I wrote a few weeks ago about my aim to totally revamp my home office and make it a truly productive home office . Well, I just thought I would provide an update as to where I am with this. After deciding to proceed, I removed everything out of my home office and I was amazed with how much clutter I had accumulated over the years. There was no way that I was going to move all of this back into my new office. I removed my wall units and filled the walls to make it a clear canvas! I then had the walls painted and bought a new carpet.

I’ve been a fan of Google’s Calendar feature for a few years, as well as a user of Gmail for all of my email needs since before it came out of beta testing.  Google recently answered one of my personal productivity “wish list” items with its launch of a new “Tasks” management system. The Tasks, available from Google Labs, enables you to add items to a virtual “to do” list, assign due dates, and document details in notes.  The feature even gives “type A” personalities like me the satisfaction of checking a box when you’ve completed a task and seeing it crossed off your list.

Do it, defer it, and delegate it; the two minute rule; and organizing your practice Today’s guest post is by Larry Port, Founding Partner and Chief Software Architect for Rocket Matter, LLC . This post is part of series of posts on the Getting Things Done (”GTD”) productivity system that Larry is writing for top legal blogs this week. In our GTD for lawyers series so far we’ve discussed the basics of GTD, and introduced important concepts. We looked at writing your to-dos as “Next Action” items, and aggressively capturing all “open loops” (incomplete items). Now it’s time to start looking at organizing and prioritizing.

Successful people make things happen by engaging their world in a way that it will supply them with the experiences and results they seek. David Allen’s book Getting Things Done offers the most coherent and comprehensive strategy available today for personal and professional effectiveness.

I recently treated myself to a netbook. Partly to save my back, mainly so I could get work done on the go. The netbook runs on XP (which I intend on keeping at the moment so shht) Having been a Mac person for far too long, and having not used windows in a very long time (Uni computers don’t count – they have limited access anyway, which is fair enough) I’ve forgotten that IT services in institutions have the facility to block stuff on your own (Windows) machine when using their wifi.

WTF? is a daily web show for small business owners and entrepreneurs who want to learn how to naturally attract customers and get the FAME and FORTUNE they deserve. I’m sure you’ve heard about the law of attraction. Many people think just because we talk about “The Science Of Attracting Customers” that we mean through the Law Of Attraction… that’s not really what we mean.

In America, we have two extremes. We have the liberals and the conservatives. We have Democrats and Republicans. We have people who are for same sex marriage, and we have people who are against same sex marriage. So it’s only natural in this extremist society that a new type of Bridezilla emerges out of the woodwork that is to the left of the original. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: the DIYzilla.

I like to be efficient so that i can make time for the most important things – like reading, writing, and thinking. I have compiled a list of links with overviews so that you might be able to make use of some of these resources too. This list isn’t exhaustive and doesn’t even represent all of the sites that I have found helpful but it is a start. The stand-out one stop shop is Jamie Littlefield’s “Self-made Scholar” with her Self-education Resource List which contains a helpful list of links to full-text resources, tools, online learning and education communities, applications, and libraries.

Thursday, July 16, 2009 It’s hard to believe that this month of July is halfway over! And I’m halfway done with work before three days off (I had to work two days and one of them is done!) Actually, speaking of work, it was a fairly GOOD night.  I was all caught up fairly early.  No major issues.  I was a little nervous because as I was walking into work, a black cat crossed my path .  It was the strangest thing!  I was walking towards the hospital from the parking lot and I saw a black

There are lots of excuses people make for not progressing in a language; I’m not smart enough , it’s too hard, I can’t remember any words , etc. But the one I’ll almost always hear is I don’t have any time . Time is a funny thing. It can fly, run out, and be up. It can be spent, killed, and passed. It will tell and it is money. With all of these amazing things time does, people never seem to actually have any of it!! People seem to think that if you get more done in a day, you simply have more “free” time than they do.

there are moments very recently when the way i feel can only be described as the world hitting me from all sides. (i know that i have been way angsty of late here, mainly because i don’t have time to blog all of the awesome that happens every day (although after friday, i will most definitely be recapping you on my THREE bridal showers…all of which were VERY different, i can assure you). ) people told me that things were going to be crazy.

