Posts Tagged ‘gtd’

Back to Basics: Processing

In my first installment of “Back to Basics”, I discussed the importance of your inbox – a single place for collecting all of your inputs for processing. In this installment, we’ll discuss the processing itself – how to turn inputs into action.

In principle, processing is simple. All it means is making a decision about what to do with every piece of information that enters your… » Continue

June 27 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: back-to-basics, decision-making, gtd, processing | 1 comment»

Back to Basics: Your Inbox

This is the first post in an ongoing series I’m calling “back to Basics”, a “refresher course” in personal productivity. For people just starting to grapple with issues of productivity, it will serve as an introduction to the basic concepts that underlie much of what we write here at Lifehack. For more advanced readers, it will serve as a reminder of what you thought you were setting out to do… » Continue

June 20 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: back-to-basics, capture, collection, gtd, inbox | 15 comments»

Lifehack Live for June 9: Danny Bader of the David Allen Co.

In this week’s episode of Lifehack Live, I spoke with Danny Bader, a coach and presenter at the David Allen Company about coaching, GTD, staying organized, and lots more.

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June 9 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: david_allen, gtd, Podcast | 1 comment»

Join Me at 10am PST for Lifehack Live! Today: Danny Bader of the David Allen Company

Join me live for today’s recording of Lifehack Live at 10am PST. Visit the site and listen to the live stream, and call in during the show with your own questions and comments.

Today, I’ll be speaking with Danny Bader, a productivity coach and presenter at the David Allen Company. We’ll be talking about GTD: eresistances to it, introducing the people around you to it, and moving… » Continue

June 5 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: gtd, Podcast | no comments»

Boredom Can Be Good For You

Being bored will help you be better at what you do

There are a great many books, web sites, and training courses today more or less dedicated to the idea that being bored is a major sin, for which the only cure is to find ways to be busy and productive every waking moment. People who follow this idea are constantly on-the-go — any feelings of boredom quickly smothered with… » Continue

June 1 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: active, attention-span, boredom, effectiveness, gtd, personal growth, thinking | 12 comments»

How to Improve Your Memory

Our memory is one of the integral parts of day-to-day human life. We’re using it every moment, consciously or not, as we perceive the world and interpret it based on our memories and experiences, or as we look for the car keys, trying to recall where, exactly, was the last place they were seen?

It’s no small wonder that this part of our brain would fall prey to such… » Continue

April 21 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: diet, exercise, gtd, meditation, memory, minimalism, mnemonics | 5 comments»

Are You Lifehacking Too Much?

Nick Cernis of Put Things Off recently declared that productivity is dead. He said that “our obsession with ‘productivity’ is getting in the way of our lives.” Nick started out by saying that the productivity industry is out of control, and that it’s making us less efficient, not more. I agree with Nick, and I can tell you why the productivity industry is like that: it’s about… » Continue

April 14 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: action, gtd, implementation, information, motivation, systems | 9 comments»

Working in Project Space

One of the givens in David Allen’s Getting Things Done is that you can’t “do” a project. Instead, Allen recommends you break projects down into immediate “next actions”, discrete doable chunks that can be “cranked through” with a minimum of effort.

While this approach works pretty well for a lot of tasks, it falls short for a lot of creative people for whom the “meat” of their work cannot… » Continue

April 14 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: creativity, distraction, gtd, procrastination, Productivity | 16 comments»

Getting Green Done

With Earth Hour behind us and Earth Day on the way, we thought April would be a good month for Lifehack.org to think Green. In the weeks ahead, you can expect to see posts reflecting all manner of perspectives on how to “Green up” your work and life.

Nowadays, you can hardly swing a free-range cat without hitting someone making Green claims. Products tout their 35% post-consumer-waste packaging and their… » Continue

April 2 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: environment, green, gtd, planning, Productivity, sustainability | 14 comments»

5 Ways to get out of faffing mode

Faffing - The art of doing something without achieving anything”
Faffing affects all of us, in all areas of life and it means doing something without achieving an outcome. It affects business, personal life, writing, internet surfing, and domestic life.

To give you an example: As I am writing an article I am aware that I have to do a bit of stumbling in order to… » Continue

April 2 2008 | By Steven | Tagged: faffing, gtd, procrastination, Productivity | 19 comments»

What’s Missing in Productivity Today?

This month, we asked Lifehack.org contributors — and you, our readers — to think about the things that are missing in today’s productivity systems. Not only the areas where the "Big Name" systems fall short, but the gaps in our own systems, the places where we as individuals fall down.

The Lifehack.org community rose to the challenge, offering a variety of thought-provoking posts and comments that… » Continue

March 28 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice, contact-management, failure, gtd, information management, perfectionism, Productivity, software, time-management, tips | 7 comments»

Audiobook Review: David Allen’s “GTD > Weekly Review”

One of the most difficult demands that David Allen’s Getting Things Done makes on followers of his system is to set aside a couple of hours a week for a weekly review. It’s hard enough to find the single block of uninterrupted time, but harder still to know what to do with it. Allen only devotes five pages to the weekly review in Getting Things Done, and maybe a… » Continue

March 7 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: audiobook, david_allen, gtd, review, weekly_review | 11 comments»

Personal Productivity in the 21st Century

What does it mean to be productive? The “gurus” have given us a few ideas — it means to “get things done”, to be “highly effective”, to know who it was, exactly, who moved your cheese. What things, effective at what, and who is bringing cheese to work anyway are questions that these books don’t — and can’t — answer.

There’s something profoundly old-fashioned about much of our productivity literature… » Continue

March 5 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: gtd, habits, knowledgework, Productivity, working | 41 comments»

Why doing nothing may sometimes be the best action of all

Fresh research suggests our bias for action is emotional, not rational.

An article by Patricia Cohen in the New York Times “Business Day” section on March 1st, reporting on a study made by economist Ofer H. Azar at Ben-Gurion University of Negev in Israel, adds another dimension to the topic of the last article I wrote for Lifehack.org.

In what I wrote then, I wondered whether… » Continue

March 5 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: gtd, inaction, psychology, research, stillness | 14 comments»

Do you REALLY need to get yet more things done?

Maybe today’s fashion for increasing personal productivity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

Increasing your personal productivity is the subject matter of a slew of books, magazine articles, and more than a few successful blogs. It’s fashionable, popular, and, most of all, highly profitable for the authors and writers of software. But does that make it right?

I believe that more cookery books are published each year that any other… » Continue

February 21 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: gtd, organization, Productivity, time-management, work-ethic | 27 comments»

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