Zerebria

Nurtured day in and day out with the law of attraction, as I am now, there came a moment when the exercise of writing the successes of the day became sort of redundant, or elemental; in a way, my objective now is tuning myself to reach a state in which I continuously write the ‘successes of the second’.

Nevertheless, it is on the spirit of that exercise (more…)

For physical documents, GTD’s alphabetical filing works like a charm, but I had been looking for an efficient universal filing system for my computer for a long time. After all, sad as it seems, (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…)

He had mastered the technique of rising early, but was nevertheless having a hard time staying risen. What for? Making his way through mornings was toilsome and useless. Somehow, all things that counted always seemed to happen in the afternoon. But he did not like the sensation of (more…)

“What was that folder thing you told me of?”, she asked me. And the rest, as it is usually said, is history. (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…)

Something that really grabbed my attention in Stephen Covey’s ‘The seven habits of the highly effective people’ was the concept of overcompensation. He does not dedicate more than one or two pages to it, but it is such a inspiring fact (more…)

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It looked like a good idea at first, but I hesitated a lot and in the end I did not add the following quote by Charles Darwin to my database: (more…)

The problem

GTD fan as I am, I usually put a strong brain effort at the planning stage of a project, so I can later enter ‘executive mode’, following my self-instructions in a Robocop-like manner. Working like that guarantees (more…)