Filed under: Business , World wide web , Windows , Macintosh , Linux , Productivity , Web services , Adobe , Commercial , Beta While it seems that task managers are everywhere these days, there’s a good reason for it. Task management is all about working out a process for getting your tasks done, and there are a million different work flows. If you’re not one for a regimented methodology like Getting Things Done, but need to implement a tool that grants a team to collaborate, check out Colabolo .

there are big things going on these days.  people are gettin’ hitched, having babies, and more.  my news may not be as life-changing or impressive but it’s still a big deal for me and therefore worthy of sharing.sunday night, embracing a new joy-free life, i had a first.yup, yup, yup–i mowed my lawn!this was HUGE!though there are many things i have loved about my 6 years of living with joy, the fact that mowing the lawn wasn’t a “man job” in her mind was a nice perk.

Are you one of the people who make TO DO Lists in order to get your things done? If you answered YES, then it is a fair bet that your to do list is getting longer by the day and it seems that there are some things that never get done. I am here to change that by introducing a new concept – A Not To Do List! Make a Not To Do List This is the true secret of getting things done! Instead of making a list of things that you want to get done, sit down every evening and make a list of the things you want to avoid doing the next day.

OrganiseFollow The “Rule Of Three” When EntertainingBy Azadeh Ensha on July 16, 2009 at 3:30 AM Whether you’re planning an informal get-together or fancy sit-down meal, striking the right balance between too many and too little guests can make or break a party. Here’s a quick rule of thumb to follow.Photo by nickstone333.When it comes to dinner guests, home weblog Apartment Therapy writes that three is the magic number. One guest doesn’t disrupt our routine that much.

As many of you know, I use RocketMatter as my case management program for my legal practice.  Being a solo practitioner who is often moving from place to place, a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution such as RocketMatter greatly enhances my ability to have access to my client data from any location via my iPhone or laptop.  With the addition of Tasks into RocketMatter, I am now able to utilize RocketMatter in a more GTD ( Getting Things Done) approach at organization.  If you haven’t heard of

A late arrival to the crowded space of web-based to-do lists, Gmail Tasks has graduated from experimental status and is now available to all users by default. Should you start moving your to-do’s into Gmail Tasks ? Short answer: Not yet. What Gmail Tasks Doesn’t Have You’re all hot and heavy to jump onto the Gmail Tasks wagon because there’s that Tasks link, beckoning all sexy-like from your Gmail sidebar below Contacts. Cool yourself off with this bucket of cold water.

Are you saving more or less money than you were 10 years ago? According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis the 1st quarter of 2009 indicates that Americans are saving more now than they have in over 10 years. The chart below shows the savings rate (as a percent of disposable income) and the fluctuations we have seen in the last decade. What is interesting to note is that back in the 80s people were saving more than 10%.

While it seems that task managers are everywhere these days, there’s a good reason for it. Task management is all about working out a process for getting your tasks done, and there are a million different work flows. If you’re not one for a regimented methodology like Getting Things Done, but need to implement a tool that allows a team to collaborate, check out Colabolo. (more…)

by Jason Kamen Relaxation is an important and strived for state for most humans. After a long day of working, it is necessary for people to unwind with some kind of relaxing activity. Each individual has their own idea of a relaxing set of activities, but most people agree on what is relaxing and what is not. There are many complex ways to relax, but an easy method of relaxation involves just thinking. If you are in a comfortable position and setting, taking a long time to think about your situation and life in general can be quietly stimulating.

Ever wished that you had better services that allows people and businesses easily buy or sell their goods and services via eBay? The web 2.0 has made things easier by providing easy to use services for the most popular web 2.0 online shopping and auctioning website – eBay. Here are ten such services that lets buyers and sellers to connect with eBay auctions and make their shopping and selling experience easy. 1.

