Archive for the Out Of The Box Category

Simple Productivity (in seventeen syllables)

Posted on February 25, 2010 by GuestPost

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Followup to Weather Applications

Posted on January 30, 2010 by LJ

Some of you might have wondered at my last article, and my concern about the weather. It has proved to be very handy in the last 24 hours.
You see, I live in an area of the United States that doesn’t get snow. Our major weather events are nor’easters and hurricanes. [...]

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Concerto Living

Posted on January 13, 2010 by LJ

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

I’m a musician, both by training, and often by how I think. My life has a soundtrack, both of music and non-music, and there are a lot of things that I find in music that apply to everyday living. One of those things is [...]

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Best Books I Read In 2009

Posted on January 7, 2010 by LJ

Guess what? I don’t spend all of my free time reading productivity books. In fact, 2009 was a banner year for reading fiction.
Usually I stick to the same sort of books every time. I like cozy mysteries, or the classics. But this year I branched out a bit, [...]

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Sunday Rant: Does The Character of Authors Matter?

Posted on December 20, 2009 by LJ

I’ve gotten involved in a discussion over at a group about productivity in response to a question about an author’s ethics. The person asking the question was planning on getting the book, but found a review that made him raise questions. I answered with a specific example of what I [...]

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Getting back to exercise: the obvious

Posted on December 17, 2009 by LJ

I’ve slacked off on exercising.
The sad part is that I have a whole list of excuses why I can’t exercise. During the summer it was because it was too hot, or I didn’t have time before work. Since school started, I’ve been walking after I get my daughter on the [...]

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