Very eloquently put. Completely agree!!!

Maybe in another ten years it'll be the norm ... but right now neither is an option in my book. I'd go the traditional route of a resignation email sent from within the office followed up with a personal meeting with my manager ... AND four weeks notice

I'm still guilty of Lie No 1 on a daily basis. However I have had a lot of success creating targeted to do lists using a combination of the getting things done approach by David Allen and Stephen Covey's four quadrants for prioritising tasks. Check out my post on creating targeted to do lists in 3 steps for more…

Good point. I like the idea of doing something for yourself that isn't work.

Great article. Thanks. Away find and time zone converter sound really useful. Will check them out.

Good for you. Mindfulness practice grows with time as long as you practice is consistently ... you will find that the cumulative effect over a period of time is profound.

I agree completely. Taking the time to be grateful for what I have (in a media driven consumerist society that keeps telling me what I should have or telling me to want what I don't have) is very very helpful in bringing things into perspective.

Great article. Thank you. I agree that meditation, helping others and exercise are very fulfilling based on my life experience. I struggle with meditationbut I do meditate for about one minute each day (laughable I know) but that's what I can sustainably do for now.

Are hands on the table acceptable?

Brilliant. Awareness sounds really awesome as does Heard.

Fascinating. Thanks for the insight

Great points. I like the point about leaving your phone in another room and about managing energy and not time. To manage my time effectively I use the Getting things Done approach by David Allen. For more information on the GTD approach check out my blog post here.

"The more we age the more we come into contact with information our brains have already processed" ... brilliant point!!! I never thought of it that way. So true.

Very subtle but incisive insight. Great point! Totally agree. I think purposeful attention is the key. To me another word for this is mindfulness.

I agree that quantifying fitness is the first (important) step. But in my experience the easier it is to measure my physical exercise ... in my case walking using my fitbit ... the easier it is to pull up charts that I find motivate me enormously. Check out the charts that my fitbit produces in my blog post which…

"One study from the Journal of Consumer Psychology suggests that the more attention we pay to an event, the longer the interval of time feels"

That's cool. How long did it take to build?

Thanks for the tip. I just gave it a whirl but unfortunately when I tried to drag the bookmarklet up onto my bookmarks bar it didn't seem to work. :-(

I like the idea of building a hackintosh. Will check out your guide. Pretty cool idea!

I have a fairly messy desk but I'm cool with that. In fact I've been fairly cool with clutter around me for most of my life (though I have gotten a bit less tolerant of it over recent years)