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Too many ideas at once dig into your mental and physical energy resources just as credit cards dig into your money. Too much mental spending creates debt, leaving you with a mess and feeling overwhelmed trying to stay afloat.
Battle Productivity Brain Drain With an Idea Budget | Copyblogger

“If idea generation is an addiction then killing ideas is the cure. After spending countless hours developing and polishing ideas, we tend to become attached to those same ideas (whether they are good or bad). The result can be a great deal of wasted energy and effort. It’s time to sever ties with (some of) our ideas and send them to the graveyard!”

Tip: Send Ideas to the Graveyard from Behance Magazine

Stevey’s Blog Rants: Done, and Gets Things Smart

“A surge in popularity for brain fitness training has been sparked by aging baby boomers working to keep their minds sharp. Brain training is now being used by people of all ages looking to improve mental performance, memory, focus and creativity. Boomers were the first to latch on to brain workouts due to worries about slowing mental capabilities. Their subsequent success has led younger generations to use the techniques help stay sharp. The exercises have been made fun and accessible with video games like Brain Age and online services Lumosity and SharpBrains. The market is predicted to grow to $2 billion by 2015.”

Brain Fitness Boom on PSFK

Psychologists have developed a form of training, involving biofeedback, that can boost people’s ability to concentrate.

BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Biofeedback training can boost concentration power

Cool little Todo list based on Adobe Air.

Doomi. A to do list application.

“We can’t escape inefficiency.

No matter how organized we think we are, it’s only human to encounter it at least once during the day. Since it’s an integral part of our humanity, maybe inefficiency is something we need. After all, having such a structured, seamless routine takes all the fun out of work. But we need that element of fun when it comes to work - especially if we’re expected to keep doing it for most of our lives.

Web Worker Daily » Archive Yes, It’s (Sometimes) Ok To Be Inefficient «

Ron Friedman and Andrew Elliot gave dozens of students an impossible anagram to solve. Half the students were instructed to attempt the puzzle with their hands on their thighs, while the other students were told to sit with their arms folded. The thigh group only persevered for about 30 seconds on average, while the students with their arms folded struggled on for nearly 55 seconds.

BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Fold your arms to boost your performance

“Two years ago, Google’s VP of Search Products Marissa Mayer encouraged Stanford students to avoid pulling the plug on ideas and projects that aren’t working, and to transform them into something that does. Today, lots of users are sad Google didn’t take their own advice and killed the Browser Sync extension instead.”

Google: Google’s Marissa Mayer on Why to Stick with Projects

“I have discovered that most of the activities that I do in my work can be ‘batched’ in one way or another. I have discovered that many ‘urgent’ things can wait and in fact to make them ‘take a number’ and ‘get in line’ brings order to mess.”

How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive