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December 1st, 2006

Get your GTD wallpaper … reminders right before your eyes

Another great GTD tip from LifeDev!  Gotta love a wallpaper that helps to keep you on track.  The colour is nice (this is really important to me, since I’m staring at it all freakin’ day) and simple.  Nice, simple reminders for how to manage the flow (fire hose?) of daily stuff.  You can download it […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

November 30th, 2006

Good Things Take Time

CBS Sunday Morning does this thing every once in a while where they go looking for the “good” things in the newspapers across the country so they can report on them.
It takes them quite a while to find the good stuff. In a perfect Tivo world, I watched Sunday morning last night — Wednesday […]

By Scot Herrick -- 2 comments

November 27th, 2006

Task Saturation is Dangerous

Are you overworked? I mean really overworked, not just saying you are overworked? How can you tell?
If you are really overworked, there tends to be three main coping mechanisms used by people to compensate:

Shutting down. You stop working, start socializing, or just leave work.
Compartmentalize. You make lists, check them twice, and then start doing one […]

By Scot Herrick -- 2 comments

October 17th, 2006

Six words to use to move into action mode

LifeHacker linked to a super post over on 43folders called: “6 powerful ‘look into’ verbs (+1 to avoid)“.  Premise, six steps to move a project forward and turn ideas into actions (I think this is what Scot calls GTD … Getting Things Done).  I’m not going to scrape all the content from the post a) […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments