Tag: GTD
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Shutting Off The E-mail Firehose
The following eight steps will help you overcome e-mail overload. 1. Set up an auto-responder, kindly thanking them for their email, and setting reasonable expectations about a reply timeframe. Thanks for your e-mail. I have received it and will respond as soon as possible. In an effort to provide better customer service and higher quality…
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Four reasons time management is more difficult now than in the past
I recently saw a comment on a blog post questioning whether our world is so much more complex than it used to be (did our grandparents live in “a simpler time”?), if they actually had less work, or whether there is something wrong with us. Time Management is so much more difficult in our current…
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My Omnifocus Setup
Matt Perman’s new book has me re-examining my time and task management systems. I have seen some questions floating around about optimal OmniFocus setup, so I thought I’d share mine. I don’t know that it’s optimal, but perhaps this will be helpful, and if anyone has any insights to optimizing, that would be great!
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The One Book You Should Read This Year: What’s Best Next by Matt Perman
If you read only one book this year*, it should be What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman. Yes I mean that. The aim of the book is “to reshape the way you think about productivity and then present a practical approach to help you become…
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Five Simple Steps to Effectiveness in Your Work
Do your daily tasks include handling a large amount of incoming information that you are expected to process, act on, and keep track of? Â Do you feel like you are constantly getting busier, with more responsibilities, with no end in sight, and cannot currently handle it all? Would you like to boost your effectiveness at…