The New York Times recently featured an article compiling the results of several new studies looking at distractions and multitasking. The following confirms the necessity of stopping the distractions: In a recent study, a group of Microsoft workers took, on average, 15 minutes to return to serious mental tasks, like writing reports or computer code, […]
If you are overwhelmed with tasks a todo list can be dangerous. Taming this potential monster and being able to manager the task in our life is important. Web Worker Daily asks: How many ways are there to manage your task list? Almost as many as there are people with tasks to do. Here are […]
With all the distractions surrounding us in the office, staying focused is difficult. Dave Cheong, entrepreneurial software engineer has a few suggestions. Over the years I have worked at many client sites and a variety of office layouts. On one project in particular, we had as many as 80 people in a project team, seated […]
Act Two of the Three Act Planning process is Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen. He created the best way to deal with the stuff that fills our lives. Merlin Mann of 43folders starts the new year with a great recap of the GTD posts on his site saying, I’ve gotten several requests from […]
With all the activities that can occupy your day, where do you spend your time? Are you doing what you value the most? These questions occurred one evening and I sat down with pen and paper to discover the answers for myself. The following is a simple exercise you can do to answer the questions […]
The following are blogs I value and visit on a regular basis: 43 Folders - Productivity http://www.43folders.com Life Hacker - Productivity http://www.lifehacker.com/ Working Smart - Tools and Technology for Business http://michaelhyatt.blogs.com/workingsmart/ The Daily Rotation - Technology Headlines from Around the World http://www.dailyrotation.com/ Round the Rock - Kayak Circumnavigation of Newfoundland http://www.cackletv.com/wendykilloran/ If you have a […]
Being on the road for the past several weeks, I appreciate the value of a good book to refocus my efforts and energies. Planning comes in two varieties: top-down explained in Steven Covey’s book First Things First and bottom-up illustrated by David Allen’s book Getting Things Done. While everyone would like to start at the […]
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