NaNoWriMo, otherwise known as National Novel Writing Month, is a great idea. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel throughout November, and the website offers help, forums, tips and encouragement to help you (over 200,000 people participated in 2010). The reason I like the idea of NaNoWriMo is it encourages people to approach [...]

This is a guest post by Emma Newman of Post Apocalyptic Publishing. I once heard that former British Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher said “Happiness is a ticked off list”. I have no idea if that’s true, but regardless of how one might have felt about her politics, I can certainly relate to that statement. I [...]

This is a guest post by Francis Wade of Time Management 2.0. Most professionals can name a handful of time management systems that they have come across in their professional careers. They can probably also list a few people here and there who have embraced these systems and are quite happy using them. If they [...]

I’m not really liking priorities at the moment. I feel like prioritizing my tasks and projects is causing more trouble than it’s worth. It’s one more layer of complexity between me and just doing it. Don’t get me wrong, prioritizing does have its uses and we all (need to) do it on a very basic [...]

Last week I wrote about the ‘Someday’ disease as I like to call it. It’s a syndrome that runs rampant in modern society. You may also know it as procrastination, but this isn’t just procrastinating over that report you need to finish, or getting the dishes washed and dried. ‘Someday’ disease goes much further. Millions [...]