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How to Improve Your Concentration
Does your mind wander when it should be firing on all cylinders? Do you lack focus? Are you unable to concentrate on this very post... HEY, PAY ATTENTION! Lifehack.org offers 10 tips for sharpening your concentration skills, including my personal favorite:Isolate Yourself  Become a hermit and stay away from other...
Tags: Time-Savers, General, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2007-07-31
Learn to Deal with Job Burnout
You know the feeling: You just can't slog through another day of the same work, the same meetings, the same everything. It's called burnout, and it happens to just about everyone at one time or another. Before you do something drastic (like sending your boss an "I quit!" e-mail), check...
Tags: Rick Broida, job, General, burnout, Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing
Blog posts 2007-07-31
Harness the Power of Microtasks
Struggling to get started on a big project? Stuck at the halfway point? Perhaps it's time for a different approach. Personal-development blogger Steve Pavlina suggests breaking a large project down into "microtasks" -- small, easily accomplished action items that can be completed in under 30 minutes. Here's the idea in...
Tags: Time-Savers, General, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2007-07-24
Alternatives to SunRocket
Pity the poor home- or small-business owner who relied on SunRocket for phone service. As you've probably heard, the country's second-largest VoIP provider went belly-up this week, leaving 200,000-plus subscribers without service. I should know: I'm one of them.Never mind that SunRocket didn't bother to warn us that the plug...
Tags: General, Business, Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecom & Utilities, VoIP, SunRocket, Rick Broida, phone
Blog posts 2007-07-20
8 One-Liners Worth Remembering
It's time to become a master of the one-liner. No, not jokes, but simple, to-the-point sentences, the kind that make for truly effective communication. So says Lifehack.org, which offers 8 of these useful bursts of verbal acuity. Here are a couple highlights: Susan, Susan Thompson. The repetition of your first name twice is...
Tags: Business, General, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2007-07-19
Turn Lemons Into Lemonade
Everyone has bad experiences. It's how you react to them that counts. Lifehack.org offers 7 Practical Steps to Turn Around a Bad Experience, the idea being to help you take away something positive instead of getting mired in the negative. Here's an example:Find a New Goal  Don't dwell in the...
Tags: Rick Broida, General
Blog posts 2007-07-10
27 Ways to Boost Your Energy
Feeling sluggish? Can't get your brain in gear? (Welcome to my world!) The Ririan Project offers 27 ways to jump-start your mind and body. A few examples: Avoid quick-fix foods.  Candy, chocolate, hamburgers, chicken wings, french fries, etc. -- all these foods are high in sugar or fat and can do a huge...
Tags: Food & Beverage, General, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2007-07-06
How to Sync Files Between PCs
It's a common scenario: You've got a work PC and a home PC, and invariably the files you need are sitting on the "other" machine. What you need is an easy way to keep your files and folders in sync, so they're available and always current whether you're working at...
Tags: Desktops, General, GoodSync, PC, Rick Broida, SyncToy
Blog posts 2007-07-05
Make a Wall-Size Whiteboard on the Cheap
Whiteboards are undeniably handy to have on the wall, but they cost a small fortune. Even one that measures just 3x4 feet can run hundreds of dollars. Blogger Chris Metcalf writes about his experience with a dirt-cheap alternative:The same material that they make most commercial whiteboards out of is available...
Tags: Construction, Business, General, Rick Broida, whiteboard
Blog posts 2007-07-02
Hack Your Sleep Habits
You've been here before: For some reason you didn't sleep well last night, and now you're lurching around the office like a zombie, unable to concentrate or jittery as hell from all the coffee you drank. This happens to everyone occasionally, but if it's becoming a regular occurrence, it's time...
Tags: General, Travel Tips, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2007-06-25
Use Deadlines to Your Advantage
My whole life is deadlines. And you know what? I love 'em. Nothing gets the juices flowing like the knowledge that I've got two hours left to finish a 2,000-word feature or my editor will go ballistic. In fact, I often do my best work when the clock is ticking.Blogger...
Tags: General, Time-Savers, Rick Broida, Nothing
Blog posts 2007-06-22
Where to Camp for an iPhone
Surely you have better things to do than sit in line and wait for an iPhone. No? Then you'll want to check out the Gizmodo/Gridskipper guides to iPhone camping. Currently available for New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, the guides list restaurants, Wi-Fi hotspots, bathrooms, and other amenities in...
Tags: General, Gizmos and Gadgets, Web Tools, Apple iPhone, Rick Broida, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS
Blog posts 2007-06-22
Kill Stress Dead
Stress sucks. It wreaks havoc on your mind and body and, consequently, dampens your productivity or sidelines you entirely. The Ririan Project offers help in the form of "19 Battlefield Tips to Survive Stress at Work." A sample:Smiling is good, laughing is even better. Nat King Cole had it right...
Tags: Rick Broida, General
Blog posts 2007-06-12
Improve Your Memory with Brain Hacks
Remember last Thursday's post on how to remember names? If not, maybe your overall memory could use a boost. The Optimized Life explains how to improve your recall by translating abstract information like numbers and text into visual images and associations. For example, use an acrostic:An acrostic is a memory...
Tags: Rick Broida, General, acrostic
Blog posts 2007-06-12
How to Remember Names
We've all been there before: You get introduced to someone at a conference or meeting, a 10 seconds later you've forgotten the person's name. D'oh! AOL Jobs offers seven tricks for remembering names, including a rather amusing one employed by FDR: Picture it written on their forehead. Franklin Roosevelt continually...
Tags: Rick Broida, Business, General
Blog posts 2007-06-07
Protect Your Data with Online Backup Services
A recent Carnegie Mellon study showed that hard drives fail more often than previously thought. All the more reason to make sure you have a recent, reliable backup. In addition to the onsite system you already have in place (you do have an onsite system in place, don't you?), consider...
Tags: Backups, Rick Broida, Documents, General, Web Tools, backup, Mozy, Omnidrive, storage
Blog posts 2007-06-05
How to Make Use of Wikis at Work
Not sure what a wiki is or how to make productive use of one? Lifehack.org serves up five ways to use a wiki at work, including a virtual water-cooler for employees, a work-related FAQ, and a repository for operations guides:.As fast as you can put down information on what to...
Tags: General, Web Tools, Wiki, Lifehack.org, Rick Broida, Documents
Blog posts 2007-06-05
How to Manage Employee Feedback
"Professional secrets" blog Tricks of the Trade offers this tip for managers who have to deal with a large influx of employee feedback:If you manage a large number of people who are always offering suggestions, insist that feedback be submitted in writing. Blame your faulty memory, if you want to...
Tags: General, employee feedback, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2007-06-04
RollerTop Turns Your Carry-On Bag Into a Notebook Stand
Balancing a laptop on your lap isn't exactly fun. It forces you to keep uncomfortably still and endure the considerable heat produced by most models. Enter the RollerTop, a clever accessory that turns your carry-on's telescoping handle into a convenient notebook stand.This could come in really handy if you're stuck...
Tags: notebook, RollerTop, Notebooks, Rick Broida, Travel Tips, Gizmos and Gadgets, General, Computers
Blog posts 2007-06-01
Three Ways to Share Large Files
Large attachments tend to wreak havoc with mail servers, many of which balk at anything larger than 5MB. So what happens when you need to send a big file or batch of files to, say, a client or co-worker? Here are three free and easy solutions: Gmail - The beloved Webmail...
Tags: General, Time-Savers, Web Tools, AllPeers, Google Gmail, E-mail providers, Peer to peer (P2P), Rick Broida
Blog posts 2007-05-31
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