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10 Jul 09

Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them. | Derek Sivers

  • Tests done since 1933 show that people who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen.



    Announcing your plans to others satisfies your self-identity just enough that you’re less motivated to do the hard work needed.

  • Four different tests of 63 people found that those who kept their intentions private were more likely to achieve them than those who made them public and were acknowledged by others.



    Once you’ve told people of your intentions, it gives you a “premature sense of completeness.”

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21 Feb 08

NPR: Tech Junkies Crazy About 'Getting Things Done'

  • For example, if you have something in your e-mail inbox that would take less than two minutes to respond to, then just do it: Stop putting those little things off.
  • "The whole philosophy behind it is if you clear these things out of your head that are constantly rolling around in there and cluttering things up, that you will have what David Allen calls a mind like water —
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24 Jan 08

Fire And Motion - Joel on Software

  • I remembered this for a long time. I noticed how almost every kind of military
    strategy, from air force dogfights to large scale naval maneuvers, is based on
    the idea of Fire and Motion. It took me another fifteen years to realize that
    the principle of Fire and Motion is how you get things done in life. You have to
    move forward a little bit, every day. It doesn't matter if your code is lame and
    buggy and nobody wants it. If you are moving forward, writing code and fixing
    bugs constantly, time is on your side. Watch out when your competition fires at
    you. Do they just want to force you to keep busy reacting to their volleys, so
    you can't move forward?
26 May 07

The Getting Things Done phenomenon - an update primer - CenterNetworks - News, Reviews, Insights and Interviews

  • Vitalist - Vitalist is a pretty cool web app, all around. It has plenty of tools, and ways to keep things updated and going. The coolest thing about Vitalist, I think, is the fact that you can update all of your lists, and projects, right from your 'smartphone'. Being able to modify everything, while you're on the go, is one of the things that GTD apps need to work on, it seems to keep things effective, you have to be able to update things at any given moment. So this is really my favorite GTD app. 
  • Tracks- Tracks is an open source rails app, which you host yourself. If you have Ruby on Rails setup on your webserver, this is really worth a test run. The ui isn't the greatest, but it sure gets the job done! It's got everything you need for keeping up with all of your projects, and the best thing is, that it's open source!
14 Aug 06

18 Ways to Stay Focused at Work

  • It was pretty difficult trying to stay focused in an environment like this. These days, the projects I’m on are typically smaller, but there are still a number of distractions which frequently interrupt my working groove. So what are some of the things we can do to minimise such interruptions and distractions?
02 Mar 06

Flow: How action and awareness get things done | 43 Folders

  • A few good links and snippets on Flow — a topic that’s come a couple times before here and on the group, but which seems more germane than ever given a lot of what [the royal] we have been talking about lately. More deets on buying the book at the end, although there seem to be plenty of chewy resources on the web if you just want an introduction.

MineZone Wiki | MVance / GettingThingsDone

    • consider A-Z organizing unless you need more specific filing
    • reduces number of place something isn't
    • organize by topic, project, person, or company

Time Management by Steve Pavlina

  • Since the early 1990s, I've studied time management extensively, both by devouring existing knowledge on the subject and through first-hand trial and error. I've read a shelf full of books on time management, listened to hundreds of hours of time management audio learning, and read dozens of articles on the subject. I've used a variety of time management systems including Franklin-Covey, David Allen's Getting Things Done, and Anthony Robbins' OPM. I've used PC software like Microsoft Outlook, Palm computers, and paper-based planners. If there were such a thing as a Ph.D in time management, I've gone through the curriculum many times over.
  • The sad truth is that most people are so incredibly bad at managing their time that rock-bottom personal productivity is simply accepted as normal. So anyone who can consistently invest 80% of their time each day in intelligent, productive activities is going to look like an overachiever by comparison. The average college student in particular is probably operating at only 20-30% of their capacity, and I'm referring to their social life in addition to academics.

The 50-30-20 Rule

  • A tasks
    are expected to yield significant benefits over a 5-year time span and beyond. This could include starting a new business, writing a book, changing my diet, adding a new passive income stream, etc. It’s perfectly fine for an A task to start producing benefits in a shorter period of time, but the idea is that I expect such tasks to still be having a lasting impact 5+ years from now. This has to be a genuinely realistic expectation, not just wishful thinking.

Recap: Turning procrastination into action | 43 Folders

  • Monday’s the perfect day to climb back on the horse; if you’ve been feeling behind and guilty about the crap you’ve been putting off, have a quick browse here (quick, I said). And when you’re done, try a fast dash to get back your confidence and knock down a few “mosquito tasks.”

MetaGrrrl: Getting Things Done: how I'm using it

  • I put a stake in the ground October 6th and started using Getting Things Done [quick overview of GTD] to manage my activities. I moved things out of my email inbox into the appropriate places (I "processed" my inbox, in GTDspeak).
  • Having that clean slate is proving tremendously helpful to keeping me focused and motivated. I am much less stressed since the change and finally making headway on a lot of old tasks.

43 Folders | Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part I

  • review some "best practices" for keeping a good to-do list - joel on 2005-09-23
  • Try thinking of your to-do list as an evolving plan for responsibly focusing your effort and attention in the near future. - joel on 2005-09-23
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