Frogs and Productivity
What do frogs have to do with productivity? Mark Twain helps with getting those big things out of the way first thing. But what about the rest?
Next Actions Done Right
Next actions are defined as "the very next physical action required to move the situation forward" according to Getting Things Done. But this all depends on your definition of "forward".
Making Systems To Support Us
The systems that help our weaknesses are really the only ones we have to try for. We have to recognize our weaknesses and find tools to help us past them. And it doesn’t matter if it is due to neurodivergence, or if it is something brought on by stress, overwhelm and overextension.
Boiling Water, Or Being Aware of Stress
There's an old wives' tale that if you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water he will jump out, but if you put a frog in a pot of cool water and slowly raise it to boiling the frog will allow himself to be boiled to death. The "temperature" of our lives is our stress level, and we react the same way.
OneNote Tips for Linking and Page Generation
These are the tips that I used to quickly generate a work productivity system using OneNote. This video shows two different shortcuts for linking, making pages from a list, and using templates to speed up page creation.
Podcast Episode 74: Things To Do In A New Year
I rarely have time to prep for the new year in December. The holiday season is a busy one for me, and it doesn’t allow for the retrospection that I find I want to give the start of a new year. I know that January 1 is only a date, but I like taking the slow weeks after the new year to consider the year ahead. I like to reflect and plan the new year in the slow weeks of January.
Podcast Episode 73: Getting Back On Track After Disruption
Disruptions are a part of life. But depending on how we approach them, they can be minor blips, or major derailments. Using anchor points to assess the level of disruption and modifying routines, both in simplifying or complicating, allow me to weather disruptions without long-term consequences.
A Tour of My OneNote Work Productivity System
I had to recently switch from paper to electronic notes for work due to the need to do fast searches. Searching through five notebooks that were haphazardly backlinked was almost impossible. I made the switch to OneNote, and have worked hard to get a simple but workable system. This is a tour of how I use OneNote for work.
