habits Archive

The Perfect To Do List Item

I’ve been struggling recently with my to do list.  I’ve tried GTD, and recently I discovered Leo Babauta’s essays on a modified approach to GTD. I much prefer this more laid back, simplistic approach to task list management. However, I’ve been struggling to knock items off my to do list. by Emily Raw One of [&hellip

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How to Build a Habit That You’ll Stick To

I’ve been discussing habits a lot recently. It’s become incredibly apparent to me that it is habits that have been the reason that my previous attempts at improving my personal productivity have floundered. I need to build some good habits, but what are the best ways to do that? I’ve dug into a lot of [&hellip

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First Stage of my Productivity Habit

Following on from last week’s post, I’ve done a lot of reading. I’ve been reading Leo Babauta’s book, Zen To Done.  I’ve been skimming back over David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done. The conclusion I came to last week is that in order for my organisation system to stick, I need to build solid habits. [&hellip

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My Experience with GTD

Now that I’ve set out my requirements for how I need to manage my information, I now need to settle on a system that meets these requirements.  In the past, I have always been drawn towards David Allen’s GTD methodology. I presented a brief introduction to it a few months ago. If you want to read more [&hellip

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Sunday Muse :: Muse No More Edition

What glorious weather we have been having this week!  Absolutely scorching.  It was so hot down our road that the tar melted.  However, I feel that was more down to the cheap job done on relaying it than on the temperatures.  Once heavy vehicles started driving down it, they started ripping up big chunks of [&hellip

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Use Habits to Increase Your Average Speed

Most people associate habits with bad habits.  However, there are many good habits – and these good habits can be used to improve your average speed.  Does that sound like gibberish?  Read on to make sense of it. A lot of people work in blasts.  They’ll really push themselves for short periods of time, then [&hellip

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