Helping Creative People Create

September 2006

Menta Heuristics Productivity rules of thumb Creativity Course The 5 steps involved in creativity, and the 10 keys to creativity Overcoming Procrastination Steve Pavlina walks through how to get something started Procrastination, the habit of putting tasks off to the last possible minute, can be a major problem in both your career and your personal ...

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Technology has had a huge effect on how we live and work. What used to take a whole day to get a response from a client, boss or co-worker now can be nearly instantaneous via IM, cell phones and email. The rate of how fast we can reply has increased dramatically thanks to these new ...

I’m starting something new: weekly “stumbles”. If you don’t know about the service StumbleUpon, you should check it out. It’s a Firefox extension that shows you useful websites/pages at random, according to your preferences. [DISCLAIMER: It's more addictive than crack.] I know most of my blog is about being productive, but you gotta have fun ...

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Ahh, the internet is a beautiful thing. I would be in a world of hurt if the internet was down for even half a day. I depend on it. Why? Because the internet allows me to be mobile with my work. I can go to any computer that’s online and have everything I need to ...

Oh man, this post could be 8 miles long. I’ve already written a couple posts over the dangers of time spent on the computer. Limiting the time spent online seems so simple, yet in reality it’s such a hard thing to do. Especially for people working on the computer for a living (which the number ...

The advances in technology over the past 20 years have been phenomenal. Shoot, even the past 5 years have been incredible. We seem to be making every piece of technology faster, smaller, stronger and cooler than previously thought possible. Now we have things like cell phones, PDA’s, laptops, wifi… just about anything that can connect ...

Ahh, the power of collective wisdom has finally been utilized as a shopping tool. Sure, sites like Amazon have always had reviews, and sites like Pricegrabber have always compared prices. But nobody has harnessed the power of social media (yay!) and online shopping quite like Wize.com. They actually calculate three different scores: 1.) The “buzz” ...

In case you haven’t heard of the band OKgo, they were shot into viral video kingdom last year with their awesome music video “A Million Ways“. Here’s their latest “Here it Goes Again”. 2zY_4QkJGls

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