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10 Resources to Help Overcome Procrastination
Posted in Productivity
There’s an urge to start with a comment about putting off this post, but the joke’s been done to death. Unfortunately, there is a lot of truth in the quip. Those of us who procrastination problems tend to put off virtually everything that isn’t entertaining or essential for survival.
Here are links to 10 articles that [...]
How to exorcise your demons of disorganization
Posted in Productivity Wednesday
Time is money, the adage goes, and lots of money gets lost in being disorganization. Disorganization is so prevalent in the workplace that the Professional Organizers in Canada estimates a typical office worker wastes 150 hours a year - almost one month - searching for misplaced information. For someone earning $50,000 a [...]
6 quick tips for managing paper
Posted in Productivity Wednesday
Close your eyes and picture the Zen-like state of your desk in a paperless world. When you need data from the last quarter, you speak to your computer and a soothing voice responds with the information. When it’s time to pay the bills, you instruct your computer where the payments are to [...]
Procrastination Carries Big Costs
This is post 9 of my series: Inside the Mind of a Procrastinator.
There are big costs to procrastination. Health is one. Just over the course of a single academic term, procrastinating college students had such evidence of compromised immune systems as more colds and flu, more gastrointestinal problems. And they had insomnia. In addition, procrastination has [...]
The Five Phases of Project Planning
I’ve written my very first guest post on another blog and it was posted yesterday at Getting Things Done.
David Allen says our brain processes through five phases when accomplishing tasks. He goes on to suggest that these natural phases can be applied to project planning.
You can read the entire post here: Five Phases of Project Planning.
Procrastinators are made not born
This is post 4 of my series Inside the Mind of a Procrastinator.
One of the worst outcomes of procrastination in my youth was failing Grade 12 phys-ed. It wasn’t lack of athletic ability; I was a member of a number of school teams. This class covered phys-ed theory, such as: organizing tournaments, refereeing, history of sports, [...]
Procrastination is not a time management problem
This is post 3 of my series Inside the Mind of a Procrastinator.
I have three, high-end Day-Timer binders on my shelf at home. I own three PDA’s, two Palms and a BlackBerry. I have printed templates from D*I*Y Planner, Hipster PDA Edition, and many others. I can’t begin to count the number of time-management/PIM software titles [...]
Outline of time management principles
I’ve yet to find a pithy quip that summarizes time management. Until that time, here’s my outline of time management principles.
Identify time over which you have control
Set systems for routine tasks
Use technology
Make best use of the 80/20 rule
Identify and use your energy cycle
High energy tasks scheduled during high-energy peaks
Save less intensive tasks for the low-energy periods
Set [...]
Procrastination is not a joke
This is post 2 of my series Inside the Mind of a Procrastinator.
It’s not trivial, although as a culture we don’t take it seriously as a problem. It represents a profound problem of self-regulation. And there may be more of it in the U.S. than in other countries because we are so nice; we don’t call [...]
Taking a brain dump
GearFire is taking a look at the question of “writing everything down” within the GTD process. I posted this short time-management tip previously:
Write it down
Unless you have very little to do or the tasks you have are highly repetitive, you cannot depend on your brain to recall everything that needs doing. The things that [...]
