Archives for the 'Process' Category

Experimenting with Podcasting [Productivity in Context]

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10 June 2008 | Podcast, Process | No Comments

A Gift to Yourself at Christmas [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]

Today’s guest post is from Mike St. Pierre of The Daily Saint.
I recently posted a timely meditation for Christmas which gives reason for pause. Beyond the gifts and the buildup to December 25 lies a simple question: am I more productive than I was last year? This question is really universal in scope [...]

25 December 2007 | Planning, Process, Productivity | No Comments

Results of 1 Year of GTD [Getting Things Done]

After consistently applying GTD for close to one year now, I can safely conclude that valuable and lasting productivity habits have formed in my life.
Like many other people, I have studied and used several productivity systems. I picked up various useful principles and techniques from them, but none of them seemed to fully apply to [...]

7 October 2007 | GTD, General, Personal, Process, Productivity, Professional, benefits, capture, effective, focus, habits, organize, outcome, results | No Comments

LEAN at 40,000 feet [HD BizBlog 1.2]

This post is Part III in a series of thoughts on LEAN practices and your GTD workflow, where we are working on eliminating waste from our productivity practices.
Evaluating our Current Responsibilities
In Stephen Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Successful People“, he discusses the roles that each of us plays in the course of our lives. There [...]

4 October 2007 | GTD, LEAN Workflow, Process, workflow | No Comments

18 Tricks to Instantly Improve your GTD System [Getting Things Done]

I am constantly trying to become better at GTD. Blogging (and reading other blogs) has been one excellent way for me to do that. Thinking about how I did GTD in the very beginning and how I’m doing GTD right now, I have come up with no less than 18 tricks that I have successfully [...]

7 August 2007 | GTD, General, Process, actions, collect, do, effective, efficient, improve, next, organize, phases, review, tricks, workflow | No Comments

Three Steps to Better Time Management [Hidden Dragon BizBlog 1.2]

I found this article (”Making Peace with Time“) by Michael Gilbert while doing some research on another topic. It is a concise and valuable approach to time management that has eerie similarities to Getting Things Done, by David Allen. As the material will be familiar to those involved in the GTD community, I thought it [...]

23 June 2007 | GTD, Goal Setting, Mind Like Water, Process, The Examined Life | No Comments

My “Killer” GTD Setup [Hidden Dragon BizBlog 1.2]

Having been tagged by gtdfrk at the Getting Things Done blog, I will now attempt to describe my GTD practice as it currently exists. This post is riddled with hypertext links, because it is more productive than copy-and-paste-ing so many of the topics that I have already covered. Keep in mind that my system is [...]

13 June 2007 | Communication, GTD, Gear, Process, System, Web 2.0 | No Comments

Top Tips for Getting Some Reading Done [Hidden Dragon BizBlog 1.2]

There is a problem that is shared by many of us in the busy, busy world of Web 2.0 - how to read everything that we get our hands on. Whether this reading is a book, magazine, article, blog post, or PDF we have downloaded there is a lot to keep up with and only [...]

5 June 2007 | GTD, Lifehacks, Process | No Comments

The Importance of Context [Hidden Dragon BizBlog 1.2]

I use the GTD workflow process to choose my Next Actions, and I am getting much better at it. In order to know exactly what action is next on your list, it is important to know the Context of your current situation. “Where am I?” is a key question, as is “How much time/energy do [...]

1 May 2007 | GTD, Process | No Comments