How to Become an Early Riser It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. – Aristotle Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I rarely went to bed before midnight, and I’d almost always sleep in late. But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high correlation between success and rising early, even in my own life. … and the next morning, I got up just before noon. Hmmm… I tried again many more times, each time not getting very far with it. It’s hard to become an early riser using the wrong strategy. The most common wrong strategy is this: You assume that if you’re going to get up earlier, you’d better go to bed earlier. It seems there are two main schools of thought about sleep patterns. The second school says you should listen to your body’s needs and go to bed when you’re tired and get up when you naturally wake up. Through trial and error, I found out for myself that both of these schools are suboptimal sleep patterns.
13 Simple Ways to Be Happier It wasn’t long ago that researchers believed that every human being was born with a set “happiness point,” a fixed and unavoidable baseline level of happiness. On its face, the idea appears to have merit: Tsunami victims, amputees, and lottery winners alike eventually return to their previous emotional baselines. In other words, no matter what mega-high or ultra-low you find yourself riding, eventually your happiness will seek its own level. In 1996, University of Minnesota researcher David Lykken went so far as to say that “trying to be happier” was as “futile as trying to be taller.” But David Lykken was wrong. In a 2005 Time Magazine interview, Lykken took it all back. So what happened inbetween 1996 and 2005 that changed the way researchers think about happiness? Yes, we do have an emotional baseline. If you’re looking for a way to optimize your happiness, you can start by reviewing the following 13 strategies: simple, actionable, and designed to boost your happiness in a big way. 1.
Running a Progressive Dash Reader Jeff Covey shares how he’s started beating procrastination with a dash. Jeff’s system features a very fast daily start-up and a clever way to make sure every to-do gets touched first thing every morning. by Jeff Covey The recent post about running a dash gave me an idea which has turned out to be a good way to get myself in motion. It's something like a train pulling out of a station, with a lot of force and effort at the beginning leading to smooth gliding through the long haul. One of my gtd scripts is named "tenmins", and I've used it to make sure I put at least a little time into each of my next actions lists each day. Last week, I decided to try putting tenmins on a loop which starts with one minute for each category and adds another minute on each iteration. Since all bases are touched at least once, my whole workload becomes fresh in my mind after just a few minutes (1 minute * the number of active next action lists). Incoming mailboxes Postponed mail Reading
wiseGEEK: clear answers for common questions Kick procrastination’s ass: Run a dash Procrastination can drive most of us into a spiral of shame that’s as mundane as it is painfully personal. We know what we should be doing, but some invisible hang-up keeps us on the line. Unfortunately, the guaranteed consequence of procrastination is growth in the scale of the task you’ve been putting off—as well as the anxiety that it creates. All the time you’re putting something off, your problem’s getting bigger—both in reality and in your head, where your colorful imagination is liable to turn even the most trivial item into an unsolvable juggernaut that threatens to overwhelm you. And that means extra stress, more procrastination, and the music goes round. My favorite tonic for procrastination—which I have mentioned in passing previously—is what I call a dash, which is simply a short burst of focused activity during which you force yourself to do nothing but work on the procrastinated item for a very short period of time—perhaps as little as just one minute. Some Sample Dashes
One-Page Packing Checklist The more you know, the less you carry. What To Pack This Web site features an extensively annotated copy of the packing list that I use, refined over many years (and many miles) of travel, both business and pleasure; it's intended to provide a convenient starting point for you to create a customized list of your own. For actual use while packing, of course, a more compact format is preferable. You can download the convenient checklist version of my list, provided in Adobe portable document format (PDF) for printing on a single letter-sized page, which can be printed on both sides, then cut in half to make two copies (this also works on A4-sized paper with just a bit of extra trimming). If you need a (free) copy of thelatest Adobe Reader, get it here: The one-page checklist has been refined over many years, and changes infrequently(though the more detailed, annotated version on this Web site is updated often).If you downloaded the checklist after 2013-11-24, you have the current version. Dr.
Blog Archive » DimDim launches FOSS challenge to WebEx Open source startup DimDim has released an alpha version of their new browser based web conferencing software. Users download the open source free code and install it on their own servers. The current version supports IE on Windows only for presenters, which is really unfortunate, but attendees can be in conference via Firefox on Mac. No software download is required for attendees. Future versions will fully support Firefox on Mac, Linux and Windows. If the software ends up solid then DimDim could pose an interesting challenge to the current list of paid, hosted web conferencing solutions. I tested a version hosted on the DimDim servers early this week and it worked well. Resolution on the shared screen isn’t all I wish it was but lag time was very low. DimDim says that just like Hotmail made free email common and Skype created the expectation that VOIP should be free – they want to make web conferencing freely accessible.
