Comments on: What My Cat Taught Me About Productivity

By: Joyful Days

Joyful Days — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:21:16 +0000

By: Simple Productivity Blog

Simple Productivity Blog — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:59:17 +0000

By: James

James — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:40:03 +0000

Thanks for the post Jay, and thanks to everybody who commented it. I’ll try to catch up! I’m currently trying to really cut back on stuff such as idle browsing to free up more time for my book writing. There are more time vacuums out there than I originally thought.

By: DanGTD

DanGTD — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:25:47 +0000

Great tips. Regarding scheduling downtime I use an interesting technique called the 60-60-30 solution. Basically you work for 55 minutes and get up from your computer for 5, drink some water etc. Then you repeat once again and after that take a full 30 minutes break doing nothing that solicits your brain too much. Relax, eat lunch etc. Then you repeat with another 60-60-30 cycle.

It might not work for employees, but for those who are self-employed it is a great technique.

By: Smart Productivity

Smart Productivity — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:20:18 +0000

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:44:49 +0000

Hey Jay, good things to ponder. I tend to lose large blocks of time on the computer playing with blogs and Facebook and stuff. I let it distract me. I need to be more intentional with my time and what I want to get done. It might help if I had 3 things on my list. Now where did I put that list anyway?!

By: Rekobeko

Rekobeko — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:40:07 +0000

Midway through the top part of this article I realized I was wasting time reading about someone’s enlightenment. Just this short reply it taking up time while I could be doing something better.

If you spend time calculating how much time you will spend on to-dos, you’re wasting time. It’s really all about just doing it. Don’t waste time on meaningless social sites and/or TV. Once you’ve gotten those GTD basics down, its smooth sailing. It’s easy and there’s really NO reason to waste ANYMORE time on reading about GTD or adopting hipster PDAs or new softwares. JUST DO.

I’ve got to go, things to do (cats are great).

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:46:44 +0000

Thanks Lance for stopping by. James gives great tips here and I was honored to be a part of his blog. I am always amazed you get anything done Lance. Three kids, full time job… where do you find the time! Maybe you should contact James for a good guest post…

By: Lance

Lance — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:19:24 +0000

Hi Jay, great to see you here!

I have three kids, a wife, and one cat… life is completely a series of unexpected events! Productivity, for me, is getting things done whenever I can. Mornings are a good time and I do have some big things I want to concentrate on, so this could be a good time especially if I don’t get sucked into email, Twitter, etc. Once 8AM rolls around, the day is pretty much up in the air and I just go with the flow at that point.

Great ideas here Jay. I’m definitely going to take a look at what my big three are and see if I can’t really focus on them first thing in the morning.

By: Joyful Days

Joyful Days — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:16:02 +0000