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		<title>Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off #14: How To Cut Your E-mail Clutter With Automated Tools</title>
		<link>http://www.justinlloyd.org/701-tuesday-time-wasting-tip-off-14-how-to-cut-your-e-mail-clutter-with-automated-tools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever tried to organise a really, REALLY, REALLY messy room?
Picture a messy, disorganised, cluttered, upside-down room. No, not that one, messier! Almost there! Messier still! Got it?


Okay, now imagine you have to organise it. But, you cannot throw anything out, and there just is not enough space to hold everything even if you could arrange [...]


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		<title>Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off #13: Why Conducting Research Can Be Counter-Productive</title>
		<link>http://www.justinlloyd.org/689-tuesday-time-wasting-tip-off-13-why-conducting-research-can-be-counter-productive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are few endeavours in life that require you to immediately stop what you are doing, go off and read a couple of pages in a book, browse through Google Groups or search Stackoverflow for a close enough answer and then return to work.
And yet, this is what people do all the time.


Stuck for an [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.justinlloyd.org/352-tuesday-time-wasting-tip-off-introduction/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off Introduction'>Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off Introduction</a></li>
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		<title>Turn Off, Unplug, Tune Out!</title>
		<link>http://www.justinlloyd.org/669-turn-off-unplug-tune-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discipline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You do not have to be available 24/7. Life carried on just fine without you, before you showed up, and it will carry on just fine long after you are gone.
Less e-mail, less contact, less messaging, less calling, less technology, all of it pulling you this way and that to see if you are paying [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.justinlloyd.org/639-tuesday-time-wasting-tip-off-9-kill-your-messenger/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off #9: Kill Your Messenger'>Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off #9: Kill Your Messenger</a></li>
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		<title>Get Ahead!</title>
		<link>http://www.justinlloyd.org/659-get-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many industries, many companies, are geared to one-upmanship, and the workforce is indoctrinated in to the belief that this is the only way to get ahead.
&#34;Hard work is rewarded!&#34; you will hear in corporate offices across the land.


&#34;Our office is a meritocracy!&#34; you will be told.
It&#8217;s a trap!
I have had those same lies told to [...]


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		<title>Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off #11: How You Delegate Every Day But Do Not Realise It</title>
		<link>http://www.justinlloyd.org/671-tuesday-time-wasting-tip-off-11-how-you-delegate-every-day-but-do-not-realise-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.justinlloyd.org/671-tuesday-time-wasting-tip-off-11-how-you-delegate-every-day-but-do-not-realise-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the new Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off, several hours late because I spent my entire day designing and building cabinets and bookcases as part of my “enforced vacation time” away from the office.
This week, delegation of your crap to someone else.


Perhaps I should take my own advice someday and delegate the building of bookcases to [...]


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		<title>Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off #10: How To Procrastinate Smarter Not Harder</title>
		<link>http://www.justinlloyd.org/652-tuesday-time-wasting-tip-off-10-how-to-procrastinate-smarter-not-harder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discipline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the next article in my Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off series. This week, how to procrastinate properly.
Procrastinate Smarter Not Harder
I believe the reason that many people procrastinate so much is that they take too much time to &#34;do nothing,&#34; but the time taken is in an unstructured, haphazard way and afterwards they permit themselves to [...]


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		<title>Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off #8: Automation Spends Time To Save Time</title>
		<link>http://www.justinlloyd.org/620-tuesday-time-wasting-tip-off-8-automation-spends-time-to-save-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Optimization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the eighth instalment of the Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off, a collection of hints and tips that can show you how to shave hours off your workday, shut out unneeded interruptions and increase your productivity by applying simple skills, tools and techniques that you already know.
This time wasting tip-off applies to you if you work [...]


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		<title>Optimize Your Windows Start Menu</title>
		<link>http://www.justinlloyd.org/547-optimize-your-windows-start-menu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Most people who use Microsoft Windows prefer the “classic start menu” over the new and improved and mostly annoying Vista start menu.
The Windows classic menu is one of the first things I switch over to after setting up a new computer for myself. The problem with the classic start menu that the new Vista [...]


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		<title>How To Create A Very Unique Check-Off Grid</title>
		<link>http://www.justinlloyd.org/20-unique-check-off-grids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discipline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Previously I wrote about how to simply track your goals using a check-off grid to ensure that you meet daily targets. I have also discovered a unique way of doing the same thing, but with a little creative flair behind it.
In the dim and distant past, I was given a set of “magnetic poetry” [...]


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		<title>Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off #6: How To Stop Worrying About Digital Storage Space</title>
		<link>http://www.justinlloyd.org/529-tuesday-time-wasting-tip-off-6-how-to-stop-worrying-about-digital-storage-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an insidious evil lurking in buried folders on your hard drive[1]&#8230;
Every year it seems that we are running out of storage space for our digital files. If you are anything like me, you have something of a pack-rat mentality when it comes to digital possessions, hanging on to every byte of information you [...]


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