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3 Ways to “Hack Your Day” and Make It Great
June 19th, 2008 by StephenPosted in Lifehacks, Links, Productivity |
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This is a guest post from Phil Gerbyshak. He is a motivational speaker and self-improvement advocate and challenges you to “Stop having a nice day…and Make it Great!”
Phil’s website is updated regularly with thoughts about how you can take control of your life and stop letting life take control of you. If you’re looking for management and productivity tips, head over to Slacker Manager.com. And you can pick up a copy of Phil’s book 10 Ways to Make It Great at Make it Great Book.com
I live a fairly complicated life. I have 2 Blackberry devices (1 for work e-mail and 1 for personal e-mail), I have 3 PCs, 1 Macbook, 3 TVs, and much more clutter than I could ever want.
Starting tomorrow, I’m working on hacking my life to make it better, to make it a truly GREAT life! Here are the 3 things I’m going to do, and that you can do, to hack your life right now.
- Simplify your life
- Get rid of anything in your house/apartment you don’t know what it does anymore. I’ve got 10 remote controls, many of which I have no idea what they do.
- Get down to 1 or 2 bank accounts.
- Bonus tip: Share some of your most successful tips with the loved ones in your life, as the less complicated their life is the less complicated they’ll try to make YOUR life.
- Organize your life
- Write everything down or put them on your PC so you don’t forget what needs to be done.
- I bought a nice Levenger shirt pocket briefcase so I always have a notebook.
- Store things in 1 place and 1 place only.
- Clarify your life -Figure out what’s really important, and make sure you are making time for it. Whether it’s your spouse, your kids, or your friends, take a long look to clarify what’s REALLY important, and put that on your calendar first.
What are YOUR best tips for hacking your life?
Phil Gerbyshak is the author of 10 Ways to Make It Great! and can be found writing management and productivity articles at Slacker Manager.
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June 19th, 2008 at 7:40 am
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June 19th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
I can almost guarantee that within 72 hours of throwing out one of your remotes you will discover what it goes to. :)
Last year I combined my investment and banking from about eight different places down to two. This has been tremendously helpful so I’d highly recommend it.
June 22nd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Mark - I’ve found you’re right, so now I’m back to 11 remotes.
Seriously…Glad you found a helpful tip here.