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I often tell folks that schools teach bad habits as well as good ones.   For one thing, your typical college course habituates students into believing that everything consists of neatly packaged problems that they can be graded on.  Is that how people are evaluated in the real world?   Similarly, most college courses teach ...

Everybody has to get things done.  That's just a fact of life.  However, how you go about getting things done varies tremendously from person to person. You might say that every time we do something, it consists of two simple phases…planning and action.  You could also say that, in essence, each person cycles through ...

Well, that's an interesting title for an article.  While I'm at it, I'll advise you to eat less.  And make more money too.Actually, odds are that if you are reading this blog post you probably read pretty quickly already.  But there are some people who don't...and for them, I'd imagine the information here can make a huge ...

OK, in the previous article I wrote about why audio books are a great alternative to the radio.  This time, I'm going to make some specific recommendations about how to get yourself started.1. Get an MP3 PlayerFirst order of business...you need an MP3 player.  If you've joined the iPod generation already, no problem, you're set.  ...

In my last article, I talked about what kind of tasks we can successfully combine together to save time.  This article discusses one specific way to multitask that I find useful, which is listening to audio books while driving to work.Best use of time - drive lessFirst things first.  The top thing to figure out about your commute is how ...

As I've mentioned before, it's difficult for us, as mere human beings, to maintain our effectiveness when we try to switch rapidly between multiple tasks.  It's nothing to be ashamed of...it's just how the species is wired.  We're not computers, after all.Still, it would be a mistake to say that people should never multitask.  ...

This post is the second post in a series on how to manage your e-mail.  The first post is here.Tip #3 - Use a ''Getting Things Done'' workflow for managing e-mail.I'm a huge fan of the ''Getting Things Done'' system for managing commitments, and managing e-mail using GTD's workflow definitely works.  Here are some specific guidelines for ...

A few months ago, I did a ''Getting Things Done'' presentation for the team here at SnapStream.  As I've mentioned before, GTD is a system developed by David Allen for organizing and dealing with your tactical commitments.  The presentation focused on two things...the concepts of Getting Things Done, and specific recommendations on how ...

As I move on from the inaugural tip, I feel I should mention that I write these tips from the context of what is right for me.  I do not claim to know you personally or know exactly what's right for you.  Nevertheless, I have synthesized my opinions from a fairly large base of feedback over time, and they are, in my opinion, ...

I figured that it might be interesting to clue people in on the little things I do to try and improve my life.  I find myself constantly picking up on little things that other people don't do and I'm sure I can help a few people by posting what I've learned so far.  So let's get started.As you may have gathered from the title of the ...