Share Your Productivity with Producteev

Share Your Productivity with Producteev

The Getting Things Done™ framework is great and has revolutionized the way many people handle tasks and projects.  But, wouldn’t it be nice to collaborate with others who also use GTD in a way that is seemless and easily accessible?  Producteev™ allows you to do just that – and more! 

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Simple To-Do Lists Don’t Work (At Least for Men)

Simple To-Do Lists Don’t Work (At Least for Men)

Imagine this: You just finish with one of the busiest days that you’ve had all month.  You studiously write all of your outstanding tasks neatly on lined paper so you won’t forget what you need to accomplish tomorrow, then you pack up and head out. The next morning you sit at your desk, pull out [...]

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Ultimate Singletasking: Unplug to Increase Your Focus

Ultimate Singletasking: Unplug to Increase Your Focus

As most of you probably know, singletasking is the new multitasking.  But sometimes it’s difficult to remain focused on a single task when you have so many outlets in which others can easily demand your time.  Cell phones, Internet access, and even person-to-person contact can distract you from an important project.  Darrell Etherington suggests that [...]

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Thursday Time Waster: Upgrade Complete!

Thursday Time Waster: Upgrade Complete!

All work and no play makes you pretty dull.  So, why not spend the end of your day decompressing with some prayer, a glass of wine, and a mindless flash game?  Upgrade Complete! is a complete satire on games that over-emphasize upgrading your character stats.  The problem is, even though it is a satire it [...]

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Getting it Done Like the Saints: Thomas More

Getting it Done Like the Saints: Thomas More

Out of all of the saints in the Church, Thomas More is probably the most notable and relate-able saint when it comes to lay people who work. He was a lawyer, philosopher, husband, and father of such astounding character and habit that many are confounded as to how he managed to juggle everything. During his [...]

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3 Linux Apps to Make You More Productive

3 Linux Apps to Make You More Productive

I originally planned on sharing a boat load of Linux applications that were designed to make you more productive.  However, there are so many, and they are all tailored to specific purposes that I thought it better to spread them out into multiple posts.  I have used every application in this post – and in [...]

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Use Google Calendar to Power your Task Managment

Use Google Calendar to Power your Task Managment

Although it lacks features that die-hard GTDers typically use, the new Google Task app turns Google Calendar and Gmail into a high powered way of keeping track of the things you need to do.  The power of this new app lies in the method in which you use it, and not necessarily in its features.  [...]

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Three False Ideas about Productivity

Three False Ideas about Productivity

As I was making my rounds through my favorite entrepreneur and productivity blogs today, I found an article at Lifehack.org that really made me consider the definition of what productivity is.  Rather, I should say that it encouraged me to define what productivity is not so that could better determine what exactly is meant by [...]

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Three Ways to Achieve Success by Doing One Thing

Three Ways to Achieve Success by Doing One Thing

There are millions of people in the world that have extraordinary talent.  Millions of those extraordinarily talented people are complete failures.  Why are they not able to accomplish the extraordinary?  It’s simple, they don’t use their talents!  The hardest part about achieving anything worthwhile is actually doing it.  You don’t have to be a genius [...]

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How to Wake Up Early the Easy Way

How to Wake Up Early the Easy Way

I have never been an early riser.  Even in the military I was never able to get in the habit of waking up at a reasonable time.  Unfortunately, now that I am a father and husband I realize that the earlier I wake up, the easier it is for me to get things done that [...]

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