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.
I just turned off email on my phone
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I’m a huge proponent of GTD. I use it to run my whole business and pretty much all of my life tasks. GTD is all about removing cognitive load by putting tasks and notes in a trusted system. For me that system is OmniFocus and Evernote. The thing is that I break my own system…
Emergency scanning just increases your stress
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Oh email…yup I know it’s a pain in the ass for you. It’s like that for me sometimes as well. I’ve been on an email diet for a while, but there is more to dealing with email than a diet. It all starts with how you handle email. If you’re a GTD person you’re going…
There is no later
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When you start running a business it takes a lot of hustle. If you’re being smart you’re not quitting your job right away. You’re working extra hours in the evenings and weekends to get the business going. Maybe you’re working extra hours after your regular job to make your freelance business a reality. You’re working…
Intentional time during the week
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Over the holidays Dan Miller had a great podcast about saying no. I think that saying NO is one of the most important things that you can learn as a business owner. The second big thrust (and the one that I’m taking to heart starting now) is to be more proactive about scheduling my week.…
Less OmniFocus friction with maildrop
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I may be late to the party on this one but just last week I set up a maildrop email address for Omnifocus. It freaking rocks. Friction My old friction with Omnifocus and getting item in from my iPhone dealt with copy and paste. If I was viewing a site I wanted to come back…
How much time can batching save you?
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How many repeated processes do you have? How many of them do you batch in to single work times? How much time would you save if you actually did that? I know that if I dealt with every email purchase receipt as it came in I’d spend a good portion of each week opening my…
My Top 6 Reads to Exercise your Freelance Muscles
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Yesterday was a great run, short but great. First run in quite a while. See it below: Not too long and it was in my new running shoes. You always run faster in new shoes or at least that’s what my 2 year old says. Today my legs are in pain. They aren’t just sore…
No time for whiners
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I recently did a webinar with iThemes and WebDesign.com about Mastermind groups. I’ll talk more about them in the future and why I think they are super important for everyone to be involved in. Today I want to focus on one of the questions that came up during the discussion. I was in an accountability…
Developer or Googler?
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We all get imposter syndrome sometimes. I’m afraid at least once a week that someone will look at my code or read a blog post and realize that I’m a total fraud and have no idea what I’m doing. One of the things that each developer asks themselves is Am I Really a Developer or…
With alarms blazing, I took a bike ride
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It was 4pm and I was supposed to launch my book the next day. WooCommerce was installed but not quite working right locally. It wasn’t even installed on the staging site yet. My base sales copy was written, but had a few @todo notes littered throughout. Stripe wasn’t setup or tested and I wasn’t sure…
