A Blast from the past & A little shout out [Matt's Idea Blog]
Apologies for the delayed post - I’ve been out of town on personal and business trips, I’m preparing for up-coming workshops and one-on-one work, plus continuing my switch to the Mac (!), so a short post this week.
A few blasts from the past
For my new readers, here are a few past posts you may not have seen:
- Using “Follow the energy” to refine your personal development experiments
- Use Gmail’s “star” to highlight your good news
- Living in the moment, preventing regret, and appreciating life
- Camera Phones and Ten Cent Augmented Reality
- Photo Blogs, Wikis, and Memories for Life
- Debbie Downer and the Six Thinking Hats
- When inputs exceed your workflow system’s capacity
- And just to keep it light: Top 10 things people are Getting, in addition to ‘Things Done’, 12 Wild Things people are visualizing, in addition to “Success”, and How to Make The Ultimate Cup of Hot Chocolate.
Lots of GTD-related posts
Some GTD-related articles you might not have seen:
- Are daily to-do lists and GTD compatible?
- Best practices for GTD and administrative assistants
- Dealing with Meeting Notes - GTD to the Rescue!
- Depressurize your email with a 24 hour response time
- Reading Books The GTD Way
- Some GTD warning signs
- Some answers to “Should I keep it?” when filing
- Some common GTD questions, with answers
- What’s your maximum response time?
- Transitions: A secret ingredient to Getting Things Done?
- Is GTD the “Extreme Programming” of Time Management?
- Plus a few fun ones: A GTD WorkFlow tool: The five stages on a business card cube and Personal Productivity Playing Cards!
Shout Out
I always enjoy hearing success stories and good news from friends and readers, so here’s a little tip of the hat.
- Photographer and buddy Steven Vote continues to take great pictures.
- The great folks at Rokenbok showed what customer service means when I lost a part. Hey - How can a former engineer resist these toys?
- I connected with the other Matthew Cornell not too long ago. Him: Painter, Me: helper of successful, overloaded, smarties. (Question: A while back I believe I came across a book about a person’s quest to meet everyone on the web with his name. Took a year or so, IIRC. Anyone know the book?)
- I recently received a surprise copy of Heidi Roizen’s Skinny Songs - upbeat music that encourages keeping the pounds off. Great idea, and timely - check out What GTD and Weight Watchers have in common.
- Pam’s “Escape from Cubicle Nation” book is real, and coming!
- Colleague Taco Oosterkamp has released his book on using Outlook productively.
- Kudos to Tracy Welsh and her company’s super-useful program WebDrive - I used it for years before switching to the Mac.
- Tatsuya Nakagawa and friends have come out with their book Overcoming Inventoritis: The Silent Killer of Innovation
- Andrew Flusche has a nice “crash course” on copyright fair use.
- Ted Vickey’s book 101 Fitness Games for Kids at Camp is out.
- Bob Walsh’s marketing and selling ebook MicroISV Sites that Sell is out, and it’s a great value.
- Michael Sampson wrote a whitepaper The 7 Pillars of IT-Enabled Team Productivity: The Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Analysis
- Peter Radizeski’s written SELLECOM: 101 Ideas for Marketing in the Telecom Jungle
- And finally, thanks to Alvin Soon, Nicholas Bate, Steve Spalding, and everyone else who’s reminded me how important it is to give public acknowledgement.
Have some recent good news of your own to share? Let me know!
Original post here: Matthew Cornell
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