Comments on: How to Free Up Your Lifestyle Design.

By: Gordie

Gordie — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:12:36 +0000

Hi Ryan,
Yeah, I find since I work on the computer, it’s really hard to not spend too much spare time on the computer as well. In weekends I limit myself to an hour a day.

By: Ryan @ Planting Dollars

Ryan @ Planting Dollars — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:19:21 +0000

I don’t have a problem with TV, but surfing the net is how I waste my other 80%… Trying to have 2 non computer days a week and that’s been helping dramatically. I feel a bit like a recovering crack addict… it’s bad!

By: Gordie

Gordie — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:50:05 +0000

Hey Eric,
If that works for you that’s cool. My bookmarks are so bloated and I have no folders. I need to learn to delete bookmarks and organize them.

Good on you for staying on top of them!

By: Gordie

Gordie — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:44:37 +0000

Welcome, Lis!
Yes, I can’t just stick to the titles because some people may just write ordinary sounding titles but have great content in the article. However, I have to keep my RSS feeder down to about 40-50 blogs. Any more than that and I’m just having to mark as read too much.

By: Lis Carpenter

Lis Carpenter — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:32:11 +0000

That’s what I was taught to do, read only the ones with titles that look interesting. Honestly I can’t do it. Although my RSS Feeder is bloated and overloaded I just feel that I might miss something if I start deleting blogs.
Lis Carpenter´s last blog ..Who is Tim Ferriss?

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:29:46 +0000

I have way too many blogs in Google Reader so I’ve come up with something else. I’m just trying this out so we’ll see how well this works. In fact, tonight is the first night I’m actually doing this so we’ll really see how well this works. Ok, here goes.

I just created a folder in my Bookmarks in Firefox called Blogs. I saved the home page of each blog I visit and even some new ones I am checking out into it. I just load all of them up at once and when I’m done with a blog I simply close out of the tab and the next blog pops up for me.

This solves a few problems…

1. I don’t see a bold number next to the blog. I like this because if I’m not sure if I’ve commented or not all I have to do is check out the comments and look for mine. If I haven’t I will.

2. I’m at the actual site and once I’m done there it’s as simple as closing the tab which means slate wiped clean.

3. I can narrow down the blogs I visit if they don’t appeal to me after a while and they’re simply gone.

That’s how I’m trying it out now. What do you think?
Eric´s last blog ..The Way I Blog With Ease

By: Tanner

Tanner — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:30:20 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BygEHtRYddo
Tanner´s last blog ..This Just In: Eat when you are Hungry, Lose Weight!

By: Tanner

Tanner — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:29:55 +0000

Follow up on 80/20 from one of the most respected personal/business development coach.

Tanner´s last blog ..This Just In: Eat when you are Hungry, Lose Weight!

By: social network design

social network design — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:21:11 +0000

Good tactics by Tanner,well he said a good thing to people,nice idea really.

By: Gordie

Gordie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:26:01 +0000

Welcome back, Mr. Jones!
It can be hard to find ways to apply it evenly across the board.

By: Gordie

Gordie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:25:00 +0000

I reckon Tanner’s a smart cookie, too.
I feel he has the eye of the tiger.

By: Gordie

Gordie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:23:51 +0000

Welcome, Moon!
As Tanner said in the article, The 4-Hour Workweek is the Lifestyle Design Bible.

By: Gordie

Gordie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:21:15 +0000

Hi Kevin,
It’s one of the core tenets of lifestyle design.

By: Gordie

Gordie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:18:30 +0000

Hey Josh,
I went and cleared about a third of my RSS reader out. I was never following that many anyway. I’m going to limit myself to 60 blogs.

By: Gordie

Gordie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:16:54 +0000

Hey Boris,
For your life you could look at which 20% of your relationships bring you 80% of your happiness. I think that’s a way you could apply it to your life.

By: Tanner

Tanner — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:13:41 +0000

@Dave lol whatever works. If it aint broke…

@Ryhem very insightful and thought provoking. Its not that you should focus on what does not matter, just don’t be inventing things to do to avoid the important which many people do.
Ood advuce on applying it. Like I said throw this idea up on the wall, the important things will reemerge.

“We shape our buildings and afterwords our buildings shape us.”
-winston churchhill

@Mike CJ that works if you enjoy each and every blog you are subscribed to. I didn’t, so I deleted a bunch of them and the ones that were important to me somehow found themselves back in my RSS reader.
I also understand if people apply this principle that I will lose some of my readers. However, to me, that is not such a bad things because we failed to make a connection. If my content is leit enough for them in the future, it’ll find its way back onto their screen.

@Michael here here, I plan on reevaluaating my 80/20 system every 2 weeks to keep things minimal.

@Robert look at your blog as a whole system, comments being in this system. Comments would most likely be in the 20 of important whereas constant little design tweaks (I am guilty) are probably not.

@The Real Josh you got this down already

@Kevin Tea thx Kevin!

@Moon I know this might sound cliche to a lot but Tim is a big role model of mine. We seem to share similar passions of never ending learning, experimenting, and simplification(which he does really well).

@Jimi True, I am on a 2 week 80/20 reavaluation system. So spending 30 minutes to an hour reevaluating the imprtant and unimprtant is an opportunity cost ithat I feel is worth it.

@Srinivas thx a lot! I had an excellent time talking with you. I look forward to the damage we can do together.

By: Gordie

Gordie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:48:32 +0000

Welcome, Anne!
Why don’t you read the articles for their content. Can you learn much from skimming the titles?

By: Boris

Boris — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:51:02 +0000

Tanner,
Unfortunately your blog was within the 80% that I eliminated…
Just Kidding!
I think that this 80/20 rule is applicable for business, but not for your own life.
When it comes to your life, once you define what really matters to you, you can easily define what is relevant to you… These relevant items on your life maybe are 1% or less of all the information, activities, etc. that come to your life. If you have defined what is really important to you, you will be able to separate the wheat from the chaff without requiring to use the 80/20 rule!