Llamagraphics, Inc. – creators of Life Balance software for Palm OS, Macintosh and Windows – provides resources related to the process of balancing work, home, and leisure activities to optimize personal productivity and happiness by giving you the gift of time to do what you really want to do.
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New Releases posted for Life Balance!
What's new in Life Balance 4.1 and 3.5
For Mac and Windows, we've added new Move Up/Down/Left/Right menu items to the Task menu that can be used to rearrange your Outline. On Mac, the keyboard shortcuts for these commands are Control-Command arrow key. On Windows, the shortcuts are Control-Alt arrow key.
For Palm, we've also added "Catch Up," "Skip," and "Defer Until" commands to the Task menu in the To Do List view. You can check out how it works in the revised manuals.
On all platforms, we've added icons that appear in response to the Catch Up, Skip, and Defer Until commands so you can tell that these commands have taken effect. These icons disappear when the to-do list is updated, so you will only see them on Mac and Windows if your to do list is locked.
What's coming up next? Life Balance for iPhone, of course!
Posting these releases for our existing platform customers clears the way for us to follow through with the upcoming new platform release of Life Balance for iPhone.
Yes, you can hear me now...
The Women: Four Generations of Our Women, meet on the Mountain to reconnect, and yes, there was croquet... a family tradition... this time, the course was set up in the woods...The women in my family decided that we needed to have a get together. No particular agenda, except that we were unwilling to drift along and with passing time, absentmindedly drift apart.
We are family. We all need our family faces to peer at for common expressions, crinkly smile lines, worry and pain, knowing glances and shades of meaning. There are family messages of support and understanding that must be done in person. Hugs must be delivered properly. Hands must be held. Cats must be herded. And we must stand shoulder to shoulder, at least for as long as it takes to capture the group photograph.
In our family, and I suspect in many others as well, the women are the glue that hold the whole darn domestic kit and kaboodle together. We are opinionated, strong minded, honest and intelligent, often loud, raucus and very funny, especially when we are all together.
"The Myth of Multi-tasking," the challenge for many is to read this excellent article in The New Atlantis without interruption
Christine Rosen, the senior editor of The New Atlantis and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center has written one of the best articles on "The Myth of Multi-tasking" that I have read in some time. This article includes references to the latest neuroscience research, as well as thought provoking speculation on what the consequences of out-of-control multi-tasking might be for our society.
Stressed out? Try some Art.... Twenty Five Cents, EXACT CHANGE ONLY!
Recently came across a fun picture on Engadget of a Anger Release vending machine by artist Yarisa Kublitz. The
Now, in my opinion, all vending machines are just as hostile as this artist's rendition, and they ALL probably could use a moment to chill out and relax once in a while.
New audio podcast channel about Life Balance is now available on iTunes.
Franklin, MA, June 1, 2008. Llamagraphics, Inc. is pleased to announce that it now has launched a new channel for audio podcasts about Life Balance on Apple's iTunes store. The Llamagraphics podcasts are currently available to listeners, in the Business section for "Management and Marketing" topics. Life Balance™ is personal coaching software that helps people who sometimes struggle to keep up with their busy lives. Life Balance uses a dramatically different task management method that focuses your attention on the tasks, projects and goals that are most important to you.
What do you mean, "Productivity isn't everything?"
A member of our Life Balance community recently sent me an email with a simple quote that he thought I might like from the May 3, 2008 edition of the Economist magazine:
"Productivity isn't everything, but in the long-run it is almost everything." Attributed to Paul Krugman, from his book "The Age of Diminished Expectations."
In thinking about this quote, I decided that I either agree or disagree with that notion based on what it means to be productive. I have not read the book, so I have no idea of how the author defines productivity. I have only my own definition to work with.
In my experience, as the co-author of a time management software application, Productivity is a healthy balance of "Proaction," "Action" and "Reaction" to attain something that you feel is worth the trouble of exerting all that effort -- ideally something that makes you or those around you happy. :-)
Podcast posted - Interview with Ed Drozda
Llamagraphics, Inc. presents an Interview with Business and Executive Coach, Ed Drozda. The new podcast is on the topic of Life Coaching. If you've ever wondered about working with a Life Coach, please don't miss out on this interview which provides a good summary of things you may want to consider when making the decision of which coach is right for you.
Find your own Inner Indiana Jones.. in everyday life.
There are days when I am particularly busy, facing down some imagined tiger, when I catch myself humming the Indiana Jones theme.
Because when you are facing down your average 600 pound imaginary tiger, you have only two choices. Recognize that the tiger is imaginary, or not!
Sometimes, you can look your imaginary tiger in the eye, and see that it is only a snarling bit of your to do list in front of you. Just another email message. Just a meeting requiring a bit of theatrics on your part.
And then, there are times, when no matter what you do... those tasks won't shrink down to what they are. They stay big and scary, with teeth and a threatening demeanor. At those times, there is only one way to handle it.
The world is so full of a number of things...
The World: NASA Photo ID: AS17-148-22727 Date Taken: 12/07/72 Description: View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew.
That is the first line of a poem called "Happy Thought" by Robert Louis Stevenson that was in a book I had as a child, "A Child's Garden of Verses." I was sick a lot, and so was he. I read it over and over again in solidarity.
The poem goes:
The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
This little poem has given me much food for thought over the years. It feels almost like a zen koan.
Are kings happy?
What things in the world bring everyone happiness?
What brings ME happiness?
Homework Habits, a story of understanding the direction you want to go...
Baci helping with my homework: The secret of my successI've been taking a class in coastal navigation for sailing at the Edgewood Sailing School in Rhode Island. For the first time in many years, I've had homework to do.
This past week I got my homework done very early. It was for the last scheduled class. Certificates were issued to mark our accomplishments. And while I was happy to have learned so much, on my way to class, I also felt kind of disappointed that I wouldn't have any MORE homework to do. Eh? What is that about?
