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Achieving goals at the beach

The old saying to kill two birds with one stone is a great example of achieving more with the same effort. If you can find these in your life it feels great because you make progress in several areas …

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Complete: sharing photo scrap pages (22 month duration)

These complete posts celebrate completed tasks that have been on a to do list for a long time, and analysis why they were not completed earlier. Introduction A few years ago I started learning digital …

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Complete: baby photo album (3 year duration)

I recognised recently that to have more time to spend on things I want I need to either remove, complete or get quicker at my other tasks. Particularly, if I want to make my list shorter (and feel a …

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Example of Mark Forster's SuperFocus

Learning about Mark Forster’s new time management system – Final Version

In my inbox this morning was an email from Mark Forster with the details of his latest time management system, called Final Version (because it is the last one he is developing). I’ve been a fan …

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Reasons why it is important to complete your tasks

It is important to complete your tasks because it helps you feel better, helps you identify what you should be working on and you complete more tasks.

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What do you need for hotdesking?

These days hotdesking is not necessarily about moving desks within an office, it could be working between several offices, hotels or at home. It is unlikely businesses will move away from hotdesking …

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Learning about achievement from my daughter

Many fine things can be done in a day if you don’t always make that day tomorrow As a two year old at nursery it is not uncommon for my daughter to come home with art work in the evening. …

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Example page in my third log book

How I plan my day – update April 2011

My personality means I like to learn and make improvements, this means I usually have an interest in new things (although I consider if they offer worthwhile improvements to my current methods or …

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My new favourite productivity tool – paper clip bookmarks

Sometimes you stumble across an item or idea that increases your productivity. Recently for me, it was a gift I was given for Christmas that I understood would be useful, but did not appreciate how it …

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Immersing yourself in your dreams

Working towards your dreams is a gradual process, moving there action by action. It is also good to prepare your mind through methods like saying your goal several times a day and spending time with …

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39 keyboard key purchases

Every month one of my most popular posts is Ask advice: how to label keyboard keys so in response to this interest I’ve put together a list of different keyboard key related items you can buy. …

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14 things that delay me leaving work

I  hotdesk. Every morning I start with a desk and monitor, and at the end of the day I pack everything away. This means it’s easy to keep a clear desk as there is no time for items to build …

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Review of income (March 2010)

Recently it has become increasingly clear of the importance of my goal to have multiple sources of income including passive income as my main income stream maybe threatened. I’ve been tracking …

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Dealing with short term urgent tasks

There are times when you feel overwhelmed with tasks; everything is urgent. So what do you do? How do you choose what task to work on? You could choose the task with the nearest deadline, the one you …

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Example page in my second log book

Review of my daily log

Over a year ago I asked for advice on how to keep a daily log and I used a lot of the suggestions when I started my own log. I kept my log from August to October 2008, a few days before I left work on …

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Using processes to aid efficiency

I admit I like processes; in fact I’ll go as far as to say I love processes. There are so many wonderful things about processes, here are a few: help explain what needs to be done ensures every …

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Don’t forget maintenance actions

It’s easy to identify an action or goal; sometimes it’s easy to complete them and cross them off your list. However, it is the maintenance actions that really make a difference. For …

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Losing technology and losing my way

I’ve had a few problems recently. The most noticeable being the loss of my computer. The battery stopped charging and only occasionally registered the power supply. One theory is this may have …

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Little and often (getting big things done)

There are some tasks that you really want to do, but are so big that you don’t know how you’ll find the time to complete it, or even where to start. There are two solutions: put aside a …

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Creating a goal daily reminder

Writing down your goals is good, but of course it is even better to take action to help realise the goals. When I announced the second draft of my goals, Gary asked how often I considered them. This …

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My AutoFocus set up

AutoFocus is such a simple system that I think some people find are finding it difficult to get started. When I wrote my review of the system I thought about including some pictures of my set up, but …

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Review of current income (April 2009)

One of my goals is to have multiple sources of income including passive income. My first action has been to review my current situation so I have a baseline and to aid in decision making. Definition …

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Progress in the last month? (April 2009)

April has been a better month and I feel I’m starting to make progress in many areas. I’m currently thinking about ways of tracking and reporting on this progress, so until I’ve …

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Using AutoFocus (as a new mum)

I’m a big fan of Mark Forster and have all three of his books (pre-ordering two of them). Mark has lots of tips for increasing productivity that do not involve a complex system like Getting …

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