Posts Tagged ‘Tasks’
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…)
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
Tags: Books, Capture, Communication, Culture clash, David Allen, Experience, Family, Goal setting, Gratification, GTD, Habits, History, Learning, Lists, Memory, Notebooks, Personal productivity, Proactive, Social conditioning, Stories, Tasks, Violence
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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…)
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Ageing, Beauty, Books, Creative thinking, Emotional intelligence, Experience, Focus, Goal setting, Habits, Happiness, Indecision, Inspiration, Law of attraction, Learning, Life, Motivation, Passion, Perception, Personal development, Planning, Positivity, Proactive, Procrastination, Tasks, Time management, Transcendence
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One of the main problems you can encounter in teamwork is what is usually called “highly emotional (more…)
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Tags: Absurdity, Communication, Conflict solving, Education, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Experience, Family, Goal setting, Interdependence, Leisure, Pedantry, Person, Personal development, Personal productivity, Personal relations, Repression, Tasks, Violence
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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…)
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Tags: Areas of focus, Books, Calendar, Capture, David Allen, Filing, Focus, GTD, Intuition, Judgement, Learning, Lists, Low level, Notebooks, Organizing, Personal productivity, Productivity, Projects, Tasks, Thinking, Time management, Workflow, Writing
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The issue rose in a recent conversation with a close relative of mine: “philosophy is not necessary for life”, said the relative, in a somewhat disdainful tone.
It is important to notice that, in the context of this conversation, the word “philosophy” was indeed used (more…)
Friday, May 7th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Consciousness, Creative thinking, Emotional intelligence, Fear, Focus, Goal setting, Gratification, Ideas, Imitation, Inspiration, Life, Mind, Notebooks, Perception, Person, Personal productivity, Personal relations, Proactive, Productivity, Reminders, Tasks, Teamwork, Thinking, Time, Time management, Transcendence, Violence, Writing
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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…)
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Tags: Books, Buddhism, Creative thinking, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, David Allen, Emerson, Experiments, Focus, GTD, Habits, Humor, Indecision, Lists, Personal productivity, Procrastination, Subliminal, Tasks, Tips, Weekly review, Workflow, Zen
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In ‘Getting Things Done
‘ David Allen affirms that the size of projects does not matter (for those who are not familiar with the GTD methodology, Allen defines “project” as any desired result that requires more than one simple action-i.e. a “pack” of actions with a defined purpose), and in terms of logic, he is right. Everything in his book is rigorously logic. But it makes me think of certain (more…)
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Tags: Books, Capture, Classification, David Allen, Dogen Zenji, Education, Experience, Focus, Growth, GTD, Habits, Katsuki Sekida, Learning, Lists, Meditation, Motivation, Perception, Personal productivity, Planning, Projects, Subliminal, Tasks, Thinking, Time management, Tips, Transcendence, Zen
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If you’re as lucky as me, you’ll have, or you’ll have had this fantastic relative (grandpa, an aunt or uncle maybe) who takes care of you in an almost frenzied manner. A sort of die-hard fan of yours obsessed with (more…)
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Tags: Advertising, Children, Competition, Education, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Erich Fromm, Experience, Family, Gratification, Growth, Habits, Introspection, Love, Motivation, Organizing, Personal productivity, Personal relations, Reminders, Self-care, Subliminal, Tasks, Time management, Tips
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These reflections come as a consequence of a period using my replacement computer -the regular one had a keyboard problem that the tech service spent ages to fix-. More precisely, they are due to the fact, quite shocking, that, during those days revisiting my old, faithful Compaq Presario 1200, (more…)
Friday, December 11th, 2009
Tags: Computers, Creative thinking, Education, Emotions, Focus, Growth, Habits, Ideas, Information, Inspiration, Learning, Motivation, Multitasking, Music, Organizing, Personal productivity, Reminders, Tasks, Thinking, Time management, Tips, Vintage, Writing
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In his classic work ‘De Bono’s Thinking Course
‘, the master of creative thinking Edward de Bono (of the ‘Six Thinking Hats
‘ fame) exposes a series of techniques to improve reasoning, as a sort of exhaustive “thought gym”. One of his exercises consists in (more…)
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
Tags: Absurdity, Books, Brainstorming, Capture, Classification, Creative thinking, Edward de Bono, Exercises, Fun, Habits, Humor, Ideas, Inspiration, Invention, Judgement, Labeling, Learning, Mental block, Mind, Motivation, Organizing, Outlining, Personal productivity, Planning, Projects, Serendipity, Tasks, Thinking
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