discussion of productivity for business and personal use along with applications to assist and methods and techniques .
Where did my focus go? How can I get it back? Why have I lost my focus? I just keep jumping around from one thing to another. Sound familiar? Today we are distracted by so many things that can lead us down rabbit holes. Sometimes we plan to do something, whether it’s work or relaxing […]
New Year – New You… not so fast We all, well most of us, like to make a few resolutions at the start of the year. After all, you will pass GO, get your $200 right and take another lap around the board of life? (For those of you old enough, that happens in the
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Many of us think we can wake up early and meditate, go to the gym, go to work, read a book a week, spend time with family, work on our business ideas, research stock investments, volunteer, attend club meetings, take piano lessons, learn a new language… you get the idea. Out motivation is like a
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Thinking doesn’t have to feel so hard. WSJ April 27, 2024 Michaeleen Doucleff As a college student 25 years ago, Andrew Westbrook struggled to stay focused in class. He certainly had the capacity to concentrate; he could do it intensely when he really loved a topic. “When you’re totally engrossed in a good book, thinking
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Ali Abdaal is a prolific producer of videos on YouTube, many about getting things done, a/k/a productivity. He was a young doctor in the UK but decided that his prodigious efforts to be more productive resulted in a decision to quit medicine as a resident or junior doctor to focus on his YouTube channel. See
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Time to Jump Ship from Evernote? If it ain’t broke don’t fix it! Like most things in life, it depends on whom you ask. Evernote has undergone several changes in features, security, company management, pricing, and stability all of which causes angst for users. Bottom line – if it still works
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It only takes a few degrees off course to keep you from reaching your goals. In 1997, an Air New Zealand flight with 257 passengers was on an Antarctic excursion. The pilots did not notice that the flight path had been diverted by two degrees. When the flight arrived at what they thought was the
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Tips to Make ChatGPT Work Harder for You As we begin to experiment with this new AI tech for the masses, we begin to see a potential that can help us. Responses cover a wide range of topics from poems, code, philosophy and more. To get what you want you’ll need to improve your
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What is PKM? You can find many takes on PKM out in the wild, but, at the core, what is it? Welcome to Toolbox Tips, Effective’s weekly newsletter aimed at putting more tools in your productivity toolbox. What is PKM? You make reference to it a number of times. Let’s dig right in. PKM stands for Personal
Organizing One’s Notes in Your PKM (personal knowledge management) system (This is my “Obsidian 3” – article that I mentioned last month) There are many approaches to organizing your notes depending on how you work/think. It is very personal and evolves over time. What works now will probably not work in the future as you
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