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I’ve mentioned in some previous posts that I live in a Third World country. This means that my area’s phone/internet cables can be stolen at night (presumably to be sold at junk shops) and I’ll be left disconnected from work.
Well, this happened last week.
Surprisingly, my productivity actually doubled. I was producing twice my regular output for the previous weeks of April. Is it possible that severing your connection to the net can make you more productive or is this some kind of fluke? I think it’s possible to be more productive without easy net access, and here’s why:
Your net time becomes precious. To compensate your lack of a connection at home, you probably resort to net cafes, free wi-fi areas, and the like. You can’t exactly sit in these places forever. Ergo, you only do the essential when you’re online. Goodbye to random surfing.
Less distractions. Additionally, when you’re working on your personal, you have less distractions because you’re not connected to the net. No random surfing, Twittering, checking your Facebook messages, or reading RSS feeds. When you’re working with the personal, you’re working with the personal.
Have there been instances where you found yourself without an internet connection? How did it affect your productivity?
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“The chain-link gate yowled like an angry tomcat in the watery light of dawn.” This is the first sentence of a book by a “New York Times bestselling author.” I can’t state that I’ve seen a more hack-kneed or trite opening to a book since Snoopy wrote one. There follows a number of quotes lauding the capabilities of the author and the series of books, all marketing BS. If you are a writer, and I like to think that I’m, you wonder how this book got published.
Okay, give the guy another 25 pages. Maybe it’s just a bad start. After all everybody has different tastes. Not every style appeals to each reader.
Unfortunately, I spent another 15 minutes of my time wading through the next 21 pages before I couldn’t take it any more. (I don’t review books or movies for a living because I can’t stand spending the few days I’ve in this life subjecting myself to crap.) It was over-written and filled with cliche characters. HarperCollins must have lots of money laying around to bet on this junk. Allow you, I’m not a big Jane Austin fan, but her stuff is very well done, interesting and readable.
The good news is that if publishers are willing to shell out good money on this inane book, eventually superior writers will their fiction published. Hopefully, I will be one of them.
If you are a writer, have some pride in your thoughts and in your work. If you don’t have time to do a good job, don’t bother. There is more to good writing than punctuation.
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NeighborhoodScout.com has used their matching function to find neighborhoods that are “discount equivalents” of some of the hot and costly communities we recently covered in our Most Costly Zip Codes estates.
The Neighborhood Scout chooses Breckridge, Colorado as a cheaper way to live the skiing life than Aspen, Colorado. In Apsen, the median house price is $1.6 million but in Breckenridge the median is just $618,892. Breckenridge is a ski resort that’s rapidly growing in popularity and amenities. We recently covered One Ski Place, the massive condo complex planned for the area.
In Aspen we looked at a huge property that’s listed at $58 million. Today’s home is far more modest but has a lot to offer for the snow aficionado. This home is located in the Timber Trail ski in, ski out community. From this house you can ski straight to the Colorado or Rocky Mountain quad chairs. The home has seven bedrooms including three master suites and separate kid’s quarters with boys and girls bunk rooms, bathrooms and their own den. There’s also an in-home cinema and the great room has huge full round log beams. Apres ski resting includes a spa room and a hot tub by the outside fireplace. This is the most expensive home currently on the market in Breckenridge and it is listed at $5.895 million.
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In the previous PYW Asks, I asked readers what their #1 productivity tool is. Here’s what the readers answered:
Jennifer of Offbeat Homes answered that all she needs for work is her laptop and her brain. She also finds red pens indispensable, as they indicate that she’s finished something from her to-do list.
Jennifer’s use of red pens may seem easy, but it’s what works for her. If you’re the type of person who is responsive to color, using a similar color-based system helps.
Chris from Logo Design Shopper selected unruled Moleskine notebooks. Here’s his list of why he cares about his Moleskine so much “Small enough to fit in your pocket. Stylish enough to impress the clients. Tonnes of pages for notes, diagrams and doodles.” Sandie from Geeked Off also selected a Moleskine.
Ian finds that Excel and its PivotTables function helps him learn more about his business than customer satisfaction surveys do.
DL selected Roboform (website here) as the #1 productivity tool, as it generates passwords and saves them for you.
Do you’ve any productivity tools common with other Pimp Your Work readers?
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