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Time Management For Anarchists

A while back, Jim Munroe started giving a talk called ‘Time Management for Anarchists.’ The talk evolved into a Flash adaptation, complete with historic anarchists Emma Goldman and Mikhail Bakunin. From there, Jim teamed up with Marc Ngui and turned the whole concept into a comic book, now available as a PDF.

The comic, the talk and the Flash presentation all focus on a surprisingly simple dilemma… Continue reading

November 7 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: jim munroe, self-discipline, time-management | 7 comments»

Shifting Back Into Gear: Coming Back From Something Big

In our lives, we face small problems and big problems. Small problems can be easily dealt with: if you’ve got some sort of productivity system already in place, a minor issue is nothing more than a bump in the road. But what about the big problems? What about the stuff that throws off weeks, rather than days? Or the stuff that takes you away from your system for a… Continue reading

October 21 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: absence, catch up | 8 comments»

How to Fix a Trouble Area in Your Life

We all have trouble areas in our lives. No matter how many you seem to knock off, there are always more to deal with.

That’s not a bad thing, and it’s not a self-defeating attitude so long as you look at life as a journey in self-improvement. If we reached a point where there was nothing left to improve about ourselves, we may as well take a dive off a tall… Continue reading

October 20 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: | 4 comments»

5 Suggestions for Leaving With Style

There’s something to be said for leaving a former employer with style. We’re in the middle of a time when more than a few employers are having to downsize and plenty of people who would otherwise be assured of a job are getting the axe. Just because a former employer may have directed you to the door, however, you can still walk out with your pride intact. The same… Continue reading

October 7 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: career, network, resignation | 7 comments»

Finding Diamonds in Your Past

“Been there, done that” has become synonymous with boredom or lack of challenge for some people. For others it is a mini retirement statement. We think it can represent a great place to look for new opportunities.

Maybe you or someone you know has made money in one area then gone on to try something a new area and ended up with lousy results. A bit like Michael Jordan once… Continue reading

October 7 2008 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: learning, past, Productivity, reflection, repretition, success | 2 comments»

Wiggio: An Extra Simple Collaboration Tool

If you’ve been looking for an absolutely easy way to collaborate with a group, I’d recommend trying out Wiggio. The application just came into public beta today and it’s one of the easiest-to-use collaboration tools I’ve run across. If you’ve ever had to work with group members unfamiliar with tools beyond email, Wiggio can provide an easy solution for group collaboration. It’s not too bad for more advanced… Continue reading

September 16 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: application, collaboration, wiggio | 6 comments»

Ten Lessons from China’s Olympics Preparations

It looks like much of the gold that was brought to China for this year’s Olympics will remain there after the games’ end. Michael Phelps’ legendary 8 gold medals for the US team helped the Americans bring up their count but not nearly enough to keep them in the top spot for winning gold since the fall of the Soviet empire. Even if you discount a few from China for… Continue reading

August 29 2008 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: china, goal, leadership, olympics, planning, preparation, Productivity, strength, teamwork | 13 comments»

4 Personally Proven Steps To Become A Calmer Person

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… Continue reading

August 14 2008 | By Mohamad Zaki | Tagged: calmness, development, life, relaxation | 11 comments»

What Are Your Filters?

Whammo! You didn’t see that coming, did you?

Why is it that, despite all our planning, we sometimes get caught by surprise, totally unprepared, with our pants down as it were? I mean, we’re smart folks, right? How come sometimes we just don’t see stuff coming?

The answer is, much of the time, that we don’t see everything clearly because we don’t see a lot of things at all. We process the… Continue reading

August 13 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: filter, gender, interaction, people, perception, race | 5 comments»

5 Alternatives to Time-Wasting Meetings

Nobody likes meetings. Well, not “nobody” – that older guy with the beard that nobody seems to know personally that comes to every meeting? He likes meetings, because he gets a free donut and a nap. But other than him, most people see meetings as way too unproductive and time-consuming to be likable. Necessary, sometimes, but not likable.

There are a lot of reasons why meetings can waste more time than… Continue reading

August 6 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: brainstorming, collaboration, im, meeting, software, web-app | 19 comments»

Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Managing Multiple Jobs At Once

Some of us take on second jobs to make ends meet. Some do it for a chance to do the work they actually enjoy. And some of us create our own second jobs to build a business or create our own projects. No matter what the reason, though, juggling more than one job is guaranteed to be a crash course in time management. If you’re not careful, the word… Continue reading

August 5 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: career, second job, time-management | 14 comments»

7 Portfolio Tricks That Will Land You A Job

Layoffs. Downsizing. Transitions. It’s a scary time to be out in the job market. If you’re hunting for a job, you’ve probably been handing out resumes like crazy. The problem is that, when you really look at a resume, every single one is the same. They’re all on the same size of paper, easily shuffled into a stack, just the way human resource managers like them.

There’s just not a… Continue reading

July 29 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: career, job, portfolio | 15 comments»

Dealing with Downsizing: How to Prepare

It’s awful to hang around an office where everyone knows that job cuts are coming. There’s a sense that everyone’s just waiting for the shoe to drop. No one in the office wants to lose their job and go through the horrors of the job hunt. At the same time, though, no one wants to be the guy left at the end — the guy now doing the work… Continue reading

July 17 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: downsizing, job hunt | 7 comments»

How to Avoid Getting Stuck in the Past

Do you have a trophy room? This is a place where you keep your various trophies, certificates, award plaques, autographed trinkets and other things that remind you of past accomplishments. This could be a fireplace mantle, space on a bookshelf, a downstairs room or a building depending on what you have been up to. If you have one of these, be careful to avoid getting stuck in the past. They… Continue reading

July 16 2008 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: development, growth, motivation, past, Productivity | 4 comments»

7 Free Books That Should Be On Your Shelves

Who doesn’t like free stuff? And if we’re talking about stuff that will actually help you out in the long run, it’s hard to find a reason to turn it down. Free books, for example, are more than worth their price, especially if they are good reference materials. But sometimes it can be hard to find free books — it’s not necessarily something that’s advertised.

There are plenty of… Continue reading

July 15 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: book, reference | 9 comments»

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