Archives for the 'General' Category

Interview with Stephen Covey [Getting Things Done]

OK, this is getting weird. This weekend I have read 2 interviews with 2 of my “heroes”. Yesterday I found an interview with David Allen on Web Worker Daily and today I found that Stephen Covey has been interviewed by Leo from zenhabits.net! What I like about both interviews is that they do not repeat [...]

25 February 2008 | GTD, General, News, Productivity, heroes, interview, interviews, today, weekend, weird, worker, yesterday | No Comments

Interview with David Allen [Getting Things Done]

Bob Walsh has just posted the first part of an interview with David Allen on Web Worker Daily. The interview (so far) is an interesting read because it doesn’t only focus on GTD, but also on health and stress. The second part of the interview will be posted tomorrow. Check it out!

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24 February 2008 | GTD, General, News, Productivity, Weekend Wisdom, allen, daily, david, focus, interview, posted, walsh, worker | No Comments

GTD Worksheets [Getting Things Done]

I’ve recently created some handy GTD worksheets that are perfectly suited for creating or enhancing your own paper-based or hybrid GTD system. They are handcrafted by me based on my own experiences with paper-based GTD systems. Click the image to the left for a slightly larger preview of these GTD worksheets.
If you enjoy thinking and [...]

23 February 2008 | GTD, General, Own tools, Productivity | No Comments

Escribe por El Canasto [El Canasto]

La ultima semana no he tenido mucho tiempo para escribir en El Canasto, y por los próximas dos semanas tampoco voy a tener tiempo. Estoy en plena preparación para el CeBIT, que requiere todo mi atención.

No quiere dejar mis lectores sin material para leer, y por tanto [...]

15 February 2008 | General, canasto | No Comments

GTD Gems - Part 2 [Getting Things Done]

I try to keep up with reading everything I possibly can about GTD. This is becoming increasingly difficult because these days it seems everybody and their mother is writing about GTD!
Much like my post “GTD Gems - Part 1” I want to present a few interesting GTD articles from the past 2 or 3 months, [...]

8 February 2008 | GTD, General, Productivity, Stress, gems, increasingly, lesser, litemind, mother, possibly, present | No Comments

Welcome Zen Habits readers! [How to be an Original]

If you did not come here through Zen Habits: I have a guest post there today, go check it out!

How Productivity Habits Reduced the Impact of Theft … Twice

If you did come from Zen Habits: Welcome to How to be an Original! My name is Lodewijk van den Broek and I’m the blogger of this place. In [...]

29 January 2008 | General | No Comments

Lodewijkvdb.com domain has been abused by spammer [How to be an Original]

Yesterday this domain has been abused by a spammer. Last evening my email box filled with over 3500 “Returned mail” messages for addresses that do not exist. This morning the count is at >7500 messages. I can’t even begin to imagine how many were delivered.
I don’t know if they abused the mailserver at my provider, [...]

17 January 2008 | General | No Comments

El Canasto en 2008 [El Canasto]

En diciembre al primero aniversario de El Canasto empezó a pensar que metas pongo para el segundo año de El Canasto. En el primero año El Canasto ha sobrepasada todas mis expectativas, y para este año intentaré seguir el mismo camino. Como estamos en un periodo de [...]

3 January 2008 | General, canasto, metas | No Comments

Best of How to be an Original in 2007 [How to be an Original]

2007 was the first year of How to be an Original. Also the first year for me as a blogger. It’s been a great year and I learned a lot!
I learned a lot about blogging. In the first two months already, I learned that I wanted to switch from a hosted site (Typepad) to a self-hosted site [...]

31 December 2007 | General | No Comments

Interview yourself: Lodewijk [How to be an Original]

Shane of Shane and Peter posted an interview on their blog. Well, they posted the questions and asked entrepreneurs to answer them. I’m about to start as an entrepreneur, so I’m taking up the challenge. Below you’ll find the interview, starting with Shane’s original questions, and followed by the questions that others came up with [...]

23 December 2007 | General | No Comments