Today, I want to share a great video, so don’t waste your time, watch the short video by Seth Godin!

Seth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain from 99% on Vimeo.

Starting a Design Blog in Chinese will be the no.1 project in 2010. There are so much blog about design, web, blogging, freelance and so around the net but I rarely found a similar blog in Chinese, so I was thinking why not to start 1 myself? It should be really fun write something what I am passionate with, and share whatever I have learned in this few years and so to all the people who speak Chinese.

How to get it work?

I am reading articles about all these field everyday and I have bunch of idea to write, to blog with. I don’t think this is really that hard at the moment.

At the starting point, I am going to use a free WordPress theme, and of course it is well design, readable, and usable. I won’t spend too much time on designing a unique theme at first as I want to really focus on the content. I will write a lot before it launch, and upload it on a schedule to make sure the continuity of the blog. I think something new to read in every 3-4 days would be nice.

What’s in the blog?

Some of the categories filled up in my mind is tutorial, inspiration, design trend, showcases, a little bit of freelance,  and what I really love – CSS. All these are still a simple sketch in my mind and it won’t be too much different at the end.

So what now?

I am still researching, I don’t even think of the blog name yet, so everything is just at the beginning stage, stay tuned.

It is a very exciting project and I am going to make it work!

Today, I received a fake mail from UPS manager, telling that they failed to deliver my parcel to my address, and want me to pickup the parcel at the post office. It require you to download and print the attachment for the shipping label.

Funny is that, in the email, it say please do not reply to this e-mail because it is an unmonitored mailbox. Now the UPS manager is telling he is crap.

Do not open this email or even download the attachment, it is virus filled!

I have tried a couple of day using iCal on Mac, similar to Google Calender, which help you to organize your schedule, telling when you need to do this and that. First off, this seem good to me as it can help me organize my daily task, I know what I am going to do in what time, but the fact is, this kill my daily productivity.

I am extremely low productivity when I was using a schedule for my daily task. It was an alarm clock keep on warning that it is time to start to do something and you have to finished it before sometime as there are still lot of tasks waiting in a minute or an hour! OMG, this is suck, I can’t really concentrate on what I am doing but keep on counting the time like a human time tracker.

Then I give up this application and focus on 1 app for my task management which is Things, a To-Do list apps, you can list all the task you have to do, come with a due date management and scheduling, yes, a scheduling function, but unlike iCal, it help you to schedule some repeating task like jogging in 3 days a week, from Wed to Fri, then the app will pop up the task on the specific day for you.

The reason why I like this app is because it tell you what you have to do rather than tell you when you need to start doing this and how many hour remaining. I can more concentrate on my task and more relax when I performing.

This post is short, I will show you the simple step how I get things done.

1. Have Enough Sleep, So you will wake up earlier and have more time.
2. Make Your Schedule, well organize will improve your lifestyle.
3. Use To-Do List. So you know what to do.
4. Write your note. So you won’t forget something.
5. Clean your workspace, less distraction.
6. Listen to Music while you are working. Music, not rock song or any other which you make you dance with.
7. Don’t watch TV while you are working. You will forget there is a off button on your remote control.
8. Don’t chat while you are working. I am pretty sure you won’t stop after all.
9. Ask some one to help you, if you really out of time.
10. Last one, is simple, DO IT!

During the Christmas Holiday, I have earned some affiliate sales commission from my blog, not much, but I can use it to buy some books and write the book review for you all, it is awesome!

I am really excited every time when I received a notification email about my affiliate sale! Here are 1 of those email:

Thanks for all the ppl who  bought the product I recommend on this site or others by my link, really appreciate and I am sure you will like the product! Enjoy!

I read an article today, is the “7 Questions, 7 Designers” series from echo enduring blog, it is interesting to know that what tools people are using now, and I found some interesting software I have never heard of too, so I think it is fun to have my version here. Lets start!

1. Computer: Mac and PC, but mostly(90%) Mac
2. Browser: Firefox
3. Email: Thunderbird
4. RSS Reader: Google Reader
5. Imaging Software: Photoshop
6. Code Editor: Coda
7. Twitter: Tweetie
8. Blogging: WordPress
9. Task Management: Things on mac, Pen and Papers
10. Extras: Mouse, LittleSnapper(To snap everything I see for my inspiration), Evernote, 160GB External Harddisk(I think I will buy a 1TB storage next year).

What is your version?

In my previous post, I talk about I am working on my portfolio website, the full design is confirm, and hopefully it can be done in this week or next, I took lots of time on it, redo and redo again just to make it better and better. Below are two design I want to share with you. The first one is the website layout and the second is a wallpaper, you can download it if you want and make it as your desktop wallpaper.

Click Here to Download My Wallpaper