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By: Productivity Power Links 12-17-08 « Geeks Guide To Productivity

Productivity Power Links 12-17-08 « Geeks Guide To Productivity — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:33:07 +0000

[...] Power Links 12-17-08 Jump to Comments Insanity defined-doing the same thing over and over, but expecting a different result. One of my major productivity challenges is that I have a difficult time learning lessons from my [...]

By: Sandra

Sandra — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:30:39 +0000

This is why I don’t like putting things in the “hard landscape”. Just put it on your “to do ASAP” list and honor that list.

By: Jan Ferrante - Queen of KAOS

Jan Ferrante - Queen of KAOS — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:43:51 +0000

I’ve done that exercise and found that the same problems and solutions kept arising in different forms, or even the same ones.

But rather than make me feel that it was hopeless, it did 2 things. It introduced to me the habit of problem solving and it made me realize that some things can take time to change, but putting it in words every day made it known rather than unknown and I found myself gradually working on the challenges automatically.

By keeping a notebook or online journal, it is really easy to start seeing patterns as well and even remembering solutions that had gone by the wayside.

An excellent exercise in every area of life that is a challenge, thanks for the reminder!

By: Another Deb

Another Deb — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:06:41 +0000

My goal tomorrow is to have things ready for Monday morning when I return to school. I am usually stressing and have “planner’s block” on Sunday nights when I get started on my week’s lesson plans.

I would love to be able to have the copies all made for the week and to have the plans done. However, I need to create some documents, tweak others and find the lab equipment for the coming week. The lab I will do tomorrow will generate things I need to clean up.

If I am too tired , I will never want to stay late and get plans made for the coming week. If I don’t sleep enough tonight I’ll be too tired. Time for bed!

By: Fit Bottomed Girls

Fit Bottomed Girls — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:02:19 +0000

It’s funny how we do get so wrapped into life that we miss little tweaks and problems that can be easily solved or avoided. Thanks for the reminder.

By: Pierre Canthelou

Pierre Canthelou — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:44:00 +0000

Hi,

based on my own experience and current productivity tips (http://flickr.com/photos/codes.....80839083/), I’ve extended the learning process also on the week, and almost on every project. I think this is the best way to become productive : learn how to repeat things that goes well, learn to correct things that goes wrong !

When I’ll be able to repeat things that goes well, I’ll try to improve them !

On a daily basis tool, I use Evernote : realy easy to take a screenshot of somethings that goes wrong, or use tag to say ‘here is a bug’ => how to correct it…

Hope it will help !

By: whyioughtta

whyioughtta — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:42:10 +0000

I guess we have to accept that to some degree we’re all Homer Simpson stepping on the rakes, over and over and over.

Doh.

Seriously, though, I’m also a professional writer and I totally agree that blocking off time is hard in our line of work. I really like your idea of taking time to hone our work processes in what is otherwise a very fluid, hard-to-contain field.

I don’t think I could do this daily because it takes a critical mass of failure for me to see a pattern. But I do like the idea of making this analysis part of the ‘way I work’.