6 Reasons to Keep Receipts…Or Not! (Life Hack)
It Might Be Time to Take a Risk if… (Christine Kane)
Stikkit: Magic words, functional emails, and a handy cheat sheet (43 Folders)
Create New Habits: Self-Regulation (Senia)
Why you need to worry about coincidence (Seth Godin)
Yahoo! column: How to deal with a bad boss (Penelope Trunk)

Mark pointed out the complete list to his Nine Ways to Devastate Productivity post which came from my Life Hack reference.

I feel guilty because today I am going to be charged on 8 counts from his list (except the gossip thing). I am aware that I do become restless whenever I am so tired, who isn’t? It is important to stay fit, healthy and get lots of rest.

[tags]Productivity, Management[/tags]

If you get the chance to walk into your managers’ room or cubicle, scan what books are on his desk or shelves. Most likely they are all related to management, leadership or any high achieving and inspiring topic. Look at the desks at the staff area and you would most likely find technical books related to their job description. Go around the room and you would clearly distinguish a clean desk from piled-up area which immediately gives you a perception of the person.

Call to Action

Back in elementary and high school I participated in a number of political / environment protest rallies sponsored by our school. Rallies involve days of planning and lots of man hours which needed to be recovered through make up classes; although sometimes, you were on your own to make sure you catch up on missed lectures and examinations. The amount of effort for each protest is huge and as such, our school administrator’s are highly selective on issues we shall voice our opinions on the street.

The internet has created the power to help us become more productive in a lot of ways and one of these things is giving anyone the power to stage daily rallies with least amount of effort.

I never thought about television, nor did I feel that people still watch TV until Steve posted about his 30-day non-television watching exercise. It seems odd but I came to realize it has been years since I watched shows regularly and had it not been for World Cup 2006, it should have been almost two years without TV, which came natural instead of using a conscious non-watching chart.

The last time I remembered watching regular television was back in high school around 14 years ago during the time of Baywatch and Battle of Brains (local intellectual competition); and later I occasionally caught The Practice once in a blue moon. The only time I get to watch television is during an nba finals game (but for the last three seasons I was content on reading the live text report at sports site) and the World Cup which happen once every four years.

One day I heard a trivia on radio discussing how many hours you spend on sleeping each day and multiply that for the next ten years.

I suddenly became curious and began my own calculations. If I sleep 8 hours a day starting at the age of 10 until the age of 50 that would be 40 (yrs) x 1/3 (day) = 13.33 years. Whoaah! That’s a lot of sleep.

Let’s try to extend this more. Let’s say we spend 2 hours for both lunch and dinner, 1.5 hours for both breakfast and 3 snacks a day then that would be 3.5 hours for eating.

How about transportation? Let’s put 2 hours for the entire travel we make in a day.

How about allotting 3 hours for personal hygiene, chat with officemates and other unproductive disturbances throughout the day?

To sum it up:

Sleeping—8 hours
Eating—3.5 hours
Traveling—2 hours
Other things—3 hours
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Total: 16.5 hours

Now by using our previous formula of 40 yrs x hours/24 we have spent 27.5 years by the age of 50 on sleeping, eating, traveling and other non-high productive activities.

Geesh, that’s ridiculous. Wait, didn’t I start my calculations at the age of ten? How many hours of sleep and play did we actually spend by the time we reached that age? Oh man, do the math.

Oh, didn’t the title say 60 years and 20 sleeping years? Just do the math again!

The Personal Efficiency Program : How to Get Organized to Do More Work in Less Time