Posted on December 15, 2011 by GuestPost
When creating a plan to meet goals, you probably create lists and schedules to remember your goals and tasks, and write outlines to organize your thoughts. However, these traditional methods of organizing your thoughts and ideas may be limiting your potential. Mind maps can change that.
Continue ReadingPosted on December 12, 2011 by LJ Earnest
This article was originally published on 17 December 2007. Photo by By POSITiv To do lists. Those (in)famous little lists that supposedly keep us on track. I believe they’ve been around since the dawn of writing. To do lists, also known as next-action lists and many other names, are simply [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on September 16, 2011 by LJ Earnest
Outsourcing. It’s been a big buzzword in many productivity books in the past few years. The concept makes a whole lot of sense: put the low-return work out to someone else and concentrate on the work that returns the highest payout. It makes perfect sense if you have a lot of research or clerical work to accomplish; but what if the stuff is more mundane? Here are ways to outsource the little stuff.
Continue ReadingPosted on September 8, 2011 by LJ Earnest
Flylady, is a bubbly dispenser of no-nonsense advice on how to get your home in order. While I no longer follow her system, over the years I have applied bits and pieces of her methods and advice, to varying degrees of success. She is one of the pillars my personal philosophy of productivity is based on. While it may seem strange to have a housekeeping system as a basis for productivity, I have learned many things, as was highlighted in this series on Flylady Productivity techniques.
Continue ReadingPosted on August 26, 2011 by LJ Earnest
In the course of my job as a web programmer, I use Excel a lot. Not in the ways that most people use it, for graphs and calculations and nice neat rows of numbers.
No, Excel is my powerhouse for assembling text.
It occurred to me that people might get some benefit from learning how to do this, so here is my method:
Continue ReadingPosted on August 1, 2011 by LJ Earnest
(From July 2009)…A reader asked me about procrastination tips. I am assuming that we want to know about how to get around procrastination, rather than how to procrastinate! Today I share some tips on how to stop procrastination.
Continue ReadingPosted on July 28, 2011 by LJ Earnest
Yesterday I talked about how to make the overall process of moving easier. But if you have small children in the house, moving can be traumatic. I thought I would take today’s article to give some tips on how to make moving easier on children.
Continue ReadingPosted on July 27, 2011 by LJ Earnest
A reader is facing a major move in her life, from a small attached house to a free-standing house, this time with a young child in tow. She asked me to write an article on how to simplify moving. Bear in mind, I haven’t moved in 8 years, but the last time I moved, my husband and I did it with the help of three other adults, and I had a 10 month old baby and 2 cats running around underfoot. The move was successful: everything ended up in the right place, and I had the kitchen in such order that by the second day after the move I made brownies. From scratch. (Yes, it can be done!)
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