Info, info, info, info, info, info, info, info….everywhere but not a drop to think?
Are you bobbing, almost drowning, in a sea of information?
Take this article, why are you reading it? Don’t go away just yet, I have my own simple answer at the end.
We have reached the point where the productivity experts are just adding to […]
Make sure this month is November not KNOWvember!
Section A: Here is a management knowledge quiz:
How many management courses have you taken this year?
How many management blog post have you read?
How many management books have your read?
How many ideas or suggestions have your heard from others?
How many good management ideas have you generated?
Section B: Here is […]
Scott H Young is one of the best productivy bloggers out there, and recently he shared a great lifehack about the popular “getting things done” system that many of we Slacker Managers frequently use. Scott actually hacked this hack, with a great 5 step system called How to Customize GTD to Fit Your Life. Scott’s […]
Are you ready to grab GEMO and go with it?
This September, I have accelerated my accomplishments on a lot of projects and new initatives because I found GEMO.
GEMO is an acronym for Good Enough, Move On. It helps avoid perfectionism, dithering, delays, and other productivity traps and snarls.
Here is how you practice it. You work at something, you […]
Where does your weekend go?
Are you a Saturday Slacker? Or a Sunday Slacker?
I encourage you to look at how you spend your weekend.
Do you use the weekend to get away from work - rest and recovery?
Do you use the weekend to work?
Does the nature of your work change on the weekend?
Is your weekend planned or […]
Never Lose A Thought Again
About how long do you think something stays in short-term memory? 15 – 20 seconds. In other words, if you don’t do something with a thought, you lose it in less than 30 seconds. So if you want to capture those $50,000,000 and 50 cent ideas and everything in between, […]
Tasks For GTD Titans!
From Part 1, you’ll remember that I end up with only two buckets (Calendar and Tasks) for all my action items:. If it doesn’t have to be at a specific time it ends up on the Task List for me.
To move an email to the Task list (using Outlook), I right-click […]
Write It Down Right Now
What is the most important skill in business today? The ability to rapidly get things off your mind and into a system you can trust.
Why? Because the amount of information you have to deal with is so overwhelming. You have to develop this skill. Otherwise you condemn yourself to a […]
If you leave messages in your Inbox, you are insane. Okay, there I’ve said it.
Every message left in your Inbox adds psychic weight to you. And this weight can be awfully heavy over time. On average, information workers (that’s you) get over 20,000 messages in a year (see Scary Email Math ). If you […]
Before I started my Getting Things Done practice I had some vague ideas about what I wanted to do with my life and where I wanted to go with it. I had not done any serious thinking about priorities or how to get where I wanted to be in the future.
The process of creating a […]
“Do you have a pen I can borrow?” At a recent ASTD conference session, not one but two people around me asked this question. Here we were, about to hear one of the world’s experts in our field and two highly trained professionals didn’t have a pen!
Several months ago I read a post (I wish […]
My laptop was running slow (as usual) and I was cursing Microsoft - usual too :) .
I tried various tweaks including turning off fancy graphics and deleting temporary files.
Final step - defragment the disk.
This is where i met my nemesis - it took 4 hrs and 26 minutes to defragment a 40GB disk - […]
I’m totally on the GTD prowl right now. I hath fully fallen from the vaunted GTD wagon in recent days and it is taking a toll on me. Unread emails: 146 from as far back as three weeks ago; an unknown number of dropped commitments given verbally; projects that have stalled or never started; a […]
If you missed out on getting one of my MindMeister invitations the other day, here’s a second chance. Over at Behind The Glasses, Grigor is giving away 20 more MindMeister invites AND he’s offering interested bloggers a chance to participate in a shared mindmap about the future of blogging. Go forth and mindmap!
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This morning I read on Mashable that there’s a new mindmap web app in private beta called MindMeister. I was lucky enough to get an invite and I’ve been messing around with it.
So far I really, really like it. The controls for creating new nodes are very intuitive (tab to create a new child, enter […]
Paving the path of least resistance, so you don't trip and fall.
Written by David Zinger [email], and Phil Gerbyshak [email] for b5media.
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