Archive for September, 2009

Get Productive – Start Your Day Off Right

A good friend of mine (that is organized) sent me this link today and I couldn’t think of a better way to file it somewhere I can find it than blogging aboutit, so here we go. A good way to have a productive day start it the right way.  Although the orignal author’s post is written for freelancers,much of it could as easily apply to students, cab drivers or work-at-home freelancers!

Below are Mason Hipp’s 5 Easy Ways to Start  a Productive Day along with my own comments. If you want to read Mike’s original tips along with details added, you’ll need to visit his website by clicking the link above.

  1. Get a good night’s sleep
    George adds… brain boost
  2. Spend 20 minutes being disciplined
    George adds… a productive day will doubtless include discipline
  3. Eat Breakfast
    George adds… obvious – fuel your mind and body
  4. Clarify EXACTLY what tasks are productive
    George adds… planning makesa difference, so priorities are a must
  5. Get into work mode
    George adds… work mode, study mode, whatever applies to your life

Also…

  • get ready the night before as much as possible such as…
    • what you will be wearing
    • preparing your breakfast and/or lunch
    • make sure you have gassed up your car/truck
  • check the weather – do you need raingear, get up early to shovel snow?
  • stay focused on one task at a time

Google’s Blogger Celebrates 10 Years Online

Ten years ago in August 1999 Blogger.com was born and Google is celebrating the birthday. As blogger celebrates their birthday, Google also is celebrating the success of blogging in general noting that:

We’re proud that Blogger continues to be a force for free expression worldwide and that it is growing quickly despite its maturity. In the past two years alone, the number of people contributing to a blog has more than doubled, and every second of every day, a new blog is created on Blogger…

- Official Google Blog, “Happy 10th birthday, Blogger

Indeed blogs have been gaining in popularity as the years go by, don’t be surprised in gthe near future when families commonly have blogs as a part of “everday life”, just like the age old photo album.