5 Simple Techniques to Maintain Focus
I frequently coach my team on techniques they can use to become more effective and one of the areas that I have found the greatest challenged is in remaining focused. Here are five simple techniques that I use to maintain focus on the critical projects and issues. Keep your work area uncluttered. Clutter becomes a [...]
Outlook Macro: Flag and Move Message to Follow-up Folder
As my readers know I follow many of the Getting Things Done methods and when it comes to e-mail I try (usually unsuccessfully) to keep my inbox uncluttered. In Outlook there is a great feature called Flags that will turn an e-mail into an item on the To-Do list without creating a task. Of course [...]
Integrating New Habits and Routines as You Shift Your Goals
Most planning and productivity systems, like Franklin Covey® and David Allen’s Getting Things Done, place a focus on establishing life goals and envisioning what we want to become. Essentially we seek our driving principles by asking “What will my perfect life look like?” Are you a great parent, spouse, employee, business owner, humanitarian, athlete, risk [...]
Fostering Urgency
In a recent blog post by Michael S. Hyatt, the President & CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishing, he covered the topic of “Creating a Sense of Urgency”. He asserts that large companies have a hard time recognizing the need for change because they become complacent; there isn’t enough at stake until it’s too late. He [...]
Four Tips for Effective Work Travel
After traveling for business last week a couple thoughts came to mind regarding how to remain effective while on the road: Plan your work. Since there are likely extended periods that you will not be connected to the world and with proper planning you can get quite a bit of work done during those times. [...]
Eliminating Business Card Clutter
I was impressed with the a recent article on Unclutter that ask presented the idea of replacing business card files with Evernote. While this was an interesting idea I was impressed with the simplicity of photographing a business card with my cell phone for future recall. As I have mentioned in previous entries I use [...]
Habit Forming for Success
One of the most difficult things when starting to improve personal productivity is maintain the habits that are needed to be effective. Steve Pavlin has offered a number of great suggestions in a blog entry called “How to Maintain Not-Quite-Daily Habits” that include: Make the habit daily even if it isn’t necessary; for example getting [...]
My Ubiquitious Capture System
I recently had an interaction on Facebook with a fellow member of the GTD group regarding my productivity tools of choice, which lead to some discussion regarding the “ubiquitous capture device,” which David Allen recommends as part of the GTD process to all you to clear your mind, capture your thoughts so you can [...]
Is David Allen’s Getting Things Done Too Long Winded…
As you will notice many of my recent blog posts are related to Getting Things Done by David Allen. I stumbled upon a recent post on Visible Monsters called “GTTFD with Henry Rollins…” I think the only thing left to say is ENJOY…. Technorati Tags: Getting Things Done, GTD, Humor, Productivity
Interruptions Cause Lost Productivity
I was reviewing some of my RSS feeds this weekend and came across a timely article by Kelly Forrister at Simply GTD that discusses the topic of “Dealing with Disruptions.” I have been having a number of conversations lately on this topic since the IT world is wrought with disruptions, emergencies, and burning issues. [...]
