Posts Tagged With: lists
· February 19, 2007 at 5:00 am · Personal
Tags: done, jobs, lifehacks, lists, management, Mitch, productive, tasks, time
Now I wouldn’t call myself the most productive person I know, but from time to time I go have spurts of productivity and am able to do a large amount of tasks in a small time frame. I have become better over the last few years at managing my time and getting things done. I figured I would share how I get things done in order to better help some of the less organized out there.
One good way of getting more productive is to make yourself a list.
Now I know some people poo-poo this idea because it sets a goal that you can not reach. Your to do list might be really huge, and looking at it might discourage you from moving forward. For me though, a list is a good way to help me remember what my daily tasks should be and what my weekly tasks should be.
You shouldn’t put things on your list like “brush your teeth” or “take a bath”. Hopefully those are given tasks that you know that you will do by the time the day is over with. Things marked on the lists should not be everyday goals you set out to do. They should be the odd little things that take up your free time.
I want you to create two notes to yourself. One should be what you want to get done in a day (normal day to day tasks that you need to make note of). The other should be things you need to get done by the time the week is over with (these can be bigger tasks or jobs that you do not need to do every single day).
For example, if I know I have to write five articles, I could try to write them all in one day - but then they would probably be a little suckstatic in their quality. Instead, I have five days in the work week, so I can write down on my daily to do list - write an article. This way one job that would take several hours can now be spread out through the week and take only a few minutes.
Now what is a good way to write these notes to yourself? Here are a couple of program that should help you out in that department. Both allow you to put little sticky notes on your desktop to write things down on.
+ StickyPad
+ ATnotes
+ Stickies
The great lesson to be learned is to not overwork yourself. Instead of doing one big job today, make it into several little jobs you can spread out through the week. This way you can have more hours of your day to do other things you need to do.
· October 23, 2006 at 8:28 am · Web Hosting
Tags: best, blog, feeds, industry, lists, RSS, top-5, Web Hosting, web-hosts
I have been maybe the loudest voice when it comes to Web hosts and Web hosting related services needing to blog, and it sounds like finally somebody has been listening. A year or two ago when I started talking about this, there was maybe two or three Web hosting blogs out there. Now the numbers have grown.
The numbers have grown enough to where I can actually do a top five list without feeling like I have to make half of them up.
The WHIR Blogs
OK, so maybe this isn’t just one blog - but I am going to sum them all up together, because they do give you the nice option of subscribing to all of them at once if you would like. Now what is so great about The WHIR’s Blog?
Well they give you a lot of interesting voices and views from the Web hosting industry. They have some voices from one side and other voices from another. The thing some people don’t understand is Web hosting is a really big tent - and the WHIR Blogs try to fit a lot of the industry biggest spots under their feed.
Amy’s Blog
Amy Armitage (from Lunarpages.com) has a nice blog that I would say is the closest thing to a professional blog Lunarpages has got.
I like the feeling of the whole thing. It has a much more personal feeling to it, and shows that Web hosting doesn’t always have to be about servers and uptime. You can create interesting Web hosting content without feeling like you are putting folks to sleep.
FastServers’s Blog
The folks over at FastServers.net also have a blog for both industry insiders and folks interested in the world of Web hosting to check out and read. Now the content here usually is a little more business focused, but that is OK too.
It gives you a secret window to look through when it comes to running an impressive data center. With multiple authors and interesting content - there is a lot of promise for this company blog to do great things in the future.
Inside ISPCON and HostingCon Blog
The two most important conferences inside of the Web hosting industry both have blogs as well. Now some of the content might be more relative the closer you get to the events, but there is more than enough content to read through and keep you happy all year long.
Both also have podcast content of the conferences as well.
Now sure, that isn’t all of the Web hosting blogs out there - but most of the best ones have been listed. If you need some more hosting content in your RSS reader, check out these Web sites as well. If you have one I didn’t mention, please leave a comment and I will add it to the list.
Oh yeah, just as a final reminder - you can’t forget about one of the best blogs/podcasts out there today for the Web hosting industry, the Web Hosting Show!
· September 27, 2006 at 9:59 am · Personal
Tags: jobs, lists, management, tasks, time, to-do, work
Since I started my new job, I have been trying to manage my time better. I have a bad habit of putting things off till the last minute, and then spending an entire day working on things that I could have spread out a little better. So what was the solution to my time management issues?
Well so far, making lists of things for me to do has been working. I have a daily to do list with all the things I need to do every single day. For other tasks that I do day by day, I have a daily to do list for each day of the week.
So I might have five things I need to do every single day that is on my daily to do list, and everything else gets spread out on smaller to do lists for the days of the week.
So far it has been working out. The only hard part about it all is making myself stick with it, so I don’t have a boatload of work left for me at the end of the week.
· August 2, 2006 at 4:19 pm · Web Hosting
Tags: 10, best, lists, top-10, Web Hosting, web-hosts, worst
Just like everybody else around here, I am tired of seeing one hundred and one different top ten lists when it comes to Web hosting. Web hosts buy into these, because it is a good way to advertise themselves to the unknowing public. The problem with this is that many Web hosts “purchase” their place on these lists. I have figured out a way to make the top ten process a little more fair.
The first thing I did was I searched multiple search engines for multiple Web hosting top ten lists. I wanted my subject lists to be totally random, so nobody could claim as much favor. This mixes real lists in with the fake ones, I know. To defend the paid-placement lists though, I have this to say. If a Web host is financially stable enough to pay for advertising, then they must be doing something right. Read the rest of this entry »
