Using OneNote
Chris Pratley is a developer at Microsoft. The blog is not very up to date, but features useful tips on how to use OneNote. The official website from Microsoft has also a lot of tips and tricks.
Angenehmer arbeiten mit 5A
Aussortieren, Arbeitsplatz säubern, Arbeitsmittel ergonomisch anordnen, Anordungen zur Regel machen, Alle Punkte einhalten und ständig verbessern.
Link: Angenehmer arbeiten mit 5A auf www.4managers.de.
Personal Development for Smart People
A site featuring a blog and articles on a variety of topics related to:
- Time Management: Master your time usage and become extremely productive
- Motivation: Cultivate burning desire to keep you moving towards your goals
- Overcoming Procrastination: Defeat the thief of time
- Goals: Set realistic goals, create action plans, and achieve the results you want
- Courage: Summon the inner strength to take action in spite of fear
- Work/Career: Build a career you're truly passionate about
- Wealth/Money: Achieve financial abundance without compromising your integrity
- Momentum: Develop the ongoing habit of success that keeps your energy and enthusiasm high
- Problem Solving: Confront and solve the hard problems of life, from business to relationships
- Balance: Enjoy the feeling of inner peace by balancing all areas of your life
- Fulfillment: Experience pervasive lifelong fulfillment by living consciously according to your deepest values and beliefs
- Consciousness: Raise your awareness and live more consciously than ever before
Link: Personal Development for Smart People - Steve Pavlina.
How to Get More Done in Less Time by Steve Pavlina
Become more productive by limiting the time you actualy have to get your work done.
50 Strategies for Making Yourself Work
50 ideas for writers on how to get started & keep on going until that book or article is done.
What are your strengths?
Prof. Martin Seligman (Director of the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center) offers a couple of questionnaires to assess your strengths, work/life balance & general happiness.
Positive Psychology is a new branch of psychology which focuses on the empirical study of such things as positive emotions, strengths-based character, and healthy institutions.
The one thing you need to know
“Discover what you don’t like doing and stop doing it.”
“Whenever you become aware of some aspect you dislike, do not try to work through it. Do not chalk it up to the realities of life. Do not put up with it. Instead, cut it out of your life as fast as you can. Eradicate it.”
“The one thing you need to know about sustained individual success: Discover what you don’t like doing and stop doing it.”
all from Marcus Buckingham's latest book "The One Thing you need to Know".
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How Bill Gates works
Quite interesting to read how people get their work done. Here's an article on how Bill Gates organizes himself & some tips on how to use the Microsoft tools from Fortune.
Related post: "How do you work".
Another view on how to organize your week
Organize your activities around 4 different types of days.
1. Rest & Relaxation Days - 24 hours of no business related activities, reading or problem solving. Total downtime to rejuvenate and recharge your batteries. ALWAYS schedule your R&R Days© first.
2. Money Making Activities Days© - Scheduled business time with no interruptions where you focus only on activities that produce income.
3. Grunt Days - These are the days that you do all the "stuff." Because you have focused days for producing income and rejuvenating, you can devote time to tie up loose-ends, finish projects etc. totally guilt free.
4. Elimination Days - Life is messy and messes happen in both your personal and professional life. Messes clutter your life and cause distractions, interruptions and get you bogged down. Elimination days you permission to clean up the mess so you can back on track.
Pasted from <http://www.just15minutes.com/articles/a00140.htm>
Related post: "Organizing your work week"
Do you love what you do?
Leading Ideas: Do What You Love by Doug Sundheim
I recently read Steve Jobs's 2005 Stanford University commencement address -- which John commented on. In it, Jobs describes a simple question he uses to measure how inspired he feels each day. Since the age of 17, he has been asking himself the same question every morning. "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" "Whenever the answer has been 'no' for too many days in a row," he goes on to say, "I know I need to change something."
Something to consider:
When you do what you love, you come to life. You wake up parts of you that are dormant. You give off positive energy which everyone sees. Take the time to find and follow your passion. Passion breathes life into you and everything around you.
Something to try:
1. Ask yourself the same question as Steve Jobs above.
2. If you'd rather be doing something else, articulate it as clearly as possible.
3. Move in that direction - start doing small things if you have to.
4. Realize that you're most valuable to yourself and the world when you're doing whatever makes you come alive.
Pasted from: http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2005/08/02/leading_ideas_do_what_you_love.html
