Organization

7 Ways To Create More Time In Your Day

dumblittleman.com | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living


Most of us would love to have an extra couple of hours in each day. With two more hours, we could find time to exercise, read books, spend time with t...

Sleep Deprivation Affects Decision Making

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living


Sleep deprivation adversely affects automatic, accurate responses and can lead to potentially devastating errors, University of Texas at Austin resear...

Balanced Life -- 11 Myths Of De-Cluttering.

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living


Gretchen Rubin

As much as most of us want to keep our home, office, car, etc. in reasonable order, it's tough. Here's a list of some myths of de-cluttering that make it harder to get rid of stuff.

Unitasking: Save Time, Don't Rush

divinecaroline.com | : SunnySaves (View Profile) | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living


Take a deep breath and slow down. You spend more time rushing, and making mistakes, than if you just took things at a natural pace....

Balanced Life: A Secret to Happiness? Don't Get Organized

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living


Gretchen Rubin

If you don't keep it, you don't have to organize it. A huge amount of clutter is the result of keeping things you don't use.

Productivity: Is Multitasking Something To Move Toward Or Away From?

wowOwow | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living


Multitasking seems to have wormed its way into our brain matter and I'm not sure that's a good thing, but it's tough to turn back now....

13 Tips To Help You Become More By Doing Less

beliefnet.com | Terry Hershey | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living


We live in a world that urges us to admire and pursue everything that's faster, newer, bigger. But here's the disquieting truth: a life based on urgen...

10 Signs You Have Gone Overboard Organizing

Karen Leland | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living


Karen Leland

My declaration for what little time is left of summer is to spend less time sorting and more time being with family and friends, reading and lying out in sun.

Five Easy Steps To E-Mail Organization

Karen Leland | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living


Karen Leland

Welcome to the second post in the "Simplify Your Online Life" series. For those of you who jumped on the bandwagon last week, congratulations. If you ...

How A Charter School Turns Union

Alexander Russo | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics


Alexander Russo

It seemed at first like the unionization effort at the KIPP school in Brooklyn might happen without too much conflict. By early February, however, reports started coming out about stalled negotiations and alleged intimidation by KIPP administrators.

Terrorists, Rebels Now Masters Of The Internet

Elisabeth Braw | Posted 02.27.2009 | World


Elisabeth Braw

Ten years ago, when Dr. Gabriel Weimann, a communications professor at the University of Haifa, started monitoring terrorist websites, there were 12. Today there are over 6,850.

3 Ways To Have A Clean Desk, Clean Slate For '09

Heather Cabot | Posted 01.31.2009 | Living


Heather Cabot

I had a revelation sitting amid piles of old credit card statements, junk mail and Christmas cards from years past. I was cleaning out my home office...

So What Did You Do Today?

Heather Cabot | Posted 01.19.2009 | Living


Heather Cabot

Until I had my children, I never really appreciated what it felt like to get to dinnertime and wonder what you really accomplished that day -- yet feel exhausted.

Closet Cleaning Leads to Economic Enlightenment

Karen Leland | Posted 01.16.2009 | Style


Karen Leland

The Bush years called out to us to spend rather than save. They may have been the enablers, but in my own life, I'm the leader, and I can't honestly say I've been doing a much better job.

Plouffe Heads The DNC -- That's Best Way Forward

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics


Stephen C. Rose

Plouffe would be a guarantee of smarts, a no-drama hand on the tiller, a likely tranformer of the Obama Movememt into a Democratic Party on steroids.

Obama the Organizer Hits the Phones (Video)

Ari Melber | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics


Ari Melber

2008-10-21-barackphone.jpg This video shows volunteers around the country, even in neglected safe states, that their work is vital to the campaign and the candidate.

Obama's Biggest Advantage Yet: Early Voting

Mark Nickolas | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics


Mark Nickolas

It's really mind-boggling that the B team running the McCain operation is ceding such a massive on-the-ground strategic advantage to the Obama campaign.

Obama's Headquarters: Substance and Organization

David Mixner | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics


David Mixner

Yesterday I went to some meetings in the Chicago Headquarters of the national Obama for President campaign. I was awestruck -- clearly a new age has arrived in American politics.

I Was A Clinton Volunteer

Tom Namako | Posted 04.26.2008 | Home


Tom Namako

It's simple, grassroots, startup ideas that have poked holes in the Clinton 1990s-style carefully crafted mass-media-ready messages. Internet news. Facebook. Hordes of young community volunteers.

To The Tune Of Too Much To Do

David Allen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


David Allen

There's an old Gestalt theorem: the way out is through. Defining what we could do, and what we are doing right now instead is a lot of what our work needs to be these days.

What's Your Standard For 'Stuff'?

David Allen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


David Allen

Your definition or standard of "stuff" is a very powerful unconscious driver of your behavior and permitted experience.

How To Keep Up With The Most Documented Generation Ever

Associated Press | Anick Jesdanun | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


Thanks to cheap and easy-to-use recording devices -- digital cameras, camcorders, camera phones -- today's kids are forming the most documented genera...