Check out these great tips for strengthening your back, for cycling and many other activities......
courtesy of Bicycling Magazine
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Baby got back
Check out these great tips for strengthening your back, for cycling and many other activities......
courtesy of Bicycling Magazine
Becoming an email Ninja!
1. Filter or remove Junk.
2. Switch off Notifications.
3. Batch your work.
4. Stupid joke emails - don't need em.
5. Publish policies.
6. Have an external to-do system.
7. Process quickly.
8. Be liberal with the delete key.
9. Short but powerful replies.
10. Process to done.
I have been using this "system" for just on 3 weeks now, and it's AWESOME!!!! I use only around 30-45 minutes per day on emails, and have been ending each day with an empty inbox!!!
What a feeling!!!!
Found it on Tim Ferris' blog - go there to read the details, and join the email ninja movement....
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
TEN POINTS to unlock your energy
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| Desktop Energy Seed Lamp |
- Be easily pleased
- Direct your energies positively
- Make plans you can look forward to
- Watch your thoughts: they become your words
- Don't mistake pleasure for happiness
- Relax about money
- Nothing can ever erase your good deeds
- Act as though it were impossible to fail
- Stop giving energy to things you don't believe in
- You already possess all the material from which to create your ideal self
Monday, September 5, 2011
17 Productivity Tips to double your productivity in 14 days
From our friend, and my guru, Robin S, comes these 17 Tips To Double Your Productivity In 14 Days
1. Turn off all technology for 60 minutes a day and focus on doing your most important work.
2. Work in 90 minute cycles (tons of science is now confirming that this is the optimal work to rest ratio).
3. Start your day with at least 30 minutes of exercise.
4. Don’t check your email first thing in the morning.
5. Turn all your electronic notifications off.
6. Take one day a week as a complete recovery day, to refuel and regenerate (that means no email, no phone calls and zero work). You need full recovery one day a week otherwise you’ll start depleting your capabilities.
7. The data says workers are interrupted every 11 minutes. Distractions destroy productivity. Learn to protect your time and say no to interruptions.
8. Schedule every day of your week every Sunday morning. A plan relieves you of the torment of choice (said novelist Saul Bellow). It restores focus and provides energy.
9. Work in blocks of time. Creative geniuses all had 2 things in common: when they worked they were fully engaged and when they worked, they worked with this deep concentration for long periods of time. Rare in this world of entrepreneurs who can’t sit still.
10. Drink a liter of water early every morning. We wake up dehydrated. The most precious asset of an entrepreneur isn’t time – it’s energy. Water restores it.
11. Don’t answer your phone every time it rings.
12. Invest in your professional development so you bring more value to the hours you work.
13. Avoid gossip and time vampires.
14. Touch paper just once.
15. Keep a “Stop Doing List”.
16. Get up at 5 am.
17. Have meetings standing up.
1. Turn off all technology for 60 minutes a day and focus on doing your most important work.
2. Work in 90 minute cycles (tons of science is now confirming that this is the optimal work to rest ratio).
3. Start your day with at least 30 minutes of exercise.
4. Don’t check your email first thing in the morning.
5. Turn all your electronic notifications off.
6. Take one day a week as a complete recovery day, to refuel and regenerate (that means no email, no phone calls and zero work). You need full recovery one day a week otherwise you’ll start depleting your capabilities.
7. The data says workers are interrupted every 11 minutes. Distractions destroy productivity. Learn to protect your time and say no to interruptions.
8. Schedule every day of your week every Sunday morning. A plan relieves you of the torment of choice (said novelist Saul Bellow). It restores focus and provides energy.
9. Work in blocks of time. Creative geniuses all had 2 things in common: when they worked they were fully engaged and when they worked, they worked with this deep concentration for long periods of time. Rare in this world of entrepreneurs who can’t sit still.
10. Drink a liter of water early every morning. We wake up dehydrated. The most precious asset of an entrepreneur isn’t time – it’s energy. Water restores it.
11. Don’t answer your phone every time it rings.
12. Invest in your professional development so you bring more value to the hours you work.
13. Avoid gossip and time vampires.
14. Touch paper just once.
15. Keep a “Stop Doing List”.
16. Get up at 5 am.
17. Have meetings standing up.
SHARING. TEN POINTS of SPRING.
I am not able to be as consistent as before with sharing the TEN POINTS, since they don't just appear in my postbox, as they used to, but I will try to get them on here as much as possible.
This week, as SPRING gathers momentum, I wanna thank Gason for emailing me a photo of the points, so that the SHARING could take place :
Be content with life as it is
Discover the present
Banish negative thoughts about yourself
Discover that good is good enough
Find yourself in someone else
Happiness come not from reaching out, but from letting go
Savour the time you spend with the people who matter most to you
Show love to your fellow human beings, and you show love to your God
Choose to look forward to something when you get up in the morning
Say the sentimental things we all feel but are to scared to speak out loud
Enjoy picking the ones that truly resonate with you, and have a fun week....!
Courtesy of Life and Style Magazine
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Time to start writing again!
I've been reminded recently about how great it is to blog....reading SistaSue's blog, SueBai has got me wanting to punch my keyboard again, for something other than emails and powerpoint slides......
So, watch this space as it evolves......
So, watch this space as it evolves......
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