Archive for July, 2009
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Friday, July 17th, 2009So you’ve hired a web firm to design your new web site. Now what? Today I’m completing my Business Web Series and talking about what you can do to be a good consumer of web site developers and designers.
Just like most business owners have tales of woe from having their web sites designed, most web [...]
How to Get More Out of Your Home Network
Friday, July 17th, 2009
For most people, a wireless router is just a way to share your broadband Internet connection across the several computers and wifi-enabled devices in your house. Your router is not just a point of connection to your cable or DSL modem, though – it connects every other computer and device in your house in [...]
Experiment For Optimum Results
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009Many times when we are looking to improve in any aspect of our life, we search for someone who has already achieved the results that we are looking for, and we do our best to mimic their actions, expecting their results. The problem with this approach is that there are too many variables to consider [...]
10 Ways To Be Productive in 10 Minutes
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Most of my free time, except when I’m doing it on purpose, tends to come in short blocks. I rarely have 2 hours free, but might, over the course of a work day, have those same two hours in twelve ten-minute bursts.
I realized recently that, for the most part, I waste all of this free [...]
10 Powerful Success Strategies
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009If you’re serious about creating lasting and significant change in your world – as opposed to merely thinking and talking about it for another year – there are a few things you might want to do in order to help make those intentions a reality…
1. Know what success is. If you don’t know what success [...]
The Productivity Threatdown
Friday, July 10th, 2009Fans of Steven Colbert are familiar with his “Threatdown” segment, an irreverent countdown of the five greatest threats facing the United States at any given moment. As I watched this segment one night – instead of, you know, working on the project I was desperately trying to get done – it occurred to me that [...]
Get Random!
Thursday, July 9th, 2009We spend a lot of time at Lifehack talking about getting organized – making up lists, labeling files, simplifying your workspace, and so on. Everything in its place, and a place for everything, right?
There’s nothing wrong with this view of organization, so long as you’re getting more work done than the time you’re spending on [...]
Take Back Your Personal Power (Part 2)
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009Time to Make Waves
In part one of this post we discussed the tendency some of us have to allow situations, circumstances, events and even other people to control our lives; in essence, giving away our power in an attempt to be accepted, valued, appreciated and loved. By trying to “fit in and not make waves” [...]
Take Back Your Personal Power (Part 2)
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009Time to Make Waves
In part one of this post we discussed the tendency some of us have to allow situations, circumstances, events and even other people to control our lives; in essence, giving away our power in an attempt to be accepted, valued, appreciated and loved. By trying to “fit in and not make waves” [...]
5 Ways to Make Sure You’re Asking Well
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009I wrote a post here last week called “Can’t-Miss Marketing: Just Ask” that got a lot of interesting responses. Sure, people said, asking is all well and good, but what does “asking well” actually mean?
It’s an interesting, and important, question to consider. If, as I’ve seen time and time again, good things really come to [...]