Tag Archives: Tips-Tools

Start Managing Your Attention

Over at ChangeThis is a great free e-book Quit Managing Your Time… and Start Managing Your Attention. Time can not be managed, time management is a misnomer and misleading. This little book is about what we can do – manage our attention and our priorities.
You can’t manufacture time, you can’t reproduce time, you can’t slow [...]

Which Time Horizons Do You Use?

I got a link from @ColinLewis on Twitter that took me to Ed Batista: Time Horizons. Don’t miss that at the end there is a 2-slide PowerPoint version of the post
It’s an interesting article that made me think about which time horizons I use and why. Ed writes that ‘The 10 time horizons (See image) [...]

An 18 Minute Plan That Keeps You Focused

Yesterday this interesting article popped up in my Twitter stream: An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day from Harvard Business Publishing. The article mentions time management but time can not be managed. We can manage our priotities and that was the article is about. The 18 minute plan is simple yet powerful when it comes [...]

Using SWOT analysis for personal purposes

The image below comes from Wikipedia’s article about SWOT analysis. The article starts like this:
SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture.

I have used SWOT for business purposes but it turns out that SWOT can be used on [...]

Use Google Alerts to keep track

I use Google Alerts to keep track of who is linking to my blogs and sites. Since you can create an alert for any search term I also use Google Alerts to watch some key words for me. It is an easy way for me to get emails when something interesting pops up on net.

Macbook Air and shiny new things

At Put Things Off is a great article about Think Different – Buy a Bigger Envelope! which is about how to consider whether you really need a Macbook Air or any other new shiny thing.
This post gives 5 easy rules to help you discover whether you really need new kit, or if you’d just be [...]

The Manifestation Wheel

The Manifestation Wheel is an interesting concept created by Alan Seale and partly based on the Lakota medicine wheel. It is an eight step process that takes you through the eight “houses” of the wheel. The concept is a mix of spiritual wisdom and scientific knowledge, it takes an open mind to use it. You [...]

How to subscribe to blogs

Brian Clark at Copyblogger asks Will RSS Ever Go Mainstream? The article sets RSS versus email but I do not see it that way. The important thing to me is that readers follow a blog, not which way they prefer to do it. Personally I prefer to subscribe to RSS-feeds through email and then read [...]

How to handle links in a smarter way

Over at Hack WordPress is a post titled How To: Hiding Your Affiliate Links using WordPress. A simple one line PHP-page is created for each link and placed on your own site. You then link to this PHP-page instead of linking directly to the external page. The good thing is that you have the external [...]

How to deal with email

Darren Rowse at Problogger explains how he went From 10000 to 0 Emails in an Inbox in 24 Hours. It involves using Google Gmail, its filters and coloured labels. I use Gmail myself for my subscriptions and mailing lists, very easy to figure out what is important and what is not.
Leo Babauta has a guest [...]