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About This Blog

This blog started out in life as LifeWithPalm. However, as the blog grew, I became aware that I wasn’t focused so much on my PDA as I was with productivity and simplifying my life.

I moved this blog to its own domain and decided to re-focus its purpose, away from the Palm and more on my main interests: simplicity and productivity.

This blog is the result of my life experiences in both productivity and simplicity. In the late 90’s I became increasingly aware that my life had gotten overly complicated and full, and I started looking for ways to avoid the immanent burnout. As I simplified my house, I realized that my life systems needed to simplify as well. This blog was born as a result of that experience.

I have been fascinated with doing things better for a long time. Too many things are not fun, and I want to get through them fast, so that I can get on to things I enjoy. I also want to do them well, so I don’t have to do them over. This led naturally into studying productivity.

My first experience with a productivity system was with a small DayTimer pocket planner. From the day I received it, it became my second brain, capturing my life, prompting me to do things, and recording events. As my life changed, my system changed. It has gone through the phases of paper, software, Covey, Getting Things Done, Do It Tomorrow and beyond.

About Me

My interest in productivity and simplicity stem out of my busy life. Professionally, I am a software programmer. After a stint of unexpected unemployment in the fourth quarter of 2008, I rearranged my priorities, and I am now trying to live in line with things I value.

In my previous life as a software consultant, I would be juggling up to 5 clients at a time. At the time I also had seven volunteer commitments, a young family, a spouse, multiple pets and a house. As part of my on-going journey in simplicity, I decided in September of 2008 to jettison 50% of my outside home activities. My volunteer commitments are down to one that I truly enjoy: singing as part of vocal quartet. I now focus more on my family and my creative pursuits, such as knitting and writing.

I have spent the last three Novembers writing the rough drafts of three novels by participating in NaNoWriMo. I have hopes of the 2008 novel, and it is currently undergoing revision. Don’t ask about the other two.