“The key to getting in a creative state is to avoid interruptions.” So says John Clese in this wonderful, ten minute video from the recent World Creativity Forum in Belgium. My own experiences also validate this statement. My wife heard this excerpt of the video tonight as I was playing it on my laptop and
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I’ve been using the website 43actions to keep track of my personal to-do lists for a few weeks now. Today I visited with two friends who are using reQall and Toodledo for their personal to-do lists, and both like the tools a great deal. None of these tools (as far as I know) are configured
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As I am sure you have noticed, we’re living in an attention economy where information is exploding. With all the content around us, how do we manage available information streams most effectively and efficiently? This is an essential question for EVERYONE, not just those of us who are admitted “geeks.” Information continues to explode, but
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It’s been about 3 weeks since Steve Jobs announced the iPhone software roadmap and released the iPhone SDK (software development kit.) Until this evening I had not taken time to explore the available web apps (web applications) for the iPhone. As I’ve watched a set of severe thunderstorms roll into our area (on TV) north
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This morning, thanks to one of my my daughters being under the weather and needing some home supervision, I’m having a much-needed to chance to catch up on my “piles of stuff.” Currently, I’m in the process of digitizing stacks of notes like these into their appropriate places: I’m continuing to use the reasonably priced
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We hear many terms to describe the era in which we live. Alvin Toffler calls it “the third wave,” John Naisbitt and others refer to it as “the information age.” As I detailed in a three part podcast series last fall, I increasingly find the term “attention economy” more descriptive and helpful. Michael Goldhaber first
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Ah. The simple yet elusive pleasure of “inbox zero.”First time I’ve seen this since September 12th before we left for Learning 2.0! Thanks to both Merlin Mann and David Allen!Technorati Tags:email, merlinmann, inboxzero, inbox, zero, davidallen, gtd
It is quite challenging to return to “normal life” and work after a week-long trip and face email inboxes.Since starting David Allen’s book “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity” several months ago, I’ve started applying several of his core organizational principles with limited but positive results. Since it is quite hard to change
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I’m about a fourth of the way through David Allen’s outstanding book “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity.” I mentioned this book to a friend yesterday with the comment, “This book is going to change my life by helping me really get more organized and efficient with my use of time,” and I
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One of my favorite rhetorical questions to ask during workshops is, “Is anyone here NOT receiving enough email?” I don’t know an adult soul who spends time online (my own children and other kids who don’t yet have email accounts are not counted in that group) who suffers from a LACK of email. Remember “the
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