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The 100 Best Lifehacks of 2010: The Year in Review

The 100 Best Lifehacks of 2010: The Year in Review
Happy New Year everyone! It’s the first week of 2011 and many of us are getting ready to kick off the brand new year with a big bang. As we start off 2011 with our new resolutions and goals, let us now look back at the best posts at Lifehack in the past year. In this review post, I have gathered 100 of the best LifeHack articles in 2010. Do not attempt to read this whole post at once! Let me start off with the top 10 most popular life hack posts out of the 100s of posts published in 2010. Following which, I’ll present the 100 top articles presented in the 11 catetgories. Top 10 Most Popular Posts in 2010: Overall Personal Growth Maximizing Productivity and GTD Lifestyle and Habits Inspiration & Motivation Goal Achievement & Success Emotional Mastery People Skills & Relationships Communications & Writing Business & Career Creativity & Inspiration Family Miscellaneous Image ©

7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People With a twist to the common list of habits that are useful to establish, here are 7 habits that you do best to avoid. Just like finding habits that can be useful for you it’s important to find habits that are holding you back. Most of these 7 habits can easily become such a normal, everyday part of life that you hardly notice it (or how it’s affecting you). I’ve dabbled with all of them quite a bit. Not surprisingly I didn’t get much of the important stuff done. I’d also like to add that these are just 7 broad habits you can establish to become highly ineffective in most parts of your life. 1. Maybe you’ve heard this quote by Woody Allen: “Eighty percent of success is showing up” One of the biggest and simplest thing you can do to ensure more success in your life – whether it be in your social life, your career or with your health – is simply to show up more. 2. - Swallow that frog. 3. To be effective you probably need some kind of time management-system. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Zen Apps: Desktop Tools to Organize Your Brain :: Articles :: Th Great believers in the power of organization to drive productive creativity, we’re always on the look out for new (and preferably free) tech applications that can help us stay on track, improve focus, or just waste less time on the unimportant stuff. Here, we run down a few recent faves that are helping us magnify our ability to make ideas happen: Evernote. A one-stop system for visual filing. Recently, I decided to completely digitize my personal files using Evernote. Receipts, medical files, and old business plans have all been imported into notebooks, while my myriad of magazine pulls have been similarly organized into a quickly accessible visual database (that’s entirely personalized). Pathfinder.A turbo-charged version of the regular Mac finder. Upgrading to Pathfinder (on Merlin Mann’s recommendation) was like when I traded in my basic Nokia phone for an iPhone – entirely new vistas opened up. Tungle.Schedule meetings without the excess back-and-forth.

The 5As of Actualization First we make our habits, then our habits make us. – Charles C. Noble One of the most effective ways to actualize your own potential and goals is to form habits and routines that make the actualization (almost) automatic. We see reflections of this observation in the works of Aristotle and Lao Tzu from millennia ago on through the works of contemporary thinkers such as Stephen Covey and the Dalai Lama. At a certain point, habits allow you to reach the optimal state of achieving without trying to achieve. The lead quote sums up things nicely, though, in that habit-building can be an active process, too. Since we can choose, do, track, and evaluate the habits and routines that help us actualize ourselves and our goals, there’s a process with discrete but related steps. AimAwarenessActionAccountabilityAssessment Let’s take a look at these a little more in depth. Aim The saying “if you don’t know where you’re going, any path will take you there” fits in nicely here. Awareness Action Assessment

Blog: 100 Websites You Should Know and Use In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser. To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH. Self-Image Is The Key To Success In Business And In Life “There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."--Napoleon Hill It has been conclusively demonstrated that individuals who expect to succeed at a given venture are more likely to do so than those who expect to fail. Positive expectations work as a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy--those who expect to succeed are more likely to do so, thus maintaining and reinforcing their expectation for success. Today, we are going to take this analysis one step further and address the underlying cause of these expectations. The expectations we have for ourselves are largely determined by our self-image. If you consider yourself a slow learner, chances are you will remain so. If you believe that you cannot learn a foreign language, you aren’t likely to do so. If you believe that you can’t grow a profitable business, chances are that you never will. As Henry Ford once said, “If you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” Don’t dwell on negativity. Step out of your comfort zone.

DRUDGE REPORT 2012® How To Ruin Your Life (Without Even Noticing That You Are) Understand that life is not a straight line. Life is not a set timeline of milestones. It is okay if you don’t finish school, get married, find a job that supports you, have a family, make money, and live comfortably all by this age, or that age. It’s okay if you do, as long as you understand that if you’re not married by 25, or a Vice President by 30 — or even happy, for that matter — the world isn’t going to condemn you. You ruin your life by choosing the wrong person. You ruin your life by letting your past govern it. You ruin your life when you compare yourself to others. You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. You ruin your life by tolerating it. You should follow us on Instagram here.

Alain de Botton's Six-Part Series on Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness About The troubled thoughts of a caustic coder. Mostly code, but sometimes rants, randomness and politics. Available Now The Geek Atlas With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now. GNU Make Unleashed 230 pages of GNU Make from basics to advanced. Recent Posts 14 Mantras For Transformation Yesterday at a cafe I overheard a sad and astonishing conversation. Two women about the same age were talking nearby me in line. The first said, “Yep, I turn 33 tomorrow. And hey, it’s ALL downhill from here, right? "I mean, I’ll just never be this young or in shape again. Her friend nodded somberly in agreement, her blonde ponytail bobbing. I couldn’t help but surreptitiously scan both of their faces for traces of irony or humor. I mean, they were just SO completely wrong in so many different ways. Because the truth is that our reality is deeply informed by how we see it, and by the limiting thoughts habitually formed in our minds. But believe that you’re barely getting started (I tell myself that every day) and the Divine can bring miracles beyond anything the ego can imagine. So here’s some mantras of Divine intercession on a whole slew of topics. I recommend doing whichever ones you need for at least twenty-one days to help the mind recalibrate. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

Attract Students’ Attention in 30 Seconds or Less Better Beginnings: How to attract students’ attention in 30 seconds or less Presented by Dr. Carmen Taran Thanks to the eLearning Guild Update: The recording of the session is now available. Official description: Information overload, tripletasking, hyperchoice, and short attention spans are just a few of the symptoms of the modern client. These are my live blogged notes from the session. Can you grab your learners' attention faster than the water drop will hit the ground? Three things to keep in mind What you showWhat you sayHow you say it What You Show Staged and cliched images set a certain tone for your sessionNo SGS (Stupid Generic Shots) Avoid Fake Photography Question: Where do you go to find images? Answer (all but the 1st two from participants): Question: What if you don’t have a graphic designer? Answer: Use any image program, draw in software like Adobe Connect Too often, we create presentations and training in a hurry. Titles matter Vulnerability Analysis: What happens if things go wrong?

Chocolate for Breakfast and 6 Other Simple Ways to Be Happier Each Day Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama You’re not alone in your search for it. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of websites dedicated to it. Happiness is an elusive thing for many people. What would happen if we began to take joy in little, meaningful activities each and every day? Here is a list of really simple things you can enjoy in some capacity that will make your day and your life a lot happier. 1. Sounds amazing doesn’t it? 2. What a great way to start the day. The toasty aromas that waft through my house every morning are somehow comforting. 3. Along the same lines as coffee, a great cup of tea in the afternoon is a soothing way to transition into the latter part of the day. Sounds like something you can feel good about drinking. 4. You see it on all kinds of lists. Exercise makes you feel better for a number of reasons. On top of that, try going outside. Why do you think people get cranky if they’re stuck inside for too long? 5. 6.

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