So, having noticed this unwanted behaviour I’ve decided to up the ante and have technology come to my aid in the form of the LeechBlock plugin for FireFox which I posted about last June in, “The App Between Your Ears”.
Yikes! What a gooey title but here I am back bashing the typewriter keys thanks to this electronic marvel, Q10 – see last Friday’s personal productivity post.
Yes, folks, it’s personal productivity again – or rather the lack of it, that is the subject of this week’s post.
Now before you get all hot and bothered over [...]
For the past 10 months my weekday morning routine kicked off with a leisurely breakfast around 8am, followed by a walk in the park with Kuri.
Not so Monday 18th February.
On that morning I wrote the outline of this post while riding the 8:11am train to my 6 month consulting IT gig.
Or rather, it was 8:11am [...]
Just an fyi to my blog readers:
I am changing from posting every day to posting twice a week.
Most likely the posts will appear on Tuesdays and Fridays (Japan time).
Writing new blog posts (offline, using pen and paper) during my daily commute will continue and this changed posting frequency now gives me an opportunity to [...]
There were 3 questions I left you with from this post on time management.
Here’s what I’ve come up with:
Q1- What’s on your DoTO list right now?
A1- Setup Al Secunda interview schedule.
Q2- What’s your current IHTD project?
A2- Create an inventory of the software I’ve bought in last 3 years.
Q3- What is your Project1?
A3- Create next info [...]
Ricardo Semler, the Brazilian sometime CEO of Semco and author of the bestselling ‘Maverick’, is a very unique businessman indeed.
This blog post’s title is a quote from his second book, originally to be called “The End of The Weekend” – but which his American publisher then changed to “The Seven-Day Weekend”.
(That publisher no doubt well [...]
The time management material starts about 2 minutes into this 7 minute video.
(This is an excerpt of module 6 – from the IT Career Engineer Special Report. Now available on CD. But it’s very relevant to anyone making choices over how they spend their time each day. The fundamentals of time management are the same [...]
Time management is such an irresistible topic for personal development authors and career change coaches! It’s exactly like that Oscar Wilde quote about temptation; “I can resist everything except writing about time management”!
But, as we know all too well, the plain truth is that you cannot manage time – you can only choose how to [...]
