Inspirational Quotes: 11th Aug 2007

August 11th 2007 Quotes 0 comments

Inspirational quotes for 11th August 2007.

Epicurus: “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

Chuck Palahniuk: “The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.”

Mary Anne Radmacher: “The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be…because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!”

Having Trouble With Healthy Eating?

August 9th 2007 Health 5 comments

If you have ever had trouble adapting to a more healthy diet then I have an approach that may help you. Lunch and dinner food tends to involve quite large portions and/or set meals and while I try to choose healthier options (chicken over red meat and vegetables over chips for instance) it can often be difficult to cook a meal/choose something at a restaurant, that is both fully healthy and tasty. So what I have done over the last few months is focus on making breakfast and snacks more healthy. It’s much easier to change those eating habits as they typically require minimal preparation and cooking.

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Designing Your GTD System: Part 2

August 7th 2007 GTD 7 comments

Welcome to the second part of this guide looking at questions you need to ask yourself when thinking through how you are going to create your GTD system so you have something that fits your own personal needs. This was originally going to be a two part series but thanks to feedback I hope to expand it further. If anybody tries applying these questions to their systems to see if they can cut down the amount of times they fall off the bandwagon, let me know about it.

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Designing Your GTD System: Part 1

August 6th 2007 GTD 5 comments

When I sat down to develop my current GTD system I looked at why I stopped using my previous approaches. I asked myself a number of questions to try and make a system that totally fitted my personal needs. This got me thinking about what other questions a person could ask when coming up with their system:

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Organize IT Recap 05th Aug 2007

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Organize IT recap for 05th August 2007

• The authors of Cranking Widgets and LifeDev have developed a personal development network called LifeRemix which includes 14 hand-picked blogs. If you want some of the best writing all in once place then subscribe to the feed. Only question I have is where is Organize IT?
• It’s becoming possible to do more and more cool things through your browser. Now you can even download bittorrent files thanks to BitLet.
• Do you like to run? Whether it be jogging around the garden or doing a 10k marathon, Running Planet has lots of guides and tips, on such issues as training and nutrition.
• Organize IT is a year old this month (I need to dig through my archives to find the exact date) and I am currently thinking about ways to celebrate the occasion. If you have any ideas then please leave a comment.