What better way to sum up something than to turn it into a formula? If someone can do it for procrastination, then why can’t I do it for productivity? This is no serious formula, you won’t be able to put in any sums and get a sensible result to determine how productive you are (feel [...]

I’ve been away for over a week on holiday hence the lack of posts recently. As is typical after time away, I’m now trying to catch up with things. One of the first things I did when I got back home was to get up to date with my favorite sites (I have quite a [...]

Last week I discussed the GTD vertical map (otherwise known as the horizons of focus). In it I mentioned the importance of the 20,000ft level and how understanding your roles and responsibilities influences your map both up and down. In this post I want to take that level and expand upon it further, discussing how [...]

Last week I finally visited my local library and took some books out, one of which was Your Best Year Yet by Jinny Ditzler. My prime motivation for picking it up was because I considered some sections of it could be nicely worked into GTD. One such feature was the cycle of productivity. However, the [...]

Seeing as both ScienceDaily, CNet News and the place I got the original story from (Slashdot) have more than enough procrastination jokes I will just get straight to the point. A University of Calgary academic has done ten years (no comment…) of research into procrastination and its causes. They have discovered that…