For the past year, I have been implementing the GTD system using Google Calendar and Toodledo (for tasks), while using Appigo’s Todo on my Touch/iPhone. I liked these tools because of their simplicity and compatibility with GTD methods, and because the web-based apps did not require a particular operating system. The only thing required to use them is a browser, whether that is IE7 on my Windows Vista laptop, Firefox/Safari on my iMac, or Firefox on my Ubuntu laptop.

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It’s been six days since I last wrote and that’s just not good.  I use this journal as a means of tracking what has gone on in my life.  I often don’t remember what happened yesterday, never mind what happened a week or a month ago. As always, however, it has been busy.  Let’s see if I can recall enough to recap.

Not too much going on my end. I’ll be heading out to Harrison Hot Springs next week for a 1-2 day breakation.  I’ll be booking a room today at the Harrison Resort And Spa . At first I didn’t want to go because we just got back from a one week  vacation in WestBank/Kelowna. Then I remember a few guys like James Martell (Internet marketer) saying that if you have a vacation coming up and you need to get work done before you leave it forces you to work fast and efficiently.

If You Don’t Believe There Is A God…I Have The ProofPosted by The Glamorous WAHM on July 14, 2009A couple of months ago, life was really presenting me with some challenges.  I didn’t have any answers or quick fixes.  I did what I always do, turned to the Lord.  When I am upset or need some time, I get in my van and drive the country roads.  You just can’t imagine the beauty of the trees, open land, and open sky.One day as as I was leaving to go on one of these drives, I was talking to Jesus,

Yesterday, serendipity brought me from my research on artificial intelligence to the expression “intellectual technologies”, quoted by Nicholas Carr in a recent article . Nicholas Carr explains that this expression was used by sociologist Daniel Bell to describe the tools we humans have developed to increase our mental abilities: reading, writing, calculation, to name only a few. Behaviorist approaches such as organization methods, communication and group interaction practices are other examples, I think.

  River in Colorado by Jeffrey W. Cox (The next couple of posts are going to be a little out of order as I wrote a couple on my Palm, but won’t be able to get them posted till later.  Thanks in advance for your understanding.) I’m sitting by the Fall River in Estes Park, Colorado.  I love sitting by the river; I love to watch it flow, smell the fresh air, clear my mind and just relax.  Sitting here made me think about the direction I want to take this blog and my thinking in general –

Can hunters and anglers make a difference for climate change? After all, sportsmen and sportswomen have a long history of solving conservation challenges. Hunters — and I am one — take justifiable pride in their role in purchasing national wildlife refuges, restoring wildlife populations and conserving wetlands and other habitat . And they have a history of getting things done. For instance, when the nationwide wild turkey population dropped to 30,000, hunters got involved and reintroduced them across their historic range.

TechnoEsq’s co-Founder Finis Price recently wrote a review for Legal Tech Newsletter of RocketMatter , an online Case Management Service for lawyers, entitled “SaaS Case Management for the Small Firm”. Since the time of the writing of the review, RocketMatter has announced the integration of Tasks in a “Getting Things Done” style system into RocketMatter . SaaS Case Management for the Small Firm Case Management software is to lawyers as a point of sale system is to a retailer: it is the most integral part of their business.

DAH, the surprisingly effective friendship and professional application is now available in BETA version 4.0. There have been several upgrades to DAH in this new version, although everything associated with the DAH application remains, as always, backwards compatible. Check out these exciting new features and improvements!- 75 percent increased capacity for jolliness, with even louder laughter! – 50 percent more eagerness to make new friends!

Returning families will be able to register by mail this year! The “summer packet” materials and forms will be on the web site by August 3 and will be mailed to you along with your student record on August 14. You will need to stop in at school or mail in your forms before Labor Day. We will mail out your child’s teacher and classroom assignments just prior to the start of school (Sept 9). All new families are requested to register in person and attend New Family Orientation.

Welcome to Monday darlings! Time to set your sites on getting things done and making life happen until next weekend. What’s on your tray for this week? Tuning up your bike? Writing that big story for your agency? Planning a marvelous dinner party for 8? Me? I’m going to figure out how to keep a fiance with a broken leg entertained for 5 weeks. I will be coming up with 5 weekends worth of broken bone friendly dates, all involving a lot of sitting still, flat land, taxi cabs, and of course at least a moderate amount of good times.

