11 Applications for your new Mac
After six years, I got to setup a new Mac. Having never done a format of the previous Mac and deciding not to migrate its installation, I found…
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Solving procrastination: I read this book so that you don't have to
Just finished Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change, by Timothy A. Pychyl. Dr Pychyl leads the Procrastination Research Group at Carleton University (Ottawa,…
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Tracking writing goals: Scrivener + Dropbox + Beeminder
I’ve been tempted to try out Beeminder's URLminder integration after their most recent blog post, and for added procrastinating fun time, I went out looking to make this…
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Be positive to be healthy to be positive
Positive emotions, positive social connections, and physical health influence one another in a self-sustaining upward-spiral dynamic. From a 2013 paper: The mechanisms underlying the association between positive emotions…
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A RescueTime alternative, Memory from Timely
There are plenty of software approaches to tracking who one spents time for billing and productivity (or just plain personal improvement) reasons. Memory is a new app from…
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How to make your job easier
Copying from the Productive Living Newsletter by Get Things Done author, David Allen Get your life back to widget-cranking! Oh, for a widget-cranking job again! Ever have gigs…
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My first 2017 resolution: do this "8,760 Hours" thing
If you're looking for a practical guide to do a "data dump" of your thoughts, wants and future planning, try out the 8,760 Hours: How to get the…
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How to be like Zorba
Some food for thought: Despite continual romantic, financial, and familial disasters, he says, “Zorba can dance in the present moment, because he knows that stress— the full catastrophe—…
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The importance of keeping score
It's fun when you practice something and it turns out that there is science backing it! In this case, keeping an account of small accomplishments. " y keeping…
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How to fail successfully
Top part: weight chart of the last 12 months (the bet started on June 10). Bottom left: trend of body fat in kg calculated by FatWatch. Bottom right:…
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