Entries Tagged 'Simplification' ↓

I am trying to instill in my daughter the non-consumer mentality. She understands at a certain level that commercials are meant to make you want to buy things, even if you don’t need them or like them. However, when the influence is coming from her friends, this is much more difficult to combat.
The recent rise [...]

Tuesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivityBlog
As I looked around my reading chair for my dropped scissors last night, I spied the magazine basket. It was full overflowing again. Just knowing I have a backlog of reading causes me to not want to read any magazines at all!
I make an effort not to bring too many [...]

Last week I wrote an article (Productivity Fundamentals: Organizing and Executing) about how productivity boils down to two things: organization and execution. I believe that organizing is a very simple concept, but can be difficult to implement. These are the basic principles of how to organize anything:
Get Rid of the Unnecessary
When trying to organize anything, [...]

In this segment of “The Whys of Productivity”, we will look at why productivity systems all want us to keep things together in one place.
Minimizing Places to Put Stuff: Part of Every System
Every system out there, particularly those that are dependent on a specific format and/or planner, advocate putting everything in one place. Some systems [...]

In this segment of “The Whys of Productivity”, we will be looking at the gathering or collecting of information into its proper place.
What Is Gathering?
The secret to any organizational system is that like items should be stored together, be it by type or by purpose. But in order to see what needs to be [...]

In this part of “The Whys of Productivity” we will look at a fundamental concept that goes through every system out there: writing things down.
Writing Things Down: Part of Every System
It doesn’t matter which system you look at: Daytimer, Filofax, 7 Habits, GTD, Do It Tomorrow…every system insists that you write things down. Each system [...]

Not all of my projects are electronic. In fact, most of the things I do outside of work are not. Most of these things are ones that don’t have a particular due date, so I work on them as the fancy strikes me.
Unfortunately, most of these projects also have paper to go with them, [...]

A couple of weeks ago I read two articles that really struck me. I wrote about them in Aids for Genuine Productivity and Simplifying Productivity, and I formed a resolution to focus on the whys and hows of productivity and simplification; in fact, simplification of productivity can itself be considered a “how”!
As I was [...]