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Merlin Mann hits gold At 1:28:42 in the 83rd episode of Back to Work on the 5by5 network , Merlin Mann hits gold: "If you allow the world to decide how you feel, you are fundamentally screwed. Because you're never going to win. That's
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The big idea I have been rethinking my contexts based on a blog post I recently read and cannot, for the life of me, find back. The basic idea is to have two lists. The list of things to do today and the list of things to do. Each day,
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One of my best decisions in a long time: I’ve ditched my email client at work in exchange for a regular, planned access through our email web client. Turns out that I actually spend a lot less time in my email browser window than I did in my email
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Following Sven’s advice I just did what I should have done a long time ago: I followed Sven Fechner’s advise. His “Simplicity is Bliss” blog is a wonderful resource for common sense productivity tips and other great Mac inspired ideas. But, back to my point. Mr. Fechner suggested
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For those not familiar with GTD, David Allen’s highly successful personal productivity approach, get this book (please note this is my affiliate link, you can of course log onto Amazon yourself), and read the first three chapters. It’s worth it, if only for the different way you’ll
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The short of it Audit work programs work because they require you to think about what you are going to do before you do it. They take away the stress of worrying how you should approach a certain audit issue for 90% of the time, because you have thought about
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"I could have read this months ago" Last July I sent a promising mac.appstorm article to my Instapaper queue. Its title? “ReadNow: Native Instapaper and Read it Later Management” I just recently read it … and after having read it, I acted on it immediately. But I could
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A brief history The relevance of using risk models as the basis for risk management was disputed in the beginning of this century. It actually remains disputed as an approach by a number of authors. In the early ‘00’s, leading risk management advisory companies did not see the reason
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I’ve been using mind mapping in combination with with OmniFocus for better capture, processing and next action execution. Let me tell you a bit on how I got there. My brain is chaos Sometimes, I have chaos for a brain. I’m not kidding. In the past, this has