Category Archives: time management

My GTDIQ quiz results

Having read David Allen’s Getting Things Done and Making It All Work, having the Mastering Workflow diagram up in my cube, having a clean inbox and an active to-do list, I thought I would be closer to the upper-right Captain and Commander area. But apparently I am still too quick to respond to urgent (in contrast [...]

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I found a new way to blog utilizing the web app reQall. ReQall provides is a voicemail reminder service. I call the unique phone number whenever I “recall” a task I need to do and leave myself a message. ReQall transcribes my message and sends it to my Inbox.  The next time I am online [...]

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Dear Metro: I need you. I do, you get me to work every day, and without you I would have to drive and the Spur is so horrific that I don’t even want to entertain that thought. I am with you, you are my means of transit. But you know that, and I think you’ve [...]

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Good Morning!

I typically don’t get into work until going on 10AM, which means there is a whole lot of morning already spent, morning that I am squandering away. This article by Jim Citrin offers some tips for those wanna-be morning people who are interesting in Getting Things Done. Tapping the Power of your Morning Routine

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The Basics of Getting Things Done

For almost six months now I have been striving to live by the time-management guidelines suggested by David Allen in Getting Things Done. Here are the basics for anyone who is unfamiliar. The Basics of Getting Things Done

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Taking a Meeting

At The Motley Fool our new main office has 12 conference rooms. Those rooms typically are used for one hour sessions six to ten of them per day. That’s a lot of meetings, or so I thought until I read about Marissa Mayer at Google who takes on average 70 meetings a week. Wow! That [...]

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