Month: February, 2009
The Value Of Mind Sweeps, Plus My Updated Trigger List
A trigger list contains a large selection of keywords. Whenever you are doing a weekly review or just want to clear your head, the trigger list is there to do exactly as its name implies and trigger those thoughts and ideas floating around in your mind. GTD fans will understand the significance of this as [...]
Making It All Work: My Review And Thoughts
Over the last few days I’ve been reading through Making It All Work, the eagerly awaited follow-up to Getting Things Done. For somebody who writes a lot about productivity and personal growth here at Organize IT, I often have a hard time reading such books. Most advice you get from them can be distilled down [...]
Organize IT Recap: A GTD Evolution To Pen And Paper, Why Productivity Is A Waste Of Time And The Muji Chronotebook
Organize IT recap for 20th February 2009. The productivity backlash seems to be continuing, with Jonathan at Illuminated Mind taking an excellent look at why it’s a huge waste of time. This is probably one of the best reads on the issue in a long while, though it brings up an interesting point about the [...]
Ask The Readers: Is GTD Expensive?
I recently read Making It All Work, the followup to Getting Things Done. I’ll be writing up my thoughts about in next week but in the meantime I want to take a look at an aspect of GTD that I don’t think has really been discussed before. As I was working my way through MIAW, [...]
What My Wedding Taught Me About Parkinson’s Law
View original image I’m finally back from my honeymoon, not nearly as tanned as I hoped to be, but certainly recharged despite the free bar! Naturally, there was lots of thinking back to my wedding in July and the whole complicated deal of arranging everything. Though I didn’t realize it at the time I learned [...]