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David Seah’s Lesson

I got to know David Seah‘s work while I was surfing in search of ‘time tracking’ info. I did not know exactly what, but I felt that my productivity system had become a bit stale, clunky maybe.

Seah’s creative forms had nothing to do with what I was looking for, but they turned to be exactly what I needed. (more…)

Focus The Steve Jobs Way

Admired and yet feared, there will never be another one like Steve Jobs, and there is for sure a lot to learn from his self-demand, his ‘vision thing’, and his undisputed skill as a motivator of teams. (more…)

Polishing the Some Day/Maybe list

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

Corrections/About spontaneity

Corrections are an important part an essential part element of the of any writing process. (more…)

Funny GTD fears: the fly

The correct adoption of the Getting Things Done methodology, besides a boost in our outcomes, can also cause some important psychic side effects. David Allen himself frequently acknowledges it, sometimes (more…)

How I organized my stationery

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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…)

Learn from others’ mistakes: my GTD leaks

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…)

The deeper the channel, the greater the flow

That’s the title of the productivity prompt #11 in David Allen’s ‘Ready for Anything, which I’m currently enjoying (to say the least: it’s like a productivity earthquake). Allen makes a unique work in (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…)