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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.