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Time Management?! How about all aspects of life management? Mar 29

Hi there,

this turns out to be another interesting year for me. I have made quite a New Years Resolution this time, at least from my perspective, to tie up all loose ends and be a bit more of a regular working family guy, which includes getting up early and going to sleep at a reasonable time. Well… I have done quite some of that in January, like finally getting www.seoexperts.com up in the air. However, in February I started to realize, that work didn’t get done as quickly as it should, and by the beginning of this month I was totally behind on every time line existing, work and private. I find it a bit ironic, that this is happening now where I get up early in the morning. I even told a few people that, while trying to make everyone happy, I probably managed to piss everyone off… it actually depressed me a bit, to a point that I had a tense neck and headache for almost 2 weeks, up until a few days ago… A few days ago I had a bit of a revelation when talking to a client of mine about this. She pointed out, that in the daytime there are always distractions – especially where I programm at home, but also phone calls etc are a distraction when programming, and that is probably why things are now taking longer to program. I thought about how I used to be a night owl, and quite often programmed for 8 hours or more straight through the night and the longer I programmed the faster I got because I was more and more “into” the code…. I am not doing that any more, in fact I have hardly ever more than an hour without something interrupting me – and that is the reason! WHY didn’t I realize this earlier?! So, I am changing my whole plan now, hehe… I will get up a little later around 11am, do my coffee and news, have breakfast/lunch with the family and then do the “normal work” like emails, phone calls etc. until I “finish normal work” at 6pm. Then, after everyone went to bed, I make a night session of programming until about 2-3am.

So… let’s see how that works out. If you want to call me, do it between 11am and 6pm, and there is a good chance I answer :)

p.s. everyone who tried to call me in the daytime recently and didn’t get through is hereby informed, I either turned my phone off or silent, so I can get some work done… nothing personal.

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Google’s “on-the-fly” Currency Converter Mar 06

Here is a tip for those of you who use Windows have not yet found the time to get themselves a Currency Converter Gadget for the desktop.
Go to google and type in the search something like this “100USD to THB”, which will show you in the “suggestion box” how much Thai Baht you get for 100US Dollars, so you do not even have to click search or press enter – the converted values will show up almost instantly while you type!

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