Category Archives: Habits

Biphasic Sleep Journal - Week Three

September 7, 2009 – 8:00 PM
It's now Monday on the long weekend, and this marks the end of my experiment with biphasic sleeping.  I've included the third week of journaling here, and then below that my final thoughts on the experiment.Week 3------Day 15 (Monday)I felt... Read More »
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Biphasic Sleep Journal - Week Two

August 31, 2009 – 3:54 PM
Alright, it is now Monday, and that means that I have completed two weeks of my experiment with biphasic sleeping.  Although the first week's journal was very optimistic, I definitely felt a change of heart this time around.  At the... Read More »
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Lifehacking

August 24, 2009 – 5:46 AM
Lifehacking is an odd term, but the benefits that the activity bring are well worth getting past that initial connotation.  To me, lifehacking is the process of making changes in your life, your routine, and the way you think, in... Read More »
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Biphasic Sleep Journal - Week One

August 23, 2009 – 9:30 AM
I finished work last week, and had three weeks ahead of me.  Prior to the end of work, I had been collecting a large number of projects that I wanted to tackle before school started. I will be writing later... Read More »
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A conversation on GTD

August 12, 2009 – 2:11 PM
A friend and I were talking recently about GTD, and some of the difficulties he was having with his own implementation.  The conversation we ended up having turned out to be a good primer on some additional GTD tips, so... Read More »
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The small things

June 1, 2009 – 5:00 PM
As I've mentioned before, I'm a big fan of little things that increase the efficiency of things that I do frequently.Below are a few programs that I have installed on my machine at work that enable this for me.  The... Read More »
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Evolution of a system, and some other minor updates

June 1, 2009 – 8:31 AM
It's been around two months since I started leveraging Macintosh's Stickies to act as my digital task management system.  As all good processes should do, my system has evolved over time in order to better accommodate the things that I... Read More »
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Making the most of your time

May 22, 2009 – 6:42 PM
Today's my thirtieth birthday.  For a lot of people that's a pretty big milestone.  Some people see it as the start of entering mid-life, some the end of youth.  I try to live my life by staying present in the... Read More »
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New System

April 18, 2009 – 11:31 AM
A brief interlude from the ongoing blog about the dance classes I'm taking.  This entry is about the latest attempt I've made at creating a system that works at home.When I'm talking about system, I'm referring to a system that... Read More »
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The Cardinal Rule of Exercise

April 6, 2009 – 8:21 AM
We've now breached April, and that means a couple of things.  For a start, at least on Vancouver Island, the beginnings of Spring are tangible.  The sun's getting up earlier, staying out later, our cherry blossoms have bloomed and look... Read More »
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