Distinguishing Smart from Stupid People
I’ve given this a tremendous amount of thought. No, more. I’ve written chapters in books to this topic. No…More. I’ve devoted many years of my life to interacting with people and trying to treat all people as equal of equal intelligence. My mantra, rubric, guideline, personal manifesto, what have you, was something along the lines [...]
POPP…Into Getting Organized COMPLETELY.
“A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world”
– Sussex, England Church (importance of vision).
Welcome to the Progress and Organizational Productivity Principles. Everyone’s system for organization their stuff is unique — and it should be unique. Why? [...]
2009 POP Suite Upgrades!
There were some problems with the 2008 Code. 2009 Organizational code of computer and household files has greatly improved so that all computer files are primarily all mobile accessible from ANY mobile phone, laptop, and/or desktop. Amazing improvement! And for the reference files all of them are organized in a fashion so that manual backups [...]
634 Contacts! 100% Pure, Premium Concentrated Contacts!
I had 634 which was INSANE. I whittled it down to 514, but still want to edit it and get rid of a lot. Felt awesome to sort through them (all electronic of course, Apple Address Book); if you still use paper non-electronic address books, don’t even respond, you’re too outdated. Wondered what criteria people [...]
Getting And Staying Organized with UMSD
Basically this specific part is messy and infected with a lot of David Allen’s GTD muck. Frankly GTD is too bloated of an organizational system; you take on a lot of crap you don’t need if you use it. It has some great concepts but as a whole the system sucks. So [...]
POP Suite Part 5: Email Organization
Welcome back to the Productivity and Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Today we’re talking about Email Organization.
Here’s my two cents on email productivity.
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POP Suite Part 4: Electronic Organization and "Brain Trust" Part 2
If there’s one thing I have to say about electronic organization, it’s this: close open loops FAST! I’ve surfed the net many a time and accumulated 8 open windows, and over 30 tabs in less than an hour. That’s a lot to sort through. Just develop the habit of executing lightning-fast [...]
POP Suite Part 4: Electronic Organization and "Brain Trust" Part 1
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Welcome back to the Productivity and Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Today we’re talking about electronic organization.
We’re jumping straight to the nitty gritty here. In today’s age, “paper-based organization” is an incredibly small percentage of the organization management we conduct; mostly all of it is electronic.
I think the best first [...]
POP Suite Part 3: Merlin Mann Notes
Welcome back to the Productivity and Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Today we’re talking about just an overview of notes that sparked a lot these organizationally productive practices.
Before we get into the nitty-gritty of where the “REAL” organization needs to occur and delve into sub-topics like email, I think we could use a little [...]
Productivity and Organizational Progress (POP) Suite Part 2: Approaches to Organization
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Welcome back to the Productivity and Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Today we’re talking about Approaches to Organization.
First off, time for a little reminiscence…High school and elementary, oddly enough, carried the most structured time in my life. Towards the end of high school and definitely in college my sense of “To-dos” “What [...]
Productivity & Organizational Progress Suite 1: Intro Part 2
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I’m seriously thinking of submitting “Stupidest Productivity Ideas” to some kind of segment for the Jay Leno Show. I hear people rave and talk about how these “productivity systems” work so [...]
Productivity & Organizational Progress Suite 1: Intro Part 1
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Thus begin the first installment of the Productivity & Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Stay tuned for the next 5 (or more) installments detailing everything from organizational mastery within email, on the homefront, within your office, how to douse email insanity, and get clear and stay clear on your todos…
This may be one [...]
8700 Emails on Gmail! S#$tballs!
ON MY GMAIL ACCOUNT I HAVE exactly 8700 messages, including “sent”. Nearly 9000 messages! Nine Thousand!!!! That’s unfathomable. Could you imagine just reading 1000 emails? Yeah, now multiple that by nine! I also have a couple thousand on my local hd of mail.app. Email is a MASSIVE [...]
Productivity Heros
This details the list of all productivity heros of which I can conjure
David Allen – The “Father” of modern productivity. His GTD is referenced in myriad productivity apps, resources, and books. The uber-productivity trend-setter, David coined words like “mind like water productivity” “blackbelt GTD” and other Zen-like terms. He has a martial [...]
