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Overcoming Distractions by Confronting Them
A pink elephant is any claim on attention that’s ignored instead of addressed. Try not thinking of pink elephants, and you’ll find that it’s virtually impossible for a simple reason: you have to think...
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Project Focus, One Action at a Time
Work, time and effort are often considered synonymous, so writing about productivity can be a thorny proposition. Discussing productivity as a measure of results rather than personal sacrifice requires...
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Increase Typing Speed, Increase Productivity
For anyone who works at a computer daily, few skills have higher leverage over the course of a career than fast, accurate touch typing. The benefits are by no means limited to professional typists,...
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Are Time Management Systems More Trouble Than They’re Worth?
A friend of mine from out of town met me yesterday in a cafe, catching me at the tail end of my weekly review. When she asked what I was doing, I explained the process, and she responded, “I used to...
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Separating the Thinking Process from Doing
Sometimes “almost” isn’t good enough. A restaurant that’s almost clean isn’t much different than one that’s totally filthy, since both discourage dining. Unfinished thinking has similar consequences...
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Curbing Info Porn with Batched Reading
Something snapped. Somewhere around early November, I’d been on a Low Information Diet for nearly a month. The first thing I did was dump all of my RSS feeds. Then I prohibited myself from reading...
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Six Time Management Tools from Julie Morgenstern
Time management has become increasingly important to me, despite my reservations about excessive focus on time scarcity (see my time management system smackdown). In the last six weeks, I’ve gone from...
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Using a Virtual Secretary: Sid Savara on Virtual Assistant Services
Last year, virtual outsourcing made it on my list of 10 Technologies I Resist. Adding a virtual administrative assistant to my workflow seemed like a solution looking for a problem. There wasn’t much...
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Total Capture: Getting Things Done by Getting Things Dumped
Just as a full voice mail box can’t accept new messages, a person preoccupied with too many thoughts can’t accept new ones. For many people, an excessive workload is anything beyond what they can hold...
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Time Management System Smackdown
How do you allocate time? Do you find yourself regularly seeking out large blocks of time to complete a task, only to find out afterward that it took a fraction of the expected time? Or do you often...
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