Synchronize Googles Calendar with your Mobile Har du också upptäckt Googles smarta kalenderprogram? Om inte tycker jag att du genast ska gå in på www.google.com/calendar och kolla in den. Med Googles webbtjänst har du koll på dina möten och åtaganden, oavsett vilken dator du sitter vid. Lösningen heter Goosync.com.Det är en sajt som fungerar som en brygga mellan Googles kalender och din mobiltelefon. 1. 2. 3. 4. Läs merAlla PC för Allas skolor och tips. Ubuntu 6.10 "Edgy Eft" released Canonical announced today the release of Ubuntu 6.10, codenamed Edgy Eft. Released every six months to reflect the release cycle of the GNOME desktop environment, the increasingly popular distribution provides a relatively cohesive desktop Linux experience with reliable free updates and recent versions of commonly used open source applications. The latest version features GNOME 2.16, XOrg 7.1 with built-in support for accelerated indirect GLX (AIGLX), and the 2.6.17 kernel. Ubuntu 6.10, which includes the freshly released Firefox 2.0, sports the new Tangerine theme, designed to improve visual integration of the browser by making it better conform to Ubuntu's style. A much-touted feature in Ubuntu 6.10 is Upstart, an asynchronous, event-based boot process manager designed to replace the antiquated System V init system. Unlike Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, which features long-term support and updates for five years, the support cycle for Ubuntu 6.10 is only 18 months.
Innovative Productivity Tools : Sciral Consistency “Consistency, thou art a jewel.” —popular saying “Consistency, from Sciral, does one thing and does it well. Its interface is pleasant, original, and crystal clear. It's utterly simple to use. ... In short, this is my kind of program.” “What an app! “Thanks for writing this application. “Love it! Now $10 for Desktop Editions and only $1.99 for iOS! What's New? Available for iPhone, Mac and Windows! Click here! Check out the version history for information on the latest updates. What is Sciral Consistency? Calendars are great for keeping track of tasks where you need to coordinate with others by setting fixed times and intervals. To-do lists are great for keeping track of tasks that you will do once, and that you need to keep in order by priority. But there's another class of activities for which neither traditional calendars nor to-do lists are optimal. The kinds of activities or tasks you use Sciral Consistency for share a number of attributes: What are some examples of appropriate tasks?
Spectrum: The Firefox Kid Inside his uncle’s restaurant, Ross launches into a laptop demo of Parakey. This isn’t a press conference; he’s just showing his brainchild to me informally. It’s the sort of venue he prefers—low key, one on one. And it’s in these moments that he really comes to life. In explaining Parakey, Ross cuts to the chase. ”We all know people…who have all this content that they are not publishing stored on their computers,” he says. ”We’re trying to persuade them to live their lives online.” Grandparents love seeing their kids and grandkids on Flickr or Snapfish, but they’re often too intimidated to put their own pictures on these sites. It’s not just grandparents who aren’t using the Web as much as they could—it’s everyone. Pointing to the screen of his laptop, Ross shows me what he calls a ”family portal” for a fictional clan named the Andersons. Take digital photos, for example. Now let’s say you want to share your collection of graduation photos with some select family and friends.
Online Scanner ActiveX controls are programs that use Microsoft's architecture for running applications through Internet Explorer. The ESET Online Scanner is implemented as an ActiveX control, which means you must first download and install it before the program can be run through the web browser. To install or uninstall the ESET Online Scanner ActiveX control, you must have Administrator privileges. The first time you attempt to run the ESET Online Scanner, you will see a message similar to this one at the top of your web browser: Right-click the information bar in the web browser and a popup context menu will appear. After the software has finished downloading, click the Install button to finish installation of the ActiveX control signed by ESET:
» How to disable WGA notification | Spyware Confidential Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-piracy tool has angered a lot of people and rightfully so in my opinion. Fellow ZDNet bloggers have explained the details of the software along their concerns. Ed Bott wrote Microsoft presses the Stupid button and lists the stupid mistakes, starting with "it should never have been included with Critical Updates". I agree with that and all his points. I don't have a problem with Microsoft checking to see if the OS is legal -- once. David Berlind asked Does Microsoft's new WGA disclosure fall short?. The other huge concern with WGA is that it phones home daily, or each time you boot up the machine. I don't have a problem with Microsoft checking to see if the OS is legal -- once. A: The pilot version of this software periodically contacts Microsoft after validation. Let me make the distinction between the Genuine Advantage validation and the Genuine Advantage notification. Each time I got this warning, I chose to block it.