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		<title>The Pomodoro Technique Fights Deadline Anxiety With A Timer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve known for some time that working with timers can get help procrastinators jump past those imposing first steps. The Pomodoro Technique takes that further, offering a cyclical system aimed to beat deadline-related anxiety.
Francesco Cirillo crafted the Pomodoro Technique in 1992, as a personal system to get more studying done. He tweaked it a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Push Through A Creative Block With A Diversion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azadeh Ensha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blank sheets of paper. A blinking cursor. Both are signs of untapped creativity. Next time a block hits, Web Worker Daily suggests getting the creative juices flowing again by applying some diversion techniques.
Photo by Fossil Watchman.
Instead of trying to immerse yourself fully in a project when you&#8217;re feeling blocked, the diversion technique involves setting aside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Weekend Projects Can Free Your Inner Rock Star</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
In one day, Beck Hansen and friends recorded an album-length cover of a beloved pop music album. They did it by setting aside time, lowering their guard and letting creative work happen. Anyone with a side-project could learn a lot from them.
Hansen, better known as the singular Beck, is known in popular culture for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoid Time Discounting By Assessing Absolute Value Of Tasks</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/avoid-time-discounting-by-assessing-absolute-value-of-tasks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fitzpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s so easy to put off tasks that aren&#8217;t immediately pressing and fritter away the present on tasks that aren&#8217;t as important. Avoid time discounting by assigning values to your tasks independent of the calendar.
Photo by maroinaire.
Time discounting is the phenomenon where by people assign more value to the present and the immediacy of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put Word Count Targets On A Calendar</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/07/put-word-count-targets-on-a-calendar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian novelist Fran Cusworth has a simple technique whenever she&#8217;s planning a novel: she gets a calendar and writes down a target number of words that have to be completed on each day.
Cusworth, who has published two novels (The Love Child and Hopetoun Wives) with Penguin and is polishing on the second draft of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Procrastination Killer Times Your Short-Burst Work Dashes</title>
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		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/03/procrastination_killer_times_your_shortburst_work_dashes-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows only: Software developer Elie really digs Merlin Mann&#8217;s (10+2)*5 dash, which breaks hours into 10-minute bursts of plugging away at one thing with two-minute breaks. Elie&#8217;s Procrastination Killer app helps you time and controls those dashes. The stand-alone, no-install-needed app can stay on top of everything on your desktop, but it&#8217;s kinda big and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ze Frank On Executing Ideas Vs. &#8216;Brain Crack&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/01/ze_frank_on_executing_ideas_vs_brain_crack-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/01/ze_frank_on_executing_ideas_vs_brain_crack-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Ze Frank knows steady output, and the iconic video blogger knows why we put off acting on our ideas&#8212;we&#8217;re saving them as reassuring, addictive &#8220;Brain Crack.&#8221; (Warning: Bit of swearing in the vid). It&#8217;s actually an older clip, grabbed from a mis-fired 43 Folders feed burst, but Ze hits the nail on the head. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Routines Details The Productivity Habits Of Famous Folks</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/12/daily_routines_details_the_productivity_habits_of_famous_folks-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/12/daily_routines_details_the_productivity_habits_of_famous_folks-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Routines is a blog that does nice work of compiling accounts of how famous minds&#8212;great, inspired, slothful, procrastination-prone, and otherwise&#8212;set about their tasks. All the quotes and anecdotes come from linked interviews, biographies, or other accounts, and while the workers covered tend toward the creative side, there&#8217;s a few mathematicians, architects, and other left-brainers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch YouTube Videos While Working On Other Tasks</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/12/watch_youtube_videos_while_working_other_tasks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/12/watch_youtube_videos_while_working_other_tasks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[YouTube is full of videos that don&#8217;t require singled-minded attention, but trying to keep a YouTube page visible in the background for passive watching isn&#8217;t easy. Digital Inspiration&#8217;s Amit Agarwal suggests two methods, though, that work great for browsing other sites or doing actual, you know, work, while keeping a video cornered and always on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Are You Sure&#8217; Bookmarklet Fights Web Wandering</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/11/are_you_sure_bookmarklet_fights_web_wandering-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/11/are_you_sure_bookmarklet_fights_web_wandering-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all got them&#8212;those bookmarks that sit on your toolbar (or on a keyboard shortcut, if , begging you to take just, you know five minutes and see if anything&#8217;s new over there. Web developer and author Paul Bausch certainly has a few, so he&#8217;s taken to editing them to add a small bit of [...]]]></description>
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