Should personal development be taught in schools? To me on a basic level, it seems like a smart move. It could arguably give children valuable life tools like habit building, productivity and how to gain a better understanding of their expectations in life. In this day and age, with increasing complexity and pressures, it’s surely [...]

We all know that GTD is a very popular system for those wanting to get a grip of their workflow and productivity levels. However, like most things it has its negative qualities; features and aspects that don’t work as intended or simply aren’t practical for the average person to use. It’s got me thinking about [...]

Recently two of my favorite blogs have taken big steps forward. This has had a motivational affect on me and my aspirations for Organize IT (more on all this in a future post) and it got me thinking about influences. Over the years, particularly as a child, I’ve had a few weird/funny ones, some of [...]

In preparation for an up to date look at tracking roles and responsibilities in your life (you can read my original view on the topic here), I want to throw the issue out to all my readers. It would be great to hear your thoughts on this as tracking my progress in terms of roles [...]

In the past I have talked about the GTD vertical map, and related to that, roles and responsibilities. One thing that GTD encourages is to write your life purpose/vision at the 50,000ft level. In other books it is often called a mission statement and is one the most common elements of any personal development program. [...]