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50 Strategies for Making Yourself Work on 2008-07-25
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Keep written goals, and revise them daily. (Production goals, not sales goals, which you can't control.) Rewriting them every day helps you focus on each one and think about what you can do at the moment to further it along.
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Set a timer for a short period of time (15 minutes or so) and stay at the keyboard--no matter what--until it dings. Then do it again. Only allow yourself to get up after the timer dings, and always set the timer again if you stay at the keyboard. This will hold you in place long enough for the first impulse toward work-avoidance to pass, and you'll often discover yourself eager to keep going when your time's up.
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Pay yourself an hourly wage for time worked, and don't allow yourself leisure activities (movies, dinner out, etc.) unless you can pay for it with this writing money.
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Set a quota of hours worked per day/week. The same applies here as with page quotas. Make it realistic.
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Get Off Your Butt: 16 Ways to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump | Zen Habits on 2008-01-10
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Whenever I’ve been in a slump, I’ve discovered that it’s often because I have too much going on in my life. I’m trying to do too much
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Share a line or passage from your current book, part 2 | What Are You Reading Now? | LibraryThing on 2007-11-09
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From
The Accidental by Ali Smith:
I was born free, I've had the time of my life and for all we know I'm going to live forever.
(There's a whole chapter built on lies a character tells about her past--all drawn from news stories, movies, TV, and popular songs. Loved this novel!)
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PigPogPDA - A Moleskine Hacked into a Complete System | PigPog on 2007-10-13
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t’s just a notebook, you make your notes from front to back, in the usual way. You have a bookmark of some sort to keep track of where you’re up to, so you can quickly open it and make a note. The only ‘clever’ part is that you have another bookmark, which marks the point at which you’ve dealt with everything in some way. Doesn’t matter if you’ve actually done the things, or just made a note of them elsewhere - as long as you’ve processed them in some way, so you don’t need to look at them again.
Normally, the second bookmark will lag a bit behind the ‘main’ one, and at least some of the stuff in-between needs doing or adding to a list somewhere else (maybe just some other pages in the same notebook). Anything left behind the second bookmark is pretty much ‘archived’.
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The basic page template is just a ruled line at the bottom, maybe two centimetres or three quarters of an inch from the bottom, then a line from the top of the page down to this line, about the same distance from the right hand edge. Doesn’t need to be exact, and you might prefer wider or narrower margins. Just see what you find works.
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How To Mark
Trick I picked up years ago from one of my school teachers, for marking a ‘margin’ line on pretty much anything with some thickness to it - he used it for marking wood for cutting, but it works just as well on a notebook…
- Hold your pen or pencil in hand as usual, between thumb and first two fingers.
- Rest your second finger on the page.
- Press the first knuckle of your third finger (ring finger) against the edge of the pad.
- Slide down the page, using fingers as a guide - do it once or twice with the pencil just above the page, to get the idea, then lower the pencil and draw the line.
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The section at the bottom is for two things - space for the tags, and a space for titles for active pages. If a page is just for capturing quick notes and scribbles, it will be left blank, and just used for the tags. If a page is
brainstorming or
mind mapping of an idea, event or project, a title can go in the middle of the bottom section, where the tags won’t obscure it. Remember, the sticky part of the tags is clear anyway.
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No, not the fella from U2. Use a
Sanford Sharpie or similar marker to mark the date you start the notebook on the edge of the pages. When you’re done with this one, you’ll mark the end date on it, and they’ll all stand in a line on your shelf looking impressive ;)
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Feel free to just copy it to your current capture point, and continue moving the blue tag forwards. If there’s a few of them, you could always collect them together in a ‘Stubborn Items’ list.
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nything that’s active. If you’re planning an article, or a party, or you’re working on a list of people you’ll need to tell about something, or a list of things you need to do this weekend, or…
You get the idea. Anything you’re still working on that has a page of its own. Single items should be moved into a list before getting a yellow tag.
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The margin on the right is a space for notes added later - maybe actions arrising from the things on the left, or follow up clarifications.
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Anything that’s currently being worked on gets a yellow tag.
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Processing starts from the blue tag (closest to the front of the book). You check each page, and if there’s anything actionable in it, you need to either do it, or clarify what it is and add it to an active list somewhere. That somewhere can be another page further forward in the book, or it could be a to-do list somewhere completely different.
