Comments on: The 4 Ideas That Will Revolutionize Your Productivity

By: James

James — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:35:55 +0000

Hi, Trevor. If you’re only using some of the pages for the purpose of business then that’s the 20% of your internet surfing that provides you with 80% of the value. The challenge then, is to cut out the rest of your surfing that has low returns, thus saving you much more time.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:27:05 +0000

Stumbled across this post, it is very informative. I like the 80/20 rule, but is surfing the internet and using some of the pages for your purpose of business in the waste category? Because I know surfing the net does waste quite a bit of time.

By: James

James — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:07:33 +0000

Thanks AJ Kumar. Parkinson’s law is one of my favorite tools. It’s not very common though because people are encouraged to start all their work early. That’s not always the best way.

By: AJ Kumar

AJ Kumar — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:05:41 +0000

Never heard of Parkinson’s law. Sounds very interesting. I’m glad I’ve found this post!

By: IQ Matrix Blog

IQ Matrix Blog — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:54:55 +0000

By: James

James — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:09:33 +0000

Matthijs, may I suggest you check out my latest post covering my prioritizing system. It discusses some of the parallels between it and Covey's quadrants.

By: Matthijs Van Oort

Matthijs Van Oort — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:55:25 +0000

Really good post, nice summary of great ways to organize things to do. What I think is missing is Covey’s quadrants, but that’s quite similar to prioritizing. I personally find that most people use their own variations of that to prioritize their actions.

By: Did I Get Things Done?

Did I Get Things Done? — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:00:45 +0000

By: Ask The Manager

Ask The Manager — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:20:45 +0000

By: Adam Pieniazek

Adam Pieniazek — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:13:10 +0000

Nice post, it’s been dugg. I agree that there seems to be a lot of extra fluff in the GTD system. The simplest way to get things done is to just use any system that gets you into that ‘doing’ phase as quickly as possible.