June 2005
Monthly Archive
Posted by Steve on 24 Jun 2005 4:44 pm. Filed under
Psychology.
You may have one or two or more particulary important projects, especially ones that fall into that special 20% area that actually brings you income (versus the 80% range that counts as just being busy, or makes you feel busy).Pull one of them out right now (a project, an important one), and look at all of Next Actions for it.. put the scary ones, or the ones that sound hard and those are your frogs.
Brian Tracy makes a great point in his Eat That Frog book:
If you wake up in the morning, and you KNOW that you have to eat a live frog today, then the best thing you could possibly do, is swallow that sucker NOW. Then the rest of the day could only get better.
So pick the worst Next Action you could possibly think of, and just eat it!
That next action could be doing a necessary but tedious upgrade to software that you use. Just do it now, and enjoy the rest of the day. The worst is over.
Posted by Steve on 22 Jun 2005 4:42 pm. Filed under
GTD.
It’s easy to feel like you’re drowning in Free Ebooks - hopefully one of the things that David Allen will address in a future edition of his newsletter or a book, or whatever, will be how to deal with this.Since huge Hard Drives are so cheap, you don’t really have to limit the actual number of ebooks you download! But the more you download, the larger your ‘pyschic bookshelf’ gets.
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Posted by Steve on 19 Jun 2005 3:36 pm. Filed under
GTD.
I started using a single index card as my palmpilot
for that day. I can’t stand writing on a palmpilot, maybe
some day there will a model that makes it like
paper.
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Posted by Steve on 18 Jun 2005 7:09 am. Filed under
Technical.
It’s normal to desire a single editing tool
that does everything you want..
I, personally, wouldn’t mind having one tool, for instance, that
- has the text formatting capability of UltraEdit
- the sheer density of html code-creation tools of HTML-KIT
- the debugging capability of Komodo (for Python/wxPython)
But I realize that this is why I have 1 gig of memory -
it’s not only cheap, but this equipment lets me have these programs open
at one time.
Wouldn’t that be a little too weird anyway? I mean to have one programmer or company
who happens to make ONE tool that supplies you with everything that suits -you- ?
That would be Rod Serling stuff.
Posted by Steve on 8 Jun 2005 5:20 pm. Filed under
GTD.
If I know I will stop renting videos for 4-6 weeks, for whatever reason, such as having a backlog of taped tv shows, I don’t want to get behind in video rentals. Once a video gets too old for the New Release section of the video store, and the video employees rotate these older DVD’s to the center of the store, then it’s a little bit harder to realize which ones I haven’t seen yet, because I”m not about to walk up and down every aisle
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