Project management is the classical GANTT charting, dependency coordinating, resource leveling activities of getting a project done. Project focus is having a clear picture of all of your committed outcomes so that at any moment you can be fully engaged…
The Practice of Productivity
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Project management v. Project focus
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Google Journal and 100DS
I found the above and was intrigued. Run yourself through the slide show. I am not sure I agree with the methodology, but I am going to challenge myself to try it out and report on my experience here on…
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Persistence
Constant dripping wears off a stone – Ken Matsuzaki I just read a short piece in the current New Yorker Magazine about Tokyo resident and Cardozo Law School grad Ken Matsuzaki. He finally passed the NYS Bar exam after taking it…
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Quote of the Day
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision. – the Dalai Lama Action follows thought. Remember my earlier posts about vectors and influence. Our vision is the guidance system for our actions. But it’s not…
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Make it your own.
My wife and I are doing a renovation project on our kitchen. So many lessons of this home project are applicable to my work projects. Having a vision of the outcome is critical, of course. Here is another. To make…
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Productivity Podcast
Here is a link to an archived version of the conversation I had last Friday with Sam Liebowitz of the Conscious Consultant Hour radio show. It hits on some of the topics I wrote about last week, including clearing our…
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Clearing your mental RAM
One of my key take-aways from the David Allen Getting Things Done materials (which are the main source my foundational understanding of productivity and self-management) is that it is a waste of Psychic RAM when I have the same thoughts…
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