Questions to ask yourself when setting goals

How do you know what you actually want to achieve in life? How should you prioritize your goal ideas? What do you need to know to set yourself up for success? In goal setting, knowing the right question is half the battle. With the right set of questions, you can guide yourself to discover your […]

Personal Goal Setting: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know

Setting goals is important to steer your life where you want it to go. To give you a great introduction into the practice, I have written an extensive article that shows you everything you need to know – and quite a bit more. Why is it important to set goals? What types of goals are there? […]

MeeTimer: Which are your worst procrastination centers?

Some time ago I wrote about Using Firewalls to Fight Procrastination. But how do you know which sites to take out with your firewall? MeeTimer can help you there. This extension for Firefox logs in detail on which sites you spend how much time. You can then see in its stats how many work hours […]

Fighting Procrastination with Firewalls

The Internet is the perfect tool for procrastination. It is way too easy to get lost in the endless flow of information. Time management becomes a challenge. You can virtually surf the net forever and you will always find some interesting new thing. Abstaining from the net is hard, but many of us already have […]

Your Brain Needs a Swapfile

Our brains are powerful machines, capable of things that computer engineers are still dreaming of. But just like those primitive computers, our brains need swapfiles.