http://www.odeo.com/channels/2813-TPN-The-Productivity-Show no Ideas for gettings things done. Ideas for gettings things done. Ideas for gettings things done. en 40 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:16:06 -0700 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:16:06 -0700 Society http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24828915-The-Productivity-Show-48-Paul-Ayling-Jimmy-Yukka-and-GTD-tips download link Paul Ayling, a listener to The Productivity Show, is the guest.  Paul has a band, with the stage name Jimmy Yukka.  Paul, partly from listening to the show, has implemented Getting Things Done for his productivity.  One year of GTD, let’s see how he’s doing, and what recommendations he has. The book of Getting Things Done - And the book of The 4 Hour Work Week.  Using GTD to manage ideas and projects. Looking for things - Cause of procrastination in trying to find things.  “Don’t put it down, Put it away“. A simple single in-tray to put everything in - Set time to clear inbox tray. Put everything including “things” in the inbox, and put each single note on a single piece of paper into the inbox. Pocketmod.com - Print out A4s of tips which fold into a small book. Capture tool with tear out paper - Spiral bound books for note capture and task lists. Strategic MindMap - MindMap of MindMaps in Concept Draw MindMap.  MindMapping to ... download link Paul Ayling, a listener to The Productivity Show, is the guest.  Paul has a band, with the stage name Jimmy Yukka.  Paul, partly from listening to the show, has implemented Getting Things Done for his productivity.  One year of GTD, let’s see how he’s doing, and what recommendations he has. The book of Getting Things Done - And the book of The 4 Hour Work Week.  Using GTD to manage ideas and projects. Looking for things - Cause of procrastination in trying to find things.  “Don’t put it down, Put it away“. A simple single in-tray to put everything in - Set time to clear inbox tray. Put everything including “things” in the inbox, and put each single note on a single piece of paper into the inbox. Pocketmod.com - Print out A4s of tips which fold into a small book. Capture tool with tear out paper - Spiral bound books for note capture and task lists. Strategic MindMap - MindMap of MindMaps in Concept Draw MindMap.  MindMapping to push projects forward. Gmail - Autofilters be careful you don’t miss an email coming in!  Coloured stars for gmail in settings, then search by star, “has:green-star” filters on green stars. Outlook Short Cut keys - Move emails CTL SHIFT V to navigate to folder using the keyboard and not the mouse. Lack of Contexts - Not enough contexts, which all merge into @home, when working from home.  Go to coffee shop to create another context. PowerPoint outline to organise folders around - Or use a MindMap! Email folders or a single folder with desktop search? Using GTD to manage lots of projects when it becomes overwhelming. Who’s got the cheapest Nokia phone? Using travel time to not be on the Internet and in contact with people. Moving to the cloud - Gmail, paper diary, Office2007 too slow with Excel and Word load times, but Publisher2007 good. Total software capture tool? - Excel?  Visio? DropBox - Virtual online folder which synchronises with other people’s PCs/Macs. Living the Dream - Just Do It, consistency. Promoting music in a rock band - Website, online, calling venues, putting the promotion plan together.  Subscription models and selling direct. Productivity Tips - Spiral bound book to tear out.  Short cut keys for Outlook.  Refining your mail folders and re-organising them.  Dump folders in an archive untouched and create a new empty folder structure.  Single in-box to dump everything in.  Mind Like Water now?  If not, what’s the gap, until your mind is like water! Bring your dream forward into now - Base your actions and life around the core dream.  Post the actions on the wall in post its. Brings it to life with a visual.  Shuffle the colour post-its around.  Write 3 pages of A4 journal to help the dream. Books - The History of the Isles, Biography of Malcolm X, The Bible, The Philosophy Gym. Recorded with Callburner . Edited with Audacity . Music by Jimmy Yukka (The Dentist) download link Paul Ayling, a listener to The Productivity Show, is the guest.  Paul has a band, with the stage name Jimmy Yukka.  Paul, partly from listening to the show, has implemented Getting Things Done for his productivity.  One year of GTD, let’s see how he’s doing, and what recommendations he has. The book of Getting Things Done - And the book of The 4 Hour Work Week.  Using GTD to manage ideas and projects. Looking for things - Cause of procrastination in trying to find things.  “Don’t put it down, Put it away“. A simple single in-tray to put everything in - Set time to clear inbox tray. Put everything including “things” in the inbox, and put each single note on a single piece of paper into the inbox. Pocketmod.com - Print out A4s of tips which fold into a small book. Capture tool with tear out paper - Spiral bound books for note capture and task lists. Strategic MindMap - MindMap of MindMaps in Concept Draw MindMap.  MindMapping to push projects forward. Gmail - Autofilters be careful you don’t miss an email coming in!  Coloured stars for gmail in settings, then search by star, “has:green-star” filters on green stars. Outlook Short Cut keys - Move emails CTL SHIFT V to navigate to folder using the keyboard and not the mouse. Lack of Contexts - Not enough contexts, which all merge into @home, when working from home.  Go to coffee shop to create another context. PowerPoint outline to organise folders around - Or use a MindMap! Email folders or a single folder with desktop search? Using GTD to manage lots of projects when it becomes overwhelming. Who’s got the cheapest Nokia phone? Using travel time to not be on the Internet and in contact with people. Moving to the cloud - Gmail, paper diary, Office2007 too slow with Excel and Word load times, but Publisher2007 good. Total software capture tool? - Excel?  Visio? DropBox - Virtual online folder which synchronises with other people’s PCs/Macs. Living the Dream - Just Do It, consistency. Promoting music in a rock band - Website, online, calling venues, putting the promotion plan together.  Subscription models and selling direct. Productivity Tips - Spiral bound book to tear out.  Short cut keys for Outlook.  Refining your mail folders and re-organising them.  Dump folders in an archive untouched and create a new empty folder structure.  Single in-box to dump everything in.  Mind Like Water now?  If not, what’s the gap, until your mind is like water! Bring your dream forward into now - Base your actions and life around the core dream.  Post the actions on the wall in post its. Brings it to life with a visual.  Shuffle the colour post-its around.  Write 3 pages of A4 journal to help the dream. Books - The History of the Isles, Biography of Malcolm X, The Bible, The Philosophy Gym. Recorded with Callburner . Edited with Audacity . Music by Jimmy Yukka (The Dentist) tag:odeo.com,2009-07-19,24828915 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:16:06 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24768179-The-Productivity-Show-47-David-Freer-Symantec-and-Norton download link David Freer Symantec VP for Consumer Sales in Asia Pacific and Japan, is this show’s guest.  We talk about what the biggest security threats are to the end-user, beyond viruses and spyware. Dave’s an Aussie living in Singapore for the last 2 years - Responsible for Symantec’s consumer arm in Asia Data back-up and storage as well security What are the potential threats? - Not just Viruses and worms. Threats more stealthy nowadays.  Online attacks via the browser. Email threats and website visits - Flash players not being updated.  Website may attack from third party ads.  Or threat from websites asking you to update your Flash Player. Am I doing the right thing or the wrong thing. Keyloggers and changing your password - Not using the same password for everything.   Unprotected wireless networks. Tony’s fear of registering his password at more and more websites. We’re very trusting about giving detailed information about ourselves online - W... download link David Freer Symantec VP for Consumer Sales in Asia Pacific and Japan, is this show’s guest.  We talk about what the biggest security threats are to the end-user, beyond viruses and spyware. Dave’s an Aussie living in Singapore for the last 2 years - Responsible for Symantec’s consumer arm in Asia Data back-up and storage as well security What are the potential threats? - Not just Viruses and worms. Threats more stealthy nowadays.  Online attacks via the browser. Email threats and website visits - Flash players not being updated.  Website may attack from third party ads.  Or threat from websites asking you to update your Flash Player. Am I doing the right thing or the wrong thing. Keyloggers and changing your password - Not using the same password for everything.   Unprotected wireless networks. Tony’s fear of registering his password at more and more websites. We’re very trusting about giving detailed information about ourselves online - Which is stored on a server.  BBC’s “Amber”  fake to show how friends and data can be obtained.  Birthday not your birth year. Threat from forums in traded credit cards and malicious software - Software writers, credit details and passwords traded, users of fake credit cards and bank details.  Cyber crime is now starting to exceed the international drug trade. Mix and vary your passwords - Insurance for the unforeseen. Back up of your data - Online back or spare discs to another site. Singapore v Australia for data infrastructure - Data performance. Safety for Kids and Teenagers accessing the internet - Norton online family safety. More agreement with kids than parental spying.  What are our kids’ profiles online.  How much information should they give. Norton bloat and search speeds - Improved?  Go try it out for yourself. Good for recovery after a virus. David’s email load - Laptop for email not Blackberry. Personal productivity through Outlook inbox.  Read once and file. 150-200 emails per day. Pre-colour code emails.  cc is black, direct to David is blue.  Boss is red. Twitter for contacts rather than business cards - Collecting Twitter names at business meetings. Channels to market - Twitter, Facebook, Website. David’s Memory! - Notes and laptop Electronic interaction is cutting down cultural differences between countries - India, China, Japan, Italy. Game Fishing - And returning the fish, catch and release. Lord of the Rings - A great story for a kid to read.  And history of the world Music by; She Stole My Beer “Twisted Vehicle” (mp3) from “Mule” (Curve Music) Buy at Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from Rhapsody More On This Album download link David Freer Symantec VP for Consumer Sales in Asia Pacific and Japan, is this show’s guest.  We talk about what the biggest security threats are to the end-user, beyond viruses and spyware. Dave’s an Aussie living in Singapore for the last 2 years - Responsible for Symantec’s consumer arm in Asia Data back-up and storage as well security What are the potential threats? - Not just Viruses and worms. Threats more stealthy nowadays.  Online attacks via the browser. Email threats and website visits - Flash players not being updated.  Website may attack from third party ads.  Or threat from websites asking you to update your Flash Player. Am I doing the right thing or the wrong thing. Keyloggers and changing your password - Not using the same password for everything.   Unprotected wireless networks. Tony’s fear of registering his password at more and more websites. We’re very trusting about giving detailed information about ourselves online - Which is stored on a server.  BBC’s “Amber”  fake to show how friends and data can be obtained.  Birthday not your birth year. Threat from forums in traded credit cards and malicious software - Software writers, credit details and passwords traded, users of fake credit cards and bank details.  Cyber crime is now starting to exceed the international drug trade. Mix and vary your passwords - Insurance for the unforeseen. Back up of your data - Online back or spare discs to another site. Singapore v Australia for data infrastructure - Data performance. Safety for Kids and Teenagers accessing the internet - Norton online family safety. More agreement with kids than parental spying.  What are our kids’ profiles online.  How much information should they give. Norton bloat and search speeds - Improved?  Go try it out for yourself. Good for recovery after a virus. David’s email load - Laptop for email not Blackberry. Personal productivity through Outlook inbox.  Read once and file. 150-200 emails per day. Pre-colour code emails.  cc is black, direct to David is blue.  Boss is red. Twitter for contacts rather than business cards - Collecting Twitter names at business meetings. Channels to market - Twitter, Facebook, Website. David’s Memory! - Notes and laptop Electronic interaction is cutting down cultural differences between countries - India, China, Japan, Italy. Game Fishing - And returning the fish, catch and release. Lord of the Rings - A great story for a kid to read.  And history of the world Music by; She Stole My Beer “Twisted Vehicle” (mp3) from “Mule” (Curve Music) Buy at Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from Rhapsody More On This Album tag:odeo.com,2009-07-07,24768179 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:04:17 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24546949-The-Productivity-Show-46-Michael-Deutch-MindJet-and-Productivity download link Michael Deutch MindJet’s Chief Evangelist is this show’s guest.  We talk about MindMapping, MindJet’s MindManager for creating and sharing MindMaps on your computer.  Lots of productivity tips around Getting Things Done. What’s an Evangelist! - Writing, talking, public speaking, podcasting about MindJet Who are MindJet and what is MindManager - Software to help visualise your thinking and capture your thoughts into a visual diagram Channels to promote MindManager - Building a strategy map to promote MindJet and MindManager, then work out ways to leverage Social Media. The MindJet Blog - Blogging evangelism Twitter Evangelism - Mapping out your Twitter strategy using MindManager.  Cindy King planning a Twitter strategy and Tweet Later.  A question, a link back, a link to other people’s site. Social Media - Critical point at which people follow you instead of you chasing people.  Good business opportunities from Twitter. Shutting off Twitter... download link Michael Deutch MindJet’s Chief Evangelist is this show’s guest.  We talk about MindMapping, MindJet’s MindManager for creating and sharing MindMaps on your computer.  Lots of productivity tips around Getting Things Done. What’s an Evangelist! - Writing, talking, public speaking, podcasting about MindJet Who are MindJet and what is MindManager - Software to help visualise your thinking and capture your thoughts into a visual diagram Channels to promote MindManager - Building a strategy map to promote MindJet and MindManager, then work out ways to leverage Social Media. The MindJet Blog - Blogging evangelism Twitter Evangelism - Mapping out your Twitter strategy using MindManager.  Cindy King planning a Twitter strategy and Tweet Later.  A question, a link back, a link to other people’s site. Social Media - Critical point at which people follow you instead of you chasing people.  Good business opportunities from Twitter. Shutting off Twitter and laptop for the weekend Facebook for marketing MindJet - Love to consolidate on one platform. Second Life MindMap - MindManager mindmap in 3D on Second Life Zoom mapping - Google Earth and Prezi for zooming presentations Mike Jetter founder of MindJet - Whilst recovering from leukemia developed the MindManager software in 1994 MindManager - Customer evangelists. MindMaps to map out your life. Not just business productivity.  Undoing and redoing creates even more memory connections.  Tying in other data with completions.  Writing reports and books with MindManager to move topics with text around. MindMap - Central theme, expanded outwards with associations and a relationship line.  Jamie Nast Idea Mapping, “Blooming and Flowing”. Beyond Bullet Points - Cliff Atkinson, creating powerpoint presentations to visually tell a story.  Using MindManager to zoom in and out of a document instead of a linear format.  Flying around a document of PowerPoint presentation. Presentation Mode in MindManager - Excellent alternative way to present to PowerPoint, and using zooming. Group capture and brainstorming using MindManager - Projecting and capturing group ideas on a MindMap. Mapping to layer information - Create a big big capture, to zoom in and out of contexts. Miller Heiman Blue Sheet - As a MindMap?  Target Account Selling on a MindMap. PRINCE 2 - MindMap the status for projects and project managing. MindManager Web Export - Export MindMap as a single MindMap webpage or create a website from the MindManager output. Sharing created MindMaps in browsers - Edit and share created maps, regardless of location. Creating in MindManager and exporting - PowerPoint, Word, MS Project, Active map for others to open branches/topics. Getting Things Done and MindManager - How does David Allen use MindManager.  