Most people take off their post-it notes by peeling it back which causes the note to curl up. Instead of peeling the sticky notes from the bottom up, peeling them from the side would ensure that they stay flat.

I will be starting my final year in highschool and I really need to get my act together in terms of my studies and responsibilities.

If you're alone or you're afraid of having mistakes in an email, essay, or post, simply paste it in Google Translate and click on the speaker icon to have it read to you. Listening to something allows you to get a flow of the words better and notice any grammatical mistakes.

Edit: yes, reading aloud also works but here's something I agree with from the comments: StickiStickman said: "When you read it out yourself you may misread or your brain may "auto-complete" some words." This causes you to not notice certain mistakes.

A carpenter I was working with started rattling off numbers and showing me how to figure out and duplicate the complicated angles on my house using a speed square. He said, “Of course you know all this already,” giving me the perfect opportunity to downplay my ignorance about the intersection of math and home repairs.

I replied, “Actually, no I don’t. Please continue?”

He never claimed to be an expert at his trade and he was more than happy to show me how to accomplish my task. It did not hurt my ego to not know how to do something. The lack of bragging or false blustering saved us both a lot of time.

How to use a Speed Square

Whenever I have to do work for my college classes, I often get distracted by my phone, the TV, or whatever else there might be. This can turn an hour long assignment into a 3 hour long one.

Set an alarm for 45 minutes to an hour and set everything aside. No clocks either. And just work. When the timer goes off, you'll find that you got A LOT done and if you're doing homework, you'll find that you absorb the info a lot more easily than when you were distracted.

This tip works well for appointments for anything you need to do regularly, even if it's only a few times a year: haircuts, dental hygiene, aesthetic services, physio, car maintenance, etc. At the end of your appointment, before leaving the office/garage/clinic, book your next appointment. It'll save you having to think about it again, guard against procrastination and make sure you get whatever it is looked after regularly.

Got stuck in a creative rut.

Realized I shot down all my ideas before putting them into action.

Started attempting those ideas, and even finishing some of them.

Came up with better ideas during my attempts, which led to greater creativity.

Not in a rut anymore, and felt more productive in my last few months than my last few years.

It is quite a hefty commute for me every morning and I am starting to wonder if it would be a good idea to come early and resume my sleep in the shop parking lot near my work. My current system is just recline, get shut-eye and play relaxing music but its not working as i would hope (I drive a mazda 3)

Has anyone successfully tried this? If so, do you have any tips?

EDIT: I tried it this morning and the pillow/blanket pick up made a world of difference

learned this the hard way while apparently tightening a screw cap i thought i was loosening.

I've got a real problem with the state of my garage. I've put together a system where most of my tools have a place, not a drawer or shelf, but an actual place with an outline of the particular tool. That being said, I've still got TONS of little tools lying around the shop that are either special use and cannot fit into a category, or are tools I use so often that it's hard to find a place to store them. This system is working to a point, but I feel like I could be doing better.

Right now my garage is nearly unusable because I've got so much large machinery that is filled with hundreds of small tools on or around them. It seems like I can't get my shop to the point where I feel that it's clean and organized; and without that, it just goes downhill.

Any ideas are more than helpful. I'll post some photos when I get a chance.

[http://blog.highfivehq.com/a-little-known-hack-from-japan-to-get-your-notebook-organized/]

I live in the snowiest part of the entire country where we receive about 120 inches of snow on average. I'm also very cheap so I refuse to buy a snowblower.

Over the years I have devised what I think is the fastest way to shovel a driveway which I will try to describe.

Step one: Find the middle of the driveway. Shovel vertically all the way down the middle, pushing the snow as far as you can before you have to heave it off to the side.

Step two: Work your way back to the beginning of the driveway on the left side by scooping the snow and tossing it off to the left. Keep a fast pace as if you were walking and keep tossing the snow.

Step three: Now its time to work the right side. Take the snow that remains on the right and toss it off to the side while walking down your driveway in a fast pace.

My driveway is about 100 foot long and I can get it shoveled out faster than my neighbors can snow blow it. Good luck!

Edit: It's not really that necessary to go fast, you should go at a pace where you wont drop dead of a heart attack. I just like to get it finished as quickly as possible because it's cold out.

Edit 2: Lots of guys saying to sweep, but unfortunately that doesn't work with most of the snow I get. I am very close to Lake Ontario, and when I say close I mean close by meters. The snow is always very packy and very wet. You could never sweep it away. Sometimes we get that kind of snow but typically only at the very beginning or very end of the season when the lake isn't puking up all that water.

