Mental spam filter

Unleash the power of “No!” One of the most overlooked means of optimizing is to delete stuff you don’t want to spend time on. The faster it’s out of your system, the better. For this reason, we have spam filters our email accounts. But what do you have in your everyday life to protect yourself from unwanted [...]

Introducing fluid time frame decision making

This post will introduce our concept of fluid time frame decision making. At this first stage it is basically a tool for recognizing a certain kind of very pressing situation in which a decision has to be made. There are three basic circumstances that produce a fluid time frame decision situation, and they can be [...]

Your Hourly Monetary Opportunity Cost – Examples

Make sure you are familiar with the concept of opportunity cost. If not, check out this and this. However you choose to approximate your hourly monetary opportunity cost, this amount is then to be weighted against outsourcing any of your outsourcable actions. Simply put – if you have things to get done and these could be [...]

Wasting time playing games

If you like to relax or just simply kill time by playing a computer game, you might as well train your brain while doing it. Games such as chess have always been a favorite for their intellectually challenging properties. Such games are an excellent way of keeping your brain fit. Most people know the rules [...]

Optimizing computer use with shortcuts #1: word processing

In this post I will give examples of how you can significantly quicken your production rate at the computer. When word processing, there’s a literal gold mine of keyboard shortcuts to speed up editing. Since you pretty much only use the keyboard when typing, learning keyboard shortcuts for this area of computer use is particularly [...]