The piece starts with a slice of life, and before you rule this irrelevant to your own need for productivity and organization, think about it: how better to know what we need than to examine our lives at a step removed? At the end, Jon sums it up: The entire piece is of value, but that last bit is what drives it home to me. It’s thought provoking. How would you configure your life such that you weren’t hacking for yourself, so much as you were hacking life to make it easier for others around you?...

Some of us might still play the game today, though perhaps the stakes aren’t quite as high as they were when we were kids! Have you, however, ever thought about the strategy behind rock-paper-scissors? Can you, for instance, play in a way that maximizes your chances of winning? The answer is yes, but what may or may not surprise you is that most people don’t take advantage of that fact....

With the raising popularity of mobile devices like iPhone, iPad, Android phone, Android tablet, and so on, people might like to enjoy Blu-ray movies on their mobile devices. According to my expertise, Blu-ray movies are not supported by any mobile device. In order to enjoy Blu-ray movies on the go, we need to convert Blu-ray to a video format that is compatible with a specific mobile device. To rip and convert Blu-ray, a professional Blu-ray ripper is necessary....

Granularity for students Granularity is a tremendously useful strategy for students. The typical spiral-bound student-planner doesn’t seem to encourage it; that tool is often little more than a place to store due dates: “research paper due.” Getting details right Here are a few details to get right, always, when you are writing for a college class. Twenty uses for a Post-it Note Jot down less familiar keyboard shortcuts on a Post-it to keep by your computer....

Why is this? Well, the main reason is simple. It takes time to create that value for other people and it takes time to become visible to that group of buyers that your value product is targeted at. And we all know how time and the passing of it can kill anything you’ve started right? Remember, you’re going from completely unknown to the level where you start getting noticed, by people in your niche or by search engines like Google....

According to the mainstream opinion in the United States and many other countries, meaning and purpose come from religion. At the same time, research shows that having a clear answer to the question of life meaning and purpose can greatly improve our mental and physical wellbeing. Thus, many people claim that you should believe in God and go to church in order to have strong meaning and purpose and improve your health and wellbeing....

Scientific research has started to uncover the health benefits that this simple act can provide to your entire body and its basis lies in the energy that enters your body and spreads when you stand directly on the ground. Maintaining a healthy body and slowing down the aging process depends a lot on controlling what scientists refer to as free radicals. Free radical damage is when your cells deteriorate, whether it be through the process of aging or other external factors such as poor diet, alcohol and drug abuse or a sedentary lifestyle....

A total of 408 fifth grade children were asked a variety of questions about their relationships with their grandparents. These questions were designed to measure how close they were to each other, among other things. The children were asked questions on a number of topics; for example, their likelihood to seek advice or support from their grandparent. To create a comparison, the questions were followed up a year later. Grandparents matter above and beyond parents, they are an important resource....

In reality, the difference between great salespeople and good salespeople is often that great salespeople know how to manage their time. By using every minute to its fullest, they’re able to knock out the mundane tasks and still have plenty of time left in the day to actually sell. Here are five of the most effective time management strategies to make sure you’re able to sell more without having to put long hours in every day:...

This lesson is free for the first 7 days. To access this lesson after that and to all the other lessons, it costs $4.99 per month. Here’s an excerpt form this lesson – A good place to start your search is a site called AlternativeTo. By typing the name of the patent application in the search box, AlternativeTo will show you any alternative applications available. People can Like an app to let you know how well the app replaces the commercially popular application....

These people are generally losers who have found little tricks to manage their “careers”. I call them them hyenas; corporate hyenas, because they hang around the lions and leopards—people who do real work—and live off their kills. Only occasionally will they hunt and kill themselves, and when they get pressured, they may chase off the lions and leopards to get a fresh piece of meat. How to Spot a Hyena Corporate hyenas pop up in email threads by forwarding them to new people (they “reach out”) suggesting that they connect and alert higher management of progress on various topics....

In this article, I will take a comprehensive look at why fish oil is recommended for everyone, especially men. Let’s start with the sources of fish oil and how it could be good for your health. Fish Oil Sources and Why It Could Be a Good Catch Fish oil is primarily found and extracted from oily fish varieties, such as salmon, tuna, mackerel, sardine, herring, and trout.[1] It contains two highly beneficial types of omega-3 fatty acids for many health conditions:[2]...

HelloSign changes the entire digital signature landscape. From the folks that made internet fax easy and affordable with HelloFax, HelloSign is ideal for Realtors, Insurance agents, Financial Advisors and anyone else who wants a better, easier more convenient and still legal and secure way to sign documents. Digital signatures made easy, HelloSign! Have a look! Check Out Steve’s Favourite 7 FREE productivity apps.

Back then, I usually solved my problem by drinking beer. I would drink as much as I could handle comfortably, and pretty soon I’ll be having ZZzzz. The problem though was that the following morning, I’d be nursing a heavy head. In case you have the same problem, you need Sleep Headband Headphones otherwise known as SleepPhone. With it, you can cancel out all the noise that bother you and replace it with pleasing music or audio that help soothe and induce sleep....

What used to be a tool that can make our work more efficient is now the same reason why some people are having productivity issues in the workplace. Are we a society that has become too dependent on technology? Experts say yes. With our growing reliance on things found in our phones, it is a good idea to have apps that can help boost productivity by keeping us focused on what we really need to do....

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After honing my vision of personal productivity at Lifehack.org, I shifted to the next piece of the productivity puzzle. I believe content in Lifehack.org is great to show you how to be more productive, but providing the actual tools and solutions is the way to enable you to be more productive. With that vision, in September 2007, I founded the startup Stepcase Limited. Lifehack.org, now we call it Stepcase Lifehack, folds into Stepcase’s flagship brand, continuing to provide tens of thousands of daily readers with the best productivity, organization, and personal development content available, on the Web or off....

What about you? Have you ever had a thought that you didn’t follow up on only to discover later that you made a huge mistake? Then, in comes your inner voice screaming, “I told you to do it.” The gentle inner nudge and this screaming voice is your intuition. Everyone has intuitive potential. Although, not everyone listens or acts upon the messages. What is intuition? Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary defines intuition as: a natural ability or power that makes it possible to know something without any proof or evidence: a feeling that guides a person to act a certain way without fully understanding why....

Motivation is essentially a combination of two emotional states: courage and desire (sometimes referred to as “confidence” and “importance”). If both of these emotional states are strong, then motivation will be high. If even one of them is low, motivation is adversely affected. In most of the cases I’ve dealt with people were naturally tuned towards being anti-authoritarian. This is why trying to force motivation into someone doesn’t work. It’s also why giving advice to an unmotivated person only makes them less likely to take action....