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Stay Productive Over the Holidays
Posted by Tamar Weinberg at 6:45 AM on December 21, 2007
Now that you're likely off to celebrate the holidays with the family, you may still have lingering thoughts about the need to be productive. Blogger Jon Morrow suggests twelve ways to discipline yourself to get things done during the downtime. Set time limits when you have to visit family and friends; don't stay too long. Instead of cooking for hours, buy the food. Catch up on your reading and writing. Clean your clutter. He also suggests to drop resolutions and set milestones instead:
Plan the new year - Forget resolutions. Instead, create a handful of major milestones that you can break into action items and then measure as you progress through the year.A lot of this should resonate with most of you, especially if you're trying to postpone your work for the very last minute. Take advantage of the holidays to do that so you can enter 2008 with a much clearer conscience.
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cameron_penn
Posted 11:52 AM 20/12/07
I'm a little concerned Jon Morrow may get visited by three ghosts...
cameron_penn
jarhead
Posted 12:42 PM 20/12/07
Hell I don't spend enough time with my family as it is. This is the one time of the year we are all together and frankly I'm looking forward to it. The only productivity I'm looking forward to during the holiday is putting my kids' toys together and then playing with them.
jarhead
monster79
Posted 12:26 PM 20/12/07
@FANCYBANNISTER: three cheers to that. I could use a little less GTD and a little more TIE (Taking It Easy.)
monster79
fancybannister
Posted 12:06 PM 20/12/07
Or you could just relax. Even productivity robots need to power down.
fancybannister
Deprong Mori
Posted 1:56 PM 20/12/07
Sorry, but that list of Holiday Hacks is mind numbingly soulless. Do you really want to schedule your life so every shred of joy, pleasure, mystery, wonder, love, surprise, and charm is reduced to roadblocks to the Holy Grail of Efficiency and Productivity?
Deprong Mori
apparate
Posted 1:43 PM 20/12/07
Anyone else find the suggestions just plain rude? Keep guests who drop by at the door in the cold instead of inviting them in? Give people slightly extravagant gifts to make them feel they owe you? Corner someone at a Christmas get-together to get you a new job?
If I met this person, I would kick them in the kneecaps. I though this article was going to be about how to (more explanation, anyway) set out your resolutions in reasonable bites. Instead it was, how to be a jerk this holiday.
apparate
unruled
Posted 1:16 PM 20/12/07
I usually tend to feel kind of useless around holidays unless im up and about. Hopefully I can get busy with some good reading :)
unruled
Foiler
Posted 3:35 PM 20/12/07
Yeah I'd have to agree, a lot of those are pretty blunt...and harsh! The more you push people away soon you won't have anyone coming to visit you for Christmas, and what a lonely year that would be.
Foiler
mysticgeek.htg
Posted 4:37 PM 20/12/07
Man! This is the worst advice I have heard in a long time. Dude! Relax! Chill out! Corporate only gives you these days off because they are required to. Go to work??? What kind of advice is that?
mysticgeek.htg
Thibault
Posted 8:13 PM 20/12/07
I've read the introduction of this post and it occurs to me that :
Hey we are supposed to geek to live here and not the opposite, so enjoy life with your friends and family, anyway in 2008 Lifehacker.com will propose thousands of new apps new ideas to make the most of your time so rely on life hackers and enjoy life during your holidays...
and by the way Merry Christmas to all of you and happy new living (better with hacks) year 2008,
I wish you happiness, success, health, peace, prosperity, fecondity to begin with...
and for the rest we'll see later on what we can wish to you.....
:-)
Thibault
axel_magard
Posted 7:25 AM 21/12/07
I agree to most comments above. Use that time of the year to relax ! And use it as much as you can to meet friends and family members, something we usually have not much time for during the entire year.
Forget about your to-do's. What you have not accomplished until now can wait for the next year anyway !
axel_magard
fmerenda
Posted 8:23 AM 21/12/07
Work to live. Don't live to work.
-Frank
fmerenda
Michaelwon
Posted 8:01 AM 21/12/07
absolutely
Michaelwon