NaNoWriMo, otherwise known as National Novel Writing Month, is a great idea. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel throughout November, and the website offers help, forums, tips and encouragement to help you (over 200,000 people participated in 2010). The reason I like the idea of NaNoWriMo is it encourages people to approach [...]

This is a guest post by Kalen Smith of Money File. Looking for work can be expensive. The job search process requires you to spend money on transportation, networking, mailing resumes and joining groups. The problem is, when you are unemployed you need to be especially careful with your money. The last thing you want [...]

Restaurant vouchers, special offers on hotel stays, grocery coupons, and just generally saving money through hot internet deals… It seems to be all the rage at the moment. Extreme couponing is covered in the news, sites like Groupon have a huge buzz around them, and with the dire economic state at the moment, every business [...]

Hello everybody, it’s been a while since I updated Organize IT (the full explanation of why can be found in the previous post). I’m not planning on making a full-time return, but despite being away I’ve still had thoughts and ideas for posts and it seemed a shame not to publish some of them. In [...]

As you may have guessed by my extended absence over the last couple of months, I have been taking a break from Organize IT. It turned out to be a refreshing change not having to deal with doing a regular post or contend with the daily maintenance cycle that a three-year old blog has…. It’s [...]

This is a guest post by Emma Newman of Post Apocalyptic Publishing. I once heard that former British Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher said “Happiness is a ticked off list”. I have no idea if that’s true, but regardless of how one might have felt about her politics, I can certainly relate to that statement. I [...]

I’ve written a lot about being organized and decluttering your life, in fact I did an entire book about it (you can download it for free here). It was one of the first big ‘lifehacks’ that I really worked on and it made such a difference to me. In fact I converted several other people, [...]

Several years ago I signed up to a local gym. My attendance was patchy, despite all my best intentions, and it took a further two years and changing to a different gym, before I finally got into a regular exercising routine. There was even a period where I tried to do it at home, with [...]

One of the problems I have with this blog is trying to categorize it, and sum it all up. When somebody asks me what I write about here, it’s difficult to explain. There are quite a few words that get used a lot, but it all seems very subjective and none of them ever seem [...]

This is a guest post by Francis Wade of Time Management 2.0. Most professionals can name a handful of time management systems that they have come across in their professional careers. They can probably also list a few people here and there who have embraced these systems and are quite happy using them. If they [...]