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Pimp Your Work - Improving Your Work Day Efficiency

February 2nd, 2008

Video Demo: David Allen on “Knowledge Work Athletics”

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January 7th, 2008

Downloadables: Concrete Goals Tracker 2008

Want to make sure you have great follow through on your projects for the year? How about your priorities, have you got them all sorted out? If you’re the type of person who needs to write everything down to get organized, you’ll benefit from David Seah’s Concrete Goals Tracker for 2008.
Here’s a description […]

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December 29th, 2007

Video Demo: Getting Things Done

Getting Things Done or GTD is David Allen’s system for personal productivity. I gave away a free copy of the audio book in a contest before. Here’s a summary of the book:

This video shows how you can create your own GTD notebook easily and more economically in lieu of the folders and […]

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December 23rd, 2007

New Year’s Resolutions Contest: 6 Days to Go

What? You haven’t entered the Pimp Your Work contest yet? But it’s almost the 29th!  Plus, the prizes will help you get organized, remove clutter from your life, and make you get things done faster.  Click here for the mechanics of the game.
Tags: audio-book, Contest, David-Allen, ebook, ebooks, getting-things-done, GTD, PDFShare This

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December 18th, 2007

Pimp Your Work’s “New Year’s Resolutions” Contest

What better way to celebrate the New Year than with a Pimp Your Work contest? Here are the specs:
The Pimpin’ Prize:

a copy of David Allen’s Getting Things Done in PDF format (a $15 value)
a copy of David Allen’s Getting Things Done in mp3 format (I forgot how much this cost, but Amazon says $26 […]

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December 18th, 2007

Zen-to-Done: A Simple Alternative to GTD

Leo Babauta’s Zen Habits is a popular productivity blog based on the principle of keeping things simple.  His blog and ideas are a breath of fresh air for those whose idea of productivity is buzzing around like a bee and surrounding oneself with as much tools as possible.  So far, Leo is best known for […]

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February 16th, 2007

Cozi, family software that has office applications too

I saw Cozi on Download squad this week:
Through Cozi users can access their family calendar, schedules, and notes information that are stored in the family’s personal system, even when they are on the go. Reminders can be sent out and accessed by any PC or mobile phone you choose. This sounds like the ultimate family […]

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January 12th, 2007

Alone-time Required for Creative Best

Presentation Zen, one of my favorite blogs, talks about the need for solitude in order to have effective presentations.
I’d agree with that. But, I’d go much further.
In today’s fast, fast, fast business climate, there has become too little time for reflection. There are lots of reasons for this, of course. Off the top of my […]

By Scot Herrick -- 0 comments

January 8th, 2007

New Years Resolution Review

Its one week since the first of the year. How many of your resolutions have you kept? Really kept? Really?
The number of blog posts about resolutions last week, while understandable, points out the inherent weakness in making resolutions along with the crowd: the artificial outweighs the need. If you have to make resolutions, you will.
Then […]

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January 5th, 2007

Focus on the “To-be” process

In yesterdays post, I wrote about responsiveness and efficiency. In the article referenced, there was another gem that I think is an important pimpalicious work tip: focus on the “to-be” process, not on the current process.
If you or your company have already made the decision to change out something, the vast majority of time you […]

By Scot Herrick -- 2 comments