I just heard the most appropriate term I have heard in a while - “Email bankruptcy”. According to the New York Times the definition is as follows:
e-mail bankruptcy n.
What you’re declaring when you choose to delete or ignore a very large number of e-mail messages after falling behind in reading and responding to them. […]

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I have been looking over the set of techniques described in
Zen to Done, and I think there is a LOT of value being offered at the site, and the e-book looks like a steal for $9.50, for a document that’s some 80 odd pages long.
Of interest to me at the moment, after a […]

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I found this post in
ZenHabits to be a useful one.
In summary, the entry is about the Five Things You Need to Know About Effective Habit Change:

Work on One Habit at Time
Create a Plan and Write it Down
Refine Your Plan
Make Mini-Plans
Repeat! Repeat! Repeat!

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here to see the entire post.

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Part of what humans are unable to control is the sheer volume of thoughts that travel through the average person’s head on a given day. We cannot stem the torrent of useful and useless ideas, bits of conversation, idle fantasies and the like that don’t seem to stop even when we are asleep.
The challenge that […]

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I am reading the #1 New York Times Best Seller -
The Four Hour Work Week and finding it quite entertaining.
As someone who lives in Jamaica, it would seem that I am living the author’s dream to some extent! More on this later, to be sure.
One immediate benefit this book has brought me is […]

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Recently, I did a most interesting test of my personal health on
RealAge.com
What made it remarkable is that it gave me back a list of on-the-point recommendations, and it also gave me back an estimate of my “real age”, which I am happy to report is some 8 years younger than my calendar years.
Once […]

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Built into the 2Time philosophy is the idea that a user can choose to evolve their habits over time. Once they determine which belt level they are currently at, they can change it when they know the new practices that they need to master.
But at the same time, there is a somewhat natural evolution […]

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Neat and Simple is a blog well worth reading for those who are serious about 2Time or any other thinking around time management.
In this
article on changing habits, the author (Ariane Benefit) delves into what it takes to overcome deeply ingrained habits, and to take on new ones. She identifies four different phases an […]

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There are so many good ideas from
this article at The Leadership Labyrinth entitled “Installing a new habit and breaking an old one” that I don’t think there is much that I can add.
The article has to do with establishing new habits, a science and an art for which there seems to be no cookie-cutter […]

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It’s easy to see how Tiger Woods can arrange his practice. He gets up at 6am and goes over the the green and starts hitting balls, hundreds and and maybe thousands of balls.
In like manner, a tennis player can serve hundreds of balls over and over again.
These examples seem easy to understand, but what […]

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