7 Ways to Get Involved Now

You have, by some miracle, managed to avoid all manner of news lately, you might be surprised to know that there’s a U.S. presidential election in less than a month. Even if you are aware of it, you m...Full Article

Career: Do You Have Your Own Thing to Do ?

Note: This is a guest post by Jeff Fajans from GuitarPlayerZen.comEver wonder why the star athlete prom king in high school who was voted most likely to succeed is no where to be found today?Do you ge...Full Article

18 Five-Minute Tips to Conquer Your Mess

    “Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” - Albert EinsteinI’ve written a lot about simplicity ...Full Article

Back to Basics: Setting Priorities

It is easy, in the onrush of life, to become a reactor – to respond to everything that comes up, the moment it comes up, and give it your undivided attention until the next thing comes up.This is, of ...Full Article

Why Haven’t You Organized Your Passwords?

In my work with clients I have run into passwords in all kinds of unbelievably random and insecure places. I always shrink back from them when I see them… I don’t want to know! Passwords are the key t...Full Article

Back to Basics: Your Inbox

This is the first post in an ongoing series I’m calling “back to Basics”, a “refresher course” in personal productivity. For people just starting to grapple with issues of productivity, it will serve ...Full Article

How to Keep Productivity Simple

I first learned about David Allen’s famous productivity system, Getting Things Done, several years ago. It’s an excellent book, building off a simple idea: the less you need to rely on memory, the eas...Full Article

Use Your Mobile Phone to Stay Organized On the Go

Like my geek ancestors before me, I am deeply devoted to my Moleskine notebook. I keep one in my backpack or in my back pocket at all times, with a range of suitable pens that make writing a joy (I’m ...Full Article

Organizing Saves You Money: 8 Valuable Opportunities

In this uncertain economy people need to do more with less, make do, do without, do the math, and do it themselves. Why not DO SOMETHING by investing time in getting organized? Here are eight motivati...Full Article

Saving Time on Routine Tasks: Optimized Reading

If I were to attempt to project the demographics that make up a typical lifehackista, according to the comments I see here and the roots of the phrase life hacks, I’d say that the average specimen spe...Full Article

Find & Replace Limiting Beliefs, Part 2: Replace Old Ideas

It’s time to weed out the limiting beliefs that you discovered in part one . This is a hell of a lot harder to do than simply discovering them, but on the bright side, the instructions are simpler—thi...Full Article

What to Do When It’s All Too Much

Things have been pretty hectic around here. We lifehackistes talk about and write about productivity as a way of dealing with the everyday distractions and time-sinks that prevent us from getting our ...Full Article

How Your iPod Can Make You More Productive

The iPod is an incredible organizing device! It takes many shelves worth of CDs and condenses them into one tiny gadget, thereby reducing clutter. The iPod (and iTunes) also took away the classic dile...Full Article

Important vs. Urgent: 5 Ways to Focus On What Really Matters

One simple fact divides effective and ineffective people: effective people spend the majority of their time working on important rather than urgent things. Have you ever felt like you spend a lot of t...Full Article

Last Minute Tax Help

The deadline for filing your federal income tax return (if you’re a U.S. citizen) is five days away. If you haven’t gotten around to filing yet, you’re in good company: one-third of all Americans file...Full Article

How to Maximize Efficiency by Grouping Tasks

There’s a metaphor many of use on a daily basis that compares our brain to a car or a bicycle with gears. I need to shift gears or my head’s in the wrong gear for this indicates that the human brain, ...Full Article

How to Free Yourself from Paper Clutter

I frequently chase the dream of being paperless. But I have come to the brink of acceptance: for me, it will never be wholly achievable. You will always need some papers to actually exist in physical ...Full Article

The Gaps in the Standard Address Book

When I was a kid, my dad would give me little tasks around his office to keep me out of trouble. My favorite was gluing business cards to Rolodex cards and carefully arranging them. Kept me out of tro...Full Article

5 Reasons You Procrastinate and How to Overcome Them

Procrastination: To delay, stall, hesitate, put off, or lag.We’ve all suffered from procrastination at one time or another. Probably the worst part about procrastination is its uncanny ability to rob ...Full Article

The 9 Best Ways to Get Organized by Year's End

Ive found that Winter is an excellent season for revamping the personal organization system. The brisk, cold air reinvigorates me, and for some reason instills a need to brush up on my organization, e...Full Article