Productivity
7 Things I Do to Save Time and Sanity
If you work for a company that sells organizing products, does that mean you’re organized, too? Alicia Rockmore of ButtonedUp.com shares what she does to keep her head above water. My life (like everyone else’s) is crazy year round. I find that if I plan a little and focus on what I need to get [...]
Fact Friday: Projects, Performance, & Procrastination
The Experiment: Participants are asked to perform a complex proofreading assignment and given three deadline scenarios: (1) single deadline, three weeks away, (2) a series of interim, weekly deadlines, and (3) self-paced, interim deadlines. Participants were compensated based on the number of errors they corrected and there was a penalty for missing the deadlines. The [...]
3 Firefox Add-Ons That Increase Your Productivity
A couple of months ago, I discovered StayFocusd Google Chrome extension. It stops you from surfing the web when you really should be working on that important project. Not to be out done, Firefox has a few add-ons that will give you – and your ability to be productive – a fighting a chance. [...]
Entrepreneurial Mayhem – Staying Organized and Productive as a Mom
Today’s guest blogger, Cori Padgett, is new to OTR and is just as fabulous as our other visiting authors! She’s a busy mompreneur who has few tricks up her sleeve that help keep her head above water. Let’s just say that organized and productive are pretty relative terms when it comes to what I do [...]
The Killer (Tr)ap
In the quest to achieve goals and just plain old GTD, what is the biggest defeater of such ambitions? I submit to you, the deadly act of procrastination. I must confess that for years, it has been the sole reason (within my own control) that I haven’t been able to successfully stay on track to [...]
Wired Talks GTD With Allen, Morgenstern, & Ferriss
Greetings readers… Welcome to the Summer Solstice. I don’t know about where you are, but here in the DC Metro area, temps have been in the 90′s! I hope you’re staying comfortably cool wherever you are. Recently I picked up my favorite magazine, Wired. It was a back issue from Jan 2009, one I keep [...]
Quick Tip: StayFocusd Google Chrome Extension
Do you struggle with “the big three?” >>> Procrastination. Distractions. Multitasking. If you’re a Google Chrome user, you’ll be happy to know that you have a tool to help you stay focused. It’s called, well, StayFocusd. I learned about it from the nice folks at WebWorkerDaily.com. If you tend to get distracted with Facebook, Twitter, [...]
Productivity Tao-isms – Do They Peacefully Coexist?
Greetings readers… My standard greeting holds – I hope this post finds you well. Time management-wise, things have been on the up since my last post. As some of you might remember, my business partner/recording partner/long time friend since college and I are striving to finish up a CD project we’ve been working on for (literally) [...]
Waste Not, Want Not
Hello readers…hope this blog post finds you in well spirits. Growing up, my mother use to drill into me and my siblings, a quote she liked – ”Waste not, want not!” While that applied to eating all the food put on our plate, it definitely applies (in my book) to time management. Continuing on the [...]
A Digital Day Off
Greetings… In the last post, I talked about a discussion I had with a friend on how we handle our daily to-do lists and overall time management. While, as you know, I like to use apps to assist me, she pretty much does the paper only thing. We both aim to use prioritization and time [...]
