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What does your to do list look like? Take a look at your to do list. It looks anything like mine, it's a set of executable actions structured by project, as well as some structured single action lists. Look closer still... How many of these projects are really
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Are you looking for permission? Look again Lots of people I know look around frantically for someone to give them permission. Permission for almost anything in their lives. Such an attitude is a great way of avoiding the responsibility of doing anything at all with your life. But of course
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Embracing outcomes I've always embraced the idea of defining outcomes for all projects in my project list. It made me feel like my projects were going somewhere, rather then being just a summary of disjointed actionable items which had some commonality because they aimed to achieve a certain
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Introduction A couple of days taking a car instead of public transportation really eats into my opportunity for writing. Apple launching its iOS 7 did not help either, as I spent all of the past two nights installing and playing with it. That said, I did take the time last
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Or, content cannot exist without a context. Mmm, I see you frown and wonder what I am going on about now. Let me explain. Why motivational gurus confuse me Motivational gurus often pose the question "What would you do if money or other limitations were not a factor?"
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I'm linking to an excellent article by Matthew Leitch, who is one of the key people I've been folllowing for years because he has excellent insights on risk management. The article here and the interactive assessment page here are wonderful examples on how to lose what
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Another quick consideration: "how clear is your next action?" I believe it was Merlin Mann who first spoke about the idea of making sure your next action is a delegation to your future self. He made that statement as a comment on ways to ensure task clarity. Kourosh
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About the book review So I gathered you noticed I'm reading this book. It's called "Workflow: beyond productivity" and has been written by Kourosh Dini. Although what I have been doing with this book can barely be called reviewing. Rather, I have been picking
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There is a question that continues to haunt me ... how do I ensure that I "trigger" the correct behaviour when I am in a certain context? For my key contexts this is usually not an issue. My @work and @home contexts are properly geofenced and my iOS devices
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Kourosh Dini's work "Workflow" has been my trusted companion book for the past days and weeks. It is not a book one should read voraciously. Rather, I like to go in and taste a small, esquisite bite of the deep knowledge it holds. Today, I want
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Preface - Poetry out of left field When I started reading Kourosh' chapter on aesthetics, about one sixth of the way into his epic work "Workflow: Beyond productivity", I was not convinced I would find anything relevant from an larger organization's point of view. After
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Introduction Going through my mailbox a couple of weeks ago, I was surprised (and very thrilled) to find an email from Kourosh Dini, the author of "Creating flow with OmniFocus", which is the unofficial reference book on how to set up your OmniFocus configuration and process. He thanked