Hi, my name is Oscar, and this is my personal development blog. I like to create stuff, challenge assumptions, and try out new things. I blog about personal development and everything I learn here. Read more.
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Productivity and Life Hacks
Prior to start offering consulting to companies I always wondered why salaries were so low and why I was not taken into consideration when something important was to be discussed. It felt weird to me, and I kept asking to myself this question: “Why am I so underpaid and only just a number in this society?” Then one day I got an illumination, and instead of complaining like the other days, I asked
I recently got an email from a reader asking for advice on how to generate traffic to a website built using the cloud living model. Of course the answer were already clear to both of us, and it is in fact written in the book itself. So what was the real problem? The real problem is that we are not accustomed at doing something small everyday until we reach a result after many weeks or months. We
Getting control of your life and knowing which tasks to do is one of the most useful skills you can learn.
It doesn’t matter if you can work 12 straight hours unless you know why you are doing it.
Learning how to prioritize your tasks is the natural intersection between short term planning and long term planning and it helps beating procrastination because you are always using your energies on what
I thought I was done with productivity systems. After reading GTD by Davin Allen, I used to think his productivity system was the best (for me) and I wouldn’t need anything else for getting things done. That’s why I didn’t consider the pomodoro technique the first time I came across it, one year ago. But as it always goes with good things, I was invited to try the pomodoro technique again a few days
“If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.” A. P. Gouthe.
Motivation is the essence of productivity. You can’t get much done without it, but you can achieve exceptional results if you know how to use it. There are two ways to gain motivation. The first one is more effective but hard to manage, and the second one is a bit less effective but very easy to manage:
I’m finally making this public. I want to do less. And do it well. I have been highly influenced by Leo Balbuta since he started his blog a few years ago to live a more simple life. He has written a wonderful book on the power of doing less which has helped me tremendously in a number of times. I said a number of times because I have always reverted back to the original state after a while, mostly
We have too much time. I do, you do, and everyone else probably does. The truth is that we don’t know what to do with all the time we have. You don’t believe me? So why aren’t you always working on your most important tasks? I don’t know the answer, but the truth is still that we don’t know what to do with all the time we have. Ok so, it’s time for another productivity trick today. This one I learned
I often hear from the average people that in order to build a successful career you need to specialize in doing something. I also that in school where you usually get high specialization in one skill while ignoring the rest. But I have always been a generalist myself, and so I used to think that when I switched from skill to skill I was only loosing my time. At least this is what they told me, I knew
That’s right, do less if you want to do more. This seems to be a popular topic on personal development blogs, yet the majority of people are still looking for ways to do compress and do a lot of things at the same time, so I want to give you my perspective on this. Doing less is a powerful technique that can dramatically change the way you live and the results you have. It can literally change all
The time management matrix is a concept I encountered for the first time while reading the 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen R. Covey. The idea is that you can classify every activity you do into one of the four quadrants. 
You can see from the picture that the quadrants are simply a cartesian representation where the vertical axis is for importance and the horizontal is for urgency.
