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 Down
Refine Your Plan
Make Mini-Plans
Repeat! Repeat! Repeat!

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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.”
It’s a little like flying…
Imagine that you needed an aircraft to fly from place to place, […]

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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 why, and wonders if anyone else is also doing what she does, which is […]

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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 sequence of events:
1) A Bright Person invents a method of personal productivity that works for […]

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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 about that.
In sports, while I know there is a place for “sports psychology”, in the […]

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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 and the like that don’t seem to stop even when we are asleep.
The challenge that […]

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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 reference for who is doing what. It seems quite easy to use and I am […]

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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 figure out what the underlying problem is.
For example, a user who is a White Belt […]

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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 at every spare moment.
What I have also noticed is that my energy is very […]

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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 let me know of any ideas you might have in this regard.

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