Another quick consideration: "how clear is your next action?" I believe it was Merlin Mann who first spoke about the idea of making sure your next action is a delegation to your future self. He made that statement as a comment on ways to ensure task clarity. Kourosh Dini refers to this as well in … Continue reading How clear are your next actions?
Category: Getting Things Done
“Workflow” reviewed part V 1/2 – About good management
About the book review So I gathered you noticed I'm reading this book. It's called "Workflow: beyond productivity" and has been written by Kourosh Dini. Although what I have been doing with this book can barely be called reviewing. Rather, I have been picking some of these thoughts, these ideas, these concepts as presented in … Continue reading “Workflow” reviewed part V 1/2 – About good management
A question about reliable context triggering
There is a question that continues to haunt me ... how do I ensure that I "trigger" the correct behaviour when I am in a certain context? For my key contexts this is usually not an issue. My @work and @home contexts are properly geofenced and my iOS devices alert me through OmniFocus when I … Continue reading A question about reliable context triggering
“Workflow” reviewed part V – Invest Space, Time & Attention
Kourosh Dini's work "Workflow" has been my trusted companion book for the past days and weeks. It is not a book one should read voraciously. Rather, I like to go in and taste a small, esquisite bite of the deep knowledge it holds. Today, I want to kick around some ideas about the following statement: … Continue reading “Workflow” reviewed part V – Invest Space, Time & Attention
“Workflow” reviewed part IV – Elegance marks organizational maturity
Preface - Poetry out of left field When I started reading Kourosh' chapter on aesthetics, about one sixth of the way into his epic work "Workflow: Beyond productivity", I was not convinced I would find anything relevant from an larger organization's point of view. After all, what is there in larger scale organizations that requires … Continue reading “Workflow” reviewed part IV – Elegance marks organizational maturity
“Workflow” reviewed part I – Thresholds of organization
Introduction Going through my mailbox a couple of weeks ago, I was surprised (and very thrilled) to find an email from Kourosh Dini, the author of "Creating flow with OmniFocus", which is the unofficial reference book on how to set up your OmniFocus configuration and process. He thanked me for a reference to his book … Continue reading “Workflow” reviewed part I – Thresholds of organization
Task list contamination
Timing myself I've recently been spending a lot of time timing myself, using tools such as OfficeTime and Timing. As internal auditor it is very important to keep detailed logs of our time usage. We want to make sure that we spent adequate time on the right activities and as limited time as possible on … Continue reading Task list contamination
How our failure to fail impedes our success
Sven is onto something I just read this post by Sven Fechner. Sven, for those who do not know of him, is one of the most prolific and relevant bloggers on personal productivity. He also has a day job working for a large multinational. I admire this guy, because he achieves what most of us … Continue reading How our failure to fail impedes our success
A journaling workflow for better GTD higher altitude focus
The challenge of journaling For those of you who ever tried their hand at journaling, you probably found out it is hard, especially after a while. It takes time and it takes effort. It requires commitment. Not unlike blogging or any other writing activity. And like GTD, it's a wagon you can very easily fall … Continue reading A journaling workflow for better GTD higher altitude focus
Improving your ‘next action’ and ‘project’ descriptions
As GTD-ers, we are intimately aware of the challenge posed in consistently formulating well defined next actions and project descriptions. Making sure a next action is actually actionable or writing a project definition you still understand two days after, when you are processing your inbox, requires diligence and attention. Like most of us, I presume,I … Continue reading Improving your ‘next action’ and ‘project’ descriptions
Exploring The Black Box 