Posts Tagged ‘tracking’

6 Reasons to Track Your Progress, and 3 To Forget About It

Lately, it seems like I’ve heard a lot of suggestions to write everything down: if I want to get my finances in order, I should track every penny I spend. If I want to eat better, I should track every calorie I consume. I’m all for keeping track of progress, but I keep thinking that tracking everything is bound to get overwhelming very quickly.
6 Reasons to Track Your Progress

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August 26 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: diet, personal finance, progress, tracking | 13 comments»

Seven Questions That Will Change Your Life

Self-reflection is the name of the game. When you look back at your week, are you happy with what you’ve done? Was it productive or wasteful?

Alex Shalman asks himself seven questions each week to keep him on track. Whether or not you think all seven are necessary, looking back at your actions objectively will work in your favor. Try them out now:

1. What will I try to improve on next

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March 23 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: objective, question, tracking | 9 comments»

Bare Bones Project Hacks

Project managers seem to come in two flavors, maybe three. The first flavor are those who follow the PMI guidelines by the book. The second are those who get thrown into project management by way of the “someone had to do it” route. Third would be a hybrid. This addresses those last two types. Let’s talk about some of the basic elements of running a project, and while we’re at it, we will discuss a few methods for running projects that might prove helpful to you. » Continue

May 3 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: hack, managememt, planning, project, tracking | 18 comments»

What’s your next action?

We are now living in the hard-to-focus world. Everybody and everything wants our attention.

Therefore our attention span is getting shorter and shorter (9 seconds according to research at MIT). This is much shorter than 8 uninterrupted minutes for our brains to be creative.

As a result, we tend to forget our next actions (”WHAT was I doing?”). To avoid this, I used to use “Get back

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November 2 2005 | By Guest | Tagged: task, tracking | 4 comments»