Organize IT recap for 14th July 2007

• If you are on the home page of the blog you may notice I have added lists of recently commented and most popular posts. The latter used to be tucked away at the bottom of the sidebar so I thought I should bring it up and make it more useful. Your thoughts?
• It seems to be cool to make everything 2.0 these days so why not have GTD 2.0? HD BizBlog picked up on the topic here. You can read the original article by Eric Mack plus a good response over at Michael’s Thoughts. How can GTD evolve to deal with the increasing uptake of information and the demands of work in the future? I may have to put up a few thoughts of my own.
• Interesting read about the health and psychological benefits of music
• This blog could prove quite useful. It basically covers how to eat on the cheap and regularly updates with new recipes and product reviews.

In the past I have talked about the GTD vertical map, and related to that, roles & responsibilities. One thing that GTD encourages is to write your life purpose/vision at the 50,000ft level. In other books it is often called a mission statement and is one the most common elements of any personal development program.

However recently I have been aiming to trim away some of the fat from my system, primarily evident in the latest iteration where I use a single sheet to do all my organizing. One thing I decided to leave off it is a box for defining a mission statement for my life. Even in the past when I did always write one down, I found little practical purpose to having one. So, I am curious to know if any of you guys have a mission statement, and if so how do you go about using it?

It’s been a while since I talked about the productivity system I use so I thought I would bring everyone up to date as a lot has changed and I learnt a few things about developing a system that really fits your needs. You can read my previous posts on the topic here and here.

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Luck and being lucky is a funny concept. Nobody is born naturally more lucky than anyone else. Those people who are always in the right place at the right time and get the big breaks in their careers largely make their own luck, whether they are aware of it or not. Compared to something like winning a lottery, which is pure chance, with luck you have the ability to influence it and increase those chances of being lucky. Read the rest of the article for 3 tips on how to do just that (no lucky leprechauns included).

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This is a spoof of MTV Scarred. Need I say more?