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The Organize IT Habits: Everything Is A Next Action

April 21st 2008 The Habits 2 comments

Welcome to the third of my ongoing series of posts looking at habits you can implement that will bring about definitive improvements in your life. For the third habit I will look at the next action. It is one of the simplest but most effective pieces of advice that came out of Getting Things Done. It’s such a simple but useful concept in fact, that it transcends the narrow office based productivity framework of David Allen’s system and is an invaluable mindset in day-to-day life.

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Organize IT Recap: Alternative Productivity, Uses For Binder Clips

May 9th 2008 GTD, Recap 0 comments

Organize IT recap for 09th May 2008.

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7 Reasons To Ditch Your PDA And Switch To Pen And Paper

May 7th 2008 GTD, Productivity, Tech 8 comments

On Monday when I discussed how you can simplify the actual practise of Getting Things Done, rather than focusing on a GTD lite approach that misses the point, one suggestion was to stop messing around looking for the latest clever program and hi tech solution. Instead pick up a pen and paper and get on with it! If you need any more persuasion here are my top seven suggestions.

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Why Are You Simplifying GTD? Simplify How You Use It!

May 5th 2008 GTD 6 comments

There are a lot of simplified versions of Getting Things Done out there, in response to a large number of people who think it is complicated or difficult to get into. However, the problem is GTD is already a very streamlined system and as is the case with simplifying anything you have to make considerable trade-offs to achieve it. Before you start looking elsewhere for answers consider simplifying your actual usage of GTD. A lot of people make it more complicated than it needs to be.

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Best of Organize IT: April 2008

May 4th 2008 Featured Content, GTD 0 comments

Good month for Organize IT. All stats continue to grow and it’s great to see you all leaving comments, subscribing to the RSS feed, talking to me on Twitter, etc. The community is growing! Remember, you can now contact me on LinkedIn and Facebook too. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks for the support.

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Organize IT Recap: Lose Weight, Time Budgets

May 2nd 2008 GTD, Recap 0 comments

Organize IT recap for 02nd May 2008.

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