Time Management
Time Management Guest Post
Friday, March 7th, 2008First 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!Yesterday I wrote a guest post titled Time Management: Sometimes Things Change over at the Diary of a Four-Hour-a-Weeker. In this post I expand on […]
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Personal Task Manager
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Last week I wrote a guest post over at Hilary Catherall’s blog on the topic of tracking how one spends their time, an idea I have written about in the past. Specifically, I discuss using an open source time tracking application called Personal Task Manager which can track both your activities and computer application usage. […]
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The Life Management Matrix
Thursday, February 14th, 2008In my post on Rethinking Time Management, I introduced the Four Quadrants of Life Management. I noted a similarity, at least in form but I think also in substance, between this Life Management Matrix and the Time Management Matrix in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Yesterday, I was reading a post on Time […]
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The Other Lecture
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Randy Pausch is a well known and admired educator in computer science circles. In September of 2006, Professor Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was told he had between three to six months of decent health left. Later that month, he gave a rather inspiring lecture at Carnegie Mellon University entitled Really Achieving Your […]
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Rethinking Time Management
Sunday, February 10th, 2008Sometimes the basis for positive change in our lives comes from questioning or throwing out conventional assumptions or “rules of thumb”. The 4-Hour Workweek is a great example, where author Timothy Ferriss questions the so-called deferred life plan which we all know: work hard now and defer living your dreams until you retire. I would […]
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Google Calendar From The Desktop
Sunday, February 10th, 2008Before the weekend I discussed how I have deeply synchronized my desktop email client with Gmail. I did this because Gmail acts as my central mailbox for all of my email accounts, of which I have many. It should probably come as no surprise that my love affair with Google does not end with email. […]
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