Archive for the ‘Productivity’ Category
Time Blocking
Posted by Rafal | Filed under Productivity, Time Management
This is the final post of what became a three part series about looking at your time, where it goes and what to do with it.
When it comes to working through your day there are generally two approaches. Free fall where you let the loudest, shiniest, most recent thing to take over your day. There [...]
Tags: blocking, direction, focus, time
Time Budget
Posted by Rafal | Filed under Productivity, Time Management
Over a week ago I’ve covered topic of time maps. This time I try to explain the concept and benefits of using something called time budget.
What’s a budget?
Budgets are widely popular in the financial world. In very simple terms it’s a list of all the income/revenue streams coming in and all the planned [...]
Tags: budget, map, planning, time
Building Time Maps
Posted by Rafal | Filed under Productivity, Time Management
Do you have enough time? Do you stress out over the hours that you’ve left out to finish your projects?
If you want to have "more time" or to manage it more effectively I have couple of tips for you.
Where is my time?
Nothing comes from nowhere and in order to have more time you [...]
Time a zero sum game
Posted by Rafal | Filed under Productivity
The problem with Time
Many people have problem with time. When we think of stuff I would like to do, see, experience etc we end up with a sigh and consternation – there is not enough time. How could we possibly fit all those things in to this week or day. It just not possible.
We are [...]
Tags: time
Lessons from the “Drive”
Posted by Rafal | Filed under Productivity
Keeping up with any productivity systems requires dedication, will power and motivation. Making sure that the system is constantly updated that it contains actual information can take a lot of work. Sometimes when we struggle with too many assignments it’s easy to let the whole system go. The book that made a [...]
Tags: Daniel Pink, mastery, motivation, performance, purpose, work
Time of imbalance
Posted by Rafal | Filed under Productivity
Balance in life is something many people are striving for.
The times we are living in now put a lot of pressure on people to do a lot of things at the same time. At work you have to finish that big project but then you’re asked to help out with another one. At home [...]
Enhance personal productivity with Android phone
Posted by Rafal | Filed under Productivity, Technology
Mobile phones are no longer designed to be used as phone or texting device. With so many hardware features packed into a very small box they start to replace a dozen of other devices. And while the hardware development has a huge impact on functionality of such devices the greatest impact comes from the software [...]
Using two systems for GTD
Posted by Rafal | Filed under Productivity, gtd
Most people lives have two main facets. First is the home area and second is the workplace area. When implementing GTD one of the first elements I stumbled upon was making a decision whether to keep two separate systems or just one.
This may appear a non issue for some people but for [...]
Note taking on your mobile device
Posted by Rafal | Filed under Onenote, Productivity, Technology
Couple weeks ago I’ve attended WordCampIrl conference in Kilkenny. The event was dedicated to learning about blogging, social media and Wordpress as publishing platform.
It was a great event and I’ve got to talk to some great people also I’ve learned a lot new things about blogging, writing and using new media.
Note taking was one of [...]
Dealing with backlogs the MAD way
Posted by Rafal | Filed under Productivity
Recently I’ve read a book “Focus: Use the Power of Targeted Thinking to Get More Done” by Jurgen Wolff and came across very interesting approach in dealing with backlogs.
It’s called “MAD” which stands for Massive Action Day. The main idea behind this is that you make your self completely unavailable, set a [...]
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