Mind Sweep of everything in your head.  High levels (Horizons of Focus) on dashboard map.  Day to day actions in Outlook. GyroQ - Front end capture of ideas and actions into MindManager Voice Capture of ideas to BlackBerry - Send to email.  Jott to send voice to text messages. Mind Sweep MindMap - Fantastic mindmap for weekly check in and Mind Sweep. Oh and the ultimate Weekly Review. Weekly Review - Chunk it to smaller blocks over Friday and the weekend, so it’s not onerous. Mind Like Water - Is my Mind Like Water and what do I need to do to capture and fix to be in that state. Moving long term goals into today - We punish ourselves until we’ve done the small things. You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay Write down your dreams/goals - As if you’d completed them.  What do they look like complete?  Aligning with your long term goals.  Are you bringing your long term dreams into your weekly life. The Classic Nice Guy - Taking it all on and helping everyone else to the detriment of yourself.  When to say No. Blogging for a Living! - Part of Michael’s role is to blog of MindJet. Books - Whole New Mind, The Back of The Napkin, Tony Buzan, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, 4 Hour Work Week. Life - Yoga, Sailing, Scuba Diving, more sailing download link Michael Deutch MindJet’s Chief Evangelist is this show’s guest.  We talk about MindMapping, MindJet’s MindManager for creating and sharing MindMaps on your computer.  Lots of productivity tips around Getting Things Done. What’s an Evangelist! - Writing, talking, public speaking, podcasting about MindJet Who are MindJet and what is MindManager - Software to help visualise your thinking and capture your thoughts into a visual diagram Channels to promote MindManager - Building a strategy map to promote MindJet and MindManager, then work out ways to leverage Social Media. The MindJet Blog - Blogging evangelism Twitter Evangelism - Mapping out your Twitter strategy using MindManager.  Cindy King planning a Twitter strategy and Tweet Later.  A question, a link back, a link to other people’s site. Social Media - Critical point at which people follow you instead of you chasing people.  Good business opportunities from Twitter. Shutting off Twitter and laptop for the weekend Facebook for marketing MindJet - Love to consolidate on one platform. Second Life MindMap - MindManager mindmap in 3D on Second Life Zoom mapping - Google Earth and Prezi for zooming presentations Mike Jetter founder of MindJet - Whilst recovering from leukemia developed the MindManager software in 1994 MindManager - Customer evangelists. MindMaps to map out your life. Not just business productivity.  Undoing and redoing creates even more memory connections.  Tying in other data with completions.  Writing reports and books with MindManager to move topics with text around. MindMap - Central theme, expanded outwards with associations and a relationship line.  Jamie Nast Idea Mapping, “Blooming and Flowing”. Beyond Bullet Points - Cliff Atkinson, creating powerpoint presentations to visually tell a story.  Using MindManager to zoom in and out of a document instead of a linear format.  Flying around a document of PowerPoint presentation. Presentation Mode in MindManager - Excellent alternative way to present to PowerPoint, and using zooming. Group capture and brainstorming using MindManager - Projecting and capturing group ideas on a MindMap. Mapping to layer information - Create a big big capture, to zoom in and out of contexts. Miller Heiman Blue Sheet - As a MindMap?  Target Account Selling on a MindMap. PRINCE 2 - MindMap the status for projects and project managing. MindManager Web Export - Export MindMap as a single MindMap webpage or create a website from the MindManager output. Sharing created MindMaps in browsers - Edit and share created maps, regardless of location. Creating in MindManager and exporting - PowerPoint, Word, MS Project, Active map for others to open branches/topics. Getting Things Done and MindManager - How does David Allen use MindManager.  Mind Sweep of everything in your head.  High levels (Horizons of Focus) on dashboard map.  Day to day actions in Outlook. GyroQ - Front end capture of ideas and actions into MindManager Voice Capture of ideas to BlackBerry - Send to email.  Jott to send voice to text messages. Mind Sweep MindMap - Fantastic mindmap for weekly check in and Mind Sweep. Oh and the ultimate Weekly Review. Weekly Review - Chunk it to smaller blocks over Friday and the weekend, so it’s not onerous. Mind Like Water - Is my Mind Like Water and what do I need to do to capture and fix to be in that state. Moving long term goals into today - We punish ourselves until we’ve done the small things. You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay Write down your dreams/goals - As if you’d completed them.  What do they look like complete?  Aligning with your long term goals.  Are you bringing your long term dreams into your weekly life. The Classic Nice Guy - Taking it all on and helping everyone else to the detriment of yourself.  When to say No. Blogging for a Living! - Part of Michael’s role is to blog of MindJet. Books - Whole New Mind, The Back of The Napkin, Tony Buzan, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, 4 Hour Work Week. Life - Yoga, Sailing, Scuba Diving, more sailing tag:odeo.com,2009-05-15,24546949 Fri, 15 May 2009 01:57:14 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24535096-The-Productivity-Show-45-Peter-Mahoney-Voice-Recognition download link Peter Mahoney Senior Vice President & General Manager, Dragon Business Unit at Nuance is the guest on this productivity show.   As well as Dragon Naturally Speaking, Nuance are in the speech business including, desktop speech, speech on mobiles, navigation systems,  automotive speech systems, customer service speech recognition, medical transcription, imaging software, OCR and document management. We talked about voice recognition as an aid to productivity, productivity tips, how a company like Nuance view internet channels for marketing conversations. Voice Recognition – 10 years ago, now, the future. Integrated into other applications, not so much AI yet. Statistical Language Model – to recognise language. I scream v Ice Cream!! Voice Recognition commands – Use in applications.  Bits of meaning.  Identifying key words in a sentence for likely customer support applications. Voicemail to text – To send as emails Do we use voice recognition when we have it – Getting... download link Peter Mahoney Senior Vice President & General Manager, Dragon Business Unit at Nuance is the guest on this productivity show.   As well as Dragon Naturally Speaking, Nuance are in the speech business including, desktop speech, speech on mobiles, navigation systems,  automotive speech systems, customer service speech recognition, medical transcription, imaging software, OCR and document management. We talked about voice recognition as an aid to productivity, productivity tips, how a company like Nuance view internet channels for marketing conversations. Voice Recognition – 10 years ago, now, the future. Integrated into other applications, not so much AI yet. Statistical Language Model – to recognise language. I scream v Ice Cream!! Voice Recognition commands – Use in applications.  Bits of meaning.  Identifying key words in a sentence for likely customer support applications. Voicemail to text – To send as emails Do we use voice recognition when we have it – Getting over the learning curve to achieve productivity with voice recognition.  Instead of hitting the backspace key when typing. 26mins typing can translate to 6mins of voice recognition. Lawyers, Insurance Claims, Police, Health – Uses for specialised voice recognition to create reports. The Future of Speech Recognition – Make it easier for new users. Shortening the learning curve.  Increasing the recognition of more natural language.  Translating multiple conversations at the same time. Stuck with the keyboard, screen and mouse – Making machines understand us, instead of adapting to machines. I dream of virtual reality. Increase in use of mobile technologies – But keyboards are small Peter’s Productivity – Lots of ideas and creativity, easy to be distracted, so email inbox is central, and “Getting to Zero” inbox with Getting Things Done. Voicemails go to Inbox – Single channel with Inbox. Dragon for email processes – Commands/processes,  and Voice to text.  Reducing the stress of typing.  Voice short cuts for filing, and finishing off emails with signatures, and sending. Capture tools – Moving notes as soon as possible.  End of day reminder to transcribe notes by dictating and expanding into electronic capture. Projects – Physical documents of long term projects to check up on a weekly basis. Channels to market in the Web2.0 world – Customers can better communicate with Nuance. Blog, Facebook for Dragon feedback. Interact with brand. Respect the channel for what it’s used for. Do display ads on Facebook work for a company marketing?  Facebook is more an interactive tool. Knowing from customers when things go wrong with a product – How to deal with it. Negative feedback can lead to a positive outcome, if a company acknowledges and acts on the feedback. Twitter – Broadcast channel for realtime information. Something will catch your eye on Twitter.  Twitter search engine for real time search on opinion. Second Life – Moving with consumer fickleness with which is the platform to communicate on. Gaming World – Huge potential for voice recognition in gaming commands. Sport – Boston Red Sox. The Ted Danson bet.  Boston Bruins hockey. download link Peter Mahoney Senior Vice President & General Manager, Dragon Business Unit at Nuance is the guest on this productivity show.   As well as Dragon Naturally Speaking, Nuance are in the speech business including, desktop speech, speech on mobiles, navigation systems,  automotive speech systems, customer service speech recognition, medical transcription, imaging software, OCR and document management. We talked about voice recognition as an aid to productivity, productivity tips, how a company like Nuance view internet channels for marketing conversations. Voice Recognition – 10 years ago, now, the future. Integrated into other applications, not so much AI yet. Statistical Language Model – to recognise language. I scream v Ice Cream!! Voice Recognition commands – Use in applications.  Bits of meaning.  Identifying key words in a sentence for likely customer support applications. Voicemail to text – To send as emails Do we use voice recognition when we have it – Getting over the learning curve to achieve productivity with voice recognition.  Instead of hitting the backspace key when typing. 26mins typing can translate to 6mins of voice recognition. Lawyers, Insurance Claims, Police, Health – Uses for specialised voice recognition to create reports. The Future of Speech Recognition – Make it easier for new users. Shortening the learning curve.  Increasing the recognition of more natural language.  Translating multiple conversations at the same time. Stuck with the keyboard, screen and mouse – Making machines understand us, instead of adapting to machines. I dream of virtual reality. Increase in use of mobile technologies – But keyboards are small Peter’s Productivity – Lots of ideas and creativity, easy to be distracted, so email inbox is central, and “Getting to Zero” inbox with Getting Things Done. Voicemails go to Inbox – Single channel with Inbox. Dragon for email processes – Commands/processes,  and Voice to text.  Reducing the stress of typing.  Voice short cuts for filing, and finishing off emails with signatures, and sending. Capture tools – Moving notes as soon as possible.  End of day reminder to transcribe notes by dictating and expanding into electronic capture. Projects – Physical documents of long term projects to check up on a weekly basis. Channels to market in the Web2.0 world – Customers can better communicate with Nuance. Blog, Facebook for Dragon feedback. Interact with brand. Respect the channel for what it’s used for. Do display ads on Facebook work for a company marketing?  Facebook is more an interactive tool. Knowing from customers when things go wrong with a product – How to deal with it. Negative feedback can lead to a positive outcome, if a company acknowledges and acts on the feedback. Twitter – Broadcast channel for realtime information. Something will catch your eye on Twitter.  Twitter search engine for real time search on opinion. Second Life – Moving with consumer fickleness with which is the platform to communicate on. Gaming World – Huge potential for voice recognition in gaming commands. Sport – Boston Red Sox. The Ted Danson bet.  Boston Bruins hockey. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-04,24535096 Mon, 04 May 2009 04:24:21 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24429904-The-Productivity-Show-44-Sue-Knight-NLP-and-Alignment-Purpose download link Another great discussion with Sue Knight, author of NLP at Work, one year on from the last interview, but this time we’re saving the world!  Looking at the world, and what next.  The questions we ask ourselves, the context we set, what can we do to have an effect on the world, our children, our fellow humans, ourselves. Productivity and Getting Things Done whilst on the move worldwide - Using technology, iPhone, Blackberry, Wi-Fi sniffers, laptop. iPhone v Blackberry - iPhone for WiFi and applications and web info, Blackberry for receiving emails. Typing - First edition of NLP at Work was handwritten Writing with a person in mind - One way to blog or write, is to imagine the person you’re writing for who would like to read your writing Blogging v Twitter - Is it possible to read other people’s tweets.  Is it right to tweet but not read other people’s tweets?  Polite and Inefficient!  Everyone’s twittering and no one is listening. How many ... download link Another great discussion with Sue Knight, author of NLP at Work, one year on from the last interview, but this time we’re saving the world!  Looking at the world, and what next.  The questions we ask ourselves, the context we set, what can we do to have an effect on the world, our children, our fellow humans, ourselves. Productivity and Getting Things Done whilst on the move worldwide - Using technology, iPhone, Blackberry, Wi-Fi sniffers, laptop. iPhone v Blackberry - iPhone for WiFi and applications and web info, Blackberry for receiving emails. Typing - First edition of NLP at Work was handwritten Writing with a person in mind - One way to blog or write, is to imagine the person you’re writing for who would like to read your writing Blogging v Twitter - Is it possible to read other people’s tweets.  Is it right to tweet but not read other people’s tweets?  Polite and Inefficient!  Everyone’s twittering and no one is listening. How many Twitter followers to get an answer to a question? - 300 to 500? Twitter to build a community of sharing - Build and support a community Twitter (What am I doing) - Sticking to that frame of the present Alignment - Aligning your life.  Purpose - what are we contributing to the systems beyond self. Getting to Purpose - Start with looking at your true talent, what you’re good at, and doing what you love doing.  Passion about something. Money - What do you need money for? Living in India - Simplicity of life.  Spirituality and Faith. Only eat what you need. Eating to live. Comparing India with France with UK with Australia - Passion for learning in India.  Rate of change is rapid. Economic health - Ways of working are changing.  Opening for new breed of leader in the world.   Negative media in Europe perpetuates the problem.  Success is not highlighted. Warped perception of countries, regions, media reporting New media - Personal perspective of what’s happening in the world Will thing stay the same? - Reframe away from “Money”.  Change will come from the questions we ask ourselves and what we are prepared to do personally.  Belief in change, action with change, how we personally live our lives.  Being not just doing Earth Hour - Does it really make a difference?  Earth Hour every night in parts of India Changing people’s lives by example - Home isn’t necessarily a place of fixed bricks Cluetrain - Feeling of world connection NLP Master Practitioners - Identifying their truth and speaking who they are on camera for 2 minutes TED - 20mins of inspiration, what are you going to do in the other 40mins.  2 Minute presentations Learning - Venues are important.  Getting the context for learning right. Educating our Children - Models of excellence.  How we learn.  Seeing talent Paul Smith - Inspiring, Creativity, Generocity, Integrity, Humility Changing our Education system - What can our children do, what are they good at, how do they individually learn NLP at Work - Third edition written. Writing - Keeping a regular process.  No matter what.  Being engaged in writing.  Making the commitment regardless. Writing rubbish for days and weeks. Artist’s Way - Committing to Morning Pages, Artist’s Date “Laziness” - Really fear or being blocked. Labelling things.  Just Do It Purpose - Finding what you love doing. Given free time what do you choose to do Grey Nomads - Travelling around Australia.  Having it all Challenging the question - Is the saving and changing of the world going to be based on money.  