Archives for the 'General' Category
Getting Started and Learning As You Go - Guest Post at The Thirty Day Year [How to be an Original]
A man, obviously a traveller, slows down his walking pace as he gazes over the beauty of the land unfolding before his eyes. A beam of sunlight breaks through the clouds. Like a spotlight on a stage it highlights only subtle parts, but by doing so they appear extraordinary. Magical at times.
The man decides to [...]
Interviewed by Dave Navarro at Rock Your Day [How to be an Original]
Dave Navarro, the kick-a$$ blogger of Rock Your Day, has given me the honor of an interview on his blog, about doing what you love, success and work-life balance. Hop on over to read it, and while you’re there check out Dave’s blog. It rocks (in more than one way).
Interview with International Man of Mystery [...]
Los foros están vivos [El Canasto]
Cada vez hay más usuarios e hilos en los foros de El Canasto, haciéndolos cada vez más interesante. Unos ejemplos de conversaciones del mes pasado son Tareas, subtareas y @Siguiente Acción, GTD 2.0, HandyShopper, Cuadernos tipo rollabind o circa notebooks en España y Grabadora.
Os invito otra vez [...]
El voz de El Canasto [El Canasto]
Gustavo Arizpe del blog Area Estratégica (sobre negocios en internet, innovación y productividad) ha empezado la segunda temporada de su podcast. Y para esta primera podcast habla con un holandés que escribe una bitácora sobro la productividad…
Por supuesto el tema de mi conversación con Gustavo fue Getting [...]
Top 10 of Top 10 GTD Lists [Getting Things Done]
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Sorry, I simply couldn’t resist publishing this article. You may have noticed that I’m a big fan of top 10 lists; in fact, my previous post was a top 10 list… and this post is a top 10 list as well!
So, just for fun I compiled a top 10 list of [...]
10 Useful Tips for Optimizing Ubiquitous Capture [Getting Things Done]
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Perhaps you know the familiar phrase from the field of computer science, “Garbage In, Garbage Out“? Well, the same goes for your GTD system. Here’s a big surprise: if you feed your GTD system incomplete or incorrect input in the Collection phase, you will never get reliable or useful output in the Doing [...]
Ebook - Best Blog Posts 2007, Final Edition [Getting Things Done]
Recently I silently added my ebook “The Best Blog Posts of Getting Things Done, Final Edition 2007” to my online shop. However, I didn’t want to let this occasion pass completely unnoticed.
This 112 page ebook contains nearly 40 of my very best GTD blog posts from 2007. As a special bonus it includes my set [...]
So where’s that review? [How to be an Original]
In my last weekly review I promised that I would post about how working with the daily planning sheets turned out for me. But this post is going to be a really short one, because I’m about to leave on a ski trip.
I learned that they’re useful when I use them
I learned that [...]
Alltop = simple + effective [experiments in effectiveness]
As an alternative to finding the best blogs and news sources yourself, let Alltop do it for you. What they do is present the top five stories, posts and articles from thirty or more sources on a single page, that updates every ten minutes. Currently they serve up twenty four different categories, with more on [...]
Ask the Reader: Your Personal Mission Statement? [Getting Things Done]
Getting Things Done is an excellent method for self management. However, most people argue that its bottom-up approach leaves much to be desired when it comes to top-down aspects of self management, like living according to your purpose, dream, vision, values, principles, et cetera. I don’t fully agree with this assessment of GTD but I’ll [...]