Time management is the key to make sure that you don’t fritter away a precious resource on meaningless activities – at least without meaning to. Yet many people fall for time management lies, much to their detriment. Do you fall for these time management lies?
What do frogs have to do with productivity? Mark Twain helps with getting those big things out of the way first thing. But what about the rest?
Next actions are defined as “the very next physical action required to move the situation forward” according to Getting Things Done. But this all depends on your definition of “forward”.
The systems that help our weaknesses are really the only ones we have to try for. We have to recognize our weaknesses and find tools to help us past them. And it doesn’t matter if it is due to neurodivergence, or if it is something brought on by stress, overwhelm and overextension.
There’s an old wives’ tale that if you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water he will jump out, but if you put a frog in a pot of cool water and slowly raise it to boiling the frog will allow himself to be boiled to death.
The “temperature” of our lives is our stress level, and we react the same way.
These are the tips that I used to quickly generate a work productivity system using OneNote. This video shows two different shortcuts for linking, making pages from a list, and using templates to speed up page creation.
I had to recently switch from paper to electronic notes for work due to the need to do fast searches. Searching through five notebooks that were haphazardly backlinked was almost impossible. I made the switch to OneNote, and have worked hard to get a simple but workable system. This is a tour of how I use OneNote for work.
Do you know how to use a task list to its fullest potential? Do you ever find yourself forgetting things, because they weren’t on your list? Or realizing that you forgot to check your list and missed doing something important? Or turned away from it because it was overwhelming? These are all signs of a flabby task list.
Just as getting in physical shape requires a little effort and perseverance, so does getting your task list in shape. Here are five ways to shape it up:
There comes a time in every examined life where you have to stop and say “What am I trying to do?” Here are some questions to help you answer that.
I’ve had a rough couple of months, and my productivity has taken a hit. It reminded me of a week years ago. Read on for the description, and what I did:
It was the week from hell: a situation with a family member threatened to sever a relationship, I was recovering from a vertigo-inducing double ear infection, and my daughter picked up a virus that caused her to vomit for 9 hours. Then work went to you-know-where in a handbasket, and we went on vacation. I spent the next two weeks trying to catch up, unsuccessfully.
