8 Common First Aid Mistakes And Myths That Make Things Worse">

First aid is such that if we do it well, we’re going to save a life (or that life you save might be yours!), or if we do it incor­rectly, we could actu­ally make things worse.

Gina Tra­pani is fast becom­ing one of my favorite writ­ers. She has come up with some of the best, most prac­ti­cal posts in Life­hacker and I have reposted some of her posts sev­eral times in this blog. Here is another one of her tips.

5 Ways to Spend Less Time at Work">

This post is by work­place expert Alexan­dra Levit, a Wall Street Jour­nal writer and pub­lished author. She wrote this for Zen­Hab­its.

Tech­nol­ogy is sup­posed to increase our pro­duc­tiv­ity and reduce our work hours, yet many of us find the oppo­site to be true. We feel busier than ever, we stay at the office later than ever, and some­times we leave with­out fin­ish­ing a sin­gle task of sub­stance! Do these five things right now and go to your fam­ily on time tonight.

Here’s another great tip from Mer­lin Mann on what to with email.

Be fast. Be pro­duc­tive. Be cool.

Some­times we can just delay and delay and end up not doing any­thing. Some­times it’s the feel­ing of being blah and not being cre­ative enough that keeps you from work­ing, or maybe it’s the moun­tain of work that par­a­lyzes you to inaction.