Today’s collection of our (my and my family’s) links from around the Web: hanna shared  A cat project (plus bonus) – desiretoinspire.net hania shared 4 links. Turn Your Blog Into a Newsletter With RSS to PDF Schmidt: Chrome OS Netbooks As Early As this Year Penguin Pete’s Blog – Point-For-Point With Keir Thomas About Google Chrome OS (via feedly) Netstat: Quick and useful Linux network information hanna shared  How flowers

You may remember reading some months back about the Autofocus task management system created by Mark Forster.  Since February I’ve been using this system exclusively, and have found it exceptionally good at managing both business and personal tasks.  Mark has made some slight updates to the system based on feedback received on the Autofocus community forum.  This new system, Autofocus2 or AF2, is even better than the original Autofocus and is highly recommended.

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You can now enter games for the 2010 Independent Games Festival competition .  The main competition (i.e., non-student) deadline is November 1st , just as last year. One of the best tactics I found for getting things done with Macguffin Games was to sign up for hard deadlines and then tell everyone about them.  “Ruinous Bets” is the term my friend Patrick and I use for them.  In essence, you can’t let yourself fail because it would be too amazingly embarassing. In words that Mr.

Here at The Constant Complainer, in addition to my posts, readers can submit Guest Posts on topics they’d like to complain about.  Jen, from “ When Pigs Fly ” submitted the below-Guest Post.  This is a great topic.  I hate going to the gym to exercise for many of the reasons she mentions.  So, if you like to work out, but sometimes wonder about your local meat-market-gym, you’ll enjoy this post.  Without further adieu, here’s Jen… I finally made it back to the gym after a week’s hiatus.  Life got in the way; that would be my eternal excuse I like to use for not getting things done.

  The manager interview centers around 5 main areas of competence. These are the qualities or competencies that a successful manager displays, regardless of age, gender, industry or organization. Prepare for management interview questions that explore these competencies. Provides Clear Direction A good manager establishes and defines specific objectives and desired results. These are clearly communicated to staff and responsibility and resources appropriately delegated to achieve these outcomes.

How many times have you said, “I should (fill in blank), but I just don’t have the time”? If a lack of time is keeping you from doing things critical to your success, something has to change. So, where can you “find” time you didn’t seem to have? Eliminate unnecessary work. If you are doing stuff that doesn’t need to be done, stop. Maybe it’s something you’ve “always” done. That doesn’t mean you should continue. Get expert help. You could write that sales letter yourself.

Tasks lists can be super helpful for creative firms or creative departments (e.g. art departments, interactive agencies, internal marketing or communications) to get more done, manage processes better and to get better information on their work (including tracking billable hours). They can also kill well meaning attempts at implementing project management. People usually get tripped up by making task lists overly detailed, trying to map every single step in a process.

This is a guest post from Bill Provenzano who is a 20?year veteran commodity trader of the CME. He is also the founder of Upside Breakout , a biblically based coaching and mentoring program for Christian stock and commodity traders. Find out more at ChristianTradingCoach.com . Trading Traps I couldn’t help but think today about the devastation that the housing crisis has brought upon our economy. As I gave it more thought, I realized that a Trading Trap that many traders fall into was one of the issues at the core of the housing bubble.

“Structure is now the big fetish for Tai Chi and other internal training. But that’s taking the finger for the moon because any structure is tension, while the whole point of the training is to shed tension and relax. It’s true that in the early stages, a few straight-forward postural basics are used to prime the pump and set the stage. But those structural basics are a form of (controlled) tension, so even that is playing with fire.

An excellent example of how to be proactive when you drop the ball is an incident in which an Enterprise Rent-A-Car, located in Massachusetts, didn’t have a customer’s reservation or vehicle available. Their customer service representative could have been skeptical that the reservation was never made by the customer; but instead apologized profusely and called nearby branches until they found the vehicle this customer needed. The service recovery mission didn’t stop there.

