Extra hours in a day

What would you do with an extra 19 hours each week?  If you could get 19 additional hours every week tax free, and with no additional aging what would you be able to accomplish?  Would you read more?  Exercise more?  Spend more time cooking? Pick up a new hobby? Volunteer?


How do you feel about television?  Take a hard look at how much time you spend watching "programming."  Is it worth it?  Do you love it?  Are you becoming the person you want to be while watching?

Do you have a realistic idea of how much time you spend watching television?  Last June, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released a study on how people spend their time throughout  the day.  The average American over the age of fourteen spends 2.7 hours EACH DAY watching TV.  Is that okay?  That's nearly 19 hours each week.  Let me ask again: Do you love it?  Is television worth

Pomodoro: Getting things done 25 minutes at a time

You know those un-fun days at your desk when you have a lot to do, but don't want to do any of it?  When I have long lists of mundane tasks that seem way less interesting than checking (again) what people are saying on Facebook?

A simple technique
I came across a little online club a couple of years ago that celebrates a productivity tool called the Pomodoro technique.  (They explained that pomodoro was italian for tomato.)  You can get all the info straight from the source here.  Keep reading after the jump to get my take on the technique.