Smartlife

Striking out with a new business is an incredible experience. You finally get to work for yourself, reap the rewards of your hard work and intelligence, and put into practice the millions of ways you could do things better than at your old job. (If you don’t have at least one million improvements in mind, you haven’t worked in an office for longer than a week.)

Becoming a business manager is incredibly liberating. The most important thing to remember as you move on with your business model is resources. You…

Working freelance is a great way to make money doing something you love. Nine-to-fivers are often jealous of the freelancer, thinking it must be great to work your own hours, not realizing that freelancers work all of them. When you’re in charge of everything from job applications to client communications to invoicing to maintenance to – if you have some time – the actual work itself, it’s important to make the absolute most of your time.

That’s why we’re looking at how to freelance effectively.

Setting up a good work…

“I’ll do it later.”

It’s a line that all of us tell ourselves far more often than we’re willing to admit. We keep putting off this task and that task until the last possible moment, avoiding the responsibility at hand and distracting ourselves with other things that are probably much less important. Like reading Facebook.

With that in mind (and not wasting any more time), let’s get down and dirty with a discussion on procrastination and its profound impact on our productivity.

What Is Procrastination?

“Tomorrow is often the busiest

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Living a smart life means both work and play, and the truly smart realize they don’t necessarily need to be different things. The “gamification” of repetitive tasks is a great way to provide motivation at work. Thousands of office workers spend millions of hours throwing Angry Birds, clicking on Farmvilles, and analyzing grid information patterns for numerical proximity (aka Minesweeper.) But repetitively clicking and moving little numbers and icons is exactly the same as the job they’re trying to escape – so why not use the same tactics to make…

Life can get pretty complicated. You’re balancing multiple projects at work. You’ve got bills to pay. You’ve got mouths to feed. The human brain can only handle so much and that’s why it helps to turn to the world of technology. Thankfully, with thousands of apps available on the Apple iPhone, there are tons that are designed specifically to make your life a little more manageable.

These top iPhone apps may not help to clear the clutter off your desk or clear your mind before you go to bed,…

PERT isn’t just an acronym, it’s a military code-word with over fifty years of effective service behind it. That’s not figurative speech: the Project (or Program) Evaluation and Review Technique was developed by the team behind the Polaris submarine, to help them build the Polaris submarine. This was a nuclear weapons program in 1959. If you think your project is more complicated or stressful, we’d love to hear about it. This project management tool has more combat experience than the new Captain America (and in a world more based on…