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My Favourite Firefox Add-on to Increase Productivity (what’s yours?)

Published by Henrik Edberg September 30th, 2008 in Productivity, Personal Development, One simple lifehack and Career & Work. 8 Comments

My Favourite Firefox Add-on to Increase Productivity (what’s yours?)
Image by Ahmed Rabea (license).

I don’t write a lot about applications/programs that can help you become more productive. I’m not really that much of a tech geek and loads of people know tons more about this than I do.

But one small program that I like immensely and that is a part of my daily routine is the Morning Coffee add-on for Firefox. It allows you to add your favourite websites and then when you press a button - located beside the Home button - in your browser all those websites open up in tabs.

Three reasons why I like Morning Coffee:

  • Makes it easier to be disciplined. One big problem with being productive is all those interruptions. You work and then you think “oh, I wonder if something has happened in my in-box/on Facebook/on my blog”. And then you lose focus and spend 30 minutes just surfing around aimlessly. With this add-on you can add all those email/blog/social media websites and make a habit of just checking them via you Morning Coffee button. Perhaps once in the morning and once at night. Instead of running around online 10 times a day and getting stuck in procrastination.
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What Would Winnie the Pooh Do?

Published by Henrik Edberg September 25th, 2008 in Productivity, Relaxation, Personal Development, People Skills, Lessons I have learned from... and Success. 16 Comments

What Would Winnie the Pooh Do?“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
Anthony Robbins

Your mind like answers. It seems like whatever you ask it, it will find answers for.

So it becomes very important to ask yourself the right questions. Questions that will help you out rather than just make you feel more miserable and helpless.

I have already written a bit about this and listed some of my favourite questions.

Questions like: “What’s awesome about this?” and “Will this matter 5 years from now?”

Another favourite goes something like this: “What would X do?” X being whoever inspiring figure you want it to be. It’s a great way to shift perspective in a situation and find a more useful frame of mind.

For example, the non-conformist and rebel might ask: “What would Tyler Durden do?”

Me, I like Winnie the Pooh.

What would Winnie the Pooh do?

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5 Great Ways to Create a More Productive Workspace

Published by Henrik Edberg September 19th, 2008 in Productivity, Relaxation, Personal Development and Success. 11 Comments

5 Great Ways to Create a More Productive Workspace
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Note: This is a guestpost by Claire Askew of One Night Stanzas.

The space you work in is important. 

It doesn’t matter if it’s your living room, a six-foot-square cubicle, or a corner office-suite; the space you work in makes a massive difference to the work you’re doing.  It can affect the creativity and quality of your work, and it can even affect the time it takes you to do it. We’ve all had days where we can’t string two thoughts together coherently, and can’t figure out why.

Well, it’s highly possible that the workspace you’ve carved out for yourself is a contributing factor.  Check out this list and see if you can’t turn your place of work into a more productive environment…

1: Tidy up.

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How to Flip Things Around: Act as You Would Like to Feel

Published by Henrik Edberg September 15th, 2008 in Productivity, Relaxation, Personal Development, People Skills, One simple lifehack and Success. 15 Comments

How to Flip Things Around: Act as You Would Like to Feel
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“Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.”
Viktor Frankl

If something happens in your everyday life that could trigger negative emotions and behaviour on your part, what do you do? If you feel lazy or uninspired or angry and hateful, what do you do?

One way to handle such situations is to act as you would like to feel.

Let’s say that someone you know is having success. Maybe s/he’s gotten a promotion at work or finally paid off his/her debt. Perhaps that person is doing better than you in school.

Maybe you get angry or envious. Perhaps you start trash talking the other person. That’s not uncommon. It’s also a pretty reactive behaviour. And deep down you probably don’t want to take that negative route. Well, you don’t have to.

Make a conscious choice

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The Wisdom of Lao Tzu: A Taoist Guide to Getting Things Done

Published by Henrik Edberg September 8th, 2008 in Productivity, Personal Development, Lessons I have learned from... and Success. 12 Comments

The Wisdom of Lao Tzu: A Taoist Guide to Getting Things DoneNote: This is a guest post by Michael Miles of EffortlessAbundance.com.

We live in a competitive society and are often told that to get ahead we require drive, commitment and determination, that we must expend a great amount of energy and, if necessary, use force to get what we want. A ‘survival of the fittest’ mentality is deeply entrenched in our culture.

Much of this thinking comes from Darwin’s Origin of the Species, a work which has influenced us in the most profound and subtle ways, not least of all because it advanced the idea that competition was a natural and normal part of life, that nature was ‘red in tooth and claw.’ Whatever we might think about Darwin, we do tend to see the world in these competitive terms.

But there is another way of thinking. There is another way of getting things done, a way which sees nature differently and recognizes the importance of harmony, balance and living peacefully.

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