From the always insightful Dragos Roua:

Try to bargain everything in your life. Negotiate while shopping up to the point every salesman will be pissed off and give you stuff for free. Do this for…

From trizle.com:

You rid 10 same spam emails daily.

It takes two minutes.

“it’s no big deal!” you tell yourself.

That means you lose ~12 hours per year (1.5 days of work your boot-tay…

From the most definitive To-Do list How-To I have seen comes this from Lee Cash:

Don’t flood your list with superfluous micro-tasks. It’s tempting, but over-filling your list in order to feel like…

Lisa Hoover:

One thing fans of the GTD ethic like is a to-do list manager that doesn't get in the way of the good work habits you're trying to create. Nexty, an open-source webapp created…

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” – Cyril Northcote Parkinson¹

This is a huge challenge for most people when they are trying to become more productive. The…

via singletasking.gif .

Could not be more true.

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Trizle:

Get a friend. or Twitter, etc.”I will finish X by Wednesday.”Tell another friend.The more friends you tell, the likelier you beat X into submission by _______ day.

Quick and dirty advice.

From the website:

focus booster is a simple and elegant application designed

to help you eliminate the anxiety of time and enhance your focus and concentration.

This is a basically a Pomodoro…

It is always harder to start pushing a boulder than it is to keep pushing the boulder. Once you get momentum working things become a lot easier to move. The same is true with productivity, once you…

This is a great list of tips for how long to keep certain documents. It is important to remember that not only does this help reduce clutter, it also helps increase security by digitizing (and…