Organize IT

Several years ago I signed up to a gym. My attendance was patchy at best, despite all my intentions and it took a further two years, and changing to a different gym, before I finally got into a routine of going every week. Looking back, I think a lot of the problem was that I expected immediate results. I tried so many routines both at the gym and at home, from trying to go for regular jogs to simply doing pushups at home, only to ditch them within a month. My motivation would disappear because it was so heavily dependent on short term results. As any regular gym-goer will probably agree, results don’t happen overnight.

A couple of months ago I posed a little question on Twitter, having spent quite a bit of time figuring out how best to categorize Organize IT. I was surprised by the number of people who responded with their opinions and preferences. Productivity, personal development, lifestyle design, or other? What’s the name for all of this? What are all us bloggers actually writing about? And does it really matter what it gets called? Of course not, but it would be interesting to see what the general consensus is…

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This is a guest post by Francis Wade of Time Management 2.0.

Most professionals can name a handful of time management systems that they have come across in their professional careers. They can probably also list a few people here and there who have embraced these systems and are quite happy using them. If they were to think of improving their productivity they would probably look to adopt one of the systems they have heard about, and take a course, read a book or visit a few websites in order to learn what to do.

On Monday I said goodbye to the new year’s resolution. They are certainly a waste of time but what else can you do? As I said previously, though the new year is bad for resolutions, it’s great for that sense of having a fresh start and a clean slate. We humans seem to love it for some reason, so it’s silly not take advantage of it. In this post I want to start addressing that and look at an alternative way of how to make the most of the new year.

It’s January. That can mean only one thing. New year’s resolutions are back in force, not only because it’s a new year but a new decade also. But it doesn’t seem to really matter what year, decade or century it is (or any other milestone you can think of for that matter). Statistically, the vast majority of new year’s resolutions get broken within a month of making them. Hardly surprising perhaps; it’s easy to make a resolution, so it’s bound to be easy to break them too.