Month: November, 2008
8 Simple Ways To Get On Track And Keep Your Focus
For all the tips and advice on being productive that are out there, it’s all useless if you cant focus on what you’re doing. To be productive is to do your work as efficiently and in as stress-free a way as possible but you can’t do any of that if your mind keeps flicking to [...]
GTD Dictionary: Someday/Maybe
Someday/maybe: At an indefinite time in the future. A possibility or uncertainty. Someday/maybe covers a list of tasks that you intend to reassess in the future, but have no immediate intentions to act on them because they are currently outside the scope of your day-to-day life. They include interests like learning a new language, buying [...]
5 Ways To Make Christmas Shopping Easy This Year
Christmas will soon be upon us again and even though it’s early November my wife and I are already looking at shopping for presents. Every year it ends up being the same process; we get too many gifts, spend too much money and general get overwhelmed by the whole process… trying to buy presents for [...]
Organize IT Recap: Barack Obama, Productivity Myths That Hold You Back And A Comparison Of The Productivity Gurus
Organize IT recap for 07th November 2008. Lifehack.org has a great look at productivity myths that hold you back. This is well worth a read because, as with most things in life, those little myths are often what holds you back. For instance, one such myth is that you need inspiration to work. This is [...]
GTD Dictionary: Effectiveness
Effective: Producing or capable of producing an intended result. Doing something adequately to accomplish a purpose. Effectiveness is all about doing the right things. While what projects and tasks one can class as appropriate to do will vary between situations and individuals, the general rule of thumb is to determine how much value the task [...]