Challenge the pre-suppositions Passion leading to success - Malcolm Gladwell 10,000 hours 4 Books as Pillars - The Bible, Road Less Travelled, Influencing with Integrity, 4 Hour Work Week, Getting Things Done, Artist’s Way, Catch 22, Built to Last, Tom Peters, Scott Adams download link Another great discussion with Sue Knight, author of NLP at Work, one year on from the last interview, but this time we’re saving the world!  Looking at the world, and what next.  The questions we ask ourselves, the context we set, what can we do to have an effect on the world, our children, our fellow humans, ourselves. Productivity and Getting Things Done whilst on the move worldwide - Using technology, iPhone, Blackberry, Wi-Fi sniffers, laptop. iPhone v Blackberry - iPhone for WiFi and applications and web info, Blackberry for receiving emails. Typing - First edition of NLP at Work was handwritten Writing with a person in mind - One way to blog or write, is to imagine the person you’re writing for who would like to read your writing Blogging v Twitter - Is it possible to read other people’s tweets.  Is it right to tweet but not read other people’s tweets?  Polite and Inefficient!  Everyone’s twittering and no one is listening. How many Twitter followers to get an answer to a question? - 300 to 500? Twitter to build a community of sharing - Build and support a community Twitter (What am I doing) - Sticking to that frame of the present Alignment - Aligning your life.  Purpose - what are we contributing to the systems beyond self. Getting to Purpose - Start with looking at your true talent, what you’re good at, and doing what you love doing.  Passion about something. Money - What do you need money for? Living in India - Simplicity of life.  Spirituality and Faith. Only eat what you need. Eating to live. Comparing India with France with UK with Australia - Passion for learning in India.  Rate of change is rapid. Economic health - Ways of working are changing.  Opening for new breed of leader in the world.   Negative media in Europe perpetuates the problem.  Success is not highlighted. Warped perception of countries, regions, media reporting New media - Personal perspective of what’s happening in the world Will thing stay the same? - Reframe away from “Money”.  Change will come from the questions we ask ourselves and what we are prepared to do personally.  Belief in change, action with change, how we personally live our lives.  Being not just doing Earth Hour - Does it really make a difference?  Earth Hour every night in parts of India Changing people’s lives by example - Home isn’t necessarily a place of fixed bricks Cluetrain - Feeling of world connection NLP Master Practitioners - Identifying their truth and speaking who they are on camera for 2 minutes TED - 20mins of inspiration, what are you going to do in the other 40mins.  2 Minute presentations Learning - Venues are important.  Getting the context for learning right. Educating our Children - Models of excellence.  How we learn.  Seeing talent Paul Smith - Inspiring, Creativity, Generocity, Integrity, Humility Changing our Education system - What can our children do, what are they good at, how do they individually learn NLP at Work - Third edition written. Writing - Keeping a regular process.  No matter what.  Being engaged in writing.  Making the commitment regardless. Writing rubbish for days and weeks. Artist’s Way - Committing to Morning Pages, Artist’s Date “Laziness” - Really fear or being blocked. Labelling things.  Just Do It Purpose - Finding what you love doing. Given free time what do you choose to do Grey Nomads - Travelling around Australia.  Having it all Challenging the question - Is the saving and changing of the world going to be based on money.  Challenge the pre-suppositions Passion leading to success - Malcolm Gladwell 10,000 hours 4 Books as Pillars - The Bible, Road Less Travelled, Influencing with Integrity, 4 Hour Work Week, Getting Things Done, Artist’s Way, Catch 22, Built to Last, Tom Peters, Scott Adams tag:odeo.com,2009-04-08,24429904 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:26:52 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24327349-The-Productivity-Show-43-A-Mind-Like-Water download link Another show with Daryl Cook where we chat about Productivity and Life.  What’s working for us and what’s not. Dave Allen on Twitter - @gtdguy Back to Twitter - TweetDeck v Twhirl runs on Adobe Air and runs well.  Twhirl only lets you save a tweet not to have group of favourite people Is Twitter all noise and no signal? - We tweet but do we read other people’s tweets?  Does the software allow us to read mass tweets? How many friends does it take to have a tweet answered? - What are the optimum numbers to follow and be followed by on Twitter? Jump in the stream and follow the here and now in Twitter. A few Twitter celebs to follow - @lancearmstrong, Dave Allen(@gtdguy), @johncleese, @rustyrockets (Russell Brand), @alancarr, @wossy(Jonathan Ross), @dhughesy, @stephenfry, @eddieizzard (I exaggerated, not 100,000 followers yet!) Using Twitter as a real time search engine - Threat to Google? Follow people who use your language - Cluetrain and Bollocks! Has... download link Another show with Daryl Cook where we chat about Productivity and Life.  What’s working for us and what’s not. Dave Allen on Twitter - @gtdguy Back to Twitter - TweetDeck v Twhirl runs on Adobe Air and runs well.  Twhirl only lets you save a tweet not to have group of favourite people Is Twitter all noise and no signal? - We tweet but do we read other people’s tweets?  Does the software allow us to read mass tweets? How many friends does it take to have a tweet answered? - What are the optimum numbers to follow and be followed by on Twitter? Jump in the stream and follow the here and now in Twitter. A few Twitter celebs to follow - @lancearmstrong, Dave Allen(@gtdguy), @johncleese, @rustyrockets (Russell Brand), @alancarr, @wossy(Jonathan Ross), @dhughesy, @stephenfry, @eddieizzard (I exaggerated, not 100,000 followers yet!) Using Twitter as a real time search engine - Threat to Google? Follow people who use your language - Cluetrain and Bollocks! Hash tags # on Twitter - Tagging and grouping comments on Twitter Twitter is both a distractor and creativity tool -Tracking and throwing out thoughts Moving away from Blackberry/Outlook - I’m not missing my Blackberry, good for reading emails but not sending emails.  Some of us just want a phone! Can you password protect your mobile Gmail? Synching tasks to your mobile What are the minimum number of applications to have on a working old PC One laptop per family member - What to buy next?  EeePC701SD linux, mini laptop, second hand laptop XP? Not carry a laptop with you - Shifting contexts to reduce stress and go with the flow. Paper lists? Capturing actions and setting the contexts in MindManager - Print them out to carry with me as paper lists New Contexts - @Fun and @Thinking Stress might be due to - Not capturing everything in your heard or Not fully doing a Weekly Review or Not having the Right Contexts.  Split @Computer into @Email and @Internet Does all thinking time have an action to complete? Not letting yourself have fun because you haven’t completed your non-fun! - You need some right side brain thinking to help you figure out stuff.  Ideas are usually in the shower. More @Fun and @Play Lifehacker - Good Tips, Quality over Quantity.  Are people even completing 3 things per day, and are they the right things? Getting to the Yearly Goal - Are the actions I’m doing today contributing to the 1 year future. Do It, Delegate, Defer - What do I do next?  What do I do when I wake up Writing a letter standing 1 year in the future - Today is Dec 31st 2009, what am I doing today and how did I get here?  Very powerful.  Then create a map of the letter and use that as a working day to day picture. Artist’s Way - Just keep writing. Julia Cameron.  Overcoming creative blocks. Morning Pages - Write 3 handwritten pages per day. Opens up your creativity.   Using the morning pages to develop things such as a website.  Tool to overcome a block. Creative Force - Being a receptor.  TED Elizabeth Gilbert Eat Pray Love.  Can you capture the force? Taking the captured creativity into a project and action 4 Pillars of Productivity - The Artist’s Way, Getting Things Done, 4 Hour Work Week, Wave Rider, Catch 22! Reading Diet for 1 week - No news, blogs, internet, newspapers, books. download link Another show with Daryl Cook where we chat about Productivity and Life.  What’s working for us and what’s not. Dave Allen on Twitter - @gtdguy Back to Twitter - TweetDeck v Twhirl runs on Adobe Air and runs well.  Twhirl only lets you save a tweet not to have group of favourite people Is Twitter all noise and no signal? - We tweet but do we read other people’s tweets?  Does the software allow us to read mass tweets? How many friends does it take to have a tweet answered? - What are the optimum numbers to follow and be followed by on Twitter? Jump in the stream and follow the here and now in Twitter. A few Twitter celebs to follow - @lancearmstrong, Dave Allen(@gtdguy), @johncleese, @rustyrockets (Russell Brand), @alancarr, @wossy(Jonathan Ross), @dhughesy, @stephenfry, @eddieizzard (I exaggerated, not 100,000 followers yet!) Using Twitter as a real time search engine - Threat to Google? Follow people who use your language - Cluetrain and Bollocks! Hash tags # on Twitter - Tagging and grouping comments on Twitter Twitter is both a distractor and creativity tool -Tracking and throwing out thoughts Moving away from Blackberry/Outlook - I’m not missing my Blackberry, good for reading emails but not sending emails.  Some of us just want a phone! Can you password protect your mobile Gmail? Synching tasks to your mobile What are the minimum number of applications to have on a working old PC One laptop per family member - What to buy next?  EeePC701SD linux, mini laptop, second hand laptop XP? Not carry a laptop with you - Shifting contexts to reduce stress and go with the flow. Paper lists? Capturing actions and setting the contexts in MindManager - Print them out to carry with me as paper lists New Contexts - @Fun and @Thinking Stress might be due to - Not capturing everything in your heard or Not fully doing a Weekly Review or Not having the Right Contexts.  Split @Computer into @Email and @Internet Does all thinking time have an action to complete? Not letting yourself have fun because you haven’t completed your non-fun! - You need some right side brain thinking to help you figure out stuff.  Ideas are usually in the shower. More @Fun and @Play Lifehacker - Good Tips, Quality over Quantity.  Are people even completing 3 things per day, and are they the right things? Getting to the Yearly Goal - Are the actions I’m doing today contributing to the 1 year future. Do It, Delegate, Defer - What do I do next?  What do I do when I wake up Writing a letter standing 1 year in the future - Today is Dec 31st 2009, what am I doing today and how did I get here?  Very powerful.  Then create a map of the letter and use that as a working day to day picture. Artist’s Way - Just keep writing. Julia Cameron.  Overcoming creative blocks. Morning Pages - Write 3 handwritten pages per day. Opens up your creativity.   Using the morning pages to develop things such as a website.  Tool to overcome a block. Creative Force - Being a receptor.  TED Elizabeth Gilbert Eat Pray Love.  Can you capture the force? Taking the captured creativity into a project and action 4 Pillars of Productivity - The Artist’s Way, Getting Things Done, 4 Hour Work Week, Wave Rider, Catch 22! Reading Diet for 1 week - No news, blogs, internet, newspapers, books. tag:odeo.com,2009-03-18,24327349 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:29:27 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23920299-The-Productivity-Show-42-Two-Years-Later%E2%80%A6 The original hosts of TPN’s Productivity Show, Des Paroz and Cameron Reilly, re-unite for a special episode - two years and a few months after their last episode! We discuss: - Des’ decision to leave his corporate job and start his own business, with a “many irons in many fires” strategy Then we get into talking about our current favourite productivity applications and methodologies, including: - our mutual love for our iPhones - Omnifocus - Evernote - Moleskines - Twitter - Remember The Milk - Neat Receipts - Outsourcing (4 Hour Work Week Style) - Getting a productivity coach - getting your voicemails sent to you as email attachments The original hosts of TPN’s Productivity Show, Des Paroz and Cameron Reilly, re-unite for a special episode - two years and a few months after their last episode! We discuss: - Des’ decision to leave his corporate job and start his own business, with a “many irons in many fires” strategy Then we get into talking about our current favourite productivity applications and methodologies, including: - our mutual love for our iPhones - Omnifocus - Evernote - Moleskines - Twitter - Remember The Milk - Neat Receipts - Outsourcing (4 Hour Work Week Style) - Getting a productivity coach - getting your voicemails sent to you as email attachments The original hosts of TPN’s Productivity Show, Des Paroz and Cameron Reilly, re-unite for a special episode - two years and a few months after their last episode! We discuss: - Des’ decision to leave his corporate job and start his own business, with a “many irons in many fires” strategy Then we get into talking about our current favourite productivity applications and methodologies, including: - our mutual love for our iPhones - Omnifocus - Evernote - Moleskines - Twitter - Remember The Milk - Neat Receipts - Outsourcing (4 Hour Work Week Style) - Getting a productivity coach - getting your voicemails sent to you as email attachments tag:odeo.com,2009-01-22,23920299 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:39:45 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23907200-The-Productivity-Show-41-Productivity-on-the-Road download link Tony Goodson and Daryl Cook (GTD Buddies) talk about productivity or lack of it when you’re on the road for most of your working life.  It’s about being inter-state with a Blackberry and laptop and still not being productive! Dividing your life into 15min chunks or eating chocolate Catching up on things you normally do from your desk or at home Maintaining your energy levels whilst being away Myers-Briggs styles for generating energy and productivity - Introvert/Perceiving v Extrovert/Judging Laptops and Blackberrys on planes and trains.  Who are these people?  Are they the Extroverts? Back at the hotel room - TV and Mini-Bar or Productivity? Hotels with no mini-bar and TV to aid productivity! Going back to paper based productivity Contexts for being productive and breaking up a long list of actions Putting a sub-list of tasks on your mobile to get done whilst on the move Filing from the hotel room, or gather everything together from the start and file it a... download link Tony Goodson and Daryl Cook (GTD Buddies) talk about productivity or lack of it when you’re on the road for most of your working life.  It’s about being inter-state with a Blackberry and laptop and still not being productive! Dividing your life into 15min chunks or eating chocolate Catching up on things you normally do from your desk or at home Maintaining your energy levels whilst being away Myers-Briggs styles for generating energy and productivity - Introvert/Perceiving v Extrovert/Judging Laptops and Blackberrys on planes and trains.  Who are these people?  Are they the Extroverts? Back at the hotel room - TV and Mini-Bar or Productivity? Hotels with no mini-bar and TV to aid productivity! Going back to paper based productivity Contexts for being productive and breaking up a long list of actions Putting a sub-list of tasks on your mobile to get done whilst on the move Filing from the hotel room, or gather everything together from the start and file it all How much do you have to file? Do you file at home or at the office when you’re travelling a lot Not using folders on Outlook- It’s sometimes easier to find things in a single folder and use Microsoft Desktop or Google Desktop to search Not using MindManager8 for mindmapping - GyroQ for capturing thoughts into a mindmap, Omnifocus for GTD on the Mac.  Creating tasks from email Getting a headset for your cordless phone - Handsfree and movement with good quality sound 15min chunking the day - How do you waste each 15mins!  Allow yourself thinking time and reflection Moving task reminders into a category list so you don’t have too many reminders.  Categorise all your contacts so that you have sublists of all your contacts Write the phone number of the person in your created task, so don’t have to look up their number and you have a summary list with numbers Break the day in 4 quarters - Coach yourself in each quarter.  A weekly review in each quarter of a day What 4 books/pillars would you stick to? - A Whole New Mind, Life is a Verb, Zen and the Art of Making a Living, The Dharma Bums. The 4 Hour Work Week, Getting Things Done, Scott Adams, The Artist’s Way, Impro and The Theatre, 7 Habits! 6 Hats!  Think and Grow Rich, How to Win Friends and Influence People, The Richest Man in Babylon. download link Tony Goodson and Daryl Cook (GTD Buddies) talk about productivity or lack of it when you’re on the road for most of your working life.  