I learned to define “done” more clearly in my personal projects after discovering many unfinished tasks. By checking if a project is truly complete before starting the next one, I avoid accumulating almost-finished work and reduce mental clutter.
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I believe the zombie apocalypse is here. People glued to screens, oblivious to surroundings, resemble the undead.
Unexpectedly changed my blog’s host last week. I refreshed the theme, look, and content. Let me know your thoughts!
Some of us are sighing in relief now that December’s busyness has passed. However, busy times can come at any point in your year. Today’s episode talks about how to get through the busy times.
Have you ever forgotten to thaw the turkey? Get gifts? Mail something on time? Holiday tasks can get out of hand, and missing a deadline can be hard. Enter the Holiday Task Helper
One of the weak spots of the Getting Things Done process is that it doesn’t deal well with household and family type items. This article is the second in a series to show how you can create a system for Getting Household Things Done.
One of the big foci of Getting Things Done is handling the inputs that come into the system in such a way that you get them out of your head and into a trusted system. Once they are in the trusted system, they will be served up to you at a time and place that you can deal with them.
Today we’ve talked about the dangers of overplanning and how it ties into traditional project planning. Agile planning is a better way and we talk about how to do this.
When I made the decision to move away from Evernote I knew I had to find a new home for my information. After a lot of searching and trial and error, I settled on OneNote and Trello. However, I was facing a major pile of pain in moving the information over. There was nothing on the web that told me how to do this. So I cobbled together a solution. Today’s article is about this solution.
Every now and then I take a long look at my to do list and I realize that drastic action is called for if I am gong to significantly cut it down. I schedule a “clear the deck” day.
I never thought this would be a useful method for anyone, because honestly, how many people get that behind on their tasks? Apparently, a lot of us.