Too often, we get caught up in the daily grind of our lives. We forget to take a step back and really examine how we're spending our time. We go through the motions: ticking things off our to-do lists, taking endless (and sometimes senseless) meetings, and going to appointments. But we don't stop to ask ourselves if we're really making the most of the precious hours we have each day. That's where… Continue reading
Review – Critical Tactics In OmniFocus
Evernote Essentials, by Brett Kelly is without doubt one of the finest software guides I have ever read. I was able to read it as an Evernote ‘newbie’ and found myself taken on a voyage of organizational discovery with a… Continue reading
Book Review: Get Smarter
It might not seem like it considering the number of book reviews I do, but sometimes I get in a reading rut. Days will go by when I haven’t read a book and despite my best attempts to try tactics… Continue reading
Book Review: Zero to One
There are two qualities to good advice, but good advice rarely satisfies both. It should either be so specific, it’s only relevant to a handful of people in a handful of situations ("Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky… Continue reading
Book Review: How To Invest Your Time Like Money
Elizabeth Grace Saunders has written a time management book that values your time. Time management may be the wrong category for what this is. It's more like strategic time investment - hence the title. Saunders' connection to investment isn't robust, but… Continue reading
Book Review: The Gary Vaynerchuk Trilogy
If you want to be more productive, spend more time on your core work. If you want to lose weight, eat less and exercise more. If you want to have a better relationships, hear what the other person says. If you… Continue reading
Review: NewerTech Wireless Aluminum Keypad
Back in my Costco days, I used to have to “ten key” regularly. I was the sales auditor for a short time period, which meant I had to enter a lot of numbers all day long. Using the top row… Continue reading
Book Review: Smartcuts
Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success by Shane Snow is a book that proposes a new best way. Snow argues that when to do something matters more than how long you’ve been doing it and suggests that 'paying… Continue reading
Book Review: Everything Bad Is Good For You
A great thing about reading books is finding smart people. I first realized this reading Malcolm Gladwell a decade ago and thinking "Wow, this guy is really smart," and the same thing when I finished Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad is Good… Continue reading
Book Review – Creating Flow with OmniFocus (Second Edition)
To date, there have been two books that I can claim, without hesitation, have had a dramatic effect on the way I organise and live my life. The first is the world-famous Getting Things Done by David Allen. Not too… Continue reading
Book Review: Switch
Until now I had never read the Heath brothers, which is a shame. Their books are good. Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard is a mix of business experience, academic research, and productivity tools that anyone can apply. The machine that… Continue reading
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