Reflections of a productivity seeker

Over the Christmas holidays I took the opportunity to increase my productivity in a way I never expected.  I took a full week off so that my family could travel 5 hours away to see more family and I had all intentions of listening to my iPod on the way down, learning more about ways [...]

How 4 Hours of Work Can Make up for a Week of Vacation

How 4 Hours of Work Can Make Up for a Week of Vacation 
One of my favorite sites, The Daily Saint, posted a great subject- especially for me since I’m on vacation.  Thanks Mike for providing this timely idea:  Most of us like vacation.  Most of us do not like the volume of work that greets us upon [...]

Email, Gmail, and other Focus Issues

Last week I responded to a post from Mike St. Pierre at The Daily Saint.  I was honored when I found the next day his follow-up post was in response to my comment.   ”The best of intentions leave many of us guilty of over-socializing. Before you know it the next actions you had scheduled to complete [...]

Put off today what you can do tomorrow…

If you look around the GTD world, if you listen in to board rooms, conference rooms, at the water cooler, on phone conversations to spouses and on and on you’ll hear the same groan – email.  Email hell, email jail, inbox/sinbox; it’s all the same.  Email is the new voicemail.  We’ve made ourselves available in [...]