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Category Archives: priorities
Me Working Out of Context
Photo by: Michel Filion I’ve written a couple posts about why I think working on important stuff is a lot better for your blood pressure than working in context. In fact, slowly, I realized I didn’t really need contexts … Continue reading
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Make an Immediate Timeline – Immediately!
Photo by: flattop341 Let’s get this out in the open once so we don’t have to mention it again and again: We are all busy. We all have too much stuff that we either have to do for ourselves, … Continue reading
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The danger of next actions lists and what to do instead
Photo by: roger jones There’s something dangerous about a bunch of small, un-intimidating next actions on a single list. The things you should be doing are generally uncomfortable, larger, more intimidating than the things that aren’t that important. The things … Continue reading
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Long Term Output is More Important than Minute-to-Minute Efficiency
Photo by: .Fabio In the quest for productivity, blogs with the word “hack” in the title and other similar literature often end up discussing in detail ways to increase efficiency. What does that mean, efficiency? Efficiency is most often some … Continue reading
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Notecard for the Week: Oh yes, it gets better.
Photo by: MShades I have become obsessed with my notecard for the day: a single 3×5 sheet that carries with it what i need to do today (a very small and realistic number), often a calendar of events (so I … Continue reading
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Todoist with a Notecard for the Day
Photo by: pshutterbugAs I mentioned in a long review, I’ve been using Todoist since August. I’ll have you know that Todoist and I are still doing quite well. So well in fact that I recently started forking over $3/month for … Continue reading
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GTD "Today folder or list"
I found an interesting un-GTD GTD recommendation on an IT management website (via the great ultimate gtd index). The article is titled “Getting Things Done in 60 seconds” and the author teaches a few (60 seconds worth) of GTD fundamentals … Continue reading
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Are all open loops really created equal?
I’m going to put my question-GTD hat on again. One premise of GTD is that as far as your mind goes, all open loops are created equal. That is, no matter the time, place, or importance, your mind will focus … Continue reading
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Priorities and Getting Things Done
The overemphasis in the GTD world of priorities being last place in the four-fold criteria for doing is, in my opinion, not going to help you get important things done. Merlin over on 43folders wrote a bit about why priorities … Continue reading
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