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Capturing is pretty simple, just as it should be. Open up a the pink tag, and make your notes. Draw a line across between items, all the way to the edge. The right hand side margin can then be used to tick off items that are done, or make little notes of actions coming from that note.
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Pink Tag - Collection Point. This is where you need to note down any new ideas. Sometimes, there will be notes beyond this point, but only when you’ve needed a full page for something. I keep this one on the right hand side, so it’s the only non-yellow thing on its side. You might want to keep all yellow tags on the left, so you can find the collection point by feel, and don’t have to look for colours before making a quick note.
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Anything before this point has been processed, and you don’t need to refer to again - unless it has a yellow tag to mark it as active.
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If this is your entire system (it is for me), you just make lists as and when you need them further forwards in the book. If you’ve got several things noted down that you need to do this weekend, make a page for Things To Do This Weekend, and put these on the list. Then you can mark the items off. When each item on a page is marked off, move the blue tag forwards. Skip any active pages with yellow tags - they’re already marked as active, and when they stop being active, we’ll process them before removing their yellow tag.
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The section at the bottom is for two things - space for the tags, and a space for titles for active pages. If a page is just for capturing quick notes and scribbles, it will be left blank, and just used for the tags. If a page is
brainstorming or
mind mapping of an idea, event or project, a title can go in the middle of the bottom section, where the tags won’t obscure it. Remember, the sticky part of the tags is clear anyway.
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- Blue Tag - Processing Point. Anything before this point has been processed, and you don’t need to refer to again - unless it has a yellow tag to mark it as active. I keep this one stuck on the left hand side, which makes it stand out better.
- Pink Tag - Collection Point. This is where you need to note down any new ideas. Sometimes, there will be notes beyond this point, but only when you’ve needed a full page for something. I keep this one on the right hand side, so it’s the only non-yellow thing on its side. You might want to keep all yellow tags on the left, so you can find the collection point by feel, and don’t have to look for colours before making a quick note.
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Anything that’s currently being worked on gets a yellow tag.
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Masterpieces of Women's Literature | Girlybooks | LibraryThing on 2007-09-19
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The most influential book you have read in your subject | Graduate Students | LibraryThing on 2007-09-13
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The Other Malaysia - Caught in Dire Straits: The Fate of the Peranakan Chinese of Indonesia on 2007-08-08
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the history books of Malaysia remain curiously silent about the role played by the non-Malay communities in the development of the country, and turn their back to the pre-Islamic past as well
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he Dutch
Citizenship and Residents Regulations of 1910, for instance, took the
view that all local-born Chinese were to be regarded as residents of
the East Indies and were therefore to be seen as subjects of the
government of Holland. This was an understanding of citizenship based
on the principle of jus soli. But China took the view that all
Chinese remained both culturally Chinese as well as citizens of China
wherever they may be, regardless of their place of birth, based on
the principle of jus sanguinis.
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While the identity of the latter was not based primarily
on the notion of blood-based identity politics and belonging, Chinese
identity and the very idea of what constituted ‘Chineseness'
began to take on a more essentialist, as well as exclusive, meaning
by the beginning of the 20th century.
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compromised their standing as equal subjects
and citizens in the eyes of both the Western colonial authorities and
the local-born pribumis
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By looking back at the role of the Dutch colonial authorities in the
process of identity creation and identity politics, she correctly
shows that racism and communitarianism are historical processes that
involve ideologies and institutions. The construction of the image of
the Chinese as ‘foreigners' in a land they had settled in for
hundreds of years was neither natural nor accidental, but rather a
sustained project of ‘Othering' a community with the intention of
serving the interests of racialised capitalism and colonialism.
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Accidental Blogger: Water, Water, Everywhere; Not A Drop..... on 2007-08-08
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Pumping underground water for daily use, as also the frequent use of diesel generators to produce electricity during wide spread power cuts at all hours of the day and night have contributed to air pollution and alarming depletion of the ground water table, which do not bode well for India's environmental integrity
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corruption, scandal or gross mismanagement
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Category:Creativity Techniques - Mycoted on 2007-08-04
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Backwards Forwards Planning
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Implementation Checklists
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Strategic Management Process
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Potential Problem Analysis
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Potential Problem Analysis - Mycoted on 2007-08-04
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Define the Key requirements, a ‘must’ – outputs, actions or events that must take place if the implementation is to be successful. Failure of any of these is likely to cause problems.
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all possible problems for each of the key requirements
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ist possible causes for each potential problem
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