Eisenhower Matrix or Priority Quadrant

EisenhowerMatrix

Setting your long term goals and having a To Do list is a good first step. Next challenge is to prioritize and act on it. Eisenhower Matrix or Priority Quadrant helps us identify our next to-do item from the list. Let’s understand and see it in action. History and reference Dwight D. Eisenhower was the … Read more

Eisenhower Matrix Examples

EisenhowerMatrix

You must have heard about Eisenhower Matrix or Priority Quadrant as a tool to prioritize tasks in our to do list. Many people struggle to understand which quadrant task must go. Eisenhower Matrix examples just show some example tasks in different quadrant. Eisenhower Matrix examples for Quadrant 1 Many times, tasks in quadrant 1 are … Read more

The One Thing Notes

The one thing book summary

This is my personal notes, taken while reading the book The One Thing. The book helps us make a productive life and achieve goals. Please note, this article are my notes, not book summary. If you need short book summary, you may read The One Thing: Book Summary My notes of The One Thing The … Read more

SMART Goals

SMART Goals

SMART goals are 5 principles of setting challenging yet realistic goals, that we can achieve. Let’s see them in details and action. Why SMART Goals? Many times we struggle to achieve our Goals. That is one of the very common problems. Have you been there sometime? Many times, we fail not because our efforts, but … Read more

5W1H or Kipling method

5W1H or Kipling Method

5W1H or Kipling method is a set of 6 questions that help us answer basic elements of a problem. Problem Statement Have you ever wondering why you failed to achieve or finish some of the pre-planned work? All of us have been there sometimes or other. What is experience? Experience is not the number of … Read more

Gang of Four Design Pattern Summary

Design Patterns are like quick recipe of software design. This page represents a Cheat sheet or Gang of Four Design Patterns summary. What are Design Patterns? A Design Pattern is a reusable solution to common Software Engineering problems. We can compare it with recipe. Suppose we want to cook a particular dish, simply get its … Read more

Task prioritization quadrants

Test prioritization Quadrants

We get a lot of things to do in our life. However, we simply don’t have enough time to do everything. This is where task prioritization quadrants are important. There are many methods to prioritize the tasks and ensure every important task finishes on time. In this note, we will discuss one such method, the … Read more

Fixing WordPress-MySQL issue with Swap

Fixing MySQL issue on Digital Ocean

On KAPsNotes, we were facing a weird WordPress-MySQL issue. Our WordPress site was going down frequently. Here is a quick fix by introducing Swap. Background KAPsNotes was going down frequently. Although issue was automatically getting fixed in 10-15 minutes, it was annoying for two reasons: Site is down which is a huge issue in itself. … Read more

What are SMART Goals?

smart-goals

Goals are small steps to reach the final objective. Setting goals is necessary if you really want to be successful. People often set goals that are not achievable and end up with zero progress. You might have heard about smart goals. In this article, we will discuss Smart Goals, and how to set them. What … Read more