Archives for the 'Scheduling' Category
Halfway to 2009? [Productivity @ Home]
An email today from my friends at BusyBodyBook.com stopped me in my tracks! Is it possible that 2009 calendars are already available? Well, I guess it’s true. I still have a lot of work to do on my 2008 resolutions!
The 2009 wall calendar includes the following features:
Fab features include:
7 very spacious and [...]
How Fine Grained Should Your To-Do List Be? [The 4-Hour Workweek Journal]
In Getting Things Done, Dave Allen suggests that we must always be working from lists of actionable tasks. The “actionable” part is a powerful distinction. As Allen points out, we often end up with big chunky activities like “Marketing Campaign” on our to-do lists. The problem is that this is not actionable as you cannot [...]
Comfort or productivity? [Hack Your Day]
In many cases in my own life I find that I am either productive or comfortable. By this I don’t mean that I have to sleep on the floor after a productive day, what I mean is that many times you need to trade your personal freedom to work productively according to GTD and other [...]
How to schedule when you’re overflowing with tasks [Hack Your Day]
I used to find myself so many times in situations where I needed to do a lot of work, but actually didn’t do anything because sorting out the initial chaos seemed so impossibly that I just pushed the whole load in front of me. Doing some scheduling works wonders if you have similar problems, just [...]
Resolved, Part II - Family Life [Productivity @ Home]
This week, I will be writing on the topic of New Year’s resolutions,
looking at my resolution subsets each day for my usual daily topics.
Today, I discuss resolutions related to Family Life.
It feels especially fitting that I rang in this New Year tightly lined up with my "men" and 750,000 new friends near Trafalgar Square [...]
Resolved, Part I - Working @ Home [Productivity @ Home]
This week, I will be writing on the topic of New Year’s resolutions, looking at my resolution subsets each day for my usual daily topics. Today, I discuss resolutions related to Working @ Home.
I’m a big believer in resolutions. So big, in fact, that I rarely limit myself to resolving at New Year’s. The [...]
Too Busy to Learn? [Productivity @ Home]
Every Wednesday, I share my thoughts on Learning and Professional Development.
With less than two weeks until Christmas, life sometimes feels like it’s spinning out of control. The calendar calls for a "yearly review", a chance to pause and shine a light on the year’s accomplishments and challenges. But gifts to buy and wrap, parties to [...]
Sure, I Love the Christmas Season [Productivity @ Home]
Every Friday, I share my thoughts on Family Fun.
They’re supposed to be about family and fun, these weeks leading up to Christmas, right?! When a friend forwarded me this You Tube video today, I couldn’t help but smile and hear a bit of my own voice in the beautiful singing of Tajci. How many [...]
Every Little Bit Helps [Productivity @ Home]
Every Thursday, I share my thoughts on Family Finances.
The headline caught my attention - SoCal Fires Burn Valley Food Banks - but it was the picture that really drove the message home. Help is needed…today. Sure, my parish food drive and the kids’ annual canned food collection will take place Thanksgiving week, but the need [...]
Benefits of Chaperoning Your Kid’s Field Trip [Productivity @ Home]
Every Friday, I share my thoughts on Family Fun.
Yesterday, even though I didn’t get a stitch of work done during my normal "office hours", I spent my day in what I consider to be a very productive fashion - I was a chaperon on my 13 year old son’s school field trip.
After [...]