I have three efficiency tips. One is to tell people what your
goals are, another is to maintian a todo list, and the third is to
remember to eat breakfast. Obviously, I still have a lot of room
for improvement, so I'm going to read Getting Things Done and see
what other good tips I can find there.
It was hard to resist using the title "Getting Getting
Things Done read" for this entry, but I wouldn't want to
give too much prominence to a book that can't be freely copied. At
the same time, I do what to say what my goal is - that way I have to
do it. That tip got me started in the campaign
against software
patents. I knew nothing about the subject, so I told people I
would give a talk about it at an event - then I couldn't avoid
getting that work done.
When I've read the book, I'll blog about what I've learned.
Hopefully I'll have found some useful free software for implementing
the methods in the book. Many free software packages for the book
can be found on
Wikipedia's Comparison
of GTD software article.
The tip about lists works for three reasons. One is they stop you
from forgetting things, a second is that they remind you of more
options so there will usually be something you feel like doing, and
the third is that they free up your brain from trying to remember
these things. Human brains stopped being for that as soon as
writing became easy. So I start each day by reading yesterday's
list and making a new list with whatever I haven't finished.
Oh, and breakfast. Without a proper breakfast, after an hour or two
my concentration has deteriorated noticeably.
In the mean time, by coicidence, I got this link passed to me
recently:
--
Ciarán O'Riordan,
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