Organize IT

This video is an example of how important health and safety is at the workplace. It’s not just about mishaps like tripping up over loose cables or falling down the stairs, though. It’s about saving us from the dangers of rogue stationary!

Organize IT recap for 17th March 2007.

• The book Your Best Year Yet that I mentioned in my post on the productivity cycle also threw up some interesting stuff on roles and how to define them. I have been trying to work this thinking into the GTD vertical map and seeing as I have been meaning to write about these different levels (50,000ft, 40,000ft etc) expect a few posts in the near future on this area. If you have any experiences/thoughts on the vertical map (otherwise known as horizons of focus) then please leave a comment below, I’d love to hear about it.
• Daily PlanIt had some nice words to say about Organize IT recently so I feel its only fair to return the favour and suggest you go check her blog out. The Discover U series is especially worth checking out.
• I found this post about scheduling play first rather interesting, especially because recently I have been writing a lot about making sure you create and schedule rewards for your work. I’ve bought the first two series of House M.D. recently and I’m struggling to do anything else other than watch that so maybe I should try scheduling a ‘playtime’ for it instead.

There hasn’t been a links update in quite a while so I thought now would be a good time to rectify that situation. Normally I like to provide a random splurge of interesting links I have come across, but recently I’ve been looking at a lot of great financial advice blogs. There is some great content here, regardless of whether you are into investing or just want to cut back on your expenses.

I discussed mind mapping a few months ago as part of my attempts to use the method as a productivity tool in my life. Recently I came across another online tool  for mind mapping called Mindomo. Like bubbl.us it gives you the option to try it out without signing up so I jumped right in and tried it out.

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 book doesn’t go into much actionable detail on it so I’ve decided to take the basic principles and expand them to make it more productivity related. The diagram on the left demonstrates the cycle and is broken down into four sections – plan, do, complete, reward – which are detailed below.