Work Less and Do More

I’m collecting the final list of tips for the book. I’m noticing there are two categories of tips and am not sure they would work together in a book. Here are samples:

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Use networking for your job search
Name files YYYYMMDD when they contain dates

Cultivate your intuition for decision-making
Clear your inbox backlog by deleting extra messages.

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Conventional wisdom has it that you should sandwich negative feedback between two pieces of positive feedback. You can read about “the hamburger method” here.
Shelle Rose Charvet points out that most people already know the method. Now, when they hear positive feedback, they simply bypass it and wait fo the shoe to drop (then they ignore [...]

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I’m overloaded! Yes, it happens to me, too
The problem happens when I take on a new project, here’s a delay in the project (e.g. I’m waiting for someone to get me a document), and during that delay, I start something new. Once the delay is over, I now have two projects on my plate that [...]

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Quick question… In my podcast, I use a lot of humor. The humor is almost always tangential to the actual point. After all, how funny are file folders? Not very. But file folders being used as emergency underwear? Er, hilarious.
Work Less and Do More is shaping up to be a book of a great many [...]

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Update 8/8/08: Name chosen! The product now exists! You are Not Your Inbox, available at http://www.YouAreNotYourInbox.com !
I’m in the final stages of developing a product that helps people combat e-mail overload. Could you help me choose a title? The subtitle will describe the product; the main title should be catchy, PR-worthy, etc.

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This link arrived in a solicitation. I’ve read books about these “long-form sales letters” and was wondering what people think of them? The link is www.membershipsitebootcamp.com.

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As you know from listening to my podcast, I keep my TO DO list on paper. It keeps me honest about keeping it a reasonable length, and ruthless pruning items that I’m never going to do.
But even so, my list has far more items on it than I can do in any given day. So [...]

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I’m seeking to understand the challenges of dealing with e-mail. It’s not as simple as it seems. Of the people who find e-mail a challenge, different people have different issues. For some, it’s keeping their inbox empty; they get stressed out from a large, unanswered inbox. For others, it’s treating e-mail as interruption (”I know [...]

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“Work hard and you’ll be successful.” “You just need to put in a little hard work.” “Whew! I worked so hard today.”
We say things like this all the time without thinking about it. Recently, my bedframe broke and I needed the mattress moved. Despite my newly developed manly-man muscles (thank you, Trainer Tyler), decades of [...]

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Ok, big epiphany today.
I was complaining. Then I noticed that somethings, I complain about. Others, I don’t. What’s the difference?
For me, complaints seem to be statements of where in my life doesn’t seem under my control. Even when complaining about myself (”Darn these love handles”), I only complain about the things I have trouble with [...]

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