Throughout the articles on time budgeting, I was looking for a good wording for what I intuitively felt was a relevant and value added approach. Then I read this article on brainpickings.org, which words it in the most excellent and eloquent manner possible. In the words of Annie Dillard in her book "The Writing Life": … Continue reading A last comment on time budgeting
Category: Getting Things Done
How my areas of responsibility contaminated my contexts
My struggles with contexts I don't know about you, but I have suffered through long years of struggle with contexts. I adore the idea that David Allen proposed in his work "Getting things done", but it took me a very long time to get them to work appropriately for me. I scoured the internet looking … Continue reading How my areas of responsibility contaminated my contexts
Time budgeting: a thousand no’s
Brian's question Brian made the excellent point in this question that it wasn't clear to him whether putting in the time to time-budget was not more of a waste of time than a benefit. His question is highly relevant. It would make no sense if I would do this exercise without it bringing me some … Continue reading Time budgeting: a thousand no’s
Time budgeting: more follow-up
A reader made an excellent observation in this reaction on LinkedIn ... Time budget not used today will expire. I fully agree, which actually cements me in my conviction that the only way I'm going to relevantly and usefully spend my time is by ensure that I have, in advance, a clearly defined use for … Continue reading Time budgeting: more follow-up
Time budgeting: a follow-up
Using Timeful for a couple of hours Based on the feedback from some readers with respect to this article, I've been playing around a bit with Timeful, an interesting iOS application developed with the support of Prof. Dr. Dan Ariely. Some of you suggested it may provide some answers to my issues with time budgeting … Continue reading Time budgeting: a follow-up
Productivity budgeting: the missing personal productivity component
Limitatons of personal productivity tools Modern productivity methods and tools go a long way towards optimizing our focus on areas and things that really matter to us. GTD, for example, provides us with an elaborate basis for identifying what we need to do next, depending on our context but also on our overall priorities, expressed … Continue reading Productivity budgeting: the missing personal productivity component
Quick tip – learn to use your tools
I've recently taken a close look at the application folder on my Mac. If you sort your applications by "date last opened", you may be in for a surprise. More than 70% of the applications I have installed had not been opened in the past 30 days. Including some applications I consider essential and would … Continue reading Quick tip – learn to use your tools
5 simple steps to remaining on target
It's been too long since I've posted a blog entry. Between work and adapting the curriculum of a venerable training program in my new role as academic director, there were not too many words left in my head or fingers. The juggling of multiple projects and responsibilities has made me more aware of the challenges … Continue reading 5 simple steps to remaining on target
The death of information asymmetry
Alcoholism and opium As I understand from my sparse reading of the history of the beginning of the last century - the history of the industrial revolution - many people were left at a loss what to do with their lives once the industrialisation took hold. This led to for example a high degree of … Continue reading The death of information asymmetry
Kourosh writes again
The approaches ... There is GTD, and 7 habits, and scrum, and many more approaches, for lack of a better word, which aim to help us with our personal productivity. I for one started with 7 habits and graduated to a personal adaptation of GTD with some agile put in there to ensure I actually … Continue reading Kourosh writes again
Exploring The Black Box 