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I recently polished my Some Day/Maybe list, which had become sort of a black hole with more than 1,500 items (!) (more…)

Covey’s management classic ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People‘ is not, for me at least, a sustainable productivity system (its priority codes, for instance, have been ran over by the stampede of modern life), but it does include incredibly quality food for thought for the ‘highest levels’ of your life; those moments when (more…)

‘Nothing drains productivity more than a list with mingled actionable and non-actionable items’, is one example of those simple but not self-evident snippets continuously present in the Getting Things Done methodology, and which can have an enormous impact in your life. (more…)

I don’t remember the exact details of the joke (maybe that’s why I’m so bad at telling jokes: details are always the most juicy part). It was something about a group of people who had all their jokes arranged in (more…)

I have blogged several times about the virtues of admiration, and the greatness of being a polymath, so I thought it would be nice to show that I practice what I preach by introducing here some of my heroes. (more…)

It’ll never get enough said: David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology to get organized is based upon principles that are simple, but not evident (for more about GTD, check out my GTD First Aid Kit series, or the ‘GTD’ tag at the right column).

One of those principles is dividing lists into (more…)

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I have recently noticed that I read some pages from a book every day, very few, but it has spontaneously become a sort of a steady habit, and, besides, it is quality reading, because (more…)

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The best way to organize documents is alphabetically.211221230 But when the stuff to classify is more voluminous or heterogeneous, the task usually becomes harder. One thing that I had some struggle with was stationery. (more…)

Say you love David Allen… (O.K., say what you want). Long and steep is the road from messy to productive, but gratifications are spread like sweet fruits all along the way. It is not about upgrading; it about growing. Once you get  it, Allen’s Getting Things Done system is a very tight tool to use; as he himself states in “Making it all work”, with a delicious lack of false humility, (more…)

Don’t you even think for a moment that I have given up my practice of writing down the successes of the day. In fact, it gets (more…)