Archives for the 'Guest Post' Category
Time Management: Sometimes Things Change (A Guest Post from Brick) [Diary of a Four-Hour-a-Weeker]
Editors Note: This is a guest post from Brick Andrews of Life Sutra: The 4-Hour Workweek Journal. Brick Andrews is the founder of Life Sutra: The 4-Hour Workweek Journal. The Life Sutra questions old assumptions and socially reinforced illusions about how to live a fulfilling life while exploring new ways to live and work smarter.
Inspired [...]
Humility, Confession & Customer Service [The Daily Saint]
Today’s guest post is from Margaret Benefiel of Executive Soul.
Photo by Striatic
At Landry’s Bicycles in Boston, humility and confession drive customer service.
At
Landry’s, vision plays a leading role in customer service. While that’s
not unusual in retail (every company wants to be the best in sales, and
most want to be the best [...]
Are Parent-Teacher Conferences Productive? [The Daily Saint]
Today’s guest post is from Lisa Hendey from Productivity at Home. For more of Lisa’s tips on Learning and Professional Development click here.
The leaves changing colors on the trees in my backyard and the
points on the “No. 2†pencils growing a bit dull are primary indicators
that the time for annual parent teacher conferences at my [...]
GTD Buzzwords: Advanced Common Sense [Getting Things Done]
This is a guest post by GTD Wannabe of gtdwannabe.com.
The other day, I was listening to Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero presentation, which was essentially the audio track to a talk he gave to Google employees back in July. It was a great talk, focused on your email, but there were many other nuggets of [...]
Are Your Lists Really Complete? [Getting Things Done]
This is a guest post by Jennifer George of Lifemuncher.
Sometimes the most important thing GTD gives you isn’t on your list.
When gtdfrk asked me to write a guest post, I happily obliged. I spend so much time thinking about GTD and reorganizing my system that I figured it would be easy to dash off a [...]
Getting GTD Done [Getting Things Done]
This is a guest post by Jeroen Sangers of El Canasto.
Getting Things Done isn’t easy. To implement the method described by David Allen, you’ll have to change your habits, and that is a very difficult thing to do. This becomes very clear when reading the forums at the David’s site. Almost on a daily basis [...]
Five Phases of Project Planning [Getting Things Done]
This is a guest post by Ian McKenzie of Ian’s Messy Desk
David Allen says, regardless of task size, the human brain goes through what he calls a Natural Planning Model. These are five phases our brain works through when accomplishing tasks. He goes on to say that we should use this natural model when planning [...]
3 Tips for Embracing Analog Productivity [Getting Things Done]
This is a guest post by Geoff R. of Gearfire.net
A year ago, if someone asked me “paper or digital?” for just about anything, I would say digital. Today, I will probably still say digital in many situations, but I am trying to make an effort to embrace paper and pen productivity.
Paper offers distinct advantages [...]
Four Questions to Ask Yourself When Inspiration Strikes [Getting Things Done]
This is a guest post by Stephen Smith of HD BizBlog 1.2.
Being observant of the way that we Get Things Done is a skill that is often undeveloped. Put this on your Next Action list: Pay attention to the steps I take when inspiration strikes.
“Your brain’s pattern-recognition mechanism is triggered by the images you identify [...]
Productivity @ Home: Scheduling Workout Times [The Daily Saint]
Today’s guest post is from Lisa Hendey of Productivity at Home. Lisa posts once a month for The Daily Saint and is our expert when it comes to integrating productive principles in the home.
I am typically a morning workout person. During the school year, my
routine is to wake early, before my sons and husband. I [...]