It’s about being inter-state with a Blackberry and laptop and still not being productive! Dividing your life into 15min chunks or eating chocolate Catching up on things you normally do from your desk or at home Maintaining your energy levels whilst being away Myers-Briggs styles for generating energy and productivity - Introvert/Perceiving v Extrovert/Judging Laptops and Blackberrys on planes and trains.  Who are these people?  Are they the Extroverts? Back at the hotel room - TV and Mini-Bar or Productivity? Hotels with no mini-bar and TV to aid productivity! Going back to paper based productivity Contexts for being productive and breaking up a long list of actions Putting a sub-list of tasks on your mobile to get done whilst on the move Filing from the hotel room, or gather everything together from the start and file it all How much do you have to file? Do you file at home or at the office when you’re travelling a lot Not using folders on Outlook- It’s sometimes easier to find things in a single folder and use Microsoft Desktop or Google Desktop to search Not using MindManager8 for mindmapping - GyroQ for capturing thoughts into a mindmap, Omnifocus for GTD on the Mac.  Creating tasks from email Getting a headset for your cordless phone - Handsfree and movement with good quality sound 15min chunking the day - How do you waste each 15mins!  Allow yourself thinking time and reflection Moving task reminders into a category list so you don’t have too many reminders.  Categorise all your contacts so that you have sublists of all your contacts Write the phone number of the person in your created task, so don’t have to look up their number and you have a summary list with numbers Break the day in 4 quarters - Coach yourself in each quarter.  A weekly review in each quarter of a day What 4 books/pillars would you stick to? - A Whole New Mind, Life is a Verb, Zen and the Art of Making a Living, The Dharma Bums. The 4 Hour Work Week, Getting Things Done, Scott Adams, The Artist’s Way, Impro and The Theatre, 7 Habits! 6 Hats!  Think and Grow Rich, How to Win Friends and Influence People, The Richest Man in Babylon. tag:odeo.com,2008-12-30,23907200 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:07:47 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23349264-The-Productivity-Show-40-Tony-Goodson-The-host-interviewed download link In this episode, Tony’s in the hot seat! Helping you to get to know your regular host a little better is guest host Daryl Cook, Tony’s GTD buddy. International Man of Mystery - where he’s from and why he’s now here in Melbourne, Aus. It involves a girl. Kissing frogs - a bit about Tony’s work background in Sales: from IT to soft skills and training and dabbling in Psychotherapy. Lessons from psychotherapy applicable to training and group work. Manifesto - the Gerry Maguire of sales? Tony is a fanboy of the Cluetrain and sees sales as a conversation. He talks about not having a fear of sales, and being able to having fun. Dyslexia - candidly talks about being borderline dyslexic and how that has affected his productivity and personal development. Teaching kids to read – one method is phonics. We mention a book Daryl leant Tony. Here’s the link to that: Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons. Different learning methods - structur... download link In this episode, Tony’s in the hot seat! Helping you to get to know your regular host a little better is guest host Daryl Cook, Tony’s GTD buddy. International Man of Mystery - where he’s from and why he’s now here in Melbourne, Aus. It involves a girl. Kissing frogs - a bit about Tony’s work background in Sales: from IT to soft skills and training and dabbling in Psychotherapy. Lessons from psychotherapy applicable to training and group work. Manifesto - the Gerry Maguire of sales? Tony is a fanboy of the Cluetrain and sees sales as a conversation. He talks about not having a fear of sales, and being able to having fun. Dyslexia - candidly talks about being borderline dyslexic and how that has affected his productivity and personal development. Teaching kids to read – one method is phonics. We mention a book Daryl leant Tony. Here’s the link to that: Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons. Different learning methods - structure and draconian learning. School as a lock-up - social contract. Blogging - blogging has helped with expressing his own voice. Tony has written the equivalent of four books worth of content since 2001. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. Motivation - how does anyone stay motivated? Mission Control and creating compelling occasions. Productivity show - common threads or themes noticed during this time. Less structure and more in the moment. Procrastination. Behind this is often the perfectionist. GTD - Getting Things Done. Compelling reason to clear the mind. Free space. Challenge is doing some of the things you’ve captured!! Tony’s hybrid system - GTD and Mission Control. Mission Control goes a step further than GTD in terms of motivations behind tasks. More calendar-based. Brief comparison of the two methods. Show 38 with John Duckworth has ideas for weekly review. We agree that buddying works well. Practising in front of the mirror - Tony recounts his experience of practising a script in front of a mirror and confronting his internal critic. Dark matter - Tony’s theory of productivity. Don’t realise how much ‘things’ consume our time. All little fillers in our lives are the dark matter, that occupies most of our waking hours. There’s a little interlude at the start of this conversation about Spurs and the 1987 Cup Final. See this wikipedia article for more information. Recommended reading - The 4-Hour Workweek. Question everything you do first, then apply GTD to the 1/5 of what’s left. Different people and different styles. Accountability - talking with others and holding yourself to account. The coaching/buddy system works quite well. Different ways of managing the relationship and task-orientation. Footballers favourites: Collection - Filofax (thin) Phone - Blackberry. Doesn’t use to send email. Is not addicted. Email - Outlook. RSS Reader - Sharp Reader (Windows). Starting to use Google Reader. Tip for the day - 1. Set compelling occasions and stick to them!; 2. No media for a day once a week; 3. Don’t put it down, put it away. More of - Cycling. Less of - Procrastinate and Sugar. Fave meal - Salmon, peas and new potatoes and Sushi. Fave Film - The Graduate. First single - Take Me Home Country Roads - Olivia Newton-John. First Album - Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield; Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd; Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Simon and Garfunkel, Best of Simon & Garfunkel. First concert - Focus download link In this episode, Tony’s in the hot seat! Helping you to get to know your regular host a little better is guest host Daryl Cook, Tony’s GTD buddy. International Man of Mystery - where he’s from and why he’s now here in Melbourne, Aus. It involves a girl. Kissing frogs - a bit about Tony’s work background in Sales: from IT to soft skills and training and dabbling in Psychotherapy. Lessons from psychotherapy applicable to training and group work. Manifesto - the Gerry Maguire of sales? Tony is a fanboy of the Cluetrain and sees sales as a conversation. He talks about not having a fear of sales, and being able to having fun. Dyslexia - candidly talks about being borderline dyslexic and how that has affected his productivity and personal development. Teaching kids to read – one method is phonics. We mention a book Daryl leant Tony. Here’s the link to that: Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons. Different learning methods - structure and draconian learning. School as a lock-up - social contract. Blogging - blogging has helped with expressing his own voice. Tony has written the equivalent of four books worth of content since 2001. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. Motivation - how does anyone stay motivated? Mission Control and creating compelling occasions. Productivity show - common threads or themes noticed during this time. Less structure and more in the moment. Procrastination. Behind this is often the perfectionist. GTD - Getting Things Done. Compelling reason to clear the mind. Free space. Challenge is doing some of the things you’ve captured!! Tony’s hybrid system - GTD and Mission Control. Mission Control goes a step further than GTD in terms of motivations behind tasks. More calendar-based. Brief comparison of the two methods. Show 38 with John Duckworth has ideas for weekly review. We agree that buddying works well. Practising in front of the mirror - Tony recounts his experience of practising a script in front of a mirror and confronting his internal critic. Dark matter - Tony’s theory of productivity. Don’t realise how much ‘things’ consume our time. All little fillers in our lives are the dark matter, that occupies most of our waking hours. There’s a little interlude at the start of this conversation about Spurs and the 1987 Cup Final. See this wikipedia article for more information. Recommended reading - The 4-Hour Workweek. Question everything you do first, then apply GTD to the 1/5 of what’s left. Different people and different styles. Accountability - talking with others and holding yourself to account. The coaching/buddy system works quite well. Different ways of managing the relationship and task-orientation. Footballers favourites: Collection - Filofax (thin) Phone - Blackberry. Doesn’t use to send email. Is not addicted. Email - Outlook. RSS Reader - Sharp Reader (Windows). Starting to use Google Reader. Tip for the day - 1. Set compelling occasions and stick to them!; 2. No media for a day once a week; 3. Don’t put it down, put it away. More of - Cycling. Less of - Procrastinate and Sugar. Fave meal - Salmon, peas and new potatoes and Sushi. Fave Film - The Graduate. First single - Take Me Home Country Roads - Olivia Newton-John. First Album - Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield; Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd; Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Simon and Garfunkel, Best of Simon & Garfunkel. First concert - Focus tag:odeo.com,2008-09-14,23349264 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:55:10 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/18673483-The-Productivity-Show-39-Doug-Fisher-Mission-Control tag:odeo.com,2008-04-06,18673483 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:46:49 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22233345-The-Productivity-Show-39-Doug-Fisher-Mission-Control download link Doug Fisher is President of Mission Control, a productivity methodology for increasing productivity and reducing stress. Sounds like Getting Things Done? Well here’s a comparison from someone who has done both; GTD-er’s Perspective on Mission Control. Mission Control adds a layer of time based action into your calendar, so that the things/actions you are going to do are set in time. Mission Control also looks at how you are being with the things you think you “should” do. We also talk about Team Productivity and High Performance Teams. (Disclosure. I work for the company (JMW) whose owners also own Mission Control) Accomplishing things and wanting to make things happen -What does it take and how can you be fulfilled in the doing of it. How can the IT solution deliver on the promise to the end-user - Alter what people see as possible so they can accomplish a new realm of performance. What is Mission Control? - Power! Having what you say realised.... download link Doug Fisher is President of Mission Control, a productivity methodology for increasing productivity and reducing stress. Sounds like Getting Things Done? Well here’s a comparison from someone who has done both; GTD-er’s Perspective on Mission Control. Mission Control adds a layer of time based action into your calendar, so that the things/actions you are going to do are set in time. Mission Control also looks at how you are being with the things you think you “should” do. We also talk about Team Productivity and High Performance Teams. (Disclosure. I work for the company (JMW) whose owners also own Mission Control) Accomplishing things and wanting to make things happen -What does it take and how can you be fulfilled in the doing of it. How can the IT solution deliver on the promise to the end-user - Alter what people see as possible so they can accomplish a new realm of performance. What is Mission Control? - Power! Having what you say realised. Producing the results you say you’re going to produce. Resourcing time and resources. Power in your life. Key Productivity Issues - Changing your habits. Our ingrained habits worked for us in the past. Our habits may also limit our level of productivity. More channels of information hitting us. Now over 20 communication modes 24/7. Not the same world we live in as when we developed our habits. What occurred to me as “Work” first in my life - I developed my work habits based on what I developed aged 9! Do these habits work now! Altering your work habits - Resigned about our ability to change our habits. What we see as possible - Changing our world of what we “See”. Fundamental assumptions that limit what we see and limit our productivity. We should get it all done! - And we’re failures if we don’t. Let’s challenge that. You’re never going to get it all done. What if you can’t get it all done? - What are we going to choose if we can’t get it all done? Give people more power to change their habits. How do we mentally deal with all the things to do?Implementing Mission Control - One and half days, but can vary, with coaching and support to implement new practises. Calendar based productivity - We live in a fantasy of when things get done…..Later! For something to get done there has to be a duration of defined time to do it! Schedule it. Schedule 50-100% more time than you originally think!! - Top Tip Sticking to the schedule - Make it something I want to do rather than something I have to do. Compelling Occasions - What I have in my calendar creates my future. A holiday/vacation give me an uplift. So “Do Expenses” doesn’t give a compelling future, it’s something we have to do. What’s fun and compelling for “Do Expenses”. Being Fulfilled - Why do we do what we do? Because it’ fulfills something of fundamental interest or importance. Keep asking “Why is that important to me” even with something “I have to do” keep asking why to get to something of fundamental importance. Why do we have dread about certain projects or calendar entries? - Ask why we’re doing them to get to something more compelling and less tedious which we’re less resistant to. Go into something more positively disposed to it - More focused, and accomplish more in less time. Tony has a spreadsheet for shopping - Just a checklist, nothing more sinister. A compelling future is more uplifting in the present. Making a conscious choice about what you are aren’t doing gives you control. Contact Lists - I’ve moved from Outlook Tasks for each person to Contacts with categories, and then call the group, but also calendar single phone calls. Waiting For - Drag sent email into Calendar for review. Emails are handled as calendar entries where there is follow up. Agendas - Capture what you want to review or say to people you meet consistently Team and Group Productivity - Start with existing habits in the group. Naming the habits that bother us, in each other. Notice and examine our own and other’s existing habits that would effect the group, and shared habits of groups that are unwritten. People recognising their own habits so that other people can talk to you about it and you don’t take it personally because it’s for the performance of the group. Start to talk about things that haven’t been talked about before. What’s the “noise” in the work group - Lack of clarity about commitments, lack of communication, misinterpretation. Having the difficult conversations. Meetings and Emails - Protocols that work which reduce the meetings by half, and reduces the average meeting time by half. Less email by 30%. High Performance Teams - What does the Group exist for. Defining the group. Freedom to communicate. Meetings and email consistent with what needs doing. People take on a new level of performance because they’re freed up! Flow of information in the group - Best sharing of information that allow people to have their attention on producing what they need to produce. Taking on Breakthrough targets - End up with more to do to have Breakthrough performance. What are the things you’re not going to do. Footballers’ Favourites - Capture to pad and then Outlook. “If you’re gonna do it, Schedule it!”