Now I know what you're thinking, everyone always says to wake up early but waking up early is difficult, and you're thinking that you could never do it. I was the same way. I hated getting out of bed before 9am, even when the duties of motherhood required me to. On the weekends my husband would often let me sleep in until noon (he's such a nice guy!).I had an erratic sleep schedule for years and getting up early and getting enough sleep didn't seem like they would go well together.

I started an experiment the other week and began getting up at 3am. Something amazing happened, after the sluggishness of the first day my life seemed to change for the better almost immediately. At 3am there are no distractions. There are no children begging for another cup of juice, there is no boss wondering when you'll do this or that. At 3am you can simply focus on you and the things you need to do.

I began noticing that my day was 100x more productive. I now get more done before 6am than I would all day on my previous sleep 'schedule'. I get up, make a healthy breakfast, hit the gym, do some writing, study programming, clean whatever needs cleaned, make breakfast for the kids. I have time to collect myself. To do the things I want, to have my free time and be more productive.

Sure, the tradeoff is that I can't stay up til midnight browsing reddit and playing facebook games anymore, but I'd rather it this way. I've learned so much and I don't think I could go back. As the old saying goes "Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Boy isn't that the truth!

Try it for 2 weeks, go to bed a few hours earlier and get up early. I bet you'll be shocked with all the things you can do before 6am! Do it even on the weekends.

I started to live more minimalistic after I watched the movie "My Stuff" and the TED Talk of "The Minimalists". They now (since 4 weeks) have a Podcast about their way of life, which is a way with less stuff but more attentiveness for life. To reduce my stuff, helped me to focus my mind on the goals I want to achieve. I recommend the Podcast of "The Minimalists" on soundcloud for everybody who is to obsessed with collecting stuff and fritters away too much time. It's good to watch the movie and the TED talk mentioned above, to get in the mood for decluttering and for understanding the benefits of it.

Beyond being good for writing, you can use it to pry things open, break tape when opening boxes, a crude cutting tool (generally on paper products), etc.

InB4 someone points out that misusing a cheap pen is more cost effective than an Omas or Mont Blanc.

In public speaking, everyone automatically starts talking too fast but usually won't notice. Your audience will have a harder time understanding you, and you'll end up seeming hectic and out of breath.

In your notes, periodically insert a reminder for yourself to slow down. Whatever speed you are talking at when you read the note, just relax a little; keep a slower pace and be a bit more measured.

As a side effect, you will find that you have become more confident and less stressed!

I just tried it and it's about the same height off of the ground and gives me that empty super easy pooping feeling they talked about in the video. I'm sure the actual product is superior in some ways but this was pretty damn close to what they described!

I just read an article on entrepreneur titled "6 Life Hacks Learned in Prison That Will Maximize Your Productivity". Its an amazing read and I guess I will be using this technique for a lot of things.

Select two values in google sheet and generate series of values out of it.

Example:

Jan,Feb,Mar...

1,2,3...

1.01,1.02,...

Wk 1, Wk 2,...

https://youtu.be/LOJyczfy-Bc

There are two parts to this rule.

1. If it takes less than 2 min to do a task, then do it now.

2. While trying to form a new habit, make sure it takes less than 2 min to get it started.

More info: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/how-stop-procrastinating-and-stick-good-habits-using-the-2-minute-rule.html

Edit: The snow will fly off the shovel when you toss it, and won't stick when it's the wet heavy kind

Don't know if you guys know this, but here's a good way to sort mail in gmail, I used it for my wedding RSVPs: say your gmail address is me@gmail.com you tell everyone to send their RSVPs to me+wedding@gmail.com Gmail will ignore the "+wedding" and send it to your regular inbox. Now set a filter that labels all mail sent to "me+wedding@gmail.com" under your desired label, and voila!

Get a stapler and slide one side of the book into the mouth of the stapler. It will keep the book from closing and let you read the book while typing.

Just tried to view a webpage that had bad scrolling as a desktop but didn't work (the text was cut off and I couldn't zoom out or scroll left/right to see the rest of the content).

Using the "request desktop site" option (on chrome for Android) wasn't doing the trick so I tried printing the page and the screen that comes up is a print preview with the full desktop site rendered properly. Nice to see all content you couldn't otherwise.