TEDxPortsmouth – Dr. Alan Watkins – Being Brilliant Every Single Day: (Part 1) (Part 2) Your performance and results… … depend on your behaviour … which depends on what you think … which depends on how you feel … which depends on your emotions … which depend on your physiology (…) the dominant factor in the thinking <=> feeling loop is feeling (…) feelings are the awareness of your raw emotions...
Pulling a few weeds every time is good for maintenance, but it doesn’t make sense to spread fertilizer one square foot each day. Cricket (via The Repeat Test and Personal Kanban ) Little-and-often and do-till-one are two different tools. (…) most projects need a mix of tools.
The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself You’ll Ever Need : zenhabits And those two things are so deceptively simple that you might decide to stop reading after I name them: 1) make things enjoyable and 2) use positive public pressure . Also, reframing things can go a long way into motivating someone to do something they really don’t wan’t to do!
(via Just For Fun: ADHD and Routine )
The Simplest and Most Effective Method of All? – Blog – Get Everything Done 3 + 2* Write down three tasks Do the first two in order Add another two tasks (so there are three tasks again) Do the first two in order Repeat ad infinitum (…) I myself have found it works best for me the less I consult them [ lists ]. This is because every time I do two tasks the method requires me to think carefully about what I should do next....
I must admit my heart sank a little bit a lot when saw this on my RescueTime “Weekly Summary” email… Oh dear! “Notepad”? Really?!? Sounds like a clear case of corporactivitis to me 🙁 For The Week Of April 04, 2013Top applications and websites: 13h 06m — wiki.netpost 6h 16m — NotePad 5h 01m — MS Excel 3h 39m — MS Outlook 2h 09m — Windows Explorer
Three useful one-liner anchors to use on e-mail | Ricardo Clerigo I also find that starting text with a “> [Keyword]” combination works great, as in: Agreed: text Follow-up: text Action: text
Only be as organized as you need to. No more. (via The greatest advice I’ve ever had on self-management )
Shortcat – Keyboard productivity app for Mac OS X onethingwell : Shortcat is a keyboard tool for Mac OS X that lets you “click” buttons and control your apps with a few keystrokes. Think of it as Spotlight for the user interface. Shortcat leverages the Accessibility API, which is supported by all applications that come with Mac OS X and most applications.
(via Time Timer | Visual Timer, Classroom Timer, Autism Timer ) The Time Timer® is a visual timer. As time elapses, the signature red disk disappears, helping everyone see how much time is left.