Practice This

Stumbled on the article at businessweek.com called Readers Voice Their Workplace Problems. It discusses workplace problems identifying work-life balance (WLB) as #1 issue. I am all for WLB and I am constantly looking for a ways to improve. Look what other accomplished people can teach you about practical approach for load at home and at work.
by cpt.spock

This is what they say:

Some call it GTD, some call it Kaizen, some just call it discipline. Call it what ever you like. If you want to perform extremely fast you better adopt proven performance practices. You must program yourself the way the world fastest computers are. Program yourself to perform fast when

by Katiya Rhode-Singh

checking emails, reading news, attending meetings, selling to your customers, delivering services, blogging.
Why?
They say “time is money”. If you can save yourself time, you surely save yourself tons of money. Here is how I save.

Have you had this situation? You are focused on solving some sort of problem and then  – boom – telephone rings. You pick up the phone (big mistake!) and hear answer machine running some sort of marketing campaign….
by NathanFromDeVryEET 

The focus is lost. The solution you were THAT close is now THIS far and you need to start it over… ARGGHHHH!
Have you?
Interruptions are fact of life. You cannot avoid it completely. Then how do you get back to your work after the interruption? How do you protect …

Ask any software engineer “What’s the best performance improvement technique?” and in 99% your will get the answer – Caching.
What’s caching?

In computer science, a cache (pronounced /kæ?/) is a collection of data duplicating original values stored elsewhere or computed earlier, where the original data is expensive to fetch (owing to longer access time) or to compute, compared to the cost of reading the cache. In other words, a cache is a temporary storage area where frequently accessed data can be stored for rapid access. Once the data is stored in …

I manage my time the way I manage my budget – personal and at work. Time is the resource that I must invest very carefully. If I lose money there is a chance I can earn it in future. On other hand time spent for nothing will never come back. Money graph may go up and it may come down. Time axis is always one way…
This post describes my approach of investing my time as a budget – annually, monthly, weekly, daily. It also describes briefly the result this approach …