http://www.zenproductivity.com Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:07:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently came across this article through Steve Rubel’s blog about a man who works remotely for IBM and has the title, Social Media Evangelist. Fitting to his title, he promotes the usage of social media technologies such as blogs, wikis and twitter as well as instant messenger and the ... http://www.zenproductivity.com/2008/07/07/communications-e-mail-vs-telephone-vs-instant-messenger/ I hadn’t started thinking about how food impacts my energy level until relatively recently. When I was growing up, I ate based on cravings (sweets) and what my mother put on the table. When I was in college, I ate based on what I knew was healthy and what would ... http://www.zenproductivity.com/2007/04/24/eating-right-for-productivity/ I read “The Art of Happiness,” the collaboration between the Dalai Lama and an American psychiatrist, Howard Cutler a while back and it struck me as an indispensable guide to living a happier and more meaningful life. I found the lessons to really resonate with me and as I was ... http://www.zenproductivity.com/2007/01/10/making-the-art-of-happiness-more-actionable/ I read David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done about one year ago, and being generally enthusiastic about improving my productivity while maintaining a relatively stress-free existence, the methods in GTD were a revelation to me. I was particularly excited about the prospect of not having to continually remember to-do items, ... http://www.zenproductivity.com/2006/12/17/why-gtd-doesnt-work-for-me/ I've been using Voice-over-IP (VoIP) for about 1 year now and have tried out 3 different services and I'm the happiest with my current one. I've used Vonage and Gizmo Project and had issues with both of them. Then I started using Skype and found the connection to be very ... http://www.zenproductivity.com/2006/12/10/land-line-sort-of/ Yeah, I really think that they are. Maybe it's because I have mildly OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) tendencies so if there is a clock in front of me, I'll check it incessantly. About a year ago, someone told me that they got rid of the clock from their computer desktop, and ... http://www.zenproductivity.com/2006/06/15/clocks-are-evil/ Just like I currently say in my intro, I like to be efficient and I feel that although blogging best practices stipulate that you post often, in doing so, you may be performing a disservice to your readers - that is, making them waste their time re-checking your site or ... http://www.zenproductivity.com/2006/06/12/excessive-inefficient/ This week, I experienced stress caused by other people who you work with, but don't keep their end of the bargain. One is related to work and the other is for a sailboat share, which I am a part of. At my day job, I'm currently responsible for the launch of ... http://www.zenproductivity.com/2006/06/06/when-other-people-dont-do-their-job/ I believe that workplace unhappiness is generally caused by one of two things: anger and stress. When I find myself to be unhappy at work, I try to decipher whether it's due to anger or stress. Stress happens because you feel overwhelmed. It's a matter of managing your projects and workload. ... http://www.zenproductivity.com/2006/05/31/anger-and-stress-the-root-of-workplace-unhappiness/ So many people are unhappy because of their job. Either their job makes their entire life miserable, or they're just unhappy while they're at work. They may find their job to be boring, work with people they don't get along with, feel underpaid or underappreciated; they may feel that they ... http://www.zenproductivity.com/2006/05/24/work-a-barrier-to-happiness/