Posts Tagged ‘task’

7 Reasons to Borrow Grandma’s Egg Timer

If you’ve been looking for the edge in getting your task list done, you should consider investing in a timer. Picking up a timer stands out as the one thing I’ve done that significantly increased my productivity.
What’s so great about a piece of plastic with a couple of wires on the inside? After all, something that you can pick up at the dollar store can’t be a huge influence on… » Continue

April 29 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: Productivity, scheduling, task, timer | 12 comments»

How to Use a Todo List to Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever

Ah, the humble todo list. With all the high-tech, whiz-bang productivity applications, mobile gadgets, office tools, and genuine Corinthian leather dayplanners out there to spend our money and attention on, in the end the single most productive tool we can use boils down to a list of crap we need to do. Look under the hood of any GTD app or productivity system, and the engine that drives them… » Continue

January 4 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: moleskine, organization, Productivity, task, todo_list | 35 comments»

Eccentric Tips for Becoming Productive

From the way it’s talked about on sites like this, you’d think productivity was a long-lost secret of the ages. Really, though, there’s quite literally nothing to productivity: for the most part, it’s just a matter of staying on task and working hard. The problems tend to arise more when self-motivation is required: when there are no deadlines, working consistently isn’t easy.

This guide won’t make you productive: only you… » Continue

September 21 2007 | By Rory | Tagged: effort, Productivity, task, tips | 13 comments»

How To Stay Motivated

It is hardly a secret that the key to successfully accomplishing one goal after another is staying motivated. There are, of course, tasks which you may not like at all, yet you find motivation to complete even them because you recognize how each particular task serves a greater goal.

How exactly do some of us manage to stay motivated most of the time? Here are just a few ideas you… » Continue

May 30 2007 | By Gleb | Tagged: howto, motivation, Productivity, task | 14 comments»

Achieve Flow by Hacking Your Tasks

You know what it feels like to be completely engaged in a task. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi coined the term flow to describe this state. Flow is crucial to performing any intellectual task. But how do you achieve it?

Hack Your Tasks

You won’t get flow with the carrot or the stick. External pressures are unlikely to really engage you with your task. If you want to get… » Continue

May 3 2007 | By Guest | Tagged: flow, hack, task, time | 4 comments»

Focus on less to do more

So there you are with your Today list, your to-do list, your project lists, your house list, your calls list and even your list of lists. You know each and ever one of the 49 things you want to accomplish today. There’s only one small problem: come the end of the day you’ve accomplished zip. What went wrong?

Your focus.

Now you may think you know what the word focus means… » Continue

March 9 2007 | By Bob | Tagged: accomplishment, focus, Productivity, task | 6 comments»

Are You Building It Up Or Breaking It Down?

When it comes to thinking about projects - do you spend more time building them up in your mind or breaking them down? When you put up a rig for a show - props, a speaker rack, or a large projection screen for example - thinking ahead about the strike can impact how you put it up. If you’re spending a lot of energy building up a project… » Continue

January 17 2007 | By Tony | Tagged: action, breaking-down, chunking, project, task, thinking | 1 comment»

ToDoList 5 Offers Powerful Task Management

ToDoList 5 for Windows offers powerful task management for users. ToDoList is a “tree-based task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.”
ToDoList is a rare form of task management tool, one that allows you to repeatedly sub-divide your tasks into more manageable pieces whilst still presenting a clean and intuitive user experience.
ToDoList has been in continuous development for the last 3 years and is an ongoing project.
Your tasklists are… » Continue

January 17 2007 | By Rob | Tagged: lists, Productivity, software, task, todo, windows | 4 comments»

Template: Emergent Task Planner 2007

David Seah has released an update on his Emergent Task Planner, which is a form to plan and track your time using time boxing technique. Break down your day into separate time periods, and deliver and perform the work by the deadline:

So what is Emergent Task Planning? It’s a more directed version of Emergent Task Tracking, which is the form that helps you figure out where your time… » Continue

January 5 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: planner, task, template | 2 comments»

Granularity for students

People who think about hacking their lives and their work often speak of “granularity.” It’s a curious word. The online Oxford English Dictionary offers only “granular condition or quality” as a definition. A more helpful definition comes from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications: “The extent to which a larger entity is subdivided. For example, a yard broken into inches has finer granularity than a yard broken… » Continue

November 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Productivity, strategy, task | 25 comments»

Course of Actions - Task Flow Mapping Your Day

One of the things I’ve found when listing out tasks and actions, is the difficulty of organizing a list into a logical flow. Most of my day is filled with tasks that I need or want to complete in a specific order, and I wanted a simple way to map out the flow of my day. When I set out to find a way to do this, I had several… » Continue

October 20 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: flow, Productivity, task | 31 comments»

Keep Your Feet on The Ground While Deciding Time-Frame For Your Goals

Any task that you take on needs a deadline and so do the tasks that you need to accomplish to reach your goal. Deadlines allow you to concentrate on the job at hand and not let time just drift by. If you don’t set timelines you are likely to realize that many weeks have passed by and you don’t really have any work to show for them.

However, there are… » Continue

October 3 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: deadline, goal, task | 2 comments»

GTD? Try WNTGD Instead

I’m amazed at the number of postings and advice articles, let alone pieces of software, that are spawned by the GTD phenomenon. To me, it’s yet another symptom of today’s short-term mentality and our obsession with activity. Getting Things Done is useful, of course. I’m not without sympathy for people with bulging schedules and huge to-do lists, who seek a better way to organize themselves. But I think they would… » Continue

September 11 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: accomplishment, achievement, breakthrough, checklists, firstthingsfirst, focus, gtd, Lifehack, objective, procrastinating, procrastination, task, timemanagement, todo, vision | 11 comments»

Simple Steps on Handling Tasks

Fast handling of things has been the talk of the various categories of the work force for years and years. The basis of fast handling of tasks is time and mind management. It really boils down to these 2 major resources that we all have but tend to over (or under) use. The technique we will discuss here is how manage your time against your mind’s concentration in 5 simple… » Continue

December 7 2005 | By Guest | Tagged: Management, Productivity, task, todo | 4 comments»

6 Reasons on Why are You Procrastinating

Everyone procrastinates at some time in their life. As a self employed writer, I am certainly guilty as charged. I have spent many evenings cleaning the kitchen or folding the laundry instead of working on projects with looming deadlines. Through experience I have learned that there are many reason why I, and others, procrastinate and understanding these reasons has given me a new perspective on how to… » Continue

December 6 2005 | By Guest | Tagged: article, motivation, procrastination, task | 26 comments»

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