Monthly Archives: August 2009

Productivity, Motivation, and Personal Development Links – 30th August 2009

This is another post brought to you thanks to the schedule facility in WordPress as I am currently in Swaledale, Yorkshire Dales and I imagine I have no Internet access whatsoever due to the remote location I am staying in.

Here are my collection of links for this week.

My first link for this week asks the question Can Humans Cope with Information Overload? This is an interesting post that poses a question based on a review of the Create your own Economy book by Tyler Cowen.
My second link is a link to 8 Great Ways to Motivate Yourself When You Just Don’t Feel Like It. We all need motivation from time to time and some of these tips hit the procrastination nail directly on the head!
My third link is a link to a post about how to Make an effective to-do list. These type of lists are very important to any productivity practitioner. It is more the act of recording that is important in my own opinion. Get those Open Loops closed!
My fourth link is the author of Phoat.com’s take on Getting Things Done. It is always interesting to read other peoples take on the GTD system. One of the things I like about GTD is how people integrate it into their lives in slightly different ways, and they all work!
My fifth and last link is a link to an interesting post titled What is Your Brain Doing While You Are Sleeping? There are some interesting topics in this post that make you think!

Wishing you all a very productive week ahead!

How I Get Things Done Video – Brent Newhall

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This is a nice little video from Brent Newhall that I recently found via Twitter. Worth a look, I need to make one of these for myself..

Productivity, Motivation, and Personal Development Links – 23rd August 2009

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First week back and my feet have hardly touched the ground!

Spent a few days trawling through my emails and allocating these to where they should be. I collected over 100 tasks whilst away on OmniFocus for iPhone so these all needed sorting. In fact, Tuesday/Wednesday of this week turned into a great two day review of my current tasks and projects. A mammoth weekly review!

Looking forward to another great week. I am away Thursday to Tuesday in Reeth, Swaledale for another break, looking forward to it already!

Here are my collection of links for this week.

My first link for this week is a great post from Web Worker Daily titled Postponed: Procrastination. Procrastination is productivity’s biggest enemy! and one which we all face. It is so easy to put things off and drift in the ether rather than focus and do. Great tips from a great blog.
My second link is a link to txtGTD, a text based GTD system. This is a cool little script written in AutoHotKey for Windows or Perl for WIndows, Linux, and Mac. I have just found this myself and I am looking at the Perl version as it looks quirky and cool. Check it out and let me know your thoughts on it.
My third link is a link to a post titled How To Get More Done As A Freelance Web Designer. Although this is aimed at Web Designers, there are some great generic tips from Lee Munroe, the author of this blog.
My fourth link is another Gmail GTD tip titled GTD Action Lists and Gmail Labels from the pennies in a jar blog. Again, I do not use Gmail but I know a lot of people do so be sure to check out this cool little post about GTD using Gmail.
My fifth and last link is a link to a review of the Things GTD iPhone application. Nice little review of a great app that I am sure I would use if I was not hooked on OmniFocus!

Wishing you all a very productive week ahead!

Productivity, Motivation, and Personal Development Links – 16th August 2009

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Well, I am now home after an amazing holiday in Italy.

We stayed for two weeks at Union Lido in Cavallino, around 10 miles east of Venice in Northern Italy.

I have only been back a couple of hours So I will be brief as food calls and so does a nice bed!

Here are my collection of links for this week.

My first link for this week is a blog post titled GTD: Its more about ‘habit’ than the latest application. This is so true. You can get bewildered by all the shiny new applications and accessories for the act of getting things done when you can pretty much cover the basics of a system with just a paper and pencil.
My second link is a link to a post about How to turn GMail into your Ultimate GTD Inbox. This is a great post from LifeHacker.com that is well worth a read if GMail is your mail client of choice.
My third link is a link to a post from the Achieve Anything blog titled How to Manage Your Mind and Figure Out What Drives You. Great little tips from yet another great Twitter find.
My fourth link is a link from the Collegiate Times about Getting Things Done through Organization to Succeed. This is a post from a regular columnist after reading the Getting Things Done book by David Allen for the first time. Wouldn’t it be great to teach this skill to all college students?
My fifth and last link is a link to the first of an interesting set of posts regarding Biphasic sleep and productivity. This interests me as this is something I have considered..

Loads of thoughts collected whilst away so I will be back soon!

Also, be sure to follow me on Twitter as I post great Productivity and Motivational links on a daily basis!

Productivity, Motivation, and Personal Development Links – 9th August 2009

Robert Scoble, Michael Deutch, and Mind Mapping

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What a great combination to get together and make a video!

Robert Scoble (scobleizer) is one of the best tech bloggers and tech evangelists, Michael Deutch is a Mind Mapping Evangelist for MindJet, the creators of MindManager.

I love Mind Mapping and I map every day!

Here is an awesome 27 minute video where Robert and Michael discuss Mind Mapping and the MindManager product.

I hope you agree with me that this is an awesome video, thanks Robert and Michael!

Productivity, Motivation, and Personal Development Links – 2nd August 2009

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By now I will be in Italy drinking a cold Peroni watching an amazing sunset with my family on a well deserved holiday!

I had another busy week leading up to this break and I have managed to write these posts before I went away and they will be scheduled as usual on Sunday’s so as to not break my current 100% record of weekly productivity links.

Here are my collection of links for this week.

My first link for this week is a great post from the Download squad about choosing a GTD workflow and sticking with it. Some great simple steps here from an author who I believe really does get the GTD principle. It doesn’t matter how you do it as long as you do it, and stick with it!
My second link is a link to a post about preventing procrastination. The post it titled 10 Ways To Give Yourself A Procrastination Inoculation and is a guest post from Karen Leland.
My third link is a link to a post from the Technoblabble blog titled Choosing the best GTD To Do List Software for PC, Windows Mobile and iPhone. Nice post for Windows users with some great software recommendations for Windows, online, and iPhone usage,
My fourth link is a link to link to a post from CrankingWidgets about using 37Signals BackPack to Get Things Done. The author has switched back from Remember The Milk to BackPack and outlines the reasons for doing so in this great post from a great blog.
My fifth and last link is a link to a a blog post from the OmniGroup titled OmniFocus for iPhone: The Coolest Feature You’re Probably Not Using. I love OmniFocus for the iPhone so be sure to check this out if you also use or are thinking of using OmniFocus on your iPhone.

I hope you all have a great week, I know I will!

Also, be sure to follow me on Twitter as I post great Productivity and Motivational links on a daily basis!