Getting Things Done
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
Getting Things Done
Timing myself I've recently been spending a lot of time timing myself, using tools such as OfficeTime and Timing. As internal auditor it is very important to keep detailed logs of our time usage. We want to make sure that we spent adequate time on the right activities
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Admiration and jealousy We admire people who appear to be able to perform certain feats as if with no considerable effort. And where there is admiration, there is often jealousy. We tend to get jealous of people whose life is apparently without effort. We look at these people, and we
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Sven is onto something I just read this post by Sven Fechner. Sven, for those who do not know of him, is one of the most prolific and relevant bloggers on personal productivity. He also has a day job working for a large multinational. I admire this guy, because he
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Playing the piano When being asked what GTD is all about, I'm often reminded by what I see every day when I'm watching my kids practicing the piano. I remember the day they started their first practice as if it was yesterday. Their fingers clumsy on
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The challenge of journaling For those of you who ever tried their hand at journaling, you probably found out it is hard, especially after a while. It takes time and it takes effort. It requires commitment. Not unlike blogging or any other writing activity. And like GTD, it's
Getting Things Done
As GTD-ers, we are intimately aware of the challenge posed in consistently formulating well defined next actions and project descriptions. Making sure a next action is actually actionable or writing a project definition you still understand two days after, when you are processing your inbox, requires diligence and attention. Like
Stream of Consciousness
A project is defined, in part, by its outcomes. They describe us what it looks like at our intended project destination, in terms of where we are but also in terms of what we have learned, gained, developed. By defining good outcomes, we actually develop a great way to regularly
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A lot of the information I deal with, either for my day job or for my teaching or blogging, I get from different web published sources, be it blogs or websites. As I really don't have the time to visit each of these sites every single day, I
Getting Things Done
I’ve been a long term user of Instapaper, especially of Marco Arment’s excellent iOS app. I understand there is even an Android application available. Let me illustrate how I use it in my workflow. Gathering inputs I have a rather long commute to work. It takes me about
Stream of Consciousness
I’ve been thinking about the entire subsection of GTD which relates to better definition of outcomes and ultimately better results. The storytelling and delegation post can be considered as a couple of ideas aiming to solve a subset of that entire issue, which can pretty much be summarized as
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Cleaning up my Linked-In groups From recent experience: I was looking through my Linked-In feeds and noted just how much junk I found in there. Maybe I'm not selective enough, I thought. An ideal moment to clean up some of the accumulated mess that provided too high a