Collectors, yes, collectors. That is what we all are when we start out with Getting Things Done (GTD) or any other productivity method. We collect everything around us and put it on our task, project or someday/maybe list. And this is not a bad thing, but it is just the beginning. Unfortunately many of us just stop at this stage.

Author : Melanie Benson Strick What do Donald Trump, Oprah, Richard Branson and I have in common? Well I may not quite be at the billionaire level yet but what we do all have in common is we are all entrepreneurs who get things done in record time Consider this: Over 80% of the entrepreneurs I mentor have great ideas with less than stellar results Many struggle to get to the six figure mark simply due to a perceived lack of time, resources or energy to get the right strategies in place to grow their results So what is it that the billionaires know about getting things done fast that you might be missing?

Tools for Getting Things Done A series of tools that help automate the process of Getting Things Done tags : gtd , productivity , tool Say Hello To Version Three Of My Weekly Planner A template that helps to distribute tasks over the week tags : productivity , planning , timeboxing Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

Is a work at home business better than a work at home job? You bet. Hands down. But each option has pros and cons, and it may be that for right now you’re just not ready to start a work at home business. Its a big committment. That’s OK. But if you’re dedicated, smart and willing to work harder than most, settling for a work at home job could be selling yourself short.
2 Best Reasons To Start a Work At Home Business
1) Business owners build equity in their business.

(Written by Theresa Tan, Director of WMD and former Senior Editor of Vanilla Magazine) The Molly Lee Appeal was one of those things that was “meant to be”. I’ll be honest — after 5 years of Women Make A Difference (WMD), I was ready to take a break. Not that WMD had been doing a lot but the admin totally felled me. I was sick of counting T-shirts, making deliveries (so much that I owed one poor supporter a pink T-shirt for TWO YEARS), keeping accounts (more like losing them).

Lying gits.When something says “ceilidh”, which is, y’know, a Gaelic word, it kind of gives the impression to foolish consumers of Saturday evening social entertainment that it’s going to have something to do with Irish music, or at least Scottish.No such luck: the dancing on offer was generic rustic/country/barn dancing, about as Irish as Boutros-Boutros Ghali.[not Irish, yesterday.]That’s not to say I had a bad evening – in fact it was a very good one, with Paula, her friends C, N & T, and

Sonic the Hedgehog, the famous video game character created by Sega has been very popular amongst both gamers and non-gamers. The collective liking of the Sonic character has a lot to do with Sonic’s appearance in other media. And such appearances have in turn inspired people to create things related to Sonic and these creators aren’t always gamers by nature. They may be artists, musicians or even clay model makers. They have loved and adored this spiky hair Hedgehog who can only be seen in blue.

Push, Row, Pull, GO Recently I have read three great business books that have helped me further refine my business and life philosphies.  As I’ve said before, reading is just so damn powerful. The books are Ready, Fire, Aim (Masterson), Getting Things Done (Allen), and The Seven Habits of Higly Effective People (Covey).

Bob Herbert has a plan, complete with dreams:I’d like to see the president go on television and, in a dramatic demonstration of real leadership, announce a plan geared toward increasing employment that is both big and visionary — something on the scale of the Manhattan Project, or the interstate highway program or the Apollo spaceflight initiative.My choice would be a “Rebuild America” campaign that would put men and women to work repairing, maintaining, designing and rebuilding the nation’s

Typically, there are two main ways of debugging server-side code: you can utilize an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with a built-in debugger or log and perform your debugging processes in a web browser. This article shares an elegant, simple, and more maintainable way of debugging Ajax apps via the web browser (more specifically for the Mozilla Firefox browser). You’ll learn the basics of leveraging Firefox in conjunction with Firebug and FirePHP to implement FirePHP libraries on web apps and logging messages in the Firebug console.

practical solutions to life’s biggest challenges with Andy Botwin and Renzie Baluyut. Whether you’re living solo, or happily married with a wife and kids, there simply is no excuse for a terrible sense of personal hygeine. There’s a reason why grooming is so important, particularly for singles and bachelors: you want to get into the habit of making yourself more appealing to the opposite sex.  And that means working on grooming and hygeine all the time, 24/7.

