Saturday, June 16, 2007
Anatomy of a To-Do
It’s a physiological activeness
It can be completed at a seance
It supports worthful progression toward a acknowledged goal
It’s something for which you are the most apposite person for the job
Glancing at your own to-do list, do you see any latent troublemakers? Observation any items that make you overnice? Any whodunit meat tasks that seem "un-doable" as is? Don’t lather it. We’re sledding to have you molded up in no time.
Disruption it Down to the “Next Activeness”
In Acquiring Things Done , David Allen introduced his whimsey of the “next activeness,” which he defines as “the next forceful, overt activeness that inevitably to be booked in, in arrange to move the ongoing realness toward windup.”
For illustration, a classic old-school to-do mightiness be something like “Plan Tom’s Surprisal Expiration-Aexpiration Partizan,” “Clean out the Garage,” or “Get the Car Rigid.” But, as Allen presciently notes, these are each genuinely reduced projects since they necessitate more than one activeness in edict to be advised completed. Learnedness to laurels that differentiation 'tween a task and its parent protrude may, in fact, be the most grievous step you can take toward improving the lineament and “do-ability” of the work on your list.
So, in our representative of primary to unionize for Tom’s big partisan, we freshman want to memorize when incisively he’ll be leaving town. But to incur that information, we’ll first-year need to call his housemate, Sue, for details. But earlier we can call Sue, we’ll have to commend where we jotted down her new work enumerate last week. (Project managers call these kind of coupled tasks “dependencies,” but you knew that.)
Abruptly our focusing has contracted from the ginormous and ultimately un-doable “Plan Partisan” to the wholly governable “Find Sue’s work numeral.” While this is far from the only task we’ll have to double-dyed for our partizan provision, it’s intelligibly the next thing we’ll need to do earlier proceedings. This is the bona fide “next activeness,” so it’s merited a piazza on our to-do list.
By e'er breakage projects of any size into their true fractional next actions–and it’s emphatically okay to have respective at once per protrude–protrude’protrude fashioning it fast and easy to e'er know what should be occurrence next.
Saturday, May 5, 2007
See how easily you can get a good pay profession and don’t fall down in your life
When you leave school you understand that the time of your independence life and the beginning of a far more serious examination of your abilities and character has come. You also understand that from now you’ll have to do everything yourself, and to “fight” with everybody around you for better life. The first problem that young people meet is to choose their future profession, it means that they have to choose the future of their life. It’s not an easy task to make the right choice of a job. You know children have a lot of dreams about their future : to become a superman or a policeman or a doctor … It’s very easy they think, but when they become older and see real world they understand that in all professions need to know perfectly about what you do, you must be well-educated and well-informed. That’s why I think it’s very important to have a good education at school. And if you work hard everything will be OK. Another problem of young people is drugs. This is a relatively new problem but it is becoming more and more dangerous. Million young people today are using drugs, and most of them will die. Usually they want just to try it , then again and again … and after year may be two years they will die . It is true. Because there are no medicine to help you. That’s why never do it, if you do - it goes bad, very bad. I think that police must work hard to protect young people from drugs. Because drugs will kill our young generation and our future will be very bad.
People of almost every age are susceptible to this pernitious disease but it hits the youth the hardest. It's name is unemployment. The persent-age of unemployed youth in the total number of the jobless is high. In many developing countries the situation is more serious. Many young people to commit suside. Unless the economic situation in the world changes, youth unemployment will mount. This prodictions refer to all catigories of workers-with high and low skills in town and country. For all there possible distinctious,these young people over outside the production structure of society. The are deprived the possebility of creting there are "surplus" from time to time some may get a hit of luck, but the lot of the majority is to feel their unlessles to lose their ideals and become disillusioned. Unemployment greatly intemcilicselle tendency among the youth towards, drug education , frastretion and crime. This is a time bomb and is a heavy acusation of any social economic system.
There are many young people in our country. Each of them has one's own view point on their life and their future. There are many problems which are common for all young people.For Example: how to spend their free time, what to do after school, choosing a profession, how to deal with girl and boy-friends and so on.
The problem number one of most of the young people is the problem of fathers and sons. All young people want to be independent, they want their parents to listen to their opinion, not to interfere in their private life. Some parents neglect their children, because they cant find a common language with each other.
Many problems were hushed up, but now we can speak openly about them. I think that the most difficult and sirious problem of modern teen-ages is drug-habit. Some young man use drugs, because they think that will be cool guys. But they don't understand, that it's wrong. Some of them can't stop that, and they become dependent on drugs. And they commit different serious, because they need some money to buy drugs. There are also many other problems: alchoholism, smokin and so on. There are many youth organisations in our country, wich unite young men on different principles. Members of every organisation has ons own world out looks. Each of them has their own morral qualities. There are some informal organisations, for example: skinheads, hippies, panks and so on. Now there exists the problem of missundrstanding beetwen different youth groups.
