Book Title: How to enjoy life and your job
Author: Dale Carnegie
Year written/published: 1984
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: A compilation of Dale Carnegie’s books on How to win friends and influence people and How to stop worrying and start living
My Comments: I have always taken Dale Carnegie as relationship/diplomacy guru when dealing with people… another revision [...]

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SET Puzzle is an awesome brain teaser game. According the to NYtimes, the instructions go something like this:
A ‘Set’ is 3 cards in which each individual feature is either all the SAME on each card… OR all DIFFERENT on each card. That is to say, any feature in the ‘Set’ of three cards is either [...]

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I must be one of the slowest to discover this… but i just love Wii… especially Wii Fit!

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How to choose a good password with high password strength? A good password is hard to guess and yet easy to remember!

at least 6 characters long
mix of lower and upper cases, numbers and punctuation marks

how to create one…

think of a phrase and use the first alphabet
don’t use names and address and Identity numbers

some links on [...]

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Got used broken crayons that you wanna throw away? Mail them to Crazy Crayons and get a free crayon!
Hand Crafted Fun Multi Colored Crayons!
Each Crayon is a Work of Art - No Two Are Alike!
Made From the National Crayon Recycle Program.
100’s of Shapes and Themes.
Earth Conscious Packaging.
Only Certified Non-Toxic Crayons Used.
Colors Like a Crayon - [...]

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Book Title: Ready for Anything – 52 Productivity Principles for Work and life
Author: David Allen
Year written/published: 2003
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Some extracts:
Some of the principles…
1. leaning up create new directions
2. You can only feel good about what you’re not doing when you know what you’re not doing
3. Knowing your commitments creates better choices
4. Getting to [...]

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Book Title: The Hig-Tech Personal Efficiency Program
Author: Kerry Gleeson
Year written/published:1998
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Organising your electronic resources to maximise your time and efficiency
Some extracts:
Paper control points at work area:
1. Tray system – In, Out, Reading, Pending
2. Reference files
3. Archive files
4. Woking files
5. Your work
6. Recycling/dust bin
Working files usually contain 6 types of information:
1. Fingertip [...]

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Book Title: Getting Things Done – The art of Stress Free productivity
Author: David Allen
Year written/published: 2001
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: personal Productivity system
My Comments: Excellent book!
Contents page:
1. Art of Getting Things Done
2. Practicing Stress-Free Productivity
3. The Power of the Key Principles
Some extracts:
2 simple objectives…
The methods I present here are all based on 2 key objectives [...]

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Some tips on overcoming/dealing with jet lag

road and travel
33 tips for jet lag
bodyclock

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I’m very much in love with this concept of 43 folder - 31 days of the months + 12 months of the year. Each of these 43 tabs are labeled with a tickler file and it can be used to keep track of daily stuff to do according to these folders. Some links…

43 folders
GTD
Tickler file
how [...]

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Book Title: Organise Your Life - Free yourself from Clutter & find more personal time
Author: Roni Eisenberg with kate Kelly
Year written/published: 2007
Summary: Organising in all facets of life… Life, Household, Kitchen, Holidays, Traveling, Office… etc.
My Comments: Very useful book!
Some extracts:
Toss Every month:

ATM and Bank deposit slips
Credit Card receipts
Sale receipts and minor purchases

Toss after 2 years:

Monthly [...]

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from David Allen’s site and i found them useful…

Account and $ numbers
Affirmations
Basic personal numbers
Birthdays
Borrowed stuff
Checklists
Gifts
Ideas I don’t know what to do with, now that I’ve had them
Jokes
Might wanna buy
Might wanna do 
Previous addresses and employers
Quotes
Restaurants
Style or product numbers I may need when I’m buying things- oil filter, vacuum cleaner bags, labeler cassettes, etc.
Tips/Shortcuts

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Here’s another new gadget that i’m in love with: SOLIO. All it needs is the sun and it can charge almost any handheld device! Here are some of the facts from the website:

Charging Solio’s internal battery takes 8-10 hours of direct sunlight.*
Solio will charge your device at the same rate as your conventional charger.
Using the [...]

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I want this water powered clock! Yes, really… this clock is powered by only water. Here’s how…
The internal converter simply extracts electrons from water (or other liquid) molecules and provides a steady stream of electrical current acting as a fuel cell to generate power to the clock.
Check out this and a lot other eco-friendly gadgets [...]

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Getting Things Done (GTD) workflow created by David Allen has become highly popular as one of the personal productivity systems. Here’s the workflow diagram:

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Private, journalling, very simple interface… and very sleek. Another web application as picked out by the tech65 guys… i’m very much liking the PENZU

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Book Title: S.U.M.O. Your Relationships - How to handle not strangle the people you live and work with
Author: Paul McGee
Year written/published: 2007
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Dealing with People
Contents page:
Part 1:

reality Rules
E+R=O
A Bit about the Beachball
Stress makes you stupid
Investment Pays
Give yourself the VIP Treatment
Beware of Light Bulbs

Part 2:

Arouse your interest - The Ditherer
Humility Helps - [...]

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Some really short clips from Brian Tracy…

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Book Title: S.U.M.O (Shut Up, Move On) The Straight Talking guide to creating and enjoying a brilliant life
Author: Paul McGee
Year written/published: 2005
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Personal improvement for life
My Comments: Short, succinct, frank!
Contents page:
1. Change you T-Shirt
2. Develop Fruity Thinking
3. Hippo Time is OK
4. Remember the Beachball
5. Learn Latin
6. Ditch Doris Day
Some extracts:
some quotations…
People tend to overestimate what they can [...]

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Book Title: Create your own future - How to master 12 critical factors of unlimited success
Author: Brian Tracy
Year written/published: 2002
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Contents page:

Success is predictable
Principle 1 - Your Potential is Unlimited
Principle 2 - Clarity is Critical
Principle 3 - Knowledge is power
Principle 4 - Mastery is Magical
Principle 5 - Attitude is everything
Principle 6 - Relationships are essential
Principle 7 - [...]

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