If your income fluctuates (you are a freelancer or own your own business), it's a good idea to set up a separate business bank account (checking and savings). That's a given. However, another thing you may want to do is set up TWO business bank savings accounts: One for regularly paying your monthly bills and the other as a safety cushion. You might be better off opening an … [Read more...]
40 Ways to Relax in 5 Minutes or Less
There are 364 new emails in the inbox, those new pants are covered in scalding coffee, and the next conference call starts in exactly five minutes. In other words, it’s the perfect time to relax. When we’re feeling frazzled, a weekend at a beach resort might be just the thing to calm our nerves. But there isn’t always time for tanning, let alone sleeping, eating, or going to … [Read more...]
Web Browser Keyboard Shortcuts
What do you do when you’re confronted with the aforementioned problem? You use a keyboard shortcut to hack your way out of it, of course! When you set your homepage to the Wikipedia Random article link, you run into the problem of getting a new random article every time you open a new tab. But we don’t want to put a roadblock in this newly-forming habit of daily learning, so … [Read more...]
Become a Learning Machine with Wikipedia’s Random Articles
Did you know that Wikipedia.org had a random article link in its left sidebar? Well, it does, and it's super cool. You can become the genius you were born to be! There it is right there. Now, to force yourself to learn this, put that URL in your browser favorites, or--better yet--save it as your homepage. That way, each time you fire up another browser window or … [Read more...]
Single Biggest Productivity Tip
My biggest productivity tip is very simple. It isn't a fancy application for your computer. It isn't a complicated process. It is very basic and very easy. Anybody can do it! Here it is: Every night, as the very last thing you do before you lie down to sleep, take out a blank piece of paper. Write down the 3 most important things you want to accomplish the next day. These … [Read more...]