I was reminded of The Pomodoro Technique™ when I attended Øredev 2009. It’s an interesting concept described like this:
The Pomodoro Technique™ is a way to get the most out of time management. Turn time into a valuable ally to accomplish what we want to do and chart continuous improvement in the way we do it.
Time [...]
Nuts and bolts as well as bits and pieces
Tag Archive: Get Things Done
The Pomodoro Technique – manage your attention
LESS – Accomplishing More by Doing Less
I got a copy of LESS – Accomplishing More by Doing Less by Marc Lesser at Øredev 2009. The book is described like this:
Discusses the benefits of doing less in a world that has increasingly embraced more – more desire, more activity, more things, more exhaustion. This book is about stopping, as well as the [...]
Stop Being Productive and Enjoy Yourself
Leo Babauta has another great post over at Zen Habits, Get Less Done: Stop Being Productive and Enjoy Yourself.
There’s too much emphasis these days on productivity, on hyperefficiency, on squeezing the most production out of every last minute. People have forgotten how to relax. How to be lazy. How to enjoy life.
Productivity is not good [...]
Start Managing Your Attention
Over at ChangeThis is a great free e-book Quit Managing Your Time… and Start Managing Your Attention. Time can not be managed, time management is a misnomer and misleading. This little book is about what we can do – manage our attention and our priorities.
You can’t manufacture time, you can’t reproduce time, you can’t slow [...]
Which Time Horizons Do You Use?
I got a link from @ColinLewis on Twitter that took me to Ed Batista: Time Horizons. Don’t miss that at the end there is a 2-slide PowerPoint version of the post
It’s an interesting article that made me think about which time horizons I use and why. Ed writes that ‘The 10 time horizons (See image) [...]
An 18 Minute Plan That Keeps You Focused
Yesterday this interesting article popped up in my Twitter stream: An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day from Harvard Business Publishing. The article mentions time management but time can not be managed. We can manage our priotities and that was the article is about. The 18 minute plan is simple yet powerful when it comes [...]
What’s in your Personality Zoo?
Alex Fayle has a really interesting post today, Taming the Voices in the Personality Zoo. It describes a fun and really useful way to sort out what stops us from achieving what we want.
By assigning each piece of resistance a personality, I can diffuse the internal argument by recognizing the emotion attached to the thought [...]
The jar of life – stones, pebbles and sand
This is a classic story which unfortunately mentions time management. But time management is a misnomer since time can not be managed. We can only manage ourselves, our attention and our priorities.
One day, an old professor of the School of Public Management in France, was invited to lecture on the topic of “Efficient Time Management” [...]
WorkRave – take breaks from computer
Workrave is a free program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program allows you to set alerts for micro-pauses, rest breaks and you can set your daily limit.
Under Spread the word are leaflets in English, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Turkish and Greek [...]
Task management my way – pen and paper
Previous posts in this mini-series are Be productive using pen and paper and The back-to-paper movement.
My old concept was using several to-do-lists, kept at home, and small notes. It has worked for me for many years, simple yet good enough. I have used emails to/from work to keep track of things to do or what [...]
