Monthly Archives: December 2007

5 Tips on Changing Habits

I found this post in ZenHabits to be a useful one. In summary, the entry is about the Five Things You Need to Know About Effective Habit Change: Work on One Habit at Time Create a Plan and Write it … Continue reading

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Plane Design, Time Management Design

In yesterday’s post, I commented on the way in which GTD® and other systems don’t attempt to give users a way to design their own time management systems. Instead, they say, “Come use our design… come and adopt our solution.” … Continue reading

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How to Design Your Own Time Management System

I just read an interesting post over at Lifehacker in which the author, Gina Tripani, notes that she has needed to practice a simplified version of Getting Things Done (GTD®) in order to make it work for her. She explains … Continue reading

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The Dead-End of Most Time Management Systems

I have been doing some research into other systems of “time management” ideas, and once again I am thinking that most of them (indeed, all I have ever seen) get themselves into all sorts of trouble. Here is the common … Continue reading

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Psychology… But After the Fundamentals

I was listening to a time management audio-book today with some interest, as the author was delving into the frame of mind a good time manager must have to be effective, at the very beginning of the book. I wondered … Continue reading

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Thoughts Flying Around

Part of what humans are unable to control is the sheer volume of thoughts that travel through the average person’s head on a given day. We cannot stem the torrent of useful and useless ideas, bits of conversation, idle fantasies … Continue reading

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TaskBin.com

As an aside, I have found an interesting new web-service that’s called Taskbin.com that I think is quite interesting. It’s offered to groups that need to coordinate project actions in a transparent way, and to keep a single point of … Continue reading

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Coaching Using 2Time

One benefit of the 2Time system is that it’s an effective tool for coaching, and even self-coaching. Using the components to look at a professional’s time management system is a little like using a cheat sheet, or diagnostic tool to … Continue reading

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Protecting the First Few Hours

Recently, I have been more and more careful to protect the first few hours of each working day. In a prior post, I mentioned that I had fallen into some bad habits, and fallen into the trap of checking email … Continue reading

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Monetizing this Blog

I have been wondering if there is a company or individual who is interested in helping me to monetize this blog. Or better yet, how can such a person be found? Would they be willing to work on commission? Do … Continue reading

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