We also face the problem how to spend our free time. We can do it in different ways. Some of teen-ages spend their free time in different night clubs. Other young people spend their free time in the strets.
As for me, i spend my free time at home or in the night clubs. I also have some problems with my parents. But every time then i have them i try to slove them without quorrel.
Now we are young people and we are the future of our country. Teen-aegs play an important role in the modern society. Grown up's must remember that we are the future of our country and in present moment our character is formed and that's why our parents must not assert pressure on us.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Become lazy: is it good?
- If you haven't worked out much before, stretch first, then start slow. If you don't you will be in so much pain from sore or pulled muscles it will be easy to use it as an excuse to stop exercising. Make sure to drink a lot of water, so you don't become dehydrated.
- Make a goal sheet, or copy that sheet so you have a couple of them, place one on the fridge, on your night stand, by your computer, even on the bedroom door, just place them where you look or go to often.
- Tell yourself all the time, that if you're not working, you're not making the money that you want. Being broke can be one of the biggest motivations ever.
- Stay off the couch until you are ready to take a break and when you do, sit, do not lay down and set a time when you will return to do other activities around the house or with the kids, read a book, write to a friend etc.
- Make a list of all the smaller things that you want, new clothes, a cd player, some furniture, even a dog. Think about the things that you want every day; if it's constantly in your mind, you'll start moving toward those goals.
- Always dress as if you were planning to leave the house -- get out of the jammies before leaving the bedroom.
- Getting enough sleep each night can make you feel more awake. Depending on your activity and age, you may need up to 10 hours (teenagers) or as little as 5 (elderly).
- Avoid sugar, and especially foods with "high fructose corn syrup" or "corn syrup" in the ingredients, as these can lead your body into metabolizing sugars instead of fats. Also, unnatural sugars (without fiber) may give you a short energy buzz, but then a drop and you will feel lazy and fatigued.
Sometimes, a chore simply cannot be avoided. We know you want to get away with a prolonged spell of extreme apathy, so you need to make any job you are lumbered with as easy as possible.
Here are some steps:
1. Keep a stool by the kitchen sink, sit back, and gently, with little effort wash the dishes while sitting down. For extreme laziness, use a stool or chair that has rollers on the bottoms, so you can glide easily from the table to the sink, without even getting up or moving anything but your arms.
2. Remember, the chair is your friend. There are a few chores that can't be managed on your backside, for everything else hoover from the comfort of your office recliner,
3. Clean as much of the bathroom as possible from the comfort of your toilet.
4. When someone cooks you a meal, does your washing up, or just brings you a cup of tea, shower them with praise. The more they can see how happy these things make you, the more likely it is they will gladly do it again. You could say: "No one makes lasagna quite like you, it fills my heart full of wonder, and my taste buds feel like they are dancing on the wings of an angel."The essential rule with laziness is that flattery will get you everywhere!
5. Create the aura of a hard worker If a job that takes a few minutes really has to be done, make it last a few hours. Spend most of this time doing nothing, but create plenty of mess. Come up with a set of fictional complications that have made it a much harder job than expected.
6. You should ask to be left to it because you want to “get in the zone” in order to do a good job. When their backs are turned, simply kick back, and relax.
7. Laziness is an art form, and to do it well can take a surprising amount of planning, albeit at a very slow pace. Organize the jobs you are putting off into a hierarchy. If you need to both tidy your room, and complete a vital work assignment, always opt for the tidying first (even if you do just hide the mess). The satisfaction of completing an entire task will put your lazy mind at rest. The lesson here is to always leave the lengthiest jobs till last!
8. There is nothing worse than a do-gooder that makes you look worse than you already are. Very subtly, try to sabotage their jobs. Drop a few crumbs after they have vacuumed. Sneak in a red sock when they help with someone else washing, and slyly dirty up their dishes the moment they have cleaned them. However, it is vital to never be caught on a sabotage mission.
9. Convince your housemates that a lazy house is a harmonious house. Gather in the living room, settle down with a film keeping snacks and drinks to hand.
10. Surround yourself with all household remote keep a lengthy stick to hand for reaching distant light switches and so on.
11. Chill out, put your feet up, and enjoy your bone-idleness.
So, as you could understand, laziness sometimes can be good, sometimes can be bad for you. But only you, nobody else, can know when laziness can help and when to harm.