The second part of Bobby Chiu's video where he discusses limitations and expanding your mind to achieve success. Break limitations by thinking that they really don't exist.

A wireless headset is one piece of technology that can make your life very easy. You can continue to type or collect information during a phone call and you do not have the aggravation of trying to balance the phone between your shoulder and your ear while filing or doing other things that you need to get done. Our favorite use for a headset is in speech recognition. Setup a voice recognition program like Dragon Naturally Speaking or the built in speech recognition in Windows Vista and you can use a headset to dictate your thoughts straight to text.

A presentation on the seven habits of highly effective people.

5 tips to boost your productivity using Windows XP.

Taskbar Shuffle
freewebs.com/nerdcave/taskbarshuffle.htm

Tabbed Windows Explorer [QT Tab Bar]
http://qttabbar.wikidot.com/

Texter
lifehacker.com/software/texter/lifehacker-code-texter-windows

http://marcgrabanski.com/

Merlin Mann’s “Vision track” presentation at Macworld Conference 2008 in San Francisco (video and slides). His advice could save you wasted time, effort and money. In his talk, he mentions that not only do we fragment our own attention, we often don't set any sort of barrier to entry for other people, giving them free reign to further fragment our attention.

I have an account at Docstoc (and also at their competitor Scribd) where I store documents online that I can make public or privates. Several days ago I received an email about their new features Docstoc MyDocs and Docstoc Sync, which they refer to as "the easiest way to put your documents online and the fastest way to preview your documents."

Time management is a very important aspect in getting things done on a daily basis. Maybe even more important is the aspect of productive creativity. Particularly if your interests revolve around creative choices such as writing or the arts, being productive is highly important. Keeping your productive creativity juices flowing may seem like an un-accomplishable task, but it can be done. You simply need a few strategic methods for maintaining your creativity level so that you can accomplish your productivity goals.

People who strive to maintain productivity know the importance of getting the most out of their workday. Those who spend countless hours constantly keeping busy know that productivity is the key to living a much simpler life. One way in which to maintain your productivity is to practice it even during your quieter times.

Good PC Software tools to help with your productivity.

Email:
Outlook
Gmail
Eudora

FTP:
FileZilla

Video:
Camtasia
Sony Vegas Pro
Adobe Premiere

Security:
ZoneAlarm
Roboform
Moosoft's The Cleaner
TrojanHunter
Max Registry Cleaner

Image Creation/Editing:
PhotoShop
Painter
Illustrator
ArtRage

Office Software:
Open Office
Microsoft Office

Bobby Chiu discusses self improvement, starting on new goals, and motivation, while giving a digital painting demonstration. He says to convince yourself to do or not do an action. Don't resist actions, come up with great reasons to want to do that action. Visualize what the end result will be if you take action. What would the successful version of you be doing?

Successfulness and happiness go hand in hand with regards to achieving your full potential. Once you have determined what will make you happy and have worked to achieve that, then success is a given and vice-versa. Keeping this in mind, it is important to point out that if you set unrealistic goals for yourself you are simply prolonging your unhappiness. The key in realizing your full potential is to be completely honest in your assessment of your potential.

If you have ever wondered why it seems that some people are more prone to be experts than others you are probably not alone. Many people think that experts were born with some sort of aura around them that points them to the perfect place at the perfect time and allows them to know all. This simply is not true. The only real difference between an expert and an amateur, in anything, is that experts know that in order to succeed they must never give up.

A few months back (Nov 2007) the ONION, posted this humorous entry on work and productivity. Among the findings is the fact that actually working increase productivity versus not working.

"Perhaps even more shocking, the study reveals that not working significantly decreases worker productivity, sometimes even resulting in no work getting done at all. Similar findings were reported in the areas of avoiding work, putting off work, complaining about work instead of actually working, pretending to work, and f**king around."

Neeti Dewan (http://www.theexecutiveyogi.com/) talks of going from Executive to a Yogi in 60 Seconds. She covers productivity, focus, personal development, the power of fun, leadership etc.

We all procrastinate — let’s admit it. And if you’re like me, you’re always trying to find ways to stop the procrastinating. Here’s the trick that works best for me:

From the public domain film, "Habit Patterns" (1954). The word
virtue comes from Latin. It denotes "strength of character leading to
courageous deeds". St. Augustine says that "virtue is a good habit
consonant with our nature". The virtues are dispositions or habits of

Drawing #1 of 12 Drawings That Will Change Your Life - a Calendar that Teaches by Ralph Perrine

Potent Mind uses FeedBlitz to provide our updates newsletter. As part of of the newsletter service they provide, there is an audio option which we checked when setting up the newsletter and promptly forgot. We recently checked out the audio podcasts automatically produced by Talkr for the newsletter.

Productivity helps you to be … well productive. We all need to be more productive in both our personal live and our professional lives. This is particularly true if your profession revolves around creativity or anything artistic. For example, if you are a writer, then you are among those who have artistic and creative professions. Using productivity methods and tips is highly important, as artistic types tend to wander from the subject and lose time that could be used for working.

http://symphony.lotus.com FREE office productivity tools to download. A great alternative.

Zotero is a Firefox 2.X add on that is currently free. Zotero is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux. If you spend countless hours on the internet each day then Zotero is a very valuable resource. You can collect and categorize data, as well as tag, archive and link to it. It allows you to manage and cite your research sources easily and quickly because it works within the browser itself. Zotero is great for storage of all your PDF files as well as images and complete web pages.

In order to achieve your full potential you need to understand what constitutes a high achiever. High achievers have a combination of talent, dedication and luck as well as intelligence, skill and the drive to be successful. You can probably think of several people who you consider to be highly successful in one area of their lives, work for example, but are lacking in other areas such as home or family life. Achieving your full potential will mean a good balance between all aspects of your life.

360 degree awareness from 12 Drawings That Will Change Your Life, a 12 month executive wall calendar

Drawing #1 - how to - from 12 Drawings That Will Change Your Life - a Calendar that Teaches

You have surely heard of people teaching others the vitally important two letter word. ‘No’ is a very important word to include in your vocabulary. In fact, by learning to use the word ‘No’, you can save yourself a lot of stress and anxiety. How you ask?