Is your desk a mess? Cables running everywhere, papers stacked two feet high, cups, holders and bins everywhere? A clean and organized workspace will do wonders for your productivity and your state of mind. This week Lifehacker ran a series of posts on how to “Supercharge Your Workspace”. There were lots of good ideas for improving your workspace with do it yourself projects and tips. … [Read more...]
Management Tools – Time and Problem Management Simplified
If you are an active manager, always on the go or away from your desk I have an invaluable tool to help you with time and problem management. A pen and a pocket list. It is a very simplified “Getting Things Done” system, and very useful for active managers. The concept is simple. Take a standard sheet of paper, fold it once and then again into a nice neat square. You will end up with four … [Read more...]
Top Ten Personal Productivity and GTD Web Sites
Time is something we can never get enough of. Knowing how to make the best use of your time will allow you to become more productive and leave more time to enjoy the things you would rather be doing. Personal productivity, life hacks and “Getting Things Done” are all terms used to describe methods of becoming more productive at work, at home and in your personal life. Following on my … [Read more...]
Place Your Outlook Calendar on Your Desktop
Outlook on the Desktop is a neat little utility that embeds a fully functional transparent Outlook calendar on your desktop. You can easily view your appointments on your desktop and since it is a functional Outlook calendar, you can interact with it. You can also have multiple Microsoft Outlook panes pinned to your desktop such as Contacts, Inbox, Notes and Tasks. Features Places fully … [Read more...]
An Inside Look Video of David Allen Getting Things Done
David Allen the author of Getting Things Done has a new video on YouTube. The video gives you a look around his office, his desk and his filing system. While he is unpacking from a road trip he shows us his primary capture tools and speaks a little about clearing out his inbox. He shows us his read and review files, his organization files folders, current projects folders, and his system … [Read more...]
XOBNI Adds Third Party Content to Microsoft Outlook Add-on
XOBIN (Inbox spelled backwards) is a fantastic add-on for Microsoft Outlook. I have used it for many months and it has proven to be a valuable tool to deal with email. It indexes your email and allows you to easily search for text, file attachments and shows you information about your contacts not found in Outlook. Now XOBNI has added support for third party platforms such as Yahoo Mail, … [Read more...]
10 Ways To Motivate Your Mind On Monday
It is Monday morning and for whatever reason you can not seem to get going. Here are 10 techniques to spark your mind at work and get your day off to a positive start. 1. Commit to a quick win. Think of a task you know you can get done quickly and do it. You will jump start your brain and get satisfaction from getting a task out of the way. 2. Take a break. You've been at work for less … [Read more...]
To-Do Lists – Getting Started
Do often feel overwhelmed by the amount of work you have to do? Do you sometimes forget to do something important? If so you are not alone. Most of us work in an environment of information overload. One of the most useful tools to tackle this problem are To-Do lists. To-Do lists are organized and prioritized lists of everything you have to do. You can have as many to-do lists as you need. It is … [Read more...]