. Italian. download link Doug Fisher is President of Mission Control, a productivity methodology for increasing productivity and reducing stress. Sounds like Getting Things Done? Well here’s a comparison from someone who has done both; GTD-er’s Perspective on Mission Control. Mission Control adds a layer of time based action into your calendar, so that the things/actions you are going to do are set in time. Mission Control also looks at how you are being with the things you think you “should” do. We also talk about Team Productivity and High Performance Teams. (Disclosure. I work for the company (JMW) whose owners also own Mission Control) Accomplishing things and wanting to make things happen -What does it take and how can you be fulfilled in the doing of it. How can the IT solution deliver on the promise to the end-user - Alter what people see as possible so they can accomplish a new realm of performance. What is Mission Control? - Power! Having what you say realised. Producing the results you say you’re going to produce. Resourcing time and resources. Power in your life. Key Productivity Issues - Changing your habits. Our ingrained habits worked for us in the past. Our habits may also limit our level of productivity. More channels of information hitting us. Now over 20 communication modes 24/7. Not the same world we live in as when we developed our habits. What occurred to me as “Work” first in my life - I developed my work habits based on what I developed aged 9! Do these habits work now! Altering your work habits - Resigned about our ability to change our habits. What we see as possible - Changing our world of what we “See”. Fundamental assumptions that limit what we see and limit our productivity. We should get it all done! - And we’re failures if we don’t. Let’s challenge that. You’re never going to get it all done. What if you can’t get it all done? - What are we going to choose if we can’t get it all done? Give people more power to change their habits. How do we mentally deal with all the things to do?Implementing Mission Control - One and half days, but can vary, with coaching and support to implement new practises. Calendar based productivity - We live in a fantasy of when things get done…..Later! For something to get done there has to be a duration of defined time to do it! Schedule it. Schedule 50-100% more time than you originally think!! - Top Tip Sticking to the schedule - Make it something I want to do rather than something I have to do. Compelling Occasions - What I have in my calendar creates my future. A holiday/vacation give me an uplift. So “Do Expenses” doesn’t give a compelling future, it’s something we have to do. What’s fun and compelling for “Do Expenses”. Being Fulfilled - Why do we do what we do? Because it’ fulfills something of fundamental interest or importance. Keep asking “Why is that important to me” even with something “I have to do” keep asking why to get to something of fundamental importance. Why do we have dread about certain projects or calendar entries? - Ask why we’re doing them to get to something more compelling and less tedious which we’re less resistant to. Go into something more positively disposed to it - More focused, and accomplish more in less time. Tony has a spreadsheet for shopping - Just a checklist, nothing more sinister. A compelling future is more uplifting in the present. Making a conscious choice about what you are aren’t doing gives you control. Contact Lists - I’ve moved from Outlook Tasks for each person to Contacts with categories, and then call the group, but also calendar single phone calls. Waiting For - Drag sent email into Calendar for review. Emails are handled as calendar entries where there is follow up. Agendas - Capture what you want to review or say to people you meet consistently Team and Group Productivity - Start with existing habits in the group. Naming the habits that bother us, in each other. Notice and examine our own and other’s existing habits that would effect the group, and shared habits of groups that are unwritten. People recognising their own habits so that other people can talk to you about it and you don’t take it personally because it’s for the performance of the group. Start to talk about things that haven’t been talked about before. What’s the “noise” in the work group - Lack of clarity about commitments, lack of communication, misinterpretation. Having the difficult conversations. Meetings and Emails - Protocols that work which reduce the meetings by half, and reduces the average meeting time by half. Less email by 30%. High Performance Teams - What does the Group exist for. Defining the group. Freedom to communicate. Meetings and email consistent with what needs doing. People take on a new level of performance because they’re freed up! Flow of information in the group - Best sharing of information that allow people to have their attention on producing what they need to produce. Taking on Breakthrough targets - End up with more to do to have Breakthrough performance. What are the things you’re not going to do. Footballers’ Favourites - Capture to pad and then Outlook. “If you’re gonna do it, Schedule it!”. Italian. tag:odeo.com,2008-04-06,22233345 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:46:49 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/18673473-The-Productivity-Show-38-John-Duckworth-Cognitive-Weekly-Review tag:odeo.com,2008-03-24,18673473 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:41:48 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22193230-The-Productivity-Show-38-John-Duckworth-Cognitive-Weekly-Review download link My guest is John Duckworth. He wrote to me a few weeks ago with a short guide on doing the Weekly Review. He asked me to read the guide for him. Better than that, I invited him on the show. John has read a wide variety of productivity books, and combined that with cognitive solutions to getting the Weekly Review done. Getting Thing Done - To help with software development. Weekly Review - Needed improving and John looked at other systems to help do GTD. Web Development - In Wigan, Lancashire Mixed Nuts - The greatest productivity tool ever. John hates them and uses them with the guide of Aubrey Daniels. Need to reinforce something immediately after the something happens good or not. Getting off the internet. Mixed nuts worked best! Use something you hate, immediately, to reward yourself for bad behaviour! Stopping things being a chore - Don’t see things like the Weekly Review as a chore, but something you’re motivated to do. Improve the thing you’re d... download link My guest is John Duckworth. He wrote to me a few weeks ago with a short guide on doing the Weekly Review. He asked me to read the guide for him. Better than that, I invited him on the show. John has read a wide variety of productivity books, and combined that with cognitive solutions to getting the Weekly Review done. Getting Thing Done - To help with software development. Weekly Review - Needed improving and John looked at other systems to help do GTD. Web Development - In Wigan, Lancashire Mixed Nuts - The greatest productivity tool ever. John hates them and uses them with the guide of Aubrey Daniels. Need to reinforce something immediately after the something happens good or not. Getting off the internet. Mixed nuts worked best! Use something you hate, immediately, to reward yourself for bad behaviour! Stopping things being a chore - Don’t see things like the Weekly Review as a chore, but something you’re motivated to do. Improve the thing you’re doing so you love it. What is a weekly review - An hour per week, to review. But many don’t give the time over to fully do the review or something interrupts you. Divide the Weekly Review into tasks - It might not end up as a single complete hour, but several tasks which can be split. Split the parts of a weekly review into actions which can be completed in different contexts. When to do the Weekly Review - Calendar it. Make it crucial to start it to get into the habit of doing the weekly review, even if you don’t complete it, to get into the habit. Why don’t we do our Weekly Review? - Procrastination. Not well defined. Give it a next action. Have a checklist to complete for the review. Picture it in your mind so that you encourage yourself to do it. Task list of physical action to do for the review - Get Folder out. Dump papers in in-tray. Small tangible things. Commit to the Preparation - The set up to get you moving. Mark Forster’s Do It Tomorrow. Getting ready to do the action. Getting the ironing board out as a precursor to ironing. Essays, Reports, Proposals - We have the solution! Morning Pages (The Artist’s Way). Something to get you moving with a set (small) time. Make Tasks Smaller - If a task is endless you probably won’t do it. “You can do anything for 5 minutes” Set the time as smaller and smaller until it gets you started. It breaks the resistance down. 8 minute training! - There’s a school in the UK trialing Eight Minute Lessons! With 10 minute breaks! YouTube? Match your concentration span to your task - Cut it down to chunks of your concentration span. Why 1-2 hours of working on something when it doesn’t work for you. Flow - Paul McKenna. On auto pilot in the zone. Focused on the single activity. Getting into a flow state. Flow - The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Just to Get Going - The preparation to getting going. Next action. What about after the first action? Do the next action at the same time. The Weekly Chore! - Convert into something more pleasant. Anthony Robbins - Quality Quantifiers. Change the environment, put music on, gingerbread man! Improve the experience at the time of doing it, not as a reward afterwards. Make things fun. How to enforce the habits - A reminder. But also make it a pleasant experience. Get the GTD Buddy. Rehearse a Habit - Do it 20-30 times. Getting Horizons of Focus to work - Do It Tomorrow (book), Scatter Mapping (text only mindmapping). Follow through on projects - Belbin Roles (John’s a Plant), putting a flagging project in every day even if it’s 10mins per day. Authors of productivity books fix themselves but this doesn’t always work for the readers. A Perfect Mess - We don’t need to be organised. 4 Hour Workweek - What would you do with only 2 hours in a week to do things. Capture Notes - Task diary (Do It Tomorrow tip), capture goes into next day’s diary, projects captured in John’s own coded software. Capture on to mobile phone. Take a photo of any visual notes/reminders. Use the voice/note taker on the phone. Footballers’ Favourites - Windows Mobile, MyYahoo, Do It Tomorrow, Buy a Kitchen Timer, Less Travel, OMD, Bad, Huey Lewis, Bolton Wanderers. download link My guest is John Duckworth. He wrote to me a few weeks ago with a short guide on doing the Weekly Review. He asked me to read the guide for him. Better than that, I invited him on the show. John has read a wide variety of productivity books, and combined that with cognitive solutions to getting the Weekly Review done. Getting Thing Done - To help with software development. Weekly Review - Needed improving and John looked at other systems to help do GTD. Web Development - In Wigan, Lancashire Mixed Nuts - The greatest productivity tool ever. John hates them and uses them with the guide of Aubrey Daniels. Need to reinforce something immediately after the something happens good or not. Getting off the internet. Mixed nuts worked best! Use something you hate, immediately, to reward yourself for bad behaviour! Stopping things being a chore - Don’t see things like the Weekly Review as a chore, but something you’re motivated to do. Improve the thing you’re doing so you love it. What is a weekly review - An hour per week, to review. But many don’t give the time over to fully do the review or something interrupts you. Divide the Weekly Review into tasks - It might not end up as a single complete hour, but several tasks which can be split. Split the parts of a weekly review into actions which can be completed in different contexts. When to do the Weekly Review - Calendar it. Make it crucial to start it to get into the habit of doing the weekly review, even if you don’t complete it, to get into the habit. Why don’t we do our Weekly Review? - Procrastination. Not well defined. Give it a next action. Have a checklist to complete for the review. Picture it in your mind so that you encourage yourself to do it. Task list of physical action to do for the review - Get Folder out. Dump papers in in-tray. Small tangible things. Commit to the Preparation - The set up to get you moving. Mark Forster’s Do It Tomorrow. Getting ready to do the action. Getting the ironing board out as a precursor to ironing. Essays, Reports, Proposals - We have the solution! Morning Pages (The Artist’s Way). Something to get you moving with a set (small) time. Make Tasks Smaller - If a task is endless you probably won’t do it. “You can do anything for 5 minutes” Set the time as smaller and smaller until it gets you started. It breaks the resistance down. 8 minute training! - There’s a school in the UK trialing Eight Minute Lessons! With 10 minute breaks! YouTube? Match your concentration span to your task - Cut it down to chunks of your concentration span. Why 1-2 hours of working on something when it doesn’t work for you. Flow - Paul McKenna. On auto pilot in the zone. Focused on the single activity. Getting into a flow state. Flow - The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Just to Get Going - The preparation to getting going. Next action. What about after the first action? Do the next action at the same time. The Weekly Chore! - Convert into something more pleasant. Anthony Robbins - Quality Quantifiers. Change the environment, put music on, gingerbread man! Improve the experience at the time of doing it, not as a reward afterwards. Make things fun. How to enforce the habits - A reminder. But also make it a pleasant experience. Get the GTD Buddy. Rehearse a Habit - Do it 20-30 times. Getting Horizons of Focus to work - Do It Tomorrow (book), Scatter Mapping (text only mindmapping). Follow through on projects - Belbin Roles (John’s a Plant), putting a flagging project in every day even if it’s 10mins per day. Authors of productivity books fix themselves but this doesn’t always work for the readers. A Perfect Mess - We don’t need to be organised. 4 Hour Workweek - What would you do with only 2 hours in a week to do things. Capture Notes - Task diary (Do It Tomorrow tip), capture goes into next day’s diary, projects captured in John’s own coded software. Capture on to mobile phone. Take a photo of any visual notes/reminders. Use the voice/note taker on the phone. Footballers’ Favourites - Windows Mobile, MyYahoo, Do It Tomorrow, Buy a Kitchen Timer, Less Travel, OMD, Bad, Huey Lewis, Bolton Wanderers. tag:odeo.com,2008-03-23,22193230 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:41:48 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/18673463-The-Productivity-Show-37-David-Gray-Global-Geek tag:odeo.com,2008-03-16,18673463 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:00:44 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22170659-The-Productivity-Show-37-David-Gray-Global-Geek download link I thought it was time to go back to the technology of productivity, and who better than David Gray of the The Global Geek Podcast, to discuss all things geek and beautiful. Patient Admin Systems! - Tony sold ‘em, Dave now uses them. They record things like blood pressure straight into the patient record. They didn’t in my time! They now have bandwidth to move X-Rays. They didn’t in my time! Frogs - Love of all things Frog Getting Things Done - Dave needs the pressure to perform. Once you start, you stick with it. Use the deadline to drive you. Geek Distraction - A disease. Cool stuff. Twitter. Twitter and Second Life - Help or Hindrance to productivity? Twitter as a quick blogging and marketing communication tool. No need to engage in a conversation. It doesn’t have to be just a social networking tool. Make sure you control the tools and they don’t control you. Twhirl - Twitter client running on Adobe Air. multiple accounts, cross posting ... download link I thought it was time to go back to the technology of productivity, and who better than David Gray of the The Global Geek Podcast, to discuss all things geek and beautiful. Patient Admin Systems! - Tony sold ‘em, Dave now uses them. They record things like blood pressure straight into the patient record. They didn’t in my time! They now have bandwidth to move X-Rays. They didn’t in my time! Frogs - Love of all things Frog Getting Things Done - Dave needs the pressure to perform. Once you start, you stick with it. Use the deadline to drive you. Geek Distraction - A disease. Cool stuff. Twitter. Twitter and Second Life - Help or Hindrance to productivity? Twitter as a quick blogging and marketing communication tool. No need to engage in a conversation. It doesn’t have to be just a social networking tool. Make sure you control the tools and they don’t control you. Twhirl - Twitter client running on Adobe Air. multiple accounts, cross posting to Pounce and Jaiku. Chat - As a knowledge sharing productivity tool to find things. Second Life - For sky diving! Improved levels of communication. Great potential meet up service. Easy to get distracted but a good potential video conferencing tool so you don’t have to physically travel. Greener to use video conferencing than all that real transport. FeedDemon - RSS Feed/Reader gives Dave 10 fold productivity for reading a large number of websites. Subscribe to specific searches in your reader for key words that come up on the web. Dave has 281 feeds and 9848 unread items! I have 24 feeds and no unread items in my SharpReader RSS Feeder. Follow the Readers - Robert Scoble will read the sites for you so you don’t have to! Or try Louis Gray for early geek stuff. TechCrunch, Mashable for early news on tech. You might have to avoid sites with too many postings because it will snow you under. XP - Vista No Thanks. Notepad and Google Docs - for creation and sharing