Doing any o these five things will help to brighten your day, most are quick and easy, and leave you with a smile. These may seem like they are geared towards help­ing oth­ers, but help­ing some­one else is a quick way to feel bet­ter about life, and your life. Open / Hold a Door: Start­ing with an easy one here, open a door for some­one, or even just hold a door so that a stranger can pass through. This small ges­ture will often put a smile on the strangers face,... Read More

Top 10 Tips for Maintaining a Positive Attitude

Danny Gamanche: These are things that you can do on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis to make sure you keep your pos­i­tive focus. via Link.  Read More

100 Ways to Live a Better Life

100 makes for a long list. Some great tips here, it is worth skim­ming at the very least. 100 Ways To Live A Bet­ter Life.  Read More

Virus Protection for the Mind

Steven Altchi­son: How then do we com­bat these thought viruses and pro­tect our minds in order to stay healthy men­tally and physically. via Virus Pro­tec­tion For The Mind.  Read More

Travel Checklist

Here is a great travel check­list from Sim­ply Productive: Link  Read More

10 OmniFocus Power Tips

I am a huge fan of Omni­Fo­cus for Mac and iPhone, so I thought I would share some things that I feel give Omni­Fo­cus the edge for task management. Esti­mated Time: Being able to add the amount of time to each action is an invalu­able tool, allow­ing me to quickly glance at actions by time needed. I like to sort this way when I fin­ish a task and have only lim­ited time before a meet­ing / errand that needs to be done. View Bar / Focus­ing: There is a pair of glasses... Read More

10 Tips for Microsoft Office Productivity

Tem­platesUsing and mak­ing tem­plates is a huge time saver. If you like the stock tem­plates but make the same changes to them over and over again, go ahead and save those changes as a new tem­plate. My com­pa­nies let­ter­head requires a huge mar­gin at the top of the page so I have a let­ter tem­plate set up just for using with letterhead. Key­board ShortcutsThese can be the sin­gle biggest time saver, take note of the tasks you are doing and see if they have... Read More

5 Must Have Mac Apps

1password This is the best pass­word man­ager you can get. Not only is there an iPhone client that it will sync with, but it will auto-fill forms with mul­ti­ple iden­ti­ties. Credit card infor­ma­tion can be auto filled, as well as the nor­mal user names and pass­words. Full inte­gra­tion with Safari makes this app a must have. $39.99 Ever­note The more I use Ever­note, the more I love Ever­note. This is a more than just a note taker, it is the... Read More

5 Things They Should Teach You in School

I usu­ally don’t pass along links but this is a great and sim­ple article. A lit­tle teaser: Take a read of it here.  Read More

Keep From Destroying Your Productivity System

Don’t Let Your Sys­tem Be Destroyed! It can take quite a while, and a lot of effort to build a strong pro­duc­tiv­ity sys­tem, one that works well for you. That same sys­tem can be destroyed in a very short period of time, with no effort at all. Don’t fall into these traps, keep your sys­tem alive. How Pro­duc­tiv­ity Sys­tems Die Mis­use, often peo­ple will begin to use their sys­tems in ways that it was not designed to be used. This makes the sys­tem... Read More