A student recently wrote a letter to my local paper seeking advice on motivation. My life is at a turning point; I’ve finished VCE [Year 12] and am now faced with the question of what I want to do with my life…I’m interested to find out what people do to get, and stay, motivated. I [...]
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I’ve fallen into the trap of putting get it done by this date dates on my Getting Things Done actions. I know it’s a problem because I often find myself adjusting dates for the actions I didn’t do yesterday/today so that I’m reminded to do them tomorrow. The impact on productivity is that actions without [...]
The Two Minute Rule exists as part of GTD practice. It says spend up to two minutes deciding what to do with any action item. If you can deal with it within 2 minutes, do so. Otherwise decide to file for future reference, put on an actions list, delegate or bin. I’ve been working through [...]
A week ago a friend said, “It’s great to watch an expert at work!”. I was playing around with Adobe Photoshop to create a new logo. “What a strange thing to say”, I thought. “I’m no expert”. I just learnt it quicker than he did. Why? Cognition, intelligence and other such things aside I believe [...]
TypeOf answers the question in PersonalBrain of “What is it?” and “What Thoughts are of type …”?. It is a remembering pattern that provides quick navigation to thoughts based on the type of thing they represent. Intent Your brain is be enhanced by knowing the type of a Thought. If your Thoughts have a type, [...]
These days it is possible to trial most computer software before you buy it. But what does ‘trial’ actually mean. For me, trial once meant install, play around a bit and then forget. Now trial means use. I’ve found that in order to really try software I must put myself in a position of reliance. [...]
