Tagged with `context`

Playing Through The Tape: Linking Actions To Life Goals

Staring at my lists of tasks during my weekly review (about 285 the last time I checked the count in OmniFocus) my eyes start to glaze over with the thought of just how much monotonous crap there is buried in them. What’s even more daunting is as I look over my system during my…

GTD Refresh: Contexts and Calendar

In my first post in this series , I discussed the steps I had begun to take in putting my GTD system back in order. I started by outlining my life at the moment (especially my Areas of Focus”) and sketching out a vision of myself in…

Back to Basics: Waiting For Someday/Maybe

I mentioned before that I don’t use contexts as recommended by David Allen. However, there are two kinds of lists he recommends that I do use, and get a ton of use from. These are the “Someday/Maybe” list and the “Waiting For” list. Did you ever think that someday…? The Someday/Maybe list is a catch-all for…

Lifehack.org db clay Giveaway Grand Finale!

This is the last week of our db clay giveaway — very special thanks to db clay for offering such fun and beautiful prizes! To take things out with a bang, they offered to kick it up a notch for the last week, so this week’s prize is something <even more special: a limited-edition…

Where am I going? Putting your life in context.

The great writer and thinker, Christopher Morley, famously wrote: There are three ingredients to the good life – learning, earning and yearning. An average lifespan in the developed world is 70-something years – as indicated on the bar below. Each of the phases of that life has different characteristics. The Learning phase typically stretches from the…