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Welcome and a Brief Introduction
September 25th, 2007 by StephenPosted in Content, GTD, Global Microbrand, Work 2.0 |
Welcome back! It's good to see you again. Please note that I am now publishing all new material at my hub site: StephenPSmith.com
There have been quite a few new subscribers over the past couple of weeks, so I thought that I would roll out the red carpet for you all. Thank you for subscribing, I know that your time is valuable and I work to provide value for your investment of time.
Links to GTD Basics
This blog is a record of my Getting Things Done practice, as well as commentary on Leadership, New Media, Web 2.0, and the Future of Work. Here are a few links that go back into the archives, discussing some of the basic features of Getting Things Done productivity:
- The complete set-up
- Tickler File
- Create your own Organizer
- Weekly Review
- Goal-setting
- Changing Your Habits
Guest Posts and Book Reviews
HD BizBlog is proud to be host two great guest columnists every week, Al from 7pproductions on Mondays, and Mike St. Pierre’s GTD Cafe every Wednesday. There is always room for additional writers who would like to get involved in the HD BizBlog community. Please send an e-mail ( stephen [at] hdbizblog [dot] com ) if you are interested in contributing.
I have reviewed a handful of books and productivity gear, you can see those efforts here:
- How, by Dov Seidman
- Made to Stick, by Chip & Dan Heath
- The 360 Degree Leader, by John C. Maxwell
- Everyone’s an Expert, by Seth Godin
- Also, my thoughts and inspirations via The Cluetrain Manifesto, the most important business book of the past 20 years!
- The Bubble Planner, a new vision in planning and organizing.
- Rollabind Notebook
This is only a short list of what is available. Please take a look around at your leisure, and feel free to contact me with any questions or suggestions.
The Sidebar
There is an awful lot of information in the sidebar, including Microchannels on the assorted category tags, links to other productivity blogs, Resource pages, a list of books on productivity and personal growth (via Amazon affiliate links), and the GTD System lens at Squidoo. The lens has a Plexo with a list of top GTD and Productivity blogs where you can vote for your favorite, or add your own to the running. (There are also some ads in the sidebar, a necessary evil for defraying the hosting costs. Clicking the links helps me help you, it can’t hurt!)
“Coming Attractions”
Some of the posts and projects that I am working on include:
- More on The Art of Productivity
- A set of “How-to” e-books and training courses
- A new theme and organization scheme
- A 2008 version of the GTD Calendar (full- and half-page) (Click here, it’s ready!)
Thank you again for reading and subscribing, I am looking forward to seeing the community continue to grow. Please, leave a comment, I would love to hear your feedback.
If you found this post useful, please share it with your friends on Twitter using the tinylink http://tinyurl.com/68wa4e. Thanks, I appreciate it! Feel free to comment below, I enjoy discussing these ideas. ~@Stephen
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December 4th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
First time visiting site…trying read on a hand held, but it’s too difficult to see. I’m getting a black background with dark lettering. Is it me or or is that the way it should look?
February 24th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I’d like to share with everybody online instrument, that I used as the productivity tool. Life-log.com is a service based on a very
comfortable and productive approach which I really appreciate.What I really hated in similar tools was that it took so much time
and efforts to track different things and daily activities. And you then spend a lot of time trying to understand what I did in the
past and how much time it took. And then you still do not have clear picture.
In a theory I like DARPA approach to life logging (sure, I’d like to have all the information confidential and clar to me only), i.e.
total trackintg of anything we do. But there is no readily available tools to track everything (and more important - get a real
value out of those data to increase productivity, or make my life more conscious or simply become happier). So, when I looked
into Life-log.com approach I told myself - ha, that’s what I like. Now, my personal comments on this tool advantages (sure, it is
my opinion only, but I know that there are probably another 10% of all people who’s the same way of thinking):
1. It take some time to think of things you’d like to track, it’s priority scale, desired timing and cost/value. It can be activities in
the office, it can be off-the-job activities or physical conditions of your body, or grass height on your lawn, whatever you feel is
interesting for you to see changing in time. Once you decide - you create so called projects (any number of them) and put
whatever you decided to track into those projects.
2. Then all the efforts for tracking things are simply clicking on the buttons named after things you decided to track (and
sometimes putting in figures or comments, but very rarely). The system is based on chess clock principles, i.e. one activity at a
time and start of activity means stop for the previous one, so you don’t need to think of too many things to track - just of one
thing you are doing RIGHT NOW.
3. What is important to me is that there is an opportunity to track results in different areas. It is a fun to see that life is like a
wave (and there is a real feeling of life wave frequency when you have enough data).
All the above is good, and in some time - couple of weeks, maybe month, I clearly understand where my time is spent. But
what is the most interesting, that I started to feel how time is flowing, started to feel that I need a real target to spend my time
to do important things in my life, with priority #1 at the best. I started to think about what my life is - my job, or my home, or
something in future or…. Extremely unusual feeling.
Moreover, I also started to track different things - my exercises, blood presssure, weather, mood, productivity, how I sleep,
how easily money goes in and out, how I talk to people etc. And I have a feeling that now I can predict the best time for each
activity with quite high probability.
Maybe it was a bit emotional or boring, but anybody can go and check it back. Life-log.com (although a lot to do, say add
mobile phones or i-Phone to the list of supported tools)