Year: 2009
Remember When Christmas Was Fun?
Christmas and the holiday season is meant to be fun, enjoyable and even meaningful, but increasingly people seem to be becoming jaded by it. Whether it is the hassle and expense of buying everyone gifts, presents and cards, the stresses of arranging and preparing all the food, putting up all the decorations and ornaments, or [...]
GTD Dictionary: Cranking Widgets
Cranking widgets: To stimulate, activate, or produce. Something considered typical or representative. One of the big things that David Allen covered in GTD was the distinction between simple, mindless tasks that required little thought or focus, and those complicated projects where copious amounts of planning and thought are required, and which can send you into [...]
Why I’m No Longer Trying To Prioritize My Tasks
I’m not really liking priorities at the moment. I feel like prioritizing my tasks and projects is causing more trouble than it’s worth. It’s one more layer of complexity between me and just doing it. Don’t get me wrong, prioritizing does have its uses and we all (need to) do it on a very basic [...]
The ‘Someday’ Disease: Five Cures For Procrastination
Last week I wrote about the ‘Someday’ disease as I like to call it. It’s a syndrome that runs rampant in modern society. You may also know it as procrastination, but this isn’t just procrastinating over that report you need to finish, or getting the dishes washed and dried. ‘Someday’ disease goes much further. Millions [...]
Thoughts On Procrastination And The ‘Someday’ Disease
Someday in the future I want to get out of my apartment and move into a house complete with a garden. I’ll be able to play my music as loud as I want and have somewhere to kick a football around. Someday, in a few years time perhaps, I would like to learn a new [...]