Winston Churchill special.

“Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense”

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened”

“Every day you may make progress and every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever lengthening, ever ascending, ever improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”

Lady Astor: “If you were my husband, I’d poison your tea.”
Churchill: “Nancy, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.”

My primary way of determining value for money, especially when it comes to media like DVDs and music CDs is hours of entertainment vs cost. For example new film DVDs in the UK tend to cost around £16.00 and they tend to last around 2 hours. If you just watch the film once that works out to £8.00 per hour of entertainment. Personally, I watch films only occasionally so to me that is not good value. However I recently bought a boxset for £20.00 which had over 40 hours of viewing time. That worked out to less than a pound per hour I was entertained. Bargain!

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July was the best month to date for Organize IT which is convenient because August is going to be our first birthday! If you have any suggestions on how to celebrate it then get in touch. In fact it would be great if you left comments for any the best posts from July:

• Huge List Of GTD & Productivity Sites/Blogs
• Get Creative: Part 3
• Make Your Own Luck
• Ask The Readers: Do You Use Mission Statements?
• My Evolving GTD System: Part 3
• Understanding My Weekly Planner
• Self-Help Myths: Be Yourself
• The Productivity Formula
• Productivity Printable Templates
• Clutter 101: The Last Minute De-Clutter

Welcome to the tenth part of my Clutter 101 series! Imagine that you have friends or family who have unexpectedly decided to visit you (as they always seem to do…), yet you have piles of paper on the table, laundry waiting to be washed in baskets and, and overflowing kitchen drawers. How do you go about tidying up and de-cluttering in a such a short space of time? The trap a lot of people fall into is to rush around to try and clean the entire home, dumping everything into the first drawer they find. Out of sight, out of mind right?

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Organize IT recap for 29th July 2007

• Productivity advice from Jerry Seinfeld? You read that right, check it out here. He basically suggests getting a big wall calendar and putting a big red X through each day when you complete your tasks for it. After a while you create a nice, long chain which you really don’t want to break.
• 10 articles that changed your life? Shaun has selected his and it’s quite an eclectic mix. I want to try and come up with 10 articles/books/films etc that changed my life sometime. Any of you guys ever done it?
• Over at Achieve IT! there is a 10 point guide to squashing a bad mood in 17 minutes or less. I’m not entirely sure where he got the 17 minute figure from though