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Resources for Improving Your Thinking and Decisions
Hacker News has an excellent thread on books that can help you better understand and improve how you think and decide. Although most of the resources are books, there are some that are presented as websites and/or PDFs, and are … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, information management, Organizing, planning, psychology, self improvement
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Making Good Decisions
I recently read a few news items that relate, at least partially, to decision-making, and thought I’d share some key points. In Danny Sullivan’s summary of Google Zeitgeist conference, he quotes Google cofounder Larry Page as saying There are no … Continue reading
Keeping the End in Mind with Projects and Goals
I hope my previous post made you keen on the importance of keeping the end in mind. Of course that post referred to the “final end” (what some call “the big chill”), but the principle of keeping the end in … Continue reading
Project Management Tip from J.K. Rowling
Ever wonder what tools authors use for managing a project as immense as writing a book? Wouldn’t it be nice if we could use their tools for managing our more complex projects? You might suspect, as I would have, that … Continue reading
Office Politics and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
In reading an interesting article on office politics today, I was reminded of the power of self-fulfilling prophecy. In particular, Ben Horowitz noted the following in discussing how to handle complaints from one executive about the competence of another: On … Continue reading
Productivity and Sheer Will
Entreprenuer Gary Vaynerchuk tweeted the following several months ago: Screw productivity and productivity products, I win with sheer will ….I know I am dumb In other words, he is saying he will not whittle away his life reading productivity blogs … Continue reading
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Even More Questions to Help You Mold Your Future
This is a follow-on to my previous article that provided a list of questions to help you conduct a GTD 50,000 foot review. In this post, I provide links to other articles that have good questions for you to answer … Continue reading
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Making Time to THINK
In a comment on one of my recent posts, John noted the following: I’ve been on and off with GTD and Covey many many times through out the years. I could never turn it into a habit and kept searching … Continue reading
Are You Solving a Non-Problem?
Have you ever caught yourself working feverishly to solve what your mind had classified as a problem, only to later discover there was no problem at all? Well, it just happened with me and caused me to waste a lot … Continue reading
Map Your Way Through the Jungle of Life
This article discusses the use of Mind Maps as an aid for managing your life. Our examples relate to the GTD and/or Covey methods of time management and planning. However, mind maps can be used in a lot of different … Continue reading