Personal Productivity
Productivity Secrets of Highly Successful People
Monday, January 25th, 2010I watched this interview of Matt Rissell by Robert Scoble (The “Scobleizer”) for Fast Company “TV” (I remember Fast Company being a pretty cool magazine in the 90’s). Matt is the CEO of TSheets, a Boise-based provider of online timeclocks. He discusses how he determined what made the most productive people successful. He provides “10 […]
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Anti-Anti-Hacks
Friday, May 23rd, 2008There are hacks, and there are anti-hacks. Both have their merit. I think this blog has been a mixture of both almost since the beginning. I like certain things about Getting Things Done ("GTD"), and yet I detest productivity for productivity’s sake. After all, it was the book The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss that […]
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Productivity Nightmares
Monday, April 28th, 2008Anyone who has followed this blog from the beginning will know that my wife and I are big fans of cooking, and the Food Network on television. One show that I particularly enjoy is Kitchen Nightmares. The show features acclaimed chef Gordon Ramsay:
In each episode, Ramsay visits a failing restaurant and acts as a troubleshooter […]
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Number 1 Productivity Practice
Monday, April 28th, 2008You may have noticed that I have been missing in action for a couple weeks. The culprit behind this absence? Multiple projects and an ongoing problem with perfectionism. With respect to the projects, I am working on two major activities at work, one of which is completely new, uncharted territory with the requisite, and inefficient, […]
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GTD vs. The 4-Hour Workweek
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Clay Collins has a new post titled Productivity Guru SMACKDOWN: Tim Ferriss v. Dave Allen at his excellent blog The Growing Life. It immediately appealed to me having read both Getting Things Done (GTD) and The 4-Hour Workweek. Before I get into this, I have to mention that Clay is a great writer! This is […]
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Interview…Coming Soon
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008I am being interviewed by Mike Vardy for The EffTD™ Interview Series. Mike is a self professed productivity expert. He has developed a new productivity ideology and a personal productivity system (EffTD™) that can be implemented with little to no effort. Mike has a lighthearted take on the whole Getting Things Done / personal productivity […]
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Menu Planner
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008My wife and I both enjoy cooking. In fact, we follow food and cooking shows such as America’s Test Kitchen and Good Eats. We can make an entire event out of trying a new dish. It is therefore somewhat ironic that one of the major causes of stress in our household was figuring out what […]
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Wake Up Early Guaranteed
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008As an addendum to my previous post on how to wake up early every morning, I would like to be clear on one item: the ability or desire to wake up early every morning has really nothing to do with the concept of the 4-Hour Workweek. In fact, the danger is that one’s desire to […]
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Sleep, The Final Frontier
Saturday, December 29th, 2007I have always remembered the old army commercial, “We do more before 9 o’clock than most people do all day.” It resonated with me for a couple reasons: the first was that I truly believed that early risers get more accomplished and in general are more successful than those of us who struggle to get […]
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