More Life Hacks
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A few items from 43 Folders, a site devoted to personal productivity, life hacks, and ways to make your life better.
I stumbled onto this site when writing my Life Hackers editorial. It was interesting in that it's like a blog of tips and tricks and things to make your life easier. I picked a few of my favorites:
- Five email tics I’d love for you to lose - I'll add the all upper case emails
- Disk maintenance small boost to productivity? - I don't do this enough. Start some task that forces me to leave the computer alone. These days I usually start something and run to the gym instead of working on something else. Or thinking.
- Goin’ on a Media Diet (mp3) - Two good tips. One is set aside time for media. The best one is spend 30 minutes talking with someone you love.
- Can we learn from the proximate candy jar? - Try this at work. Better yet, put it in the boss' office.
There are lots of ways to deal with your life, but the most important thing that I've learned is pretty easy in theory, hard in practice.
Stop and enjoy your life.
Smell the roses, seize life by the horns, etc. They are all different ways of saying one simple thing. Take time out from work and commitments to enjoy the things you love. Your family, your hobby, whatever. Just stop and realize that you are the most important thing in your life and take downtime to spend on yourself.
No goals, no things that "have to get done", just do something you enjoy at your pace, regardless of how much you accomplish.
Steve Jones
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'More Life Hacks' is not exactly database-related, but was so interesting I emailed the links to my home email account for further exploration. Well done.
If you dig up more cool sites or recommendations on managing and surviving this thing we call life, please feel free to share them. Don't know about anyone else, but I can use all the help I can get.
-- Craig
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I want to focus on the "candy jar" in this response for I have long been puzzled by the number of people that can't keep away from its' lures...what is it with people and wanting to keep their jaws moving all the time ?! I cannot think of a single desk in my office building that does not have a huge CLEAR candy jar that magically gets replenished almost as fast as it is emptied - always reminds me of the wine-bowl in Philemon and Baucis' house from Greek mythology! When Life seems to be a constant uphill struggle with "battle of the bulge" for many people, I view the "candy jar" as the archenemy setting out irresistible snares and mockingly predicting the inevitable outcome!!!
I remember one particular Seinfeld episode where Elaine reacts aggressively to all the "cake-eating" & the gratuitous "sugar-rush" that almost all companies seem to be guilty of...there's another life hack for you - office birthdays, farewells, baby-showers et al...in theory, these're supposed to coincide with lunch hour but in practice they often start early and end late...almost the only sanctioned life hack that officially absolves you of any/all guilt associated with this interruption...
**ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI !!!**
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