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See the new post “Hard-earned lessons on structure”

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Intentional thinking is not commonplace. So many of the people that I talk to recently are just scrambling. Working as fast as they can and being busy all of the time just to keep afloat. We need to work a little smarter everyday, just a little, so that we can get ahead of that overload and start to whittle it down. Then we can really start Thinking and making bigger, and better, improvements that will have successively greater impacts.

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Your title is: “The Chronotrons”

In a post-apocalyptic terraformed Mars, a young student of metaphysics stumbles across a dream-inducing drug which spurs him into conflict with computer viruses made real, with the help of a tomboyish female mechanic and her reference book, culminating in the invocation of a spell at the last possible moment.

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I have updated the 2010 GTD Calendar and posted the links at my new site, read about it here: 2010 GTD Calendar.

The F-Pattern Put to Practical Use

The result of this work is a set of calendar pages that incorporates the “F-pattern” in its design. Set up as a two-page system, the vertical left-hand column of each page in your DIY Planner is set aside for the most important items that you need to look at.

The strategy behind this design is to incorporate the natural eye-movements in the “F-pattern” found in the eye-tracking study:

* The “Big Rocks” are listed first, on the left-hand edge of the page. This is where your eyes spend the most time, and this is where you look first while planning and executing.

* Your ‘Most Important Tasks’ get listed at the top of the column for each day.

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