Inspirational quotes for 09th February 2008.

Ernest Hemingway: “I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.”

Ray Douglas Bradbury: “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”

Scott Adams: “I’m slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can’t motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.”

Lou Dorfsman: “Creativity is a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It’s in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.”

Organize IT recap for 08th Febuary 2008

• I’m interested in upgrading the weekly recap to make it more useful for all my readers. On top of covering useful links, I want the recap to contain other interesting bite-sizes of information. With this in mind do you have ideas and suggestions about what you want to read?
• One such features I want to try is to cover some of the new ideas and posts I will be doing over the next couple of weeks so you know what to expect. One area I intend to focus on is my Organize IT Habits series and expand it from the rather lackluster one habit it is now (it is a very important habit though).
• In my recent post about why you should start a blog today I talked about the concept of viewing yourself as a brand. While researching the topic, I came across a very intriguing article at Fast Company covering the whole idea of being the CEO of Me Inc.
• The push-up is a great way of exercising in your home without being at a gym or using expensive equipment. However a lot of people (myself included) don’t do it properly. The ABC Of Fitness has a great guide (including animation) on how to really do it.

I don’t normally cover social/political issues here at Organize IT because obviously that’s not what the blog is about. However, with my video posts I sometimes broaden my scope and in this case I’m glad I did because this video on the big brother state is excellent. What’s your thoughts? Is it alarmist or does it make a very real point about our current culture?

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Organize IT recap for 1st February 2008

• The increasing number of people who subscribe to Organize IT every week is always encouraging to see. It took a year to get my first 1000 subscribers, yet I’ve managed to break the 2000 subscribers mark in a third of the time… well, almost. To hit my target I need to get the figure consistently over 2000 within the next seven days, so if you enjoy this blog please subscribe to the RSS feed and make my week complete!
• If you haven’t checked out my latest template, the habit tracker, please do! I’ve been inspired by David Seah’s Printable CEO series and over the next few weeks I’m going to be radically updating my productivity templates to be more professional. So watch this space.
• Has anyone tried FolderShare for backing up and syncing their files? It was recently bought out by Microsoft and looks an intriguing prospect. As you may be aware I’ve been a fan of Mozy for the last few months, so I’m looking for feedback on whether to change tools.
• Lifehack.org discusses twelve ways to upgrade your weekly review. There are some very good points worthy of attention here. However, from my personal experience I’ve found that the GTD concept of a weekly review is flawed (at least for me). What I’m currently doing is reviewing as and when I need to. Of course the trick is to recognize the signs saying you need to review :) Anyone tried a similar approach?