I recently realised that during my waking hours, I am always doing something. There is never a time when I am doing nothing. By doing nothing, I mean just having quiet time to think, mull things over or just relax and do nothing. What is nothing? To be clear, what I define as doing nothing [...]
I work in IT and spend a lot of my time on the Internet. I love gadgets. I love new technology. The question is, does all this technology help us or is it really holding us back? Spending a lot of time messing about with technology and not really achieving anything – sound familiar? I [...]
“Once you realize that you can turn off the noise without the world ending, you’re liberated in a way that few people ever know.” Timothy Ferriss I was spending some time the other night catching up on some internet reading using the excellent Instapaper iPhone Application (you don’t need an iPhone to use Instapaper, I [...]
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” Edith Lovejoy Pierce It’s that time of year again, where you look back on what has been and gone over the past twelve months, [...]
“We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going… Concentrate on something useful.” Arnold Bennett There has been a trend recently of understanding what Productivity is and isn’t, and the realisation by many [...]
One of the things that has become more and more apparent in the media recently is the need to cut back, save more and be frugal for the road of recession ahead. Recession or not, I like to try and make sure that I keep my life as decluttered as possible (it’s in my genes), [...]
This your kind of thing? Please think about subscribing via RSS or eMail (it’s free). Thanks for taking the time to visit! Chris “A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.” Larry Bird In the 3 Ts [...]
“If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem… break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.” Robert Collier Whilst on holiday a while back I wrote quite a number of posts that either have or are yet to appear here on Lifestyle Project. What I noticed as I wrote [...]
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein I thought I’d put a post up about implementing David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD). I won’t use this post to explain what GTD is as it is explained all over the place, but for a good explanation please look here [...]
We can’t do everything for everyone everywhere, but we can do something for someone somewhere. Elder Richard L. Evans (1906–71) I have quite a lot of content ready to edit and post, but I wanted to share some thoughts that are going through my mind at the moment. I am the kind of person who [...]
