Archive for April, 2009

Time Sinks, Or Why I Don’t Use Facebook

Posted on April 30, 2009 by LJ

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Growing Sprouts: Guest Article Now At AlmostFrugal

Posted on April 29, 2009 by LJ

Almost Frugal was kind enough to publish an article I wrote about growing sprouts at home. Check it out: Growing Sprouts Frugally.

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Examining Commitments, Spoken and Unspoken

Posted on April 29, 2009 by LJ

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

When it boils down to it, being productive is about managing our commitments. Everything that we do requires us to commit to it on some level. Even taking out the trash is a commitment, since we commit our bodies to moving a bag from [...]

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Open Loops 4/28/2009: Articles I Thought Worth Passing Along

Posted on April 28, 2009 by LJ

Tuesdays are open loop at SimpleProductivity blog.

Lifehacker – Beyond Life Hacks: Reusable Solutions to Common Productivity Problems should be required reading for anyone interested in productivity. Everything from how to keep focused, dealing with too much information, getting around procrastination and handling interruptions are covered here.

Dustin Wax, over at “Living [...]

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Blog Is Back Up

Posted on April 27, 2009 by LJ

I’m not sure exactly what happened, but I discovered the blog was down on the evening of 4/27/2009. Thank goodness for backups.
I am sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused anyone, and I will work on monitoring the blog a bit closer to ensure outages won’t be so long [...]

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Universal Productivity Concepts: The GTD “Process”

Posted on April 27, 2009 by LJ

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

As I looked back through my Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity book, I realized that there are some universal truths in
it that can apply, and should apply, for anyone interested in being productive. While I officially no longer practice
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