedog.com]

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There was a time in American history, not too long ago, where individuals scrambled from one device to another in order to EffTD more effectively. Between their cellphone chatter, their TV watching and their…

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - The GOOG->MSFT Exodus: Working at Google vs. Working at Microsoft

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Recently I’ve been bumping into more and more people who’ve either left Google to come to Microsoft or got offers from both companies and picked Microsoft over Google. I believe this is part of a larger trend…

Wall-E

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I saw Wall-E today at the Disney Studios at a special screening. Some observations:This was a “perfect” movie. And that is not a term I use lightly. I deem perfect movies one’s whom I can’t find a single fault…

27 Jun

The Product Management Manifesto : Write That Down

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This is a monster post. Is it really a manifesto? Probably not. I hope we can turn it in to one together. It’s a group effort and I’m pushing hard on some things that I really believe will help take our role to the…

Do Nice Guys Finish Last?

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Source: kk+As I was walking into a building, I tried to be nice and opened the door to let a woman behind me go first. Before I knew it, a group of guys just quickly and carelessly walked out through the door I was…

Notes on productivity | my journey getting things done with Lotus Notes and other productivity tools

www.notesonproductivity.com9 commentsSocialRank

My blogging’s been pretty limited for the past six months — I’ve been hard at work on the public launch of eProductivity™ for Lotus Notes®   As you may know, we completed the eProductivity beta program in early…

24 Jun

Fusion Table lets you have your pool table too

unclutterer.com7 commentsSocialRank

So you’ve wanted a pool table ever since your parents said you don’t have room for one. Now you are old enough to make your own decisions as to what you bring into your home and you want a pool table. Oh, you…

Six Tools to Enjoy Your Job Like a Zen Monk

www.positivityblog.com15 commentsSocialRank

Note: This is a guest post by Karl Staib of Work Happy Now! Reaching a Zen-like state when working is not about being absolutely blissful. It’s a myth that monks walk around with fixed smiles on their faces. Some…

23 Jun

Are You a Control Freak?

www.steve-olson.com11 commentsSocialRank

Does our attempt to control reality create suffering?Alan Watts discussed the concept of Ziran (or Spontaneity) on the Alan Watts Podcast “Ziran means spontaneous, it happens as your heart beats, you don’t do…

Don’t Take Everything So Seriously

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One of the things I need to remind myself about my job is to stop taking everything so seriously. I take my job VERY seriously and VERY personally, and it’s been stressing me out a LOT lately. This picture of me, Gene…

21 Jun

How To Find A Good Customer Support Person (Or Any Outsourced Staff) - Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

www.entrepreneurs-journey.com16 commentsSocialRank

In this final piece of a four part article series on customer service we look at one of the key components of a successful Internet business - a good customer support person.If you have been following along this journey…

New Category - Personal Finance [Ian’s Messy Desk]

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Posted in Money MattersToday I’m announcing a new category here at Ian’s Messy Desk, Money Matters. Starting Saturday, July 5, I’ll post a weekly item on personal finance.Personal finance is one of those issues…

Control Your Mental Attitude!

cultivategreatness.com4 commentsSocialRank

by Napoleon HillMental attitude is a two-way gate across the path of life which can be swung one way into the path that leads to success and the other way into the road that leads to failure. What a profound thought it…

20 Jun

Be Specific When Praising: Fast Feedback Tip

www.slackermanager.com4 commentsSocialRank

Wondering why your praise isn’t getting results? Take this quick quiz.Quick quiz:Does your feedback sound like this:You’re doing a great job Joe! Keep it up!Or this:Thanks for working an extra hour the last 3 nights…

7 Can’t-Miss Ways to Defeat the Procrastination Habit

www.lifeoptimizer.org6 commentsSocialRank

Note: This is a guest post by Arjun Muralidharan from The Productive Student.I have the classic problem of ‘thinking about being productive, but not putting it into action’.That’s what’s troubling Life…

19 Jun

What Lessons Do You See Here?

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Click the comment link below and tell us what life/tim/parenting lessons you see in this picture… and fun and humor in not only allowed… it’s encouraged.time management

18 Jun

Imitation Writing

www.diyplanner.com7 commentsSocialRank

Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones, used to write and rewrite poems in college so she could memorize them. She writes, In college I was in love with literature. I mean wild about it. I typed poems by…

How Much Stuff Do You Need?

www.scotthyoung.com12 commentsSocialRank

You need stuff to live. You need food to eat, water to drink and (at least in most climates) a roof over your head. At a basic level, stuff is necessary for survival. The question is, how much stuff do you really…

17 Jun

First Mozilla Bungles Firefox 3 Arrival, Then Delivers

webworkerdaily.com10 commentsSocialRank

You may have followed the hubbub today about the release of Mozilla’s Firefox 3 browser. The company had declared today Download Day, in an effort to set a Guinness World Record for most software downloads in one day.…

You’ll Pay to Quit This Job! One Company’s Nightmare Hiring Policy…

www.persistenceunlimited.com7 commentsSocialRank

One of the best email newsletters I subscribe to is Nick Corcodilos' Ask the Headhunter.  It is a fun newsletter that's very informative.  And today's issue was especially so.  A reader wrote in asking…

Getting Off Topic - How to Let Your Blog Go #2

www.problogger.net42 commentsSocialRank

One way that I see some bloggers ‘letting their blog go‘ is to become distracted and move off topic more and more. When I asked readers why they unsubscribed from a blog’s RSS feed they told me that the forth…

A Radical Goal Setting Technique That Works | PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement

www.pickthebrain.com0 commentsSocialRank

Goal setting techniques are not always very effective. They are often overcomplicated or do not inspire motivation from the user. When it comes to goal setting, simpler is better. You want to accomplish as much as…

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