• Haruki Murakami: Talent Is Nothing Without Focus and Endurance
• iDoneThis
• Bending the stiffest arrow
• Why we crave creativity but reject creative ideas
• Toss Productivity Out

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How To Drive Your Professional Development With A Self-Directed Learning Program

WorkFlowy – Organize your brain.

Are You An Armchair Creative? :: Tips :: The 99 Percent

Action Plan Guide: 7 Questions, 7 Answers

MPU 054: Q&A: Your Questions & An Announcement « Mac Power Users

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• 110+ Resources For Creative Minds « Skelliewag.org
• Seth’s Blog: Easy vs. do-able vs. impossible
• GTD – Getting Things Done in Evernote with One Notebook | 40Tech
• A someday/maybe solution
• How to use mind maps to “zoom in” and solve your creative challenges

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1. Taskpaper+ – super simpler web app
2. Your Weekly Tutor: Mind Map Vision Boards
3. The Autofocus Productivity Method: Stop Maintaining To-Do Lists and Start Getting Stuff Done
4. Developing Systems That Work
5. Getting The Energy Right
6. 29 ways to stay creative | Moleskinerie

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1. Five Best Time-Tracking via Lifehacker
2. 10 Awesome Videos On Idea Execution & The Creative Process via The99percent
3. Being More Productive  via Harvard Business Review
4. 10 Ways to Stop Multitasking & Be More Effective  via PickTheBrain
5. Why the 80/20 Rule Could Make You Less Productive via DragosRoua.com

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1. How to Better Control Your Time by Designing Your Ideal Week
2. Top 10 Ways to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing
3. How to Maintain Forward Movement
4. Productivity and “The Art of War”: Applying Sun Tzu’s Teachings to Business
5. 100 Different Evernote Uses
6. 100 MORE Evernote Uses

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1. 4 Creative ways to Start Your Day « Leadership Freak
2. The right side of inertia: a backup workflow story
3. Recipes | chrisbrogan.com
4. Collabtive: Project Management Simplified
5. What gets in the way of delegating? | GTD Times

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Expertise triumphs Experience – Over at Productive flourishing Ali Luke explores the notion that experience may not be the best indication of the performance and ability to do the job. As she point out you may be cooking for twenty year using the same recipes but that does not make you a chef. What really matters is the expertise in the particular field gained through learning, testing and asking questions.

WorkAwesome Podcast: Episode 12 – Patrick Rhone – WorkAwesome site has a very interesting interview with Patrick Rhone. The interview focuses on topics like productivity, macs, software tools and minimalism.  I came across Patrick when he did a lot of writing about staying productive using pen and paper. His new area of focus is minimalism where runs two sites Minimal Mac and Enough – The Minimal Mac Podcast. Both places are worth visiting for some food for thought and inspiration even if your platform is Windows.

10 Awesome Videos On Idea Execution & The Creative Process – I think the title speaks for itself. This is a really great collection starting from Steve Jobs Stanford speech to JJ Rowling speaking at Harvard. Be sure to set a side at least 2h as these talks cover a lot of ground.

Developing Systems That Work – Over at Get Rich Slowly JD Roth writes that he found three ways of a successful system: routine, automation, and simplicity. Although the context of this post is very much focused on personal finance it’s very easy to draw parallels with personal productivity. In fact if you apply above three elements it’s almost certain that you will become more effective and organised.

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1. Use Mind Maps to Achieve Your Goals

2. Gantt, PERT, or Task Calendar: Which Scheduling Model is Best for Your Project?

3. How Handwriting Trains the Brain

4. How to conduct your own annual review

5. Switch Off Your Social Self – Switch On Your Creativity

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1. How to get exactly what you want

2. Springpad Helps You Get Things Done

3. Productivity Tools: Personal Dashboards

4. 15 Cool Ways To Boost Your Creativity

5. Out With The Old, In With The New: Do a Mind Sweep

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