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Productivity

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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When to Do and when to Learn to Do

February 4, 2010

I agree with a lot of what Seth Godin says. He is a rarity in that he consistantly observes, communictates, and then explains the ’so what’. That last bit is a differntiator. But listening to his interview with Merlin Mann today he used an old, tired, jibe – rather than spend 12 hours a day [...]

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The Power of Silence

January 28, 2010

No, this isn’t about 80’s Rock ballads (although, there is an idea…). What I want to ramble about today is the insessent background ‘noise’ we have in this information age. And more importantly, I want to ramble about the benefit to creative thinking of hiding from this noise on a regular basis.
Maybe I should define [...]

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How Much of You to Develop at Once

January 20, 2010

How many ‘goals’ or ‘development points’ do you focus on at any one point in time? Do you choose one thing you are working on or towards, and leave that as you sole purpose? Or do you monitor all your targets, and apply each one as and when it is most appropriate?
I ask this as [...]

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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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How to be Three Times as Productive in Just One Step

November 19, 2009

Are you a perfectionist? Or even more dangerous – do you think you are not a perfectionist, but in reality you are? I’m not suggestion that searching for perfection is a bad thing – in some areas of life it is a necessity – but in others it is nothing less than a show stopper [...]

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168 Hour Work Week

November 16, 2009

Are you ever properly ‘off duty‘? You may be in the office fron 9am until 5pm, but do you take your laptop home to ‘catch-up’ in the evening? Do you send the odd e-mail on your Blackberry when you go to bed?
It is easy to spot ‘work creep‘ – and I don’t mean the guy [...]

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