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Chickens On Fire & Zen

17. September 2008

Running around like a chicken on fire greased with Tabasco is actually the easier thing. The harder thing is to freeze, not do anything and have a Zen moment. But the Zen moments are quintessentially important. Piling on more miles with that burning chicken makes you feel like you’re getting places, touching base, getting things done. It’s medal [...]

3 Simple Ways to Get the Right Things Done in 2008

4. January 2008

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1. Choose One Word for 2008. Christine Kane has a better way for you to start your year: choose a word. Just one word. That’s it. And this word will be your guiding focus for the next 12 months. Last year, I chose the word courage. Looking back, I think I’ve done pretty well. I faced my fear of talking [...]

How to Boost Your Confidence at Work

13. December 2007

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You’re probably already aware that confidence plays an enormous role in business success. When you exude confidence, you naturally attract others. People listen to you, follow you, and even buy products from you. Displaying confidence assures people that you know what you’re doing. Even people with the highest levels of self-esteem feel unsure of themselves at [...]

Working Less to Get More Done on Life Coaches Blog

12. October 2007

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I spent yesterday thinking of the answers to Tim Ferris‘ questions from his book The 4-Hour Workweek: Which 20% of my efforts are producing 80% of my results that I need to focus more on? And which 80% of my efforts producing 20% of my results can I eliminate from my life? The 80/20 Principle, also known as [...]

What is a Decluttered Schedule?

3. October 2007

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I’ve been wondering lately about what decluttering really means. One of my favorite designers John Maeda, author of The Laws of Simplicity, says in his (ironically rambling) TED talk that the simplest definition of simplicity is that ’simplicity is about living life with more enjoyment and less pain’. That rings very true. So how do we [...]

I Was Stressed Every Time I Sat In Front of My Computer Until…

26. August 2007

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I was stressed. Somehow I kept feeling like there was something bugging me…what? Then it hit me – and I had been staring at it all day long for weeks. It was my desktop clutter. This is a screenshot of my desktop at work. I thought it’d be a great idea to have my task list [...]

De-Cluttering Your Digital Life

31. July 2007

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Last week I did something incredibly stupid: I attempted to make changes to my computer’s partitions without first backing up my data. Something went wrong and it wiped out nearly 20GB of data. Ouch. Luckily for me, I had backed up most of my major files a few weeks beforehand and also made copies on my work [...]

How I Became An Inbox Ninja

29. July 2007

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Overcome by Email Avalanches I never had to deal with the problem of having too much email until I landed my new writing job 8 months ago. Suddenly I had a whole avalanche of incoming messages to handle and a whole new culture to learn! In the beginning I struggled to find the right balance of being [...]

Getting Your Life On Track Part 4

1. April 2007

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In Getting Your Life On Track Part 1, we discovered a way to find out if the things we spend our time on are really that urgent and important. In Getting Your Life On Track Part 2 we revealed how you could use that understanding to develop clear and important goals for yourself, so you’d always [...]

Getting Your Life On Track Part 3

29. March 2007

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In Getting Your Life On Track Part 1, we discovered a way to find out if the things we spend our time on are really that urgent and important. In Getting Your Life On Track Part 2 we revealed how you could use that understanding to develop clear and important goals for yourself, so you’d always [...]

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What is a Decluttered Schedule?

I Was Stressed Every Time I Sat In Front of My Computer Until…

De-Cluttering Your Digital Life

How I Became An Inbox Ninja

Getting Your Life On Track Part 4

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