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.
Not fully focused
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Recently I had 2 great podcast episodes about focus come across my path. 1. Overlap Technique When Sean talks about the overlap technique he means running an amazing consulting business and then rolling some of the profit from that in to a product. Then adding some training. And still doing client work. So that means…
Get your time back with the proper communication medium
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My friend Matt recently wrote a great article about Limiting Yourself. Don’t despair, the second solution is within easier reach. Limit yourself. Limit the number of inboxes you have, limit the amount of data coming into those inboxes and then limit how often you check those inboxes. Do this regularly enough and you’ll spend less…
Being Useful is Better than Being Cool
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What’s the one thing that you must do to have a viable business? It’s not market. It’s not sell. It’s not even the ability to invoice or be paid. Sure they’re all crucial parts, but if you have all of them dialed in you can still totally kill your business by missing one thing. Minimal…
Evernote as my GTD tickler
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I like GTD methodology. For a long time OmniFocus was my go to tool for my main list. Now I’ve switched to Redbooth (topic for another post) but I’ve never talked about my ‘tickler’ file. Let’s start by defining what a tickler file is. A tickler file is a collection of date-labeled file folders organized…
One productivity secret that’s small and you already have
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There’s one small thing we each have that if used properly can provide huge productivity gains. It’s small. If you have kids you probably use it regularly already. Can you guess what it is? No? I’ve used it already above. No! Yup that’s right my secret productivity tool is a word. And it’s the word…
They can’t because they’re lazy
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You simply can’t live healthy in Ontario. Or at least that’s what the guy riding his bike beside me in the group said. Then we kept talking and a bunch more can’t came up. The real world isn’t a place, it’s an excuse. It’s a justification for not trying. It has nothing to do with…
Does what you’re doing actually matter?
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Thanks to the awesome Chris Lema I’m the proud owner of a coffee mug from Startup Vitamins which I use daily. The best part about it is the reminder it provides. life is short do stuff that matters Offers Recently I was offered the opportunity to provide video training to Packt for a LESS CSS…
Identify the cause of your freelance insanity
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A few days ago I wrote 5 Sanity Tips for Overworked Consultants where I told you to take some time for yourself. I realize that many freelancer’s/consultants have already worked themselves in to an untennable situation. You’re already way over committed. You feel like you’re drowning. You’re all work with no margin for life or…
5 Sanity Tips for the Overworked Consultant
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Are you feeling burnt out today? Is freelancing taking it’s toll on you? Are you questioning why on earth you ever thought you were cut out for freelancing? That Friday Check (or cheque for my Canadian readers) It was a Friday in my first year of freelancing and it was pay day, just like every…
My billing method is a time management tool
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One of the reasons I love weekly billing is that it’s so easy to overbook yourself with other billing methods. When I work hourly I continually ‘manufactured’ hours simply because I figured I could find time to get things done. That left me over committed all the time. There was no margin in my days.…
