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Category Archives: Productivity
Todays Emergencies, Were Yesterdays Ignored Requests
Stop lighting your own house on fire. Every time you find yourself dealing with a fire (emergency or crisis) in your work, remember it was lit with your own match. In fact, while you are fighting that blaze, I bet [...]
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Want a Different Outcome? Change Your Focus.
Feeling stuck in a rut? Wishing your company was more successful? Thinking your start-up should have a million users already? Does it seem like you can’t get where you want to be?
Our brains are pattern matching machines. Have you ever [...]
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Being Organized Increases Creative Potential
Your ideas need air to breathe. If your mind is consumed worrying about all the things you have to do; how can you expect it to have cycles to be innovative? In order to be creative you need to have [...]
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Is Your Moleskin Keeping You From Getting Things Done?
The problem with Moleskins is that they are good collectors, but bad for processing. Ever seen an episode of Hoarders? That is what Moleskins tend to make us. When we use them to take notes in meetings or collect thoughts [...]
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Passion Fuels Greatness. Apathy Fuels Mediocrity.
Borrowed from Sir Ken Robinson‘s 2010 TED talk. There are two types of people in the world.
Those that simply endure what they do. Can’t wait for the weekend.
Those that love what they do. Their work is who they are.
To do [...]
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Getting Things Done: Area of Focus vs Project
I had been struggling to define when something should be an Area of Focus versus when it should be a Project in my Getting Things Done (GTD) system. If a completion date can be applied to it, even one a [...]
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5 Steps to Achieving Great Things
If you want to achieve really big things. The kinds of things that people believe to be difficult, improbable or even impossible. It will require passion, purpose, planning and the ability to execute actions. To accomplish them you [...]
Company Records in Linked In
I realized today there is all sorts of functionality around “companies” in Linked In. I have never noticed it. The feature that caught my eye was the ability to “follow” a company and set notifications. There is a wealth of [...]
Productivity Wednesday #4 : Instapaper
Learn to save digital content in a single location to read on your own terms later.
I apologize for the funky audio. I was experimenting with a new microphone and the gain was set way too high.
Productivity Wednesday #3 : Timeboxing with Minuteur
Trying to revamp Productivity Wednesday. Get disciplined by time boxing the work you do.
Related Links:
Minuteur
Pomodoro Technique
