Archive for the Efficiency Category

My Problem with Martha Stewart

Posted on September 23, 2009 by LJ

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The Importance of Routines

Posted on May 11, 2009 by LJ

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A friend of mine, struggling with organization and an insane schedule, has been balking at setting up basic routines to help her out. “They will limit my freedom and creativity” is something I have heard more than once.
But I believe that having routines actually [...]

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Time Sinks, Or Why I Don’t Use Facebook

Posted on April 30, 2009 by LJ

I live near a city park, where neighborhood children and their mothers gather in the afternoons. Most of the mothers don’t work outside the home, and they gather for non-child interaction. Recently the conversation turned to Facebook, and how wonderful it was to communicate with others (including with the other [...]

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Universal Productivity Truths: The GTD Capture

Posted on April 13, 2009 by LJ

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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 Getting [...]

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How To Chunk Time

Posted on April 8, 2009 by LJ

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

We all have them. Projects that sit around on our lists with no progress, because we simply cannot find the time to do them. We’ve tried breaking them down to the absolute next granular action, and still that will take a good bit of [...]

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Universal Concepts Within GTD

Posted on April 6, 2009 by LJ

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I recently had cause to go back and look something up in my copy of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. I have pretty much rejected the whole GTD theory for my personal life because of the way I work. Yet as [...]

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