Productivity
Making the choice of working from home or from the office is not obvious and requires some considerations. There are many pros and cons for each option, and you have to evaluate them before making the decision (or asking your boss permission to work from home). I’ve been working both remotely and on site for quite some time, and I have to say that while I am working from home now, there was times where working from an office was a better option.
It’s time to do another 30 days challenge, this time with a focus on productivity. For the next 30 days I will not be allowed to access internet before 9 am and after 8pm. This should give me enough freedom in the morning (I wake up at 5 most days), but will prevent me from procrastinating in the evening. I figured that internet is perhaps the biggest obstacle in my productivity, and I want to fix
If you spend any amount of time online, chances are that you have passwords to remember. Logging into your bank account requires a password, posting into a forum or facebook requires an account which in turn requires a password, and so on. At any given time your mind has to keep track of between five and ten different passwords on average. This can be a source of frustration. You probably know that
I have a friend with a very unique buying style. She doesn’t like average, so every time she buys something, she either buys the best she can get, or the cheapest that she can find. The reason is simple. When you get the best of something, its overall quality is usually very high compared to the other average products. On the other hand, if you decide to buy average, there’s no much difference in
I use gmail for all my email communications as it’s very fast and reliable. In this post I want to share how I set up gmail for maximizing my productivity. I’ve been using this setup for many months and it’s working very well.
In his latest book, Linchpin, Seth Godin talks about how our internal resistance is keeping us from being remarkable. As he explains, we use two brains for making decisions. The first brain is the one we use for making rationale choices, while the second one is the one responsible for our instinct. Let’s call this second one the lizard brain. What’s funny is that this lizard brain still thinks that
Our body is not designed to stay sit for long hours, scientists say. The problem is that when we sit down we are relaxing certain muscles for too much time, thus making them weaker. The result is low back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other common diseases. But what you can do if you have a job that requires you to stay sit for 8 hours every day? One solution might be to install an infrastructure
When it comes to time management, I’m a double face man. From one side, I like to know what I should do and plan the day ahead. On the other side tough, I hate most time management systems out there (and I’ve tried many). In particular, this is what I don’t like about many existing systems
The last time I drank a cup of coffee was one year ago. I was curious to see if I could lower my stress level by avoiding coffee, so I started a 30 days experiment where I was not allowed to drink it. And I was right. It’s hard to believe, but now I never feel stressed, I sleep well, and I save a couple more bucks each week. Not bad for getting rid of an addiction. But the real question remains: If
Perhaps one of the biggest distractions we may have while working with a computer is internet. There are tons of websites to read, notifications to be checked, email and twitter streams to follow. It takes a lot of discipline to get back to work once you start browsing your favorite websites, and even when you’re working, you are often tempted to check what’s new online. Sounds familiar? Turns out
