Posts Tagged ‘focus’
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
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 [...]
Work and swimming
Posted by Rafal | Filed under Productivity
Water is not a natural environment for humans, when we swim; there is a lot of resistance to overcome. To move forward and to limit the friction we need to streamline our body and ensure that maximum power is achieved from each stroke. When you swim in chaotic and uncoordinated way you’re not [...]
3 Lessons
Posted by Rafal | Filed under Productivity
In last couple weeks I’ve noticed a growing frustration with my productivity system and the little progress that I’ve been making at work. Things began to pile up and although no deadlines were missed I was not happy with the way things were going.
Obviously, I was looking who’s at fault and it appears that it [...]
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