Silver Clipboard: Time Management Tips and Personal Productivity Tools

The great, wake up early challenge is going much better in its third month. Here are the results so far:

As of March 2nd, my median wake-up time is now less than my goal of 5:15. Math-nerd translation: I’ve gotten up before 5:15 more than half of the time since I started keeping track.
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How is the great, wake up early challenge going? If you asked me, I’d say ‘making progress’, but actually looking at the numbers is another story:

(The numbers on the graph are expressed as fractions of an hour, e.g. 5:30 is 5.5 — I only do this because numbers.app doesn’t want to graph time properly. [...]

It’s time to put my post about public and humiliating failure to the test.
For months I’ve fought a losing battle to wake up early. There are several projects I want to make progress on but, when I get home from my job, it’s hard to find the necessary energy. Tired and hungry from [...]

If your new year’s resolutions involved stopping smoking, getting in shape, saving more money or learning a new skill, then Google is here to help.  They have a special page of their tools to help you keep track of and reach your goals.
[click here for the Google New Year's Resolutions tools]
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One of the most interesting things we’ve discovered… is that [people] are more motivated by the fear of looking bad than by the hope of getting millions of dollars. So if you want to get millions of dollars, put yourself in a position where failure will be public and humiliating. —Paul Graham
Paul Graham [...]