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March 9th, 2010Getting Started with GTD – podcast
November 14th, 2009Great new podcast from the David Allen company on how to get going with GTD. Give it a listen:
http://www.gtdtimes.com/2009/11/09/getting-started-with-gtd/
Everything You Ever Really Needed to Know about Personal Finance on One Page
May 8th, 2009…or 49 pages.
Came across this excellent guide written by Trent Hamm at his website simpledollar.com. If you like what you see in this guide, it represents just a small portion of this great stuff he has on there.
What it all comes down to is:
1) Spend less than you earn
2) Live Frugal
3) Earn More
4) Manage Your Money
5) Control Your Own Destiny
Lifehack: 10 YouTube URL Tricks You Should Know About
May 7th, 2009Whether you are a blogger or someone who forwards YouTube videos to all your friends on your distribution list the following website gives some great tips on how to make YouTube more useful for you.
By adding the following extentions listed in the link to YouTube URL’s you can do such things as have a video start at a specific spot in a video, disable the related video feature, autoloop or autoplay an embedded video. Great hacks to know
Productivity possible with Facebook, Twitter and other social apps?
March 10th, 2009In todays online edition of Business Week David Allen writes a guest column entitled: “Time Management in the Age of Social Media.” As a person who frequents both twitter and facebook I ask myself if these social networking sites are productive or black holes of time. David Allen writes:
“The most obvious issue about social media: Is this a useful way to spend your time, or is it a sinkhole of attractive distraction? It could very easily be one of those one minute, and the other the next! It all depends on why you’re doing it, and this must be evaluated moment to moment. It’s an important distinction to make for yourself, because focus is probably your greatest asset that you can control. You must be judicious about where you place it and what you let grab it, thus reducing your effectiveness.”
Read the full article at businessweek.com here
Free Resume Print Hack
March 9th, 2009FYI for the increasingly larger portion of the population that is looking for work. Tomorrow (March 10, 2009) the FedEx Office / Kinkos stores are going to be offering up to 25 free copies of your resume when you bring in a paper or CD copy of it. See the full story at lifehacker.com.
The Mind: Why its a Horrible Master and How to Squeeze the Most Out of it
March 4th, 2009Always love to hear and watch when two people I am fans of get together to chat and exchange ideas. If you have read this blog you know about my man-crush on David Allen but I also very much enjoy the work Leo Laporte does on the TWIT network. In February ‘09 David and Leo connected on TWIT Live and exchanged some great ideas about how the mind works, why it is a horrible master and how to squeeze the most out of it. Watch the video and read some of the main ideas below presented below:
- When you hold something in your mind it has no sense of past or future – it thinks you should be doing it all the time psychologically which is why it will wake you up at 3 in the morning and beat you bloody about something you cant do anything about while you are lying in bed.
- Its telling you that you need to go buy batteries when in fact you cant buy batteries from bed at 3 in the morning.
- Once you get it out the brain calms down and lets go. The brain realizes it no longer needs to hang on to that and will allow you to renegotiate that agreement with yourself.
- You cant renegotiate agreements you cant remember you made so you have to get them out of your head and look at them and say, ‘no, not right now!’ (thus the importance of having a ubiquitous capture tool at hand at all times)
- You mind is for having ideas but not hanging on to them.
- Your mind needs to be free to express and expand… so the more you can trust that on the back end that you have an executive process that can handle things the more freedom it will have on the front end
What is a life hack?
February 24th, 2009Lifehack.org describes it as “any hacks, tips and tricks that get things done quickly by automating, increase productivity and organizing.”
Lifehacker.com explains that its website, which is dedicated to publishing life hacks, as “tips, shortcuts, and downloads that help you get things done smarter and more efficiently.”
The term originated from a man by the name of Danny O’Brien who studied and polled a group of highly productive computer programmers versus their less fruitful piers. O’Brien summarized his research in a 2004 presentation called Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks. Sounds like a fun read! From this point websites and blogs such as the two listed above as well as 43Folders.com and ZenHabits.net emerged – among others – as places to go to learn about such tricks and hacks.
In future posts I am going to focus more on some of these simple ideas I have picked up on. In the meantime I thought I would provide some links to some of the better posts I have found online.
Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks lifehacker.com
Top 42 Exercise Hacks zenhabits.net
Peter Walsh’s Clever Hanger Trick 43folders.com
50 Ways to Make Your Home more Organized, More Attractive, and More Efficient lifehack.org
BNET.com Book Breif: Making it all Work by David Allen
February 19th, 2009So much to do, so little time! Time management and productivity guru, David Allen takes his bestselling book, Getting Things Done, to new heights with Making It All Work. In this video, he illustrates how to gain control of your to-do list and offers tips for finding focus and perspective.
Flip Note Review
February 16th, 2009My first stab at a video blog.
If you want to see more about the Flip Note check out www.flipnotefan.com