Thanks to my recent mention on Lifehacker, I’ve had a bit more traffic than usual.  It seems only fair to write something in return.  For the last month, I’ve been keeping track of useful Lifehacker articles – pieces that really show (in my opinion) the most interesting themes of their blog.  Here’s a breakdown of why it’s worth checking in from time to time…  The hive five articles – Lifehacker uses reader polls to gather “best of” research.  This can range from best journaling tool (winner pen

Ms. Collins, in “What Happened in Vegas,” says the John Ensign sex scandal has become even more fascinating because every social conservative in Washington seems to have been involved.  Mr. Herbert, in “The Human Equation,” says the crisis staring America in its face and threatening to bring it to its knees is unemployment.  Here’s Ms. Collins: The reason the Republicans lost so many Senate seats last November is now becoming clear. No one had any time to think about the campaign.

For the win, as the kids say.  I’ve got the certificate and the pin.  I have emerged.  It’s more like leveling up in an RPG or PVP.  Congratulations elven mage!  You have earned the requisite number of hit points.  Here are  more skill points to spend in the areas you see fit.  Also, have some tokens and gold. All joking aside, it went well.  I’ve taken video of our poster session on the Flip camera I borrowed from IT.  Now I just have to figure out how to upload it.  That may have to wait until I’ve come home.  I love the Flip, though, and will be saving up for one asap.

I friend of mine is constantly preaching the wonders of the Getting Things Done (GTD) task management methodology. He even convinced me to spend countless hours writing a web-based calendar app that supports complex event types, scheduling the various actions required by specific event participants and keeping all these calendar entries tied together, but that’s fodder for another blog entry. My friend’s enthusiasm for GTD finally wore me down and yesterday I decided to give GTD a shot using an iPhone app called Pocket Informant .

Dispatch A teacher once told me that once your idea has been released, it can never be taken back. It became a powerful thought to me as I contemplated its philosophical meaning, and with Bentley Little ’s book Dispatch , it seems especially relevant. In Little’s novel, protagonist Jason has a gift for getting things done with his letters. It seems the old-fashioned way through the mail, without email, works best, and soon Jason is using his unique “talent” for much more than just free movie tickets.

we have been doing a lot of traveling to chicago lately for sessions and it has been so much fun!!! did i mention before that i LOOOOVE chicago??!!!! i DO! talk about a city that is alive and always full of energy. and there is also the fact that there are so many places to shoot!!! everywhere we turned, there was something we could use. this trip to chicago was so exciting because we usually do engagement sessions when we go, but this time, we had two family sessions! good times.

This week on the Geek Dads @ Home podcast, we regretfully announce the (hopefully temporary) departure of Scott Jangro, a mainstay of the program since the third episode. Scott’s a busy guy, which we can certainly respect, and we sincerely hope that he’ll pop in to join us whenever his schedule allows. So, like Joe says in the first minutes of this episode, “and then there were two…”. Joe and I begin by talking about our plans for taking the podcast forward by having special guests on a regular basis.

For my first post on Make and Takes, I thought I’d start with something near and dear to my heart: Productivity . Don’t get me wrong, I’m probably the worst procrastinator I know so, unfortunately, “productivity” is a topic that I’ve been forced to become very familiar with. Listed below are some of my favorite free productivity tools and tips that have helped me be a bit more productive: Remember the Milk : this simple task management tool (aka glorified to do list manager) is great at organizing your everyday tasks.

july thanksgiving: THANKS be to bosses everywhere who give their employees a week of paid vacation in the summer! oh how i needed this past week.  on monday i’ll return fully refreshed and ready to play with kids in the pool again. how did i spend my week off? in ye old lufkin.  something about that town just keeps calling me back… it has a certain charm… i have no idea what it is.  i guess it could be that the most beautiful boy on earth lives there.

Oh, Honey, you mean IABC/BV (as in Brazos Valley). But you’re right about the beehive of activity leading up to the chapter’s 09-09-09 Book Buzz professional development workshop. Here’s the newzzzzz: How often have you heard good “buzz” about a business book, only to pass it over because you didn’t have the time? We’ve picked six titles that will challenge the way you think about your profession and give you creative fuel for the year to come.

