Archives for November 2007
What to Do When You Are Alone for the Holidays [Ian's Messy Desk]
Posted in The Simple Life
Photo by ButterflySha
By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
Being alone for the holidays is a major challenge for many people. Holidays often conjure images of family, of warmth and the sharing of special time. Loneliness can be overwhelming when you have no one with whom to share holiday time.
Many people, however, miss the point [...]
What A Great Group! (Tech Thursday) [Tech Rest]
Thursday, November 15th, I had the pleasure of speaking to the Birmingham Chapter of the Society For Technical Communication. I had a great time getting to know them and sharing my Escape From Email Hell speech. If you are in the Birmingham area and are involved in producing or delivering technical content, consider attending an [...]
Shop til you drop for productivity stuff at the Flipping Heck Store! [Flipping Heck! Productivity, Technology and Motivation blog]
Greetings!
Just a quick post to let you know that I’ve now added a shop to the Flipping Heck blog - The Flipping Productivity Store.
Here’ you’ll find a collection of books, audio books and equipment that I think we’ll make your life simpler and more productive.
Keep checking the Flipping Productivity Store as items will be added [...]
GTD Planning - Outcome Visioning and Brainstorming [HD BizBlog 1.2]
This post is the second in a series on using the Natural Planning Method, the first post is here.
“One of the most powerful skills in the world of knowledge work, and one of the most important to hone and develop, is creating clear outcomes.”
~ David Allen, Getting Things Done, p. 69
How you envision [...]
Planning - Taken to the Extreme [HD BizBlog 1.2]
I was a Catering Sales Manager for hotels for about seven years, and I managed about 900 weddings during that time. I thought that I had seen everything.
I was wrong.
Please click on the more tag to see what I mean.
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Encrypt Your E-mail Now [HD BizBlog 1.2]
I found this while surfing this morning, it reminds me of an email I received from the IT department at my last job. Something to do with “violating the computer user policy” by downloading web-based e-mail. I had set up Outlook to pull in my e-mail from Gmail. I used Gmail for all of my [...]
Management lessons from a bird, a polar bear and a fox [How to be an Original]
A little story for you to enjoy and some questions afterwards:
A little bird got lost while flying and ended up flying over the north pole. The air was so cold that the little bird got all cold and crashed into the ground. Shivering of the cold, the little bird uttered weak chirps every now and [...]
GTD Insight #22:Change Your Focus for a Change in Result [The Daily Saint]
Today’s guest post is from Stephen Smith from Hidden Dragon Biz Blog.
It is remarkable to me that I hear so many stories about people who are bound and determined to “get organized†and seem to fail so spectacularly. They will clean their house or office from top-to-bottom, without regard to where they are actually [...]
Le comble pour une annonce Google Adsense [C'éclair!]
Pour obtenir des clics sur les annonces Google Adsense d’un site on a souvent intérêt à les placer près du contenu.
Mais saviez-vous qu’il y a encore mieux : le contenu qui imite le format d’une annonce Adsense!
Il fallair oser et le site fr.linguistmail.com l’a fait.
Les liens du menu ressemblent à s’y méprendre à une annonce [...]
Things [El Canasto]
Últimamente hay mucha atención para Getting Things Done entre los programadores para Mac. Things es lo último que han generado: una aplicación ligera y fácil de usar para gestionar tareas.
Tareas en Things solo tienen cuatro propiedades: un tÃtulo, etiquetas (normalmente usado para los contextos), un campo para [...]