Archive for July, 2009
Posted on July 31, 2009 by LJ Earnest
This week I am on vacation, so I am re-running the most popular posts from my blogs. Enjoy! Post originally published on 5/18/2007. In the article, The Seven Essential “Stations” Every Home Should Have – lifehack.org, seven areas in the house are laid out for organization. I think that this [...]
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Posted on July 30, 2009 by LJ Earnest
This week I am on vacation, so I am re-running the most popular posts from my blogs. Enjoy! Post originally published on 9/22/2008. Back in 2007, Mark Shead over at Productivity501 ran an article: 17 Things you Should Stop Doing. I come back to this list frequently. As I think [...]
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Posted on July 29, 2009 by LJ Earnest
This week I am on vacation, so I am re-running the most popular posts from my blogs. Enjoy! Post originally published on 10/30/2008. One thing I wanted to avoid during this period of unemployment was falling into habits that would be not only counter-productive, but could be detrimental to my [...]
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Posted on July 28, 2009 by LJ Earnest
This week I am on vacation, so I am re-running the most popular posts from my blogs. Enjoy! This was originally published on 10/29/2008. Most living spaces, with the exception of the tiniest, have some area that can be set aside for guests: the ubiquitous guest room. Few of us [...]
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Posted on July 27, 2009 by LJ Earnest
This week I am on vacation, so I am re-running the most popular posts from my blogs. Enjoy! Originally published 5/22/2008 You are about to step into a meeting with the visiting vice-president, and you realized that you have spilled coffee down your shirt, and you are missing a button. [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2009 by LJ Earnest
Fridays are tip days at SimpleProductivity blog. Recently a dear friend of mine asked me how to manage blog reading. She had just gotten into the whole blog reading concept, but found she never remembered to check for new articles. Here are some ways to manage blog reading: Please note [...]
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Posted on July 23, 2009 by LJ Earnest
There comes a time in every examined life where you have to stop and say “What am I trying to do?” This question may be resolved by a quick examination of current goals and a re-orientation in that direction, or it may be something much deeper, requiring further questions. If [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2009 by LJ Earnest
Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog. I had a professor once who used to toss a few easy questions onto a multiple choice test, then chide us: “take the low-hanging fruit when it is offered.” I was thinking of him recently during a staff meeting where our boss was [...]
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