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7 months ago

in Why Working Long, Hard Hours Gets You Behind (?) on The Cranking Widgets Blog
Great read. Now that I feel I've "got" productivity it's such a refreshing experience because I seriously feel like I'm moving forward. I'm not just using it to just get more and more things done anymore, I'm being very selective and applying the productivity to key interests. I've got the techniques and habits in place that allow me to write regularly and consistently... and do it all without any stress and other ills.
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Andy P @ Cranking Widgets Hi James, thanks for the comment.

Glad you enjoyed the article. I think that is what it is important for people to remember... Eventually productivity becomes a way of life and us productivity geeks need to re-focus our attention on the more important parts of life.

7 months ago

in Productivity Tweet of the Week(ish): Efficiency vs. Effectiveness on The Cranking Widgets Blog
Thanks for picking up on my tweets.This week I've been trying to do a lot more than I usually would just to keep my efficiency up. Irregardless of how effective you are, efficiency is the big value on which you can measure your performance. It's a great productive boost just to test your efficiency from time to time.

8 months ago

in Productivity Systems Don’t Suck, But Sometimes I Do on The Cranking Widgets Blog
I believe the gripes in the post were all legitimate, even if they weren't all mine (the high level aspect and the weekly review were my biggies), though of course many of them will be based on a person's own experiences of implementing GTD (the issue of quality if you are a person doing high detail work, for instance). Maybe I should do 9 reasons why GTD works to provide a nice, balanced perspective :)

8 months ago

in Productivity Systems Don’t Suck, But Sometimes I Do on The Cranking Widgets Blog
Thanks for linking to my Organize IT article. When things go wrong I typically "blame" myself nowadays. It's probably because I took on too much, didn't get enough sleep, focused on the wrong tasks... whatever. We are not machines. I learn from the experience and move on. It's amazing how little we really think about stuff sometimes. Whenever I would fall off the bandwagon I used to try out a new system, without really bothering to figure out that maybe I was the problem, I had bad habits in place, the wrong expectations and attitudes.
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Andy P @ Cranking Widgets Hi James. I appreciate the comment. Very insightful.

In your post you give a disclaimer that you don't necessarily agree with all the gripes against GTD. I'm curious which ones are/were your own and if you still feel that way now?

1 year ago

in What do Avatars Mean to Us on Chris Brogan
I feel kind of obligated to have some form of picture of myself, it's meant to humanize the person behind the blog/comment/twitter account right? I'm wasn't especially comfortable about it because I don't want every stranger in the world being able to see me but it's just another obstacle I'm having to overcome as I advance my blogging and delve deeper into social networking.
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