Archive for the ‘Productivity’ Category

• Strategy for the day

  Sunday, January 7th, 2007

  In my hunt for productivity I discovered this handy little blog about strategies that you could take for the day, and realised I use a fair number of these.
  Project touching
  Touching base and doing actions in as many project as you can in one day. Nothing actually gets completely finished, but the majority of projects take […]

• Natural planning

  Saturday, December 9th, 2006

  I like the idea of this natural planning. Think of the way we plan, organise and complete a simple project in our life - going to dinner with a friend - and base large projects on that. Why do we forget the way we naturally work when other people and large issues are at stake?
  Purpose
  The […]

• My online office

  Thursday, December 7th, 2006

  I have begun using an online office. I have my laptop at home and a dedicated PC at work, but carting data and/or my home laptop to-and-fro was becoming a huge pain. It turns out an unnecessary pain. Keep in mind that I don’t believe in mandatory payment for systems (voluntary donation systems are OK) […]

• Getting bogged down with the “I want to”s

  Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

  Isn’t it wonderful the inventive ways we think of to avoid the “I don’t want to”s by justifying the “I want to”s perhaps even into “I need to”s. One of my favourite productivity writers - David Seah, wrote about motivation and procrastination. Or ‘waiting for motivation’ to get started on that … whatever it is. […]