Video Of The Week 20th May 2007

May 20th 2007   Videos   0 comments

Latest video treat for you to check out:

Organize IT Recap: Speed Reading, How-To Videos

May 19th 2007   Recap   0 comments

Organize IT recap for 19th May 2007

• If you are interested in advertising on Organize IT I am now selling text ad links at very reasonable rates. For full details check out this page
• Check out this very interesting tool that claims to train you to read faster. I’ve given it a try and it definately shows potential.
• I’ve yet to really look into it, but this site has the 10 best places to find how-to videos. That’s a lot of potential information there so I might have to get a good start on checking it all out.

Have A Weekly Project

May 18th 2007   Personal Development   0 comments

These last two weeks I have been experimenting with having a weekly project. My first week involved doing a media fast. This week, I have been attempting to go to the gym for five days. The purpose of this is to break old, bad habits (in my case, procrastinating over going to the gym and wasting too much time watching TV and downloading music) and replace them with more positive ones. Spending seven days focusing on this is a good timeframe; not too short that you don’t get any benefit and not too long that you lose motivation. Below are the key points you need to bear in mind when considering doing your own weekly project.

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Forget The To-Do List, Start A Done List

May 16th 2007   Personal Development   3 comments

To-do lists don’t have to be restricted to just your next actions. GTD encourages you to break down your next actions into context lists, which are essentially to-do lists but grouped under appropriate contexts, so for example, if you are sat at the computer you can immediately scan all the actions you need to do there.

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Collection Of Moleskine Hacks

May 14th 2007   Links, Productivity   13 comments

Well, I may have finally succumbed to the lure of the Moleskine. Maybe. I’ve never bought one before as I just couldn’t justify spending so much money. I like my system to have some scope for scribbling and doodling thoughts and ideas down when necessary, and given how expensive a Moleskine is I just couldn’t feel comfortable using it for anything but neat work.

That was until somebody bought me one. So now I have my very own Moleskine and there are so many ideas on how it can be used. I’ve got a lot of research to do so I am going to start by doing a comprehensive list of all the hacks and approaches I’ve found on the subject. If you know of any others then please leave a link in the comment and I will add it to the list.

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