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The Four Phases of a Productivity Process

July 20, 2010

Rubbish title I know. But it is important. A productivity process is something we use to help ourselves become more productive. It might be a to do list. It might be the way we arrange our desk. Even the time we get up in the morning and start working. These processes go through a four [...]

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The Case For Everything Buckets

May 13, 2010

Yesterday I was reading the always-informative Mac Sparky blog, and was pointed towards a very interesting article by Alex Payne on our propensity these days to use computer programs as an ‘everything bucket’ in which to throw knowledge and, well, stuff into. We are talking here about the likes of Evernote, Yojimbo et al. His [...]

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Do You Really Need to Know Anything?

May 6, 2010

From the day that we are born into this world we learn. At first through play, then through graft, and finally through experience. It is part of our nature, our culture, and our society. Some of it is sub-conscious learning. A fair bit is voluntary learning. And the balance is required learning. But there has [...]

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The Future of GTD

April 13, 2010

Flicking through Twitter at the weekend I noticed an interesting post from @jessicaknows – “If GTD was the last decade, what’s this decade all about productivity-wise”. I tried to throw up some of my personal thought on this, but failed miserably to make any sort of sense in 140 characters. As such, I though as [...]

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My Process for Managing All That Information

April 8, 2010

I have being trying to streamline how I manage information. Partly because I am a little geeky, but mainly because how you manage the vast flood of information out there determines how you are able to leverage this to your advantage. If you have quicker access to better information, then you are leading the pack. [...]

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5 Tasks That Shouldn’t Be On Your To Do List

March 18, 2010

I hear you, I hear you – “How would Rich know whether or not something should be on my list”. And your right. I am just speculating, but I bet I’m not far off the mark… You see, we all have good intentions. In fact, some of us have GREAT intentions. And it turns out [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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