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GTD

Why GTD Isn’t Always Personal Development

March 9, 2010

I am a big fan of GTD. Some days it is all that holds the fiberous parts of my life together! And it is definitely why I think I am more productive than most people.
But I think GTD has a big problem – it is focused very much on the short term. Yes there are [...]

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A Paper Based GTD System

February 23, 2010

Paper GTD System
I know, I know, I know. I have been a big advocate of keeping your GTD system online – seemless link where I can input stuff on a computer, have it organised, and then be able to access it anywhere via my phone.
My logic was:
1. An online system is much neater, tidier, and [...]

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How to Cope with an Addiction to Learning

January 13, 2010

A passion for learning is a good thing right? Any thing that helps motivate you to grow, improve and develop must be an advantage? The thing is though, that some of us have taken this to the point of addiction.
Addiction may seem a strong word, but often our desire to learn about something ends up [...]

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Making Decision-making Easier

January 7, 2010

What is the hardest thing that most of us have to do during our day? What activity keeps us awake at night, and plagues us during the day? Making decisions.
We have to make hundreds, probably thousands, every day of our lives – from ‘tea or coffee’ and ‘overtake that car or not’, to ’shall I [...]

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How Cutting Steel Can Make You More Productive

December 10, 2009

I was wandering around one of our manufacturing plants last week and got into an interesting discussion about how you cut a sheet of steel. No, I wouldn’t have thought that was interesting either, but I assure you it was. Why I hear you ask? Well, there was an interesting parallel between the many options [...]

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How do you Define Productivity?

December 3, 2009

Half-a-dozen Monkeys is about Productivity and Personal Development. It is about how I am learning to grow in both these areas, and how you can learn from this. But one thing struck me the other day – surely all of this depends on how you define “Productivity” and “Personal Development”. Over two posts, I shall [...]

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Why You Should Change How You Get Things Done

October 19, 2009

In my earlier post I noted my unfortunate fall off the GTD wagon – what was key was for me to take action. And take action immediately. Take action before the momentum died I and would be stuck for the rest of my life in a sea of procrastination. Sorry, I let the rhetoric take [...]

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Falling off the GTD Wagon

October 12, 2009

Assemble the chairs in a circle. Gather people together. I can now stand up and say “My name is Rich, and I’ve fallen off the GTD wagon“. There. That feels better. A little bit at least.
Maybe I should explain. I have not lost my faith. Nor found another productivity mistress. I have simply found myself [...]

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Making Other People Productive

October 5, 2009

In my last post, I noted how we need to identify the bottlenecks in our system to enable us to be more productive. Often the biggest, and most frustrating, impediment to getting things done, is other people. It may be that you can’t tick something off your list until you get the draft back from [...]

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Streamline Your Productivity

October 1, 2009

When we look at how to make a factory more productive, we look at the work flow. We look to see how efficiently ‘work’ is done through all parts of the process that get an item from concept through to the finished goods. In particular we look for bottlenecks. No matter how lean and efficient [...]

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