Productivity, Motivation, and Personal Development Links – 4th January 2009
Christmas is all over with, the decorations came down today and here we are at the first weekly post of the New Year. I hope you all had a great time and I hope you are all ready for the year ahead.
I am sat in a hotel in Basingstoke, UK with only a 2G connection as the hotel has no WiFi. One day all hotels in the UK will have WiFi as standard without charging us £15 for a days usage and ripping us off. Anyway, rant over.
Here are my collection of links for this week.
Amazon’s Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions
Amazon.com are getting into the spirit of the New Year and they have launched a promotion to cover the Top Ten New Year's Resolutions.
They are taking a poll as to what the top New Year's Resolution is as well as providing a forum for people to discuss their resolutions. Of course, for every resolution topic there are links to some discounted products on Amazon.com as well, so that can cash in on their advice although I do like Amazon and have no issue spending money with them.
According to Amazon.com, the current Top Ten New Year's Resolutions are:
David Allen Interviewed by Robert Scoble
Just thought I would share this great interview with David Allen, author of Getting Things Done (GTD) with Robert Scoble on WorkFast.tv.
The interview is 30 minutes long and David Allen goes through the basics of GTD and how David came to create the GTD system.
This is a great video from two great thought leaders of our time, not to be missed!
What is your Best iPhone Productivity App for 2008?
The 2008 Best App Ever awards started yesterday and run through to the 6th of January.
Starting December 31st, 2008 we'll take the 5 top nominations in each category and add 5 nominations from our list of iPhone bloggers, developers, and general web-celebrities for each category to come up with 10 nominated apps for each category. In addition, the 10 apps that get the most votes across all categories will compete for the title of Best App Ever. Please come back and vote for your favorite app in each category.
You have the chance to vote for your best ever iPhone apps of 2008. There is a category for the best ever Productivity Enhancer Application for 2008. The choices are:
Did I Get Things Done in 2008?
Here we are at the end of another year.
This has been a challenging year for me with some great things and some not so great thing been thrown at my by life. Business has been good, and my company is growing and looks forward to an even better 2009.
I feel like my productivity has really come on leaps and bounds in 2008. I am one of those people who have to be productive. Productivity is essential for me to keep my head above water and to give me the quality of life that I demand.
Productivity, Motivation, and Personal Development Links – 28th December 2008
Well, Christmas is over for another year. I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and you didn't over indulge too much. At least leaving some space for the New Year Celebrations!
I had a great Christmas. Nice quality time with the family and it was the first Christmas that my twins really understood. Seeing it all through a child's eye is what makes Christmas so special.
On Christmas Eve, the post lady delivered me a nice surprise, my copy of the new David Allen Book, Making it all Work. I have already started reading it and will be reviewing it as I read it rather than at the end. I may get the first review done today if I get the time as we are heading out to Aysgarth Falls in the Yorkshire Dales for a nice walk and then some food.
iXpenseIt iPhone App – Keep Track of Your Receipts
iXpenseIt is an iPhone application meant to help users to keep track of their daily finances through easy management of purchases and spending patterns.
By making excellent use of the iPhone's built-in features iXpenseIt can help both organize your expenses and/or get you started on the path toward using any sort of money management tool.
The application keeps records of all inputted purchases and tracks the information in a number of useful manners. Users can choose to view their data through a variety of different displays.
Merry Christmas to All
Just a quick note to wish all my readers a very Merry Christmas!
I am looking forward to relaxing over the next few days and being as merry as I can. My copy of Making it All Work by David Allen arrived today, so I will start to read it over Christmas and report all about it here on this blog.
Enjoy the festive season and get ready for the New Year!
How to Encrypt your notes in Evernote
Being a security guy myself, the storage of personal data on public servers is always a matter of concern.
Luckily, I have just come across a cool little video showing you how to encrpyt and decrypt your notes in Evernote.
I love little snippets of information such as this. Isn't it great that we can get information such as this at our fingertips free of charge. Enjoy!
New Year Strategic Planning MindMap
The great folks over at MindJet have just released a Strategic Planning Mind Map that I am sure will help us all in taking stock and reviewing 2009.
The Mind Map is broken down into 5 steps:
I think this is a great Mind Map and something that we can all use for planning 2009. You can read the original post over at the MindJet Blog.
