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2:30 pm by Administrator in GTD
The Ripple Effect on why you should limit your new years list to only one goal:
“Rather than do a wish list of all the things you want to change or achieve, why not start off with a moderate but attainable list of ONE thing you want bad enough to actually work your tail off to achieve it. Write it down, print it out, put it on the bottom of your mirror so you see it every morning, put a copy in your billfold, put one on your dashboard and on your desk at work
1:49 am by Administrator in Time Management
This was the year of the leap second:
“At the precise moment the display reads 6:59 p.m. (EST), start the stopwatch. When the display changes to 7:00, stop the watch. It should read 61 seconds.”
7:17 pm by Administrator in GTD
Steve Pavlina, Be Patient With Yourself:
“A general rule of thumb is that people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year, but they underestimate what they can accomplish in five years. I‚Äôve found this to be fairly accurate.”
1:13 pm by Administrator in GTD
“One of the things that impacted me the most about GTD is lists. It‚Äôs such a ridiculously simple concept, but it‚Äôs incredibly powerful.”
2:47 am by Administrator in GTD, Procrastination
Paul Graham on good and bad kinds of procrastination:
“The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators. So could it be that procrastination isn’t always bad?
Most people who write about procrastination write about how to cure it. But this is, strictly speaking, impossible. There are an infinite number of things you could be doing. No matter what you work on, you’re not working on everything else. So the question is not how to avoid procrastination, but how to procrastinate well.”
Oldies, but Goodies!
Slashdot has a good excerpt from Scott Berkuns The Art of Project Management:
“One myth of project management is that certain people have an innate ability to do it well, and others do not. Whenever this myth came up in conversation with other project managers, I always asked for an explanation of that ability‚Äîhow to recognize […]
I have long held that that which you measure you will improve. This seems to be true regardless of whether or not you make an extra effort to improve the thing you are measuring.
That is, just the act of measuring something seems to automatically get you to take steps to improvement.
So if you want […]
The always delightful Joe Clark:
“I think ‚Äúlifehacking‚Äù is trendy buzzword bullshit from start to finish and I know where you can shove each and every one of your 43 folders. The concept seems to be that you could finally improve your ‚Äúproductivity‚Äù if only you had a better system. Because that‚Äôs your problem, surely ‚Äì […]
Eric Mack writes this entry in response to the question, “If right now, during this phone call, you wanted to quickly make some notes or map out an idea, what would you reach for?”
It’s a great question when you think of all the time and effort we expend trying to find the perfect capture tool, […]
LifeHacker points out this cute little simulation game for improving your time management skills… so schedule some time to play it, why not?
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