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GTD: the power of context-based lists

‘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…)

Food inbox – How good are you at processing it?

An inbox is a placeholder in which we put stuff we want to deal with in an ordered manner. In a way, that definition applies to our mouth cavity, a highly specialized inbox which also starts right away the first processing stage (more…)

If It Doesn’t Collapse You Cannot Rebuild It

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…)

A geek graduates

Recently, as the issue arose at a forum, I had to explain, making it clear to myself at the same time, that my geekery level is nowadays round 3/10. Anyways, I have my gratifications now and then, like the other day, when I was trying to (more…)

Lessons from an old pair of pants

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I think we all have them. Those pieces of clothing which have gone with us through the ages, that favorite t-shirt that is not black anymore but it’s comfortable (more…)

Every day is “the” day

I don’t know, maybe it comes with it age, but I have recently realized a huge misconception in my way of facing things, life, you name it. In my way of being an “adult” and “sensible” person. (more…)

Flowing with the workflow

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As a product of a typically non-productive culture (sorry for the tongue twister), I have found a very useful tool for implementing the GTD method in monitoring workflow interruptions. The first thing I noticed was (more…)