Month: July, 2008
Are You Productivity-Inclined Or Simplicity-Inclined?
This is a guest post by Shanel Yang of Easy Steps To Success. Is your main focus to be as productive as humanly possible, accomplishing more in one lifetime than you ever imagined possible? Or, are you more interested in slowing down your life and simplifying it, so you can enjoy it at a more [...]
6 Tactics For Staying Sane When You Are Unemployed
Last year I spent several months out of work. After two years of working under a poor, belittling manager, I finally walked out but not before my motivation took a hit. It was a spontaneous decision and as a result I had little to fall back on, but at the time I was just so [...]
Organize IT Recap: Social Media Identities, GTD And Priorities
Organize IT recap for 11th July 2008. Despite having increasingly dabbled in social media over the last couple of months I am acutely aware of the problems that can come with it, such as how it can expose your life to a multitude of people… including job recruiters looking for dirt. Dumb Little Man makes [...]
An Alternative To Top-Down, Bottom-Up Planning
When it comes to planning out your life there are two approaches. You either plan from the top down (start with where you want to be and plan how you’re going to get there) or plan from the bottom up (start with what you’re doing now and plan how you going to get to where [...]
The Vertical Map Is Dead! How To Really Plan For The Future
The GTD vertical map (or horizon of focus) has always stood out like a sore thumb. It’s a neat idea and can certainly offer a lot of value to people, but in a book that focuses so much on the here-and-now, it just feels tagged on with too little detail on it. I decided it [...]