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This could have easily been titled "Staying Healthy and Sane." Useful ideas all around. In particular, business on meditation is interesting to me. I do all my

This could have easily been titled "Staying Healthy and Sane." Useful ideas all around. In particular, business on meditation is interesting to me. I do all my best thinking in the shower. I suspect this is because without meaning to be, I'm in a meditative state there. Every time I have a really hard problem to ponder, I find a shower has the power to jolt me in the direction of the solution. I'd like to find a way to harness this in a more convenient way that doesn't require soap, water or nudity, so I'm going to check out the NSR site Alex recommends.

troyk 16y ago
Try thinking about the issue before you go to sleep. This has worked great for me, often I'll awake to a keen sense of understanding what I was thinking of, although a few times it has resulted in keeping me up for hours frustrasted with neither sleep or understanding!
- danilocampos 16y ago
  Every time the challenge du jour pops into my head before sleep I just end up thinking about it for hours. And not sleeping. It's tough.
  - jackowayed 16y ago
    Me too. For a little while it feels productive and nice because I often have good ideas, but then after half an hour or so, I want my brain to shut up so I can sleep. A friend of mine told me she has a similar issue and has a special meditation that she does in bed to wind her brain down. I should email her, but if anyone has ways they deal with this issue, I'd love to hear them.
    - jlees 16y ago
      I absolutely do not think about stuff like that before I sleep - I try to spend at least an hour winding down with a book and peppermint tea or something similar. I do however think about tough issues when I'm half asleep in the morning, reaching for the snooze button. (Sometimes it's counterproductive, making me want to snooze more to make the world go away, but I reach some surprising insights here - and then crystallise them in the shower, of course!)
      - sirrocco 16y ago
        I too use the book trick :) so to speak . Just 30 minutes of reading some SF before I go to sleep helps a lot. I then tend to think about the characters in the book or I imagine being on another planet :) . It really helps when I do that.
    - danilocampos 16y ago
      I'd love to hear her advice if she gets back to you on this.
access_denied 16y ago
> I'd like to find a way to harness this in a more convenient way David Allen's Geting Things Done is basically about this. Though, to get it you should read the book carefully and not glance over it to extract some todo-list building tips like obviously most authors of those shoddy 'productivity' blogs have done. The 'natural planning model' as described in the book, combined with a 'complete inventory of your work' updated regularly as described in the book, gives you essentially that.

troyk 16y ago

Try thinking about the issue before you go to sleep. This has worked great for me, often I'll awake to a keen sense of understanding what I was thinking of, although a few times it has resulted in keeping me up for hours frustrasted with neither sleep or understanding!

danilocampos 16y ago
Every time the challenge du jour pops into my head before sleep I just end up thinking about it for hours. And not sleeping. It's tough.
- jackowayed 16y ago
  Me too. For a little while it feels productive and nice because I often have good ideas, but then after half an hour or so, I want my brain to shut up so I can sleep. A friend of mine told me she has a similar issue and has a special meditation that she does in bed to wind her brain down. I should email her, but if anyone has ways they deal with this issue, I'd love to hear them.
  - jlees 16y ago
    I absolutely do not think about stuff like that before I sleep - I try to spend at least an hour winding down with a book and peppermint tea or something similar. I do however think about tough issues when I'm half asleep in the morning, reaching for the snooze button. (Sometimes it's counterproductive, making me want to snooze more to make the world go away, but I reach some surprising insights here - and then crystallise them in the shower, of course!)
    - sirrocco 16y ago
      I too use the book trick :) so to speak . Just 30 minutes of reading some SF before I go to sleep helps a lot. I then tend to think about the characters in the book or I imagine being on another planet :) . It really helps when I do that.
  - danilocampos 16y ago
    I'd love to hear her advice if she gets back to you on this.

access_denied 16y ago

> I'd like to find a way to harness this in a more convenient way David Allen's Geting Things Done is basically about this. Though, to get it you should read the book carefully and not glance over it to extract some todo-list building tips like obviously most authors of those shoddy 'productivity' blogs have done. The 'natural planning model' as described in the book, combined with a 'complete inventory of your work' updated regularly as described in the book, gives you essentially that.