The Ten Commandments Of Productivity
And the website opened up, and they were pleased to behold a new set of wisdom, shining before them. It shone forth on them, bathing them in a white glow from the screen. And thus it read:
How To Recognize and Avoid Extending Sunk Costs
According to Wikipedia, sunk costs are "past costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered." Usually an economic term, it also applies to other areas of our lives. Failing to recognize them means we put time and energy into something simply because you already have. That is not necessarily wise.
How To Decide What Task To Do Next
One thing I’ve learned over the years is that it is easier to choose between two options than it is to choose between twenty. By ranking your tasks in two different ways, you can limit your choices and make deciding what to do next easy.
Using and Creating OneNote Templates
Since I released my video on my OneNote work planning system, I have gotten questions about how to personalize the notebook. This video is about how to save time and effort by using templates to customize a OneNote notebook.
Do You Fall For These Time Management Lies?
Time management is the key to make sure that you don't fritter away a precious resource on meaningless activities - at least without meaning to. Yet many people fall for time management lies, much to their detriment. Do you fall for these time management lies?
Frogs and Productivity
What do frogs have to do with productivity? Mark Twain helps with getting those big things out of the way first thing. But what about the rest?
Next Actions Done Right
Next actions are defined as "the very next physical action required to move the situation forward" according to Getting Things Done. But this all depends on your definition of "forward".
Making Systems To Support Us
The systems that help our weaknesses are really the only ones we have to try for. We have to recognize our weaknesses and find tools to help us past them. And it doesn’t matter if it is due to neurodivergence, or if it is something brought on by stress, overwhelm and overextension.
Boiling Water, Or Being Aware of Stress
There's an old wives' tale that if you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water he will jump out, but if you put a frog in a pot of cool water and slowly raise it to boiling the frog will allow himself to be boiled to death.
The "temperature" of our lives is our stress level, and we react the same way.
The "temperature" of our lives is our stress level, and we react the same way.
OneNote Tips for Linking and Page Generation
These are the tips that I used to quickly generate a work productivity system using OneNote. This video shows two different shortcuts for linking, making pages from a list, and using templates to speed up page creation.