I can’t explain why or how, but from experience I’ve found it to be true that listening to classical music has a very positive and powerful effect on the brain. Need to be creative? Classical music is the one to listen to. Need to relax from a stressful situation? Classical music is a great reliever. [...]

Brian Tracy, a time management guru, cites that what we know is sufficient to get us to today. To achieve and succeed in the future we must acquire and develop new skills and abilities. This is even more true in the current information age in which we live. The fabric of our interactions is tearing and stitching [...]

Often the risks that we do not take are the ones that would most improve our lives. The type of risk I’m discussing has no moral danger, nor physical danger in its action. We don’t take such risks not because they have any danger inherent in the action but because we are afraid to do [...]

The average reading speed of English is around 400 words per minute (wpm). At half this speed I was a very slow reader, only reading about 200wpm. My reading material was almost entirely technical information that contributed to going at slow pace. Being overwhelmed by the amount of information to read was a stress inducer. Perhaps you’ve [...]

Getting Things Done (GTD) is a pretty well known system for improving your life productivity created by David Allen. It details a method of collecting all your inputs in one system. By inputs I mean any input into your life schedule such as events, things to do, or material possesions. All these things and more [...]

If you have a to-do list, goal list, or any other kind of list, that you think would be better carried in printed form I’d strongly recommend a PocketMod to do the job. You enter your list into a software application and the output is an A4 size sheet that can be folded into a [...]

If you work with computers or more generally, have to input information into some electronics device in your daily routine (keyboards, PDAs, mobiles, etc) there is a short tip that can give you the edge. Having experienced data entry it was instructive to find that the speed and error rate of data entry are empirically [...]

What is the difference between the alarm going off in the morning and getting out of bed? For me it is the snooze time in between. When the alarm goes off I’m still semi-concious and hit the snooze button for extra repose. So the time set on the alarm to get up is not the [...]

Remember Confucius never said “An arrow can only strike the target if the target exists.” This is because I made up that sentence just now in order to illustrate the point of setting goals. A goal, tangible or virtual, is a marker by which we can measure our efforts. No marker means there’s no way [...]