documents. Thunderbird - For email. Getting off Thunderbird is a bit difficult. Rooting email via Gmail. Tucows and Domain Direct - Not good for my pop3 email. Go Go Daddy. Gmail spam filter is very good. BlackBerry - For tasks and contacts but not sending email. Cheapo handset for making phone calls - That’s what mobiles are for aren’t they. Nokia 2310. Pre-paid call divert to another mobile. Vodafone Australia pre-paid won’t let me do it. iPod for music - In the car. No radio for 3 years. No TV in over 3 years. Dave watches when he wants to watch. Tony doesn’t listen to The Global Geeks Podcast because the show is too good!! Similarly, Merlin Mann, Kathy Sierra, and Guy Kawasaki, are too good to read! You want to save them to study them in more detail but never get round to it. RocketDoc - Get rid of your icons and look like an Apple! Dip cursor to look at applications and clean up your desktop. Launchy - Launching applications with short cut keys. And word completion as you type for which application. Not good for Tony if you have the memory of a goldfish, but good for most people. Index your entire Start menu. Makes it much easier to launch applications. Skype - For VoIP of course. I’m recording this podcast on to CallBurner. Roboform - Password manager. Plugs into your browser and Roboform fills in your password and can generate different passwords for each website. Dave has 90 site passwords. Or Keepass which is an open source product. Tony’s Software on new 2GB Laptop - Office2007, Outlook2007, MindManager, GyroQ, Skype, Firefox, Gmail, Microsoft CRM. No Twitter, RSS Feed, or Second Life yet. Gmail Plugins - Better Gmail via LifeHacker, to change the Gmail interface. Desktop Search - I’m missing my Google Desktop search at work. Will it slow the laptop down? Life Streaming - Aggregates all your content, Blogs, Facebook, Linked-In, Twitter, into a single feed of yourself, or of other people you want to follow. FriendFeed, takes data from all your sites and puts them in one aggregated place, or track other people. Shareaholic to share links you find, straight into Twitter, Facebook etc. The Future is Mobile and Wireless - Mobile web applications. What takes up Dave’s time? - Podcasting! Trying to record live, to save time. Pressure needed to perform and Get Things Done - Remember those last minute assignments and essays. Never Again! Kill the Perfectionist - Near Enough is Never Good Enough! Just Do It, to overcome the perfectionist. Action Action Action. Kids will kill the perfectionism. Plan in Real Time - No long term life plan. Recent guests tend to be living in the present and organically growing their goals. Finishing tasks no matter how small. Completion. Footballers’ Favourites - Try video blogging. Traveling. Midnight Oil. Worst Habit. download link I thought it was time to go back to the technology of productivity, and who better than David Gray of the The Global Geek Podcast, to discuss all things geek and beautiful. Patient Admin Systems! - Tony sold ‘em, Dave now uses them. They record things like blood pressure straight into the patient record. They didn’t in my time! They now have bandwidth to move X-Rays. They didn’t in my time! Frogs - Love of all things Frog Getting Things Done - Dave needs the pressure to perform. Once you start, you stick with it. Use the deadline to drive you. Geek Distraction - A disease. Cool stuff. Twitter. Twitter and Second Life - Help or Hindrance to productivity? Twitter as a quick blogging and marketing communication tool. No need to engage in a conversation. It doesn’t have to be just a social networking tool. Make sure you control the tools and they don’t control you. Twhirl - Twitter client running on Adobe Air. multiple accounts, cross posting to Pounce and Jaiku. Chat - As a knowledge sharing productivity tool to find things. Second Life - For sky diving! Improved levels of communication. Great potential meet up service. Easy to get distracted but a good potential video conferencing tool so you don’t have to physically travel. Greener to use video conferencing than all that real transport. FeedDemon - RSS Feed/Reader gives Dave 10 fold productivity for reading a large number of websites. Subscribe to specific searches in your reader for key words that come up on the web. Dave has 281 feeds and 9848 unread items! I have 24 feeds and no unread items in my SharpReader RSS Feeder. Follow the Readers - Robert Scoble will read the sites for you so you don’t have to! Or try Louis Gray for early geek stuff. TechCrunch, Mashable for early news on tech. You might have to avoid sites with too many postings because it will snow you under. XP - Vista No Thanks. Notepad and Google Docs - for creation and sharing documents. Thunderbird - For email. Getting off Thunderbird is a bit difficult. Rooting email via Gmail. Tucows and Domain Direct - Not good for my pop3 email. Go Go Daddy. Gmail spam filter is very good. BlackBerry - For tasks and contacts but not sending email. Cheapo handset for making phone calls - That’s what mobiles are for aren’t they. Nokia 2310. Pre-paid call divert to another mobile. Vodafone Australia pre-paid won’t let me do it. iPod for music - In the car. No radio for 3 years. No TV in over 3 years. Dave watches when he wants to watch. Tony doesn’t listen to The Global Geeks Podcast because the show is too good!! Similarly, Merlin Mann, Kathy Sierra, and Guy Kawasaki, are too good to read! You want to save them to study them in more detail but never get round to it. RocketDoc - Get rid of your icons and look like an Apple! Dip cursor to look at applications and clean up your desktop. Launchy - Launching applications with short cut keys. And word completion as you type for which application. Not good for Tony if you have the memory of a goldfish, but good for most people. Index your entire Start menu. Makes it much easier to launch applications. Skype - For VoIP of course. I’m recording this podcast on to CallBurner. Roboform - Password manager. Plugs into your browser and Roboform fills in your password and can generate different passwords for each website. Dave has 90 site passwords. Or Keepass which is an open source product. Tony’s Software on new 2GB Laptop - Office2007, Outlook2007, MindManager, GyroQ, Skype, Firefox, Gmail, Microsoft CRM. No Twitter, RSS Feed, or Second Life yet. Gmail Plugins - Better Gmail via LifeHacker, to change the Gmail interface. Desktop Search - I’m missing my Google Desktop search at work. Will it slow the laptop down? Life Streaming - Aggregates all your content, Blogs, Facebook, Linked-In, Twitter, into a single feed of yourself, or of other people you want to follow. FriendFeed, takes data from all your sites and puts them in one aggregated place, or track other people. Shareaholic to share links you find, straight into Twitter, Facebook etc. The Future is Mobile and Wireless - Mobile web applications. What takes up Dave’s time? - Podcasting! Trying to record live, to save time. Pressure needed to perform and Get Things Done - Remember those last minute assignments and essays. Never Again! Kill the Perfectionist - Near Enough is Never Good Enough! Just Do It, to overcome the perfectionist. Action Action Action. Kids will kill the perfectionism. Plan in Real Time - No long term life plan. Recent guests tend to be living in the present and organically growing their goals. Finishing tasks no matter how small. Completion. Footballers’ Favourites - Try video blogging. Traveling. Midnight Oil. Worst Habit. tag:odeo.com,2008-03-16,22170659 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:00:44 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/18673443-The-Productivity-Show-36-Sue-Knight-%E2%80%9CNLP-at-Work%E2%80%9D tag:odeo.com,2008-02-17,18673443 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:27:57 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22170660-The-Productivity-Show-36-Sue-Knight-%E2%80%9CNLP-at-Work%E2%80%9D download link I talked with Sue Knight, author of NLP at Work, and a pioneer of the use of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) in business. Sue has great experience as an NLP Practitioner, trainer, and coach, and is a great person to have on the show, to discuss what motivates us in terms of productivity. Enjoy. NLP at Work - Way of studying excellence, and discovery of what makes outstanding performance. NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming, what makes outstanding people. Ways in which we think, patterns of our language, running programmes on ourselves. What makes for high productivity - Distinguishing between what deviates from goals and what takes you towards goals, and high pay-off and low pay-off contributions. We often hold beliefs about ourselves which may get in way of how we use our time. Procrastination - “I’ll think about it” encourage to think about it now rather than later. Do it now. Artist’s Way - To help do it now and get writing. Perfectionism -... download link I talked with Sue Knight, author of NLP at Work, and a pioneer of the use of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) in business. Sue has great experience as an NLP Practitioner, trainer, and coach, and is a great person to have on the show, to discuss what motivates us in terms of productivity. Enjoy. NLP at Work - Way of studying excellence, and discovery of what makes outstanding performance. NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming, what makes outstanding people. Ways in which we think, patterns of our language, running programmes on ourselves. What makes for high productivity - Distinguishing between what deviates from goals and what takes you towards goals, and high pay-off and low pay-off contributions. We often hold beliefs about ourselves which may get in way of how we use our time. Procrastination - “I’ll think about it” encourage to think about it now rather than later. Do it now. Artist’s Way - To help do it now and get writing. Perfectionism - Action to overcome perfectionism. Keep writing even if it’s rubbish. Just Do It. If “blocked” write something easy to write, note to self, journal entry, something you enjoy. Writing a book - Setting time aside, and maybe changing the environment. Cut off from day to day environment. Routine for the day. Ride a bike to formulate your thoughts. Integrate the things you love doing into your work - Riding a bike is part of your work. Training - Work in the moment, real time, not knowing. Coaching rather than lecturing. It just seems to happen. Alignment and Goals - Checking in with what’s important to you. Take the opportunities on what important to you at the highest levels of your alignment. Things will work out. Just live your life that is truthful. We start to filter towards the things we really want. 122 year old Yogi - Starting a new business in India! It shows what’s possible. Success in business - Do what you really want and believe in. Specialise. Dedicate yourself to it. Area of interest and become a specialist. Do what you love. Explore without failure - Many don’t believe their talent, or think everyone has their talent, but they don’t. The higher levels of productivity - Finding your bliss. Everything we do is a step in right direction. Blackberry - For picking up emails whilst travelling. Airset - For actions and bookings, and joint access. Fridge list of things to do. Wi-Fi Sniffer - Detecting where Wi-Fi is available. Intuition - For getting things done, and quick decisions. Google Mail - To keep documents online and label them. Sue Knight’s Website - Blogging before blogs, online diary in the 90s Footballer’s Favourites - More patience, Less Milk! Shane Fenton! Beatles. The coolest first concert yet! download link I talked with Sue Knight, author of NLP at Work, and a pioneer of the use of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) in business. Sue has great experience as an NLP Practitioner, trainer, and coach, and is a great person to have on the show, to discuss what motivates us in terms of productivity. Enjoy. NLP at Work - Way of studying excellence, and discovery of what makes outstanding performance. NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming, what makes outstanding people. Ways in which we think, patterns of our language, running programmes on ourselves. What makes for high productivity - Distinguishing between what deviates from goals and what takes you towards goals, and high pay-off and low pay-off contributions. We often hold beliefs about ourselves which may get in way of how we use our time. Procrastination - “I’ll think about it” encourage to think about it now rather than later. Do it now. Artist’s Way - To help do it now and get writing. Perfectionism - Action to overcome perfectionism. Keep writing even if it’s rubbish. Just Do It. If “blocked” write something easy to write, note to self, journal entry, something you enjoy. Writing a book - Setting time aside, and maybe changing the environment. Cut off from day to day environment. Routine for the day. Ride a bike to formulate your thoughts. Integrate the things you love doing into your work - Riding a bike is part of your work. Training - Work in the moment, real time, not knowing. Coaching rather than lecturing. It just seems to happen. Alignment and Goals - Checking in with what’s important to you. Take the opportunities on what important to you at the highest levels of your alignment. Things will work out. Just live your life that is truthful. We start to filter towards the things we really want. 122 year old Yogi - Starting a new business in India! It shows what’s possible. Success in business - Do what you really want and believe in. Specialise. Dedicate yourself to it. Area of interest and become a specialist. Do what you love. Explore without failure - Many don’t believe their talent, or think everyone has their talent, but they don’t. The higher levels of productivity - Finding your bliss. Everything we do is a step in right direction. Blackberry - For picking up emails whilst travelling. Airset - For actions and bookings, and joint access. Fridge list of things to do. Wi-Fi Sniffer - Detecting where Wi-Fi is available. Intuition - For getting things done, and quick decisions. Google Mail - To keep documents online and label them. Sue Knight’s Website - Blogging before blogs, online diary in the 90s Footballer’s Favourites - More patience, Less Milk! Shane Fenton! Beatles. The coolest first concert yet! tag:odeo.com,2008-02-17,22170660 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:27:57 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22139261-The-Productivity-Show-36-Sue-Knight-%E2%80%9CNLP-at-Work%E2%80%9D download link I talked with Sue Knight, author of NLP at Work, and a pioneer of the use of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) in business. Sue has great experience as an NLP Practitioner, trainer, and coach, and is a great person to have on the show, to discuss what motivates us in terms of productivity. Enjoy. NLP at Work - Way of studying excellence, and discovery of what makes outstanding performance. NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming, what makes outstanding people. Ways in which we think, patterns of our language, running programmes on ourselves. What makes for high productivity - Distinguishing between what deviates from goals and what takes you towards goals, and high pay-off and low pay-off contributions. We often hold beliefs about ourselves which may get in way of how we use our time. Procrastination - “I’ll think about it” encourage to think about it now rather than later. Do it now. Artist’s Way - To help do it now and get writing. Perfectionism -... download link I talked with Sue Knight, author of NLP at Work, and a pioneer of the use of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) in business. Sue has great experience as an NLP Practitioner, trainer, and coach, and is a great person to have on the show, to discuss what motivates us in terms of productivity. Enjoy. NLP at Work - Way of studying excellence, and discovery of what makes outstanding performance. NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming, what makes outstanding people. Ways in which we think, patterns of our language, running programmes on ourselves. What makes for high productivity - Distinguishing between what deviates from goals and what takes you towards goals, and high pay-off and low pay-off contributions. We often hold beliefs about ourselves which may get in way of how we use our time. Procrastination - “I’ll think about it” encourage to think about it now rather than later. Do it now. Artist’s Way - To help do it now and get writing. Perfectionism - Action to overcome perfectionism. Keep writing even if it’s rubbish. Just Do It. If “blocked” write something easy to write, note to self, journal entry, something you enjoy. Writing a book - Setting time aside, and maybe changing the environment. Cut off from day to day environment. Routine for the day. Ride a bike to formulate your thoughts. Integrate the things you love doing into your work - Riding a bike is part of your work. Training - Work in the moment, real time, not knowing. Coaching rather than lecturing. It just seems to happen. Alignment and Goals - Checking in with what’s important to you. Take the opportunities on what important to you at the highest levels of your alignment. Things will work out. Just live your life that is truthful. We start to filter towards the