Marc and Angel Hack Life

This guest post was written by Glen Allsopp, the author of PluginID.
About a year ago, I feared I would struggle to build an audience for my new personal development website.  My fear was solely based on the fact that I had just turned 19.  I simply assumed most people would question my age, and thus, […]

Six years ago he walked into my dorm room on the verge of tears.
“I can’t take it anymore!” he groaned.  “I’m just running in place!  I aim. I sprint. I leap.  I fall.  I get nowhere.  Nowhere!”
His desperate eyes stared into mine, hoping… searching for an answer.
His Story
He has dreamed of pursuing a career in […]

What do you call a painter who doesn’t paint?  Is a writer a writer if she doesn’t write?  If you don’t follow through with the things you want to do, are you really being you?
Think of all the tasks you want to get done, but haven’t yet started.  How much time has lapsed between the […]

This morning I informed my colleagues that I had only one thing on my to-do list.  Two of them chuckled, a few of them rolled their eyes, but every one of them assumed I would spend most of my day slacking off.  They changed their minds, however, when our boss sent out a mass email […]

Regular note-taking is one of the most productive habits a person can practice.  The ability to take notes online and access them anytime, from any location is priceless.  Over the last few years, I have personally tested nearly 100 different ways to do this.  Some of these note-taking systems are worth mentioning, and some are […]

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
- Delmore Schwartz
His Story
Tick-tock, tick tock…  It’s the pulse that endlessly beats through his mind.  He attempts to ignore it.  He jogs, reads, writes, drinks, chats, anything to distract its drumming.  But it persists.  The pulse follows him.  It calls to […]

Time isn’t money.  It’s the single greatest constituent of life.  The more time you create for yourself, the more time you have to live.  Thus, saving time is life saving.  If you’ve been feeling a day late and a buck short, you’ve been mismanaging your time… and your life.
Here are 25 proven time saving tips […]

 
There are plenty of ways to sabotage your personal goals, dreams and desires.  Procrastination, however, is the number one killer.  Procrastinators self-destruct.  They hinder their own potential by placing colossal road-blocks along the path to success.  In other words, they subconsciously choose to fail.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted […]

An increase in productivity saves time, the most valuable constituent of life.  Take heed to these swift tips and the victory dance shall be yours.

If you want to catch fish, and really enjoy the sport, you
will maintain your lures and line in some organized fashion.
The best at it will always have their tackle ready.
– David Allen

Clutter hinders […]

 
There is no shortcut to greatness.  It’s all about taking the right steps… small, seemingly inconsequential steps that fuse together, emitting a positive effect on the bigger picture.  Below are 28 astute takes of insight from around the blogosphere.  Take heed to this wisdom, and you’ll soon be on your way to living a prolific […]