Productivity

Improvement Binging

January 30, 2012

Momentum for imprvement tends to come in waves. Binges if you will. You’ll have a week where all you want to do is get better at something – it consumes you. And then you go off the boil and lapse back to your old habits. The things is, often it is not just one thing [...]

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Taste Testing Tasks

January 23, 2012

Ever been to those expensive cafes where you can try a bit of each cake before deciding which one to go for? No, me neither, but I wish they did the same with beer… That said, it is a very effective technique fore task management. Very rarely are things that need doing truly one task – [...]

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Things vs Omnifcous

January 18, 2012

Two to do apps – a battle to the death. Okay, so not really. But I have been a long time Omnifocus user, and have been trying Things out for the last 3 or 4 months, and thought it might be useful to share the experience. The conclusion? I love Omnifocus, but I am moving [...]

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Top 10 Productivity Tips of All Time

October 25, 2011

Read, consider, contemplate then do: Just get on with it; Just get on with it; Just get on with it; Just get on with it; Just get on with it; Just get on with it; Just get on with it; Just get on with it; Just get on with it; and Just get on with [...]

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How to Get Things Done Very Quickly

September 12, 2011

At the end of the day, this is what we are trying to do. Get whatever we want done, to the right standard, as quickly as possible. So here is a quick and dirty way of doing it: 1. Spell out to yourself clearly what you want to do; 2. Define precisely what ‘complete’ looks [...]

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Productivity vs Creativity

September 6, 2011

Last night was not a good one sleep-wise. Something to do with a 2 year-old singing about The Guffalo from 3am until 5am. Incredibly, my productivity has been at full throttle all morning. Yes tired. But very focused on the individual tasks. I find this interesting. If I was going to sit there and plan [...]

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E-mail Detonation

August 30, 2011

Picture a generic Hollywood action movie. Or 24 part HBO series. Evil bloke with a goatee and a European accent is hell-bent on destroying the world as we know it. The good guys are running around trying to get to the MacGuffin before the little red LED display gets to 00:00:00 and the world explodes… [...]

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Good Days and Bad Days

August 23, 2011

One of the biggest effects on our ability to do things, is our mood. We tend to ignore it because we can’t control it. But if you really look at the days you got a lot done, I bet they’ll all have been days when you where is a particular mood. Now whilst you can [...]

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Everything is a Priority

August 17, 2011

Do you ever have days/weeks/years like that? Where EVERYTHING anyone wants done is a priority. Needs doing yesterday. Using angel dust. And dodo feathers. What I especially like is when each person stresses to you the importance of their own steaming pile over that of the others who have lined up to fill you desk. [...]

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Being Productive When Traveling

August 11, 2011

The key to being productive when traveling is planning and selection. Yes, it is that simple. You see, the biggest mistake we all make is that we take a pile of stuff with us that we would like to get through, and in the end can’t face crawling past the big sweaty bloke in the [...]

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