Although our likely downsize move from our present home is at least a couple of years away, I am already spending time thinking about it . This includes appreciating the many financial benefits of downsizing . One of the first and most difficult steps to take in preparing to downsize is getting rid of the extra stuff. Baby boomers have lots of it. We don’t need much of the stuff we have collected now and we surely won’t need it (and can’t fit in) into a smaller home.

DayTrack 1.2.1 Category: Productivity Price: $9.99 -> $4.99 ( iTunes ) Description: DayTrack will help you get to-do tasks done in an organized manner, quickly and efficiently. It’s a simple concept: move tasks from your mind to external storage so you’re free to concentrate on getting things done rather than trying to remember what you need to do View original here: Price Drop: DayTrack (productivity)

Don’t let you Face Painting or Children’s Entertainment business down by not following up on each lead with a solid system. And don’t be one of those business owners who receive a call from an interested customer, deal with the enquiry and never do anymore than that!   This is where you can excel above the competition with an outstanding sales process behind you. It’s wise to remember that peoples’ buying decisions differ vastly and it could take a number of contacts between you and the prospective customer to secure the booking for a party or event.

A few months ago, my ex-mother-in-law gave me her old Kindle when she upgraded to the new model. The first book I downloaded on it was last year’s Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, The Short, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz. I enjoyed the book tremendously, and had a life-altering experience while reading it on the Metro-North train and in downtown Starbucks. No one noticed what I was reading . This was incredibly disorienting.

The mind is disorganised and that’s just the way it works. Brains are not designed to create order in your life. They need some help. How many of these statements apply to you? You think about something that needs doing, then forgot about it a few minutes later. You put small objects down in the house such as car keys or glasses and cannot find them a few hours later You are introduced to someone and then forget what their name is You say yes to lots of things and find that the day is

Whether you are cleaning out a garage this long weekend, or planning to relax, keep in mind how precious time is … a perfectly good weekend. The best stress release includes getting things done. At DDA, we think … . That old bromide, if you want something done, give it to a busy person, should apply to one’

The alternate title for the 1964 movie, Dr. Strangelove , was How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb … ? Marketing plans tell how you are going to sell something. They are only about getting things done … and Love the Plan . Plans Get Things Done! You write a plan to detail some actions you intend

This was supposed to be a part of the earlier post about a possibly better political system, … actually getting things done, so we could get around to solving those problems later. The first … less attention to the things they’re entitled to, so requiring them to earn the right to vote could

Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade $49.92 Get Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade or Windows 7 Professional Upgrade for a limited time while supplies … to use Getting things done is easier. With the new taskbar and navigation features like snap, it’ … and to make the things you do every day on your PC easier. Open files and documents in just two

Man flu has entered the building, we must all stop and show sympathy whether we feel it or not because man flu is the most exhausting, debilitating, body achey, snot fest, stuffy head world of pain to hit our world.    Now normally man flu isn’t a problem,

Author : Stephanie Foster Summer is a fun time of year The sun is shining, the beaches are warm, … of things Dads would enjoy Or honor your own father with a discount for all customers August … Christmas in July has been done and probably won’t impress anyone, so come up with your own concepts

If macro vision is the paper everything else goes on, micro vision is the “everything else.”  Micro vision amplifies your big vision.  It accomplishes your big vision.  To steal from David Allen and “ Getting Things Done ,” This is the 30,000 mile, 20,000 mile, 10,000 mile and so on. Sometimes this is a building project

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Step 1: Read GTD the book. I haven’t gotten around to doing all the things that I should have been doing … at it is leaving me pretty ineffective. I think back to when I was in high school: I was getting things done … for me as a student is no longer effective. If this is the first time you’ve heard about “Getting Things

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  For the last 25 years, I have been a Manager and one thing as a manager you must master is: Getting Things Done. Even more important getting things done through others, i.e. staff members. As a manager you have to be there for your staff. You have to be available, supportive; advising, directing, listening

