You’ve heard the saying, “the early bird get’s the worm”. Well a new study by Philippe Peigneux, a professor of clinical neuropsychology at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium, compared the performance of subjects who woke up around noon with subjects that routinely work up at 5-6am.
According to the article “Want to Get Ahead? Sleep In” at Globe and Mail.
After 10 hours of being awake, the early birds showed reduced activity in brain areas linked to attention span, compared with the night owls. The early risers also felt sleepier …

If prominent housing economist Ken Rosen of Berkeley is right in his prediction, the US housing values will lose another 6-7% in 2009. Housing prices nationwide fell 11.1% in 2008 (BusinessWeek).
According to BusinessWeek:
Rosen, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, told the Associated Press that the decline in housing prices is only about three-quarters complete, and the cumulative slump could reach 24% this year. To offset such a plunge, Rosen is proposing a foreclosure moratorium to help stabilize the economy. He said as many as 8 million homes …

by Marc Evers
This post is about the principles of time management that underlie the book Do It Tomorrow by Mark Forster:
Have a clear vision
Have a clear vision of your goals, of the things you want to do and the things you don’t want to do. A clear vision directs your priorities. Setting priorities is only meaningful between projects, not between tasks that have to be done anyway (’project’ is loosely defined here as an activity that leads to some desired result and that cannot be finished in one go).
Your vision …

Merlin Mann is an expert on productivity and speaks about how to think about time management.

Have you asked yourself recently if your time is going toward things that matter and bring value to your life? Merlin suggests that we should be examining how we are spending our time and questioning our decisions on how we allocate the fixed 168 hours we have each week. To save you 35 minutes, I have summarized some of the key takeaways from Merlin’s presentation.
An interesting concept he talks about is that when we …

Bill Gates swears by his three monitors for greatly enhancing his workspace productivity. Now a new study suggests that using two monitors instead of one can increase the speed of certain computer tasks.
According to the New York Times:
In a study commissioned by the electronics company NEC, researchers at the University of Utah recently asked office workers to perform several common tasks using various monitor configurations. They found that people who used two 20-inch monitors were 44 percent more productive at certain text-editing operations than people using a single 18-inch monitor.

People …

The article entitled “The Man’s Guide to Getting Productive” in January 2009 edition of GQ had some very good productivity tips.
Make a Deal with Yourself
Stephen King will go to a quiet place and make a deal with himself that he will just 5 pages done. He says that once he gets started he will often want to
do a little more. Often getting started is the hardest part so setting a goal can help motivate you to get the work over with.
Get Sufficient Sleep
According to the article “missing just a few …

Jay Leno and George H. W. Bush are two individuals who have recently installed residential wind turbines on their property. A residential wind turbine can lower your electricity bill by 50 to 90 percent, and pay off the initial investment in six to 15 years, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) . Bush installed a 33-foot tall Skystream 3.7 at his at his Kennebunkport, Maine home. Jay Leno installed a Delta II by PacWind on his garage and also a MagWind from Enviro-Energies.
The Skystream 3.7 is produced by …

The Amazon Kindle is more than an E-book reader, it’s the essential device for book lovers, and can be a lifesaver for those long cross country flights. Not only can you browse the Amazon store of about 200,000 Kindle titles but you can download them almost instantly to the palm of your hand.
An added plus is that it currently has a basic internet browser which you can use to surf the internet for free using the Whispernet wireless service. Amazon has not said whether the free browsing will last, but …