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Top 5 Posts for March 2008
These were the five most visited posts for April 2008 at Ian’s Messy Desk:
The ABC’s of Self-Motivation – 26 ways to keep your personal motivation levels up.
How to Delegate to Save Time – The ideal position to reach as a manager is one where your staff carry out all the routine activities of your team. This leaves [...]
Top 5 Posts for February 2008
These were the five most visited posts for February 2008 at Ian’s Messy Desk:
Priority Planning Model and Worksheet – A free download of a worksheet that can be used for general goal setting, but will also work well for managing specific projects.
4 Basic Types of Speeches – Most of the speeches you will ever have to give will [...]
Top 5 Posts for January 2008
These were the five most visited posts for January 2008 at Ian’s Messy Desk:
How to Build Cooperation at Home – Some tips, from personal experience, for making household chores a team effort.
How to Clean and Organize Your Desk – National Clean Off Your Desk Day falls in January. What… you didn’t get a card? Links [...]
Bits and Pieces - December 28
Clear Your In-box with Your Context List – Stephen shares how he manages the GTD Context list.
Practicing Simplified GTD – Gina outlines her simplified approach to GTD.
Is it possible to build a “trusted system” for GTD with Lotus Notes? – Eric Mack addresses the objection that it is near impossible to build a trusted system using Lotus Notes. [...]
Bits and Pieces - December 14
15 Can’t-Miss Ways to Declutter Your Mind – You can declutter your mind with simple actions, virtually guaranteed to have a positive effect: little things that can make a big difference.
Email and the environment – A simple tagline to add to your outgoing messages to encourage people to think before printing. “Please consider the environment before printing this [...]
Bits and Pieces - December 7
Getting Things Done for College Students: The Full System – A variation of GTD, optimized for college students. You don’t need to familar in GTD to follow what’s described.
The Top 4 Misapplications of the 80/20 Rule – The worst attempts at applying the 80/20 Rule.
10 Free Productivity Apps – The challenge was:
Write a computer program (or web service) [...]
Top 5 Posts for November 2007
The following were the most visited posts for November 2007:
10 Simple and Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas – You don’t have to spend a lot of money on gifts for the teacher, babysitter, hockey coach, or for the hosts of your holiday parties.
Slow Down and Pay Attention – A short fable on the dangers of rushing through life.
10 [...]
Bits and Pieces - November 30
Getting Things Done with Palm Desktop – Jordon Cooper talks about using a notebook, Palm PDA and Palm Desktop to keep his information and tasks organized.
Managing Your Life With GTD, Online Tools and a File Cabinet – Thinking Serious looks at on-line tools and a filing cabinet to manage GTD methodology.
Are You Prepared for a [...]
Bits and Pieces - November 16
List of 100 Steps to GTD Mastery – 100 steps to being more productive seems counterproductive. However, there is a lot of useful information contain in these steps.
131 Productivity Boosters – for Email, Instant Messaging, Word, Excel, and More.
How Not to Use PowerPoint – Michael Hyatt links to some helps for improving your presentations.
Eight Essential Tips to Overcoming [...]
Bits and Pieces November 9
How to Go Paperless: Bury the Paper Before it Buries You – “Well, the short answer is that in a normal office environment today, we can’t really do it 100%, certainly not in one simple step without burning down the building. But there are some simple steps that we can take toward the goal of not [...]