As I mentioned on Monday , I’m currently reading a book called Do Good Lives Have To Cost The Earth? … , Productivity Tips: 10 Clever Ideas For Getting Things Done for only £1.99! … of material things that we’re used to) and how we do not have to damage the planet in order to achieve it. It’

As our wedding date of September 12th gets closer Nicole and I keep getting things done. This  week Nicole had a few days off (Tuesday and Wednesday) … but there are a few people who are getting invites that read this blog…and I would rather not ruin … up for you guys. Also, for those of you getting invites…4 or 5 of you are prolly missing a stamp on

Most of my pet peeves regarding email use are to do with a lack of consideration on the part of the sender — just not thinking things through … official, racist, email from the GOP Blogging by email Clutter, identity, and Getting Things Done

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F or me, June has been a month of getting nothing done … of a jury). But how do I count finishing and unfinished novel? See, even Dickens isn’t getting things done in June (a month that, as a matter of fact, figures prominently and ominously in Drood —

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The DVD is done and shipping! Here’s an overview of the nearly 2 hours of awesome stuff you get when you order your copy … : You 2.0 – A Documentary on Life Hacking Commentary Track David Allen – Getting Things Done On Getting Things Done 5 Stages of GTD GTD is not about GTD David Practicing GTD

*Discovering my innate genius qualities of Curiosity and Presence … I fulfill her request. *Getting things done, being accountable and falling in love with myself … I can create it more easefully. -Grateful, so very grateful, to be alive! Grace in Small Things

Processes are useful mechanisms for focusing attention on important and complex situations involving chains of activity: … ” is the ability that great leaders have to manage the day-to-day tactics of getting things done while … done in the right way, at the right time, through adherence to an overarching, logical approach.

Saturday June 20th! Finally we get the big pay-off of a year of planning and a big 12 hour day setting up the staging/sound and lighting…it’s the … the show), and generally racing around getting things done.  Being sure to swing by the crew/band … are springing into action.  There is a whole other part of the EMP crew getting all the vendors

Our lives are getting busier and busier. Technology is getting more and more intrusive. And, the economy is making all of us do more with less. Obviously, several people are thinking about getting more organized with their various work queues: Alex Payne of Twitter talks about his “ life as queues .” ZenHabits expands on how

By Ray Paulick Voting begins tomorrow (July 1) on the six open board seats for the 13-member Breeders’ Cup board of Directors. Candidates must be currently serving on the 48-person board of Members and Trustees to be eligible to run. Individuals from that group wishing to put their name up for election have until 5 p.m

Patti’s Comments: More cuts coming for folks who need Medicaid for long term care.  Stay tuned….Excerpt from mlive.com: (click for entire article) … idea of the help they’ll get from the state.But the mood in the capital doesn’t lean toward getting things done, mostly because the choices confronting the state are so dire. The budget debate might

After reading David Allen’s “ Getting Things Done ” I turned in to a digital ninja using a variety of tools that sync between my desktop and my phone and allow me to be more organized and productive

I haven’t been feeling like myself lately.  Maybe it’s because of all the rain. I’ve been more tired than normal.  I get dizzy from standing up … m having trouble focusing on simple things.  Ok, on a normal day, I am, indeed, easily distractable … , and relax and slow down.  But I don’t see them planning a big move and getting married and buying

This is a post that I am particularly excited to write… A little over a month ago, I wrote about a young couple we know who gave us (sowed) … , because I consistently see God do awesome things like this. I’ve watched it happen in my life … system where we are taking advantage of God. Giving should be done with right motives – to please

Toodledo , a web-based task manager that’s friendly to Getting Things Done adherents or anyone looking for a serious but customizable reminder setup, adds a Gmail gadget to its arsenal of tools

Entourage is unlikely to be the best loved application on an Apple Mail fanboy’s blog … s Enterprise Strategy Ten Mac tools for Getting Things Done Syncing iCal with Google Calendar

I sometimes find it difficult to stay current with all of the blogs I read, email I receive, and other news I like to follow … Allen Greene, the author of Getting Things Done . He advocates doing the same thing … is there to do when you are up at 3am? Then we started looking for houses and getting more actively