things we really want. 122 year old Yogi - Starting a new business in India! It shows what’s possible. Success in business - Do what you really want and believe in. Specialise. Dedicate yourself to it. Area of interest and become a specialist. Do what you love. Explore without failure - Many don’t believe their talent, or think everyone has their talent, but they don’t. The higher levels of productivity - Finding your bliss. Everything we do is a step in right direction. Blackberry - For picking up emails whilst travelling. Airset - For actions and bookings, and joint access. Fridge list of things to do. Wi-Fi Sniffer - Detecting where Wi-Fi is available. Intuition - For getting things done, and quick decisions. Google Mail - To keep documents online and label them. Sue Knight’s Website - Blogging before blogs, online diary in the 90s Footballer’s Favourites - More patience, Less Milk! Shane Fenton! Beatles. The coolest first concert yet! download link I talked with Sue Knight, author of NLP at Work, and a pioneer of the use of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) in business. Sue has great experience as an NLP Practitioner, trainer, and coach, and is a great person to have on the show, to discuss what motivates us in terms of productivity. Enjoy. NLP at Work - Way of studying excellence, and discovery of what makes outstanding performance. NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming, what makes outstanding people. Ways in which we think, patterns of our language, running programmes on ourselves. What makes for high productivity - Distinguishing between what deviates from goals and what takes you towards goals, and high pay-off and low pay-off contributions. We often hold beliefs about ourselves which may get in way of how we use our time. Procrastination - “I’ll think about it” encourage to think about it now rather than later. Do it now. Artist’s Way - To help do it now and get writing. Perfectionism - Action to overcome perfectionism. Keep writing even if it’s rubbish. Just Do It. If “blocked” write something easy to write, note to self, journal entry, something you enjoy. Writing a book - Setting time aside, and maybe changing the environment. Cut off from day to day environment. Routine for the day. Ride a bike to formulate your thoughts. Integrate the things you love doing into your work - Riding a bike is part of your work. Training - Work in the moment, real time, not knowing. Coaching rather than lecturing. It just seems to happen. Alignment and Goals - Checking in with what’s important to you. Take the opportunities on what important to you at the highest levels of your alignment. Things will work out. Just live your life that is truthful. We start to filter towards the things we really want. 122 year old Yogi - Starting a new business in India! It shows what’s possible. Success in business - Do what you really want and believe in. Specialise. Dedicate yourself to it. Area of interest and become a specialist. Do what you love. Explore without failure - Many don’t believe their talent, or think everyone has their talent, but they don’t. The higher levels of productivity - Finding your bliss. Everything we do is a step in right direction. Blackberry - For picking up emails whilst travelling. Airset - For actions and bookings, and joint access. Fridge list of things to do. Wi-Fi Sniffer - Detecting where Wi-Fi is available. Intuition - For getting things done, and quick decisions. Google Mail - To keep documents online and label them. Sue Knight’s Website - Blogging before blogs, online diary in the 90s Footballer’s Favourites - More patience, Less Milk! Shane Fenton! Beatles. The coolest first concert yet! tag:odeo.com,2008-02-17,22139261 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:27:57 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/18673433-The-Productivity-Show-35-Tim-Ferriss-%E2%80%9CThe-4-Hour-Work-Week%E2%80%9D tag:odeo.com,2008-01-30,18673433 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:43:52 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22170661-The-Productivity-Show-35-Tim-Ferriss-%E2%80%9CThe-4-Hour-Work-Week%E2%80%9D download link Welcome Tim Ferriss author of The 4 Hour Work Week. For me, it’s the most important adult non-fiction book I’ve read recently, maybe ever. Why? It questions my belief about time and how I use it, and how I can cut out 80% of the things I think I should be doing. Tim’s legacy to me from the book, is I’m reading novels and I’ve given up the business books. Thanks a lot Tim! But I’ve also restructured and had a look at what’s important in life to me, and it’s things that don’t usually involve money except for skiing and holidays with the family. We talk about the writing and promoting of The 4 Hour Work Week, Productivity, Outsourcing Your Life, and Future Projects. The 4 Hour Work Week - Based from class lectures on profitable cashflow without outside financing. The volume approach and overwork ethic is epidemic and isn’t scalable or sustainable. 15 month sabbatical - Tim developed concepts for lifestyle and a s... download link Welcome Tim Ferriss author of The 4 Hour Work Week. For me, it’s the most important adult non-fiction book I’ve read recently, maybe ever. Why? It questions my belief about time and how I use it, and how I can cut out 80% of the things I think I should be doing. Tim’s legacy to me from the book, is I’m reading novels and I’ve given up the business books. Thanks a lot Tim! But I’ve also restructured and had a look at what’s important in life to me, and it’s things that don’t usually involve money except for skiing and holidays with the family. We talk about the writing and promoting of The 4 Hour Work Week, Productivity, Outsourcing Your Life, and Future Projects. The 4 Hour Work Week - Based from class lectures on profitable cashflow without outside financing. The volume approach and overwork ethic is epidemic and isn’t scalable or sustainable. 15 month sabbatical - Tim developed concepts for lifestyle and a student suggested writing a book. Many people are earning good money but feel unfulfilled. Getting Things Done - Read The 4 Hour Work Week before Getting Things Done to cut 4/5ths of of your workload before you set up Getting Things Done. The book was turned down by 13 publishers! - There are 5 potential books within The 4 Hour Work Week. How to write a book - Vagabonding (Rolf Potts), Bird by Bird (Some Instructions on Writing and Life), writing is hard! Feel better by identifying the demons. Is there something missing in your life? - You are not alone! Filling the Void - Depression can set in, when you have it all. What next! Using Google Adwords to research book titles that work - The Four Hour Work Week wasn’t the first or favoured name. A title that appeals to people and gains media attention. Activity v Productivity - Identifying what’s important and stopping the procrastination tools. Get a clear list of priorities. One thing to do and complete today. Busyness is not necessarily true productivity. Reduce your procrastination - You don’t have to be perfect about it. Breaking the 9 to 5 thinking - You don’t have to literally work 4 hours per week. Overcoming the guilt from preconceived notions. Need for Speed - Fill it up, fill it fast. Filling in time by feeling productive, by checking email, and not just one email! Art to creating a lifestyle and designing a life that isn’t just filling in time. What are the 3 things you do to fill in time? - Meetings? Email? We fill the hours to avoid the important things. It’s what we all do. The Deferred Life Plan - Trade peak physical time in life for something you’d rather not be doing! So why not distribute retirement throughout life, rather than at the end. Putting things off through fear and not living your dreams now. Vague FUD - Overcoming fear - Definition and Action. What is the worst case scenario. Seldom that bad or permanent. Media Diet - Ask a waiter. Only glance at the front page of a newspaper. How do you keep informed - What “should” you be reading. Information overload. Catch-up rather than Keep-up. Go to a conference every 6 months, to summarise. Think and Grow Rich - Henry Ford, knew where to go for the information, he didn’t need to know it all. Outsourcing your life - Automation and Income generation. Creating a life after you’ve outsourced everything. Purchasing Power Parity - Enables you to pay other people in the world, where they are satisfied and you are satisfied, because the dollar you pay them is worth more in their country. Big Mac Index. It’s NOT slave labour. Delegation - How well do you delegate. Elance, Brickwork, Get Friday to find people you can delegate to. Save yourself one day per week and employ a person for $5 per hour, for 8 hours to save you a day of your life! Give it a go! The Anatomy of Automation - p185 nice diagram for automating your life. Ways to free up time. Book Promotion - What uses up the most time….Book Signings!! New channels to market - Blogs, Podcasts, Second Life, Scott Adams (Dilbert) YouTube groin kicking!, radio satellite tour. Referencing to shows there the answers have already been given. Future Projects - It’s not about aiming to sit on a beach for the rest of your life. Social Media and education impacting 15,000 students (LitLiberation.org) including many well known guests you all know. Science and Maths education. New TV Series from Tim! Tim doesn’t stand still - The 4 Hour Work Week Blog - more impact than the book, and check out the book chapters and community. Tim blogs for pleasure not just part of his 4 hours. Educating the future thought leaders. Tim’s Footballers Favourites - Do not check email first thing in the morning! More Delegation. Less replying to email. Whinging Poms. (The show was recorded, using Callburner for recording Skype conversations, so shout out to Jeremy and Paul at Netralia) download link Welcome Tim Ferriss author of The 4 Hour Work Week. For me, it’s the most important adult non-fiction book I’ve read recently, maybe ever. Why? It questions my belief about time and how I use it, and how I can cut out 80% of the things I think I should be doing. Tim’s legacy to me from the book, is I’m reading novels and I’ve given up the business books. Thanks a lot Tim! But I’ve also restructured and had a look at what’s important in life to me, and it’s things that don’t usually involve money except for skiing and holidays with the family. We talk about the writing and promoting of The 4 Hour Work Week, Productivity, Outsourcing Your Life, and Future Projects. The 4 Hour Work Week - Based from class lectures on profitable cashflow without outside financing. The volume approach and overwork ethic is epidemic and isn’t scalable or sustainable. 15 month sabbatical - Tim developed concepts for lifestyle and a student suggested writing a book. Many people are earning good money but feel unfulfilled. Getting Things Done - Read The 4 Hour Work Week before Getting Things Done to cut 4/5ths of of your workload before you set up Getting Things Done. The book was turned down by 13 publishers! - There are 5 potential books within The 4 Hour Work Week. How to write a book - Vagabonding (Rolf Potts), Bird by Bird (Some Instructions on Writing and Life), writing is hard! Feel better by identifying the demons. Is there something missing in your life? - You are not alone! Filling the Void - Depression can set in, when you have it all. What next! Using Google Adwords to research book titles that work - The Four Hour Work Week wasn’t the first or favoured name. A title that appeals to people and gains media attention. Activity v Productivity - Identifying what’s important and stopping the procrastination tools. Get a clear list of priorities. One thing to do and complete today. Busyness is not necessarily true productivity. Reduce your procrastination - You don’t have to be perfect about it. Breaking the 9 to 5 thinking - You don’t have to literally work 4 hours per week. Overcoming the guilt from preconceived notions. Need for Speed - Fill it up, fill it fast. Filling in time by feeling productive, by checking email, and not just one email! Art to creating a lifestyle and designing a life that isn’t just filling in time. What are the 3 things you do to fill in time? - Meetings? Email? We fill the hours to avoid the important things. It’s what we all do. The Deferred Life Plan - Trade peak physical time in life for something you’d rather not be doing! So why not distribute retirement throughout life, rather than at the end. Putting things off through fear and not living your dreams now. Vague FUD - Overcoming fear - Definition and Action. What is the worst case scenario. Seldom that bad or permanent. Media Diet - Ask a waiter. Only glance at the front page of a newspaper. How do you keep informed - What “should” you be reading. Information overload. Catch-up rather than Keep-up. Go to a conference every 6 months, to summarise. Think and Grow Rich - Henry Ford, knew where to go for the information, he didn’t need to know it all. Outsourcing your life - Automation and Income generation. Creating a life after you’ve outsourced everything. Purchasing Power Parity - Enables you to pay other people in the world, where they are satisfied and you are satisfied, because the dollar you pay them is worth more in their country. Big Mac Index. It’s NOT slave labour. Delegation - How well do you delegate. Elance, Brickwork, Get Friday to find people you can delegate to. Save yourself one day per week and employ a person for $5 per hour, for 8 hours to save you a day of your life! Give it a go! The Anatomy of Automation - p185 nice diagram for automating your life. Ways to free up time. Book Promotion - What uses up the most time….Book Signings!! New channels to market - Blogs, Podcasts, Second Life, Scott Adams (Dilbert) YouTube groin kicking!, radio satellite tour. Referencing to shows there the answers have already been given. Future Projects - It’s not about aiming to sit on a beach for the rest of your life. Social Media and education impacting 15,000 students (LitLiberation.org) including many well known guests you all know. Science and Maths education. New TV Series from Tim! Tim doesn’t stand still - The 4 Hour Work Week Blog - more impact than the book, and check out the book chapters and community. Tim blogs for pleasure not just part of his 4 hours. Educating the future thought leaders. Tim’s Footballers Favourites - Do not check email first thing in the morning! More Delegation. Less replying to email. Whinging Poms. (The show was recorded, using Callburner for recording Skype conversations, so shout out to Jeremy and Paul at Netralia) tag:odeo.com,2008-01-29,22170661 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:43:52 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22124588-The-Productivity-Show-35-Tim-Ferriss-%E2%80%9CThe-4-Hour-Work-Week%E2%80%9D download link Welcome Tim Ferriss author of The 4 Hour Work Week. For me, it’s the most important adult non-fiction book I’ve read recently, maybe ever. Why? It questions my belief about time and how I use it, and how I can cut out 80% of the things I think I should be doing. Tim’s legacy to me from the book, is I’m reading novels and I’ve given up the business books. Thanks a lot Tim! But I’ve also restructured and had a look at what’s important in life to me, and it’s things that don’t usually involve money except for skiing and holidays with the family. We talk about the writing and promoting of The 4 Hour Work Week, Productivity, Outsourcing Your Life, and Future Projects. The 4 Hour Work Week - Based from class lectures on profitable cashflow without outside financing. The volume approach and overwork ethic is epidemic and isn’t scalable or sustainable. 15 month sabbatical - Tim developed concepts for lifestyle and a s... download link Welcome Tim Ferriss author of The 4 Hour Work Week. For me, it’s the most important adult non-fiction book I’ve read recently, maybe ever. Why? It questions my belief about time and how I use it, and how I can cut out 80% of the things I think I should be doing. Tim’s legacy to me from the book, is I’m reading novels and I’ve given up the business books. Thanks a lot Tim! But I’ve also restructured and had a look at what’s important in life to me, and it’s things that don’t usually involve money except for skiing and holidays with the family. We talk about the writing and promoting of The 4 Hour Work Week, Productivity, Outsourcing Your Life, and Future Projects. The 4 Hour Work Week - Based from class lectures on profitable cashflow without outside financing. The volume approach and overwork ethic is epidemic and isn’t scalable or sustainable. 