Foldable Goals

I have been striving to improve the portable gtd mini system. The little files from notecards work fine but are a bit bulky and a little worn looking. I was inspired by the clever PocketMod to create two Word templates with six areas (somewhat close to 3×5 size) to print on 8.5 x 11 paper.
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Organizing Your Garage

There’s a great article at American Profile on organizing your garage. It just might inspire you to action!

What should be rewarded

A comment from Ibrahim Husain led me to explore his site at http://www.zencollegelife.com.
There’s lots of productivity info here with a focus on college life. There was also a link to Steve Olson’s gathering of Free Personal Development Material, to be explored with all the extra time you will gain!
I was especially drawn to his review [...]

Productivity Flourishing

Productivity Flourishing offers three free planners with a view to using highly productive time blocks for tasks that require high levels of productive capacity.

Have you mastered productivity?

The 2Time Mgt Blog compares Tae Kwon Do Belt Colors to productivity mastery on eleven levels. Much knowledge can be gained from reading the individual posts. I was intrigued by the idea of seeing how to gradually improve skills on these different levels, and was motivated to create a pdf that compiles them. See the [...]

Blog to Discovery

There’s an interesting series called “My Organizer” at Blog to Discovery. I especially like the form shown in “How I successfully plan my day” and the ideas in “Dealing with repeating tasks in a paperbased system.”

You might be a digital packrat if…

you bookmarked this article at Zen Habits. (I did)

Links for 7-26-2007

Productivity Printable Templates at Organize IT.
Business Week chart: What people are doing on the Internet.
Keeping employees in the loop at Service Untitled.

Links for 7-19-07

A sentence from the book Words That Work – It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear by Dr. Frank Luntz made Linda Zdanowicz at Exceptional Dental Practice Management sit up and get excited. Here is the sentence: “Education must precede motivation, and even information.”
Idea Sandbox outlines the 7 Levels of Change based [...]

Productive laziness

Will Manley promotes “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” as the ultimate management book in the column “Tom Sawyer and the Art of Good Management” in the July issue of Booklist Magazine. (sadly the current issue is not online yet) He says, “I routinely give Tom Sawyer to my new managers and tell them to throw [...]