Personal Productivity

Productivity Nightmares

Monday, April 28th, 2008

First time here? If you would like to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Anyone who has followed this blog from the beginning will know that my wife and I are big fans of cooking, and the Food Network […]

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Number 1 Productivity Practice

Monday, April 28th, 2008

You 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, 2008

Clay 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, 2008

I 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, 2008

My 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, 2008

As 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, 2007

I 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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