Category: Productivity
This is about being effective with your time and being focused on the right things to do each day or at each stage.
It could overlap with PM when we talk about your time on a project.
The Key Concepts for Choosing A Productivity System
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Finding a good productivity system is so much more than the mechanics of whatever tool you use. In fact, almost every tool is more or less the same. They have due dates, and start dates. You can organize things into projects and sub-folders. Some of them allow collaboration and some don’t. Some follow Agile methods
How Do You Pick a Good Productivity System?
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Over the course of the next number of weeks we’re going to take a look at what it takes to have a great productivity system. We’re going to dig through the whole thing, starting with the assumptions I have made as I’ve built it out. Yes, it’s always a bit of a work in progress,
This is the Reason your Personal Productivity System is Broken
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OmniFocus is amazing. It’s one of the most powerful task managers out there. It’s highly flexible and yet has a few constraints that force you to make smart decisions. 2Do is another great application. It has some great things that OmniFocus could learn from, and it could learn some things from it’s older brother at
There is no ultimate “right” answer
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We shouldn’t seek to find the ultimate “right” answer for ourselves, but rather, we should seek to chip away at the ways that we’re wrong today so that we can be a little less wrong tomorrow. – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F- – k This begs the question, what did you do
@austinkleon on the tools you use
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If you are just starting off and I tell you exactly how I work, right down to the brand of pen and notebook, I am, in a some small sense, robbing you of the experience of finding your own materials and your own way of working. – The tools matter and the tools don’t matter
Don’t Underestimate Thinking Time
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You can never underestimate the value of thinking before taking action, especially when you’re about to invest labor, capital, time, and your reputation. – Paid To Think1 How much time are you putting aside to think about your business? To dig in deeply and make sure that your goals are the right goals for your
It’s Time to Start Reading Above Your Weight Class
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you know the books where the words blur together and you can’t understand what’s happening? Those are the books a leader needs to read. Reading to lead or learn requires that you treat your brain like the muscle that it is–lifting the subjects with the most tension and weight. How To Digest Books Above Your
The Inbox 0 Pipedream
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No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much time it is. – Eat That Frog1 Your inbox will continue to fill up with the stuff others think is important for
You’re idea sucks…unless
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I’ve been thinking a bunch about freelance billing and what I need to help my business run well. What I want to see in terms of numbers in the business. How a system could help me set goals for my finances and then provide incentives to keep to those goals. There are lots of freelance
Is Your Mind Prepared?
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If you’re not continually preparing your mind to accept new information and ideas, you’ll just become an old dried-up field full of weeds. – The Success Grower So many people I talk to get tired of programming. They don’t want to do client work. They are not up to date on the latest languages and
