Wired: Good news, doodlers: What your colleagues consider a distracting, time-wasting habit may actually give you a leg up on them by helping you pay attention. Asked to remember names they’d heard on a recording, people who doodled while listening had better recall than those who didn’t. This suggests that a slightly distracting secondary task […]
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Mashable: What do you do when you get home from a conference or networking event with a pile of business cards? If you’re diligent, you might go through them one-by-one, sending people a “nice meeting you” email and inviting them to connect on your social networks of choice. But if that sounds as miserable and
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Download Squad: Add Printable Checklist to your list of single-use web applications with incredibly straightforward names. In fact, go ahead and use Printable Checklist to make the list. It’s almost ridiculously simple to use: add, delete, and rename are the only options. Sometimes bare bones is best, though. Loading up Printable Checklist in a browser
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Lifehack: As a rule, thinking is a good thing and while some people don’t do it enough, some over-think everything. Both genders can fall into either category – today we’re going to chat about the one who does too much. Some people think themselves into stagnation, frustration, exhaustion, anxiety and even illness. They have an
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CBS: In this economy, businesses are trying to cut costs any way they can. Turns out, one big way to save is by going green. Not only can the more than 27 million small business owners in the United States play a huge role in conserving our natural resources, but their green actions can help
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Matt Cutts’ Blog: Matt Cutts (who works for the Search Quality group in Google) has a great idea for starting the New Year. Start with a fresh and empty inbox in your Gmail. There’s nothing like an empty inbox to motivate you and give you a fresh start for the year. But Matt,” you say,
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intellectual properties: Columnist David Brooks, commenting in the Dec. 16th New York Times about Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book called “Outliers,” made a statement as profound as it was accurate: “Control of attention is the ultimate individual power,” he wrote. “People who can do that are not prisoners of the stimuli around them.” But why is
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Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY: It’s time, once again, for my annual December tradition. No, I don’t mean eating fruitcake or sending out chocolates (which I do every year). I’m talking about cleaning off my desk and files. So wear comfy clothes – jeans preferably. Go to the office. Play some lively music and start cleaning.
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NEWS.com.au: Often with more freedom, comes less structure. Because solo business owners have no corporate structure to fall back on, they need to create their own structure for their office organization. For some people that’s easy, for others it’s the bugbear of their soloist career. But there is an answer: take small, simple and regular
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LifeHack: The iPod is an incredible organizing device! It takes many shelves worth of CDs and condenses them into one tiny gadget, thereby reducing clutter. Looking at the iPod from an organizer’s point of view, there are some great ways it can help you be more productive too. Here are a few: – Drown out
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