Searching around the web on the topic of Mental Ecology I found a couple of useful links. One to a David Allen Article of Huffpost. It is a coincidence and not a coincidence that I am using a term from…
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The tools are not the practice
I love gadgets and gear. I love leather notebooks, specialized note pads and calendars. I love aluminum and matte black metal and every form of iThing ever conceived. I took my first really impactful time management course in 1988. Part…
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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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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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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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Please join me
I will be a guest on the radio show The Conscious Consultant Hour next Friday, June 28th at 11:00 AM EDT. here is a link. http://www.talkingalternative.com/friday-shows/the-conscious-consultant-hour. We will be talking about the power of productivity skills to reduce stress and…
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Turning Negative to Positive – Reframe step by step
If you got a chance to read my post from yesterday, I talked about the limiting beliefs and images we hold and the effect on achieving our goals. Today I want to give you a tangible step by step process,…
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Purpose – Visual Thesaurus
Play with this, both for the exploration of purpose and for the fascinating interface and if you are reflective a chance to uncover hidden bias or propensity. Click the image above and then the same image on the landing page. Then Click…
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Getting Stuff From eMail To OmniFocus For iPad
I am presenting a link here to a valuable article with a tip on quickly making an email inbox item available in your OmniFocus inbox. iOS Productivity: Getting Stuff From Mail To OmniFocus For iPad. I have been using the email to…
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Moving from Outlook to OmniFocus
As I mentioned in another post, I had all my productivity systems for calendar, tasks, contacts, projects built around my company’s in-house Microsoft Outlook platform (with the addition of the Getting Things Done add-on from the David Allen Company). In…
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