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“One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO LIST every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.”

This quote isn’t from some buzz-word business busybody, pushing their latest pack of painfully obvious essays wrapped up in “You Go Officeworker!” patter. Instead, it’s from seventeenth century French fabulist Jean de la Fontaine, a.k.a. “someone who succeeded at a career we don’t even have anymore.” (A fabulist is “a maker of fables,” by the way,…

Just as Google has come to own a significant portion of my online life, the same can be also said about many businesses around the world. Continuing with this trend, the Goliath of a search engine recently launched the Google Apps Marketplace, allowing third-party developers to take advantage of the increasingly powerful Google Apps platform.

Conventional wisdom will have businesses running their own internal servers, but Google Apps can put all of that information “in the cloud.” By doing so, employees can access the equivalent of…

There’s something about psychology that responds to external motivation. Video games make most use of this kind of change — which is unfortunate because while they’re useful relaxation tools — computer games are the opposite of everything this blog stands for. In World of Warcraft, you adapt your own lifestyle to better serve the machine; here at Smartlife we make the machines work for you. This means that we’ll be first against the electro-wall when the Cylons come, but until then, we’ll help you work smarter with…

American society is open-ended — an endless number of things to do, be, see, have, and experience. This open endedness creates a sense of time starvation among us — always one more thing to do or accomplish — which, in turn, drives us to seek means and methods to maximize every living nanosecond or to complain endlessly about how other people, corporations, governments, and electronic devices waste our time.

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BubbleTimer

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Knowing where you spend your time is the key to effectively achieving your goals but tracking your time to the second is just a waste of time! With one click on BubbleTimer, a web-based application, you have bubbled in 15 minutes of time. You get a handle on where all your time is going without any fuss or complexity.

In the modern world of non-stop ways to make you life more productive and increase your free time do we really consider how much of that alleged free time we really accrue?

For me the balance of work, play, relationships, basic needs, frivolous endeavors, and a multitude of various facets that coalesce into the consolidated pool we shall call “utilizable time” don’t actually allow me to do more in any given day than what I anecdotally tally in my short and rather unscientific review of the past.