A Great Way to Get Some New Cooking Skills
18 Feb 2012 2:00am GMT Last summer, I became one of the early adopters of Google+. Having fully immersed myself in other social media platforms, I was curious to see how this new one would play out. For those of you unfamiliar with the platform, Google+ is a social media platform that enables interactions, similar to Facebook, but it allows you to sort and aggregate the people you follow, in order to selectively send information that is appropriate for those “circles” (e.g. You might want to send...
How to Start Napping…and Why You Should
17 Feb 2012 10:20pm GMT Before you read the title and get angry, touting the same ol’ “I’m too busy!” argument, hear me out: You can save time, energy, and get way more done by taking naps. I know you’re in denial, but it’s true. I’ve used these techniques myself in the midst of a full-time marketing job, a part-time church job, trying to write a book, run two websites, and get married–and sometimes napping was the only way I would have been able to...
How You Can be a Better Communicator
17 Feb 2012 11:39am GMT Communication is an integral part of any work or life situation. Learning to be an effective communicator is a valuable productivity tool, one that is unfortunately commonly overlooked. The consequences of poor communication can be disastrous; wasted time, hurt feelings, misunderstandings, unproductive meetings, ineffective teamwork, and lack of progress towards goals. In order to be successful communicators we need to keep in mind some basic guidelines that are applicable in most...
15 Ways To Stay Focused At Work
17 Feb 2012 12:00am GMT It’s normal. You’re bent on finishing the work at hand, and suddenly something comes up. You don’t give thought to how pressing any distraction is — you just give it attention. Five minutes, ten minutes. Sometimes it goes to over an hour. When you get back to work — boom — you’ve no idea where you left off or why you couldn’t get your mind and heart into it. You can’t stay focused at work anymore and are becoming less productive....
AwayFind Makes Your Email Management Even More Productive with New Features
16 Feb 2012 5:46pm GMT We’ve mentioned AwayFind here before at Lifehack, which is one of the best tools you can use to “lifehack” your email. Today the service amped up its lifehacking skills with the arrival of AwayFind Recommendations — and they’ve also unveiled a way for you have the best of the service…for free. For those of you unfamiliar with AwayFind, here’s what the service does for you and your ever-expanding email inbox: AwayFind is a web application that finds...