15 month sabbatical - Tim developed concepts for lifestyle and a student suggested writing a book. Many people are earning good money but feel unfulfilled. Getting Things Done - Read The 4 Hour Work Week before Getting Things Done to cut 4/5ths of of your workload before you set up Getting Things Done. The book was turned down by 13 publishers! - There are 5 potential books within The 4 Hour Work Week. How to write a book - Vagabonding (Rolf Potts), Bird by Bird (Some Instructions on Writing and Life), writing is hard! Feel better by identifying the demons. Is there something missing in your life? - You are not alone! Filling the Void - Depression can set in, when you have it all. What next! Using Google Adwords to research book titles that work - The Four Hour Work Week wasn’t the first or favoured name. A title that appeals to people and gains media attention. Activity v Productivity - Identifying what’s important and stopping the procrastination tools. Get a clear list of priorities. One thing to do and complete today. Busyness is not necessarily true productivity. Reduce your procrastination - You don’t have to be perfect about it. Breaking the 9 to 5 thinking - You don’t have to literally work 4 hours per week. Overcoming the guilt from preconceived notions. Need for Speed - Fill it up, fill it fast. Filling in time by feeling productive, by checking email, and not just one email! Art to creating a lifestyle and designing a life that isn’t just filling in time. What are the 3 things you do to fill in time? - Meetings? Email? We fill the hours to avoid the important things. It’s what we all do. The Deferred Life Plan - Trade peak physical time in life for something you’d rather not be doing! So why not distribute retirement throughout life, rather than at the end. Putting things off through fear and not living your dreams now. Vague FUD - Overcoming fear - Definition and Action. What is the worst case scenario. Seldom that bad or permanent. Media Diet - Ask a waiter. Only glance at the front page of a newspaper. How do you keep informed - What “should” you be reading. Information overload. Catch-up rather than Keep-up. Go to a conference every 6 months, to summarise. Think and Grow Rich - Henry Ford, knew where to go for the information, he didn’t need to know it all. Outsourcing your life - Automation and Income generation. Creating a life after you’ve outsourced everything. Purchasing Power Parity - Enables you to pay other people in the world, where they are satisfied and you are satisfied, because the dollar you pay them is worth more in their country. Big Mac Index. It’s NOT slave labour. Delegation - How well do you delegate. Elance, Brickwork, Get Friday to find people you can delegate to. Save yourself one day per week and employ a person for $5 per hour, for 8 hours to save you a day of your life! Give it a go! The Anatomy of Automation - p185 nice diagram for automating your life. Ways to free up time. Book Promotion - What uses up the most time….Book Signings!! New channels to market - Blogs, Podcasts, Second Life, Scott Adams (Dilbert) YouTube groin kicking!, radio satellite tour. Referencing to shows there the answers have already been given. Future Projects - It’s not about aiming to sit on a beach for the rest of your life. Social Media and education impacting 15,000 students (LitLiberation.org) including many well known guests you all know. Science and Maths education. New TV Series from Tim! Tim doesn’t stand still - The 4 Hour Work Week Blog - more impact than the book, and check out the book chapters and community. Tim blogs for pleasure not just part of his 4 hours. Educating the future thought leaders. Tim’s Footballers Favourites - Do not check email first thing in the morning! More Delegation. Less replying to email. Whinging Poms. (The show was recorded, using Callburner for recording Skype conversations, so shout out to Jeremy and Paul at Netralia) download link Welcome Tim Ferriss author of The 4 Hour Work Week. For me, it’s the most important adult non-fiction book I’ve read recently, maybe ever. Why? It questions my belief about time and how I use it, and how I can cut out 80% of the things I think I should be doing. Tim’s legacy to me from the book, is I’m reading novels and I’ve given up the business books. Thanks a lot Tim! But I’ve also restructured and had a look at what’s important in life to me, and it’s things that don’t usually involve money except for skiing and holidays with the family. We talk about the writing and promoting of The 4 Hour Work Week, Productivity, Outsourcing Your Life, and Future Projects. The 4 Hour Work Week - Based from class lectures on profitable cashflow without outside financing. The volume approach and overwork ethic is epidemic and isn’t scalable or sustainable. 15 month sabbatical - Tim developed concepts for lifestyle and a student suggested writing a book. Many people are earning good money but feel unfulfilled. Getting Things Done - Read The 4 Hour Work Week before Getting Things Done to cut 4/5ths of of your workload before you set up Getting Things Done. The book was turned down by 13 publishers! - There are 5 potential books within The 4 Hour Work Week. How to write a book - Vagabonding (Rolf Potts), Bird by Bird (Some Instructions on Writing and Life), writing is hard! Feel better by identifying the demons. Is there something missing in your life? - You are not alone! Filling the Void - Depression can set in, when you have it all. What next! Using Google Adwords to research book titles that work - The Four Hour Work Week wasn’t the first or favoured name. A title that appeals to people and gains media attention. Activity v Productivity - Identifying what’s important and stopping the procrastination tools. Get a clear list of priorities. One thing to do and complete today. Busyness is not necessarily true productivity. Reduce your procrastination - You don’t have to be perfect about it. Breaking the 9 to 5 thinking - You don’t have to literally work 4 hours per week. Overcoming the guilt from preconceived notions. Need for Speed - Fill it up, fill it fast. Filling in time by feeling productive, by checking email, and not just one email! Art to creating a lifestyle and designing a life that isn’t just filling in time. What are the 3 things you do to fill in time? - Meetings? Email? We fill the hours to avoid the important things. It’s what we all do. The Deferred Life Plan - Trade peak physical time in life for something you’d rather not be doing! So why not distribute retirement throughout life, rather than at the end. Putting things off through fear and not living your dreams now. Vague FUD - Overcoming fear - Definition and Action. What is the worst case scenario. Seldom that bad or permanent. Media Diet - Ask a waiter. Only glance at the front page of a newspaper. How do you keep informed - What “should” you be reading. Information overload. Catch-up rather than Keep-up. Go to a conference every 6 months, to summarise. Think and Grow Rich - Henry Ford, knew where to go for the information, he didn’t need to know it all. Outsourcing your life - Automation and Income generation. Creating a life after you’ve outsourced everything. Purchasing Power Parity - Enables you to pay other people in the world, where they are satisfied and you are satisfied, because the dollar you pay them is worth more in their country. Big Mac Index. It’s NOT slave labour. Delegation - How well do you delegate. Elance, Brickwork, Get Friday to find people you can delegate to. Save yourself one day per week and employ a person for $5 per hour, for 8 hours to save you a day of your life! Give it a go! The Anatomy of Automation - p185 nice diagram for automating your life. Ways to free up time. Book Promotion - What uses up the most time….Book Signings!! New channels to market - Blogs, Podcasts, Second Life, Scott Adams (Dilbert) YouTube groin kicking!, radio satellite tour. Referencing to shows there the answers have already been given. Future Projects - It’s not about aiming to sit on a beach for the rest of your life. Social Media and education impacting 15,000 students (LitLiberation.org) including many well known guests you all know. Science and Maths education. New TV Series from Tim! Tim doesn’t stand still - The 4 Hour Work Week Blog - more impact than the book, and check out the book chapters and community. Tim blogs for pleasure not just part of his 4 hours. Educating the future thought leaders. Tim’s Footballers Favourites - Do not check email first thing in the morning! More Delegation. Less replying to email. Whinging Poms. (The show was recorded, using Callburner for recording Skype conversations, so shout out to Jeremy and Paul at Netralia) tag:odeo.com,2008-01-29,22124588 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:43:52 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/18673423-The-Productivity-Show-34-Kyle-McFarlin-Visual-Strategist tag:odeo.com,2007-12-14,18673423 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:41:07 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22124589-The-Productivity-Show-34-Kyle-McFarlin-Visual-Strategist download link I talked with Kyle McFarlin, who specialises in visual capture tools such as Gyronix Results Manager and MindJet’s Mindmanager. I bag MindManager 7 and Kyle defends it! A good discussion for how we capture and learn. Gyronix Certified Trainer - Results Manager gives you a dashboard summary of you mindmaps MindManager - For MindMapping, nearly 1 million users of the software Why MindManager 7 - The Ribbon Bar. Works well with Office 2007 look and feel. The ribbon bar brings up more options. More visual and aesthetic. Isolate single topic/branch. Message to MindJet! - Spend more time on the interface. Easier to print, overlap topics, fit more on the map, slanting and zig-zagging branches. Cut the cord or add organic options. Yahoo MindManager group. The future of Mapping - Concept Mapping, Linking topic but not centrally, flow charting, less of the bullet like maps. Second Life MindMap - George Kurtz vertical mindmap in Second Life. Go fly around a mindmap. Microso... download link I talked with Kyle McFarlin, who specialises in visual capture tools such as Gyronix Results Manager and MindJet’s Mindmanager. I bag MindManager 7 and Kyle defends it! A good discussion for how we capture and learn. Gyronix Certified Trainer - Results Manager gives you a dashboard summary of you mindmaps MindManager - For MindMapping, nearly 1 million users of the software Why MindManager 7 - The Ribbon Bar. Works well with Office 2007 look and feel. The ribbon bar brings up more options. More visual and aesthetic. Isolate single topic/branch. Message to MindJet! - Spend more time on the interface. Easier to print, overlap topics, fit more on the map, slanting and zig-zagging branches. Cut the cord or add organic options. Yahoo MindManager group. The future of Mapping - Concept Mapping, Linking topic but not centrally, flow charting, less of the bullet like maps. Second Life MindMap - George Kurtz vertical mindmap in Second Life. Go fly around a mindmap. Microsoft Research - Image Visualisation, unbelievable future of software, creates 3D map from tagged photos. Uses for Second Life - Scott Adams book promotion. Conferencing, interacting, 3D. Building the interfaces for 2D software. Virtual Reality - To move around a spreadsheet. Wow! The Croquet Project, open source development software for online worlds. I have seen the future of my 3D spreadsheet. Check out the YouTube demo. Kyle’s GTD - Results Manager for Getting Things Done. Yet another Moleskine user! VSS template sets. “Eat your own dogfood“. Input folder on PC. Projects in VSS templates. Horizons of Focus - 3 main objectives. Bi-weekly review. List of actions and project generated by Results Manager. GyroQ - Pop-up text box for capturing info and thoughts, and web addresses, which each generate a branch/sub-topic on a mindmap. Capture manual notes into GyroQ. Tony’s reset his life - Kicked out most projects by reviewing my Core Values. What are we doing projects for? Intent of our plans. Highlight intent and values to work out what you really want to work on. The World’s most offensive rap album! - Massive Undertaking Are the projects you capturing really necessary - Are the people you’re dealing with really necessary! Visual Strategist - Entrepreneurs and high level business managers coaching. MindMap projection on wall - Capture of meeting/thoughts/ideas Go To Meeting - Coaching over the internet. 90% of Kyle’s coaching is over the internet. Cost, Time, and Green savings. Remote meetings. Skype Prime - Charge a per minute rate for the service you’re offering. 8min Chunking - 8 minute lessons and 10 minute breaks! All learning will be in 8 minutes. Tablet Laptop - Replaced by DV9000 to run Second Life. Tablet to highlight PowerPoint presentations. Go cold turkey and burn the bridges to force tablet pen use. Marc Orchant and The Tablet PC Show. Outlook - Strip out the attached files to reduce the .pst size. Windows Mobile - Palm Treo Turn the technology off once per week - Get a life, get out. Less Fried Chicken Hocus Pocus by Focus - Tedious! best summarised by Louis Balfour and Jazz Club. download link I talked with Kyle McFarlin, who specialises in visual capture tools such as Gyronix Results Manager and MindJet’s Mindmanager. I bag MindManager 7 and Kyle defends it! A good discussion for how we capture and learn. Gyronix Certified Trainer - Results Manager gives you a dashboard summary of you mindmaps MindManager - For MindMapping, nearly 1 million users of the software Why MindManager 7 - The Ribbon Bar. Works well with Office 2007 look and feel. The ribbon bar brings up more options. More visual and aesthetic. Isolate single topic/branch. Message to MindJet! - Spend more time on the interface. Easier to print, overlap topics, fit more on the map, slanting and zig-zagging branches. Cut the cord or add organic options. Yahoo MindManager group. The future of Mapping - Concept Mapping, Linking topic but not centrally, flow charting, less of the bullet like maps. Second Life MindMap - George Kurtz vertical mindmap in Second Life. Go fly around a mindmap. Microsoft Research - Image Visualisation, unbelievable future of software, creates 3D map from tagged photos. Uses for Second Life - Scott Adams book promotion. Conferencing, interacting, 3D. Building the interfaces for 2D software. Virtual Reality - To move around a spreadsheet. Wow! The Croquet Project, open source development software for online worlds. I have seen the future of my 3D spreadsheet. Check out the YouTube demo. Kyle’s GTD - Results Manager for Getting Things Done. Yet another Moleskine user! VSS template sets. “Eat your own dogfood“. Input folder on PC. Projects in VSS templates. Horizons of Focus - 3 main objectives. Bi-weekly review. List of actions and project generated by Results Manager. GyroQ - Pop-up text box for capturing info and thoughts, and web addresses, which each generate a branch/sub-topic on a mindmap. Capture manual notes into GyroQ. Tony’s reset his life - Kicked out most projects by reviewing my Core Values. What are we doing projects for? Intent of our plans. Highlight intent and values to work out what you really want to work on. The World’s most offensive rap album! - Massive Undertaking Are the projects you capturing really necessary - Are the people you’re dealing with really necessary! Visual Strategist - Entrepreneurs and high level business managers coaching. MindMap projection on wall - Capture of meeting/thoughts/ideas Go To Meeting - Coaching over the internet. 90% of Kyle’s coaching is over the internet. Cost, Time, and Green savings. Remote meetings. Skype Prime - Charge a per minute rate for the service you’re offering. 8min Chunking - 8 minute lessons and 10 minute breaks! All learning will be in 8 minutes. Tablet Laptop - Replaced by DV9000 to run Second Life. Tablet to highlight PowerPoint presentations. Go cold turkey and burn the bridges to force tablet pen use. Marc Orchant and The Tablet PC Show. Outlook - Strip out the attached files to reduce the .pst size. Windows Mobile - Palm Treo Turn the technology off once per week - Get a life, get out. Less Fried Chicken Hocus Pocus by Focus - Tedious! best summarised by Louis Balfour and Jazz Club. tag:odeo.com,2007-12-13,22124589 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:41:07 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/18673413-The-Productivity-Show-33-Randy-Dean-PDA-Email-Guy tag:odeo.com,2007-12-06,18673413 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:42:37 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22032946-The-Productivity-Show-33-Randy-Dean-PDA-Email-Guy download link Today’s guest is Randall Dean, The Totally Obsessed Time Management PDA Email Guy, who specialises in training people in productivity, dealing with email overload, and using PDAs. Oh, and he attended David Allen training long before Getting Things Done, so he’s seen it evolve. Totally Obsessed Time Management PDA Guy and Email sanity expert. David Allen early workshop - Randy attended a course in the early 90s, a planner system. Evolution to Getting Things Done and included Horizons of Focus for a higher view. Business diversification - Corporate workshops, University sector, conference speaking, overseas work, open/public course, book, ebook. Taming the Email Beast - Randy’s new ebook on dealing with email overload. 25-50% of the working day is spent on email, and less than 5% have had formal training on dealing with email. More info on emailsanityexpert. Issues around email - Time spent on email. Not leaving enough time for the bigger picture. Bad h... download link Today’s guest is Randall Dean, The Totally Obsessed Time Management PDA Email Guy, who specialises in training people in productivity, dealing with email overload, and using PDAs. Oh, and he attended David Allen training long before Getting Things Done, so he’s seen it evolve. Totally Obsessed Time Management PDA Guy and Email sanity expert. David Allen early workshop - Randy attended a course in the early 90s, a planner system. Evolution to Getting Things Done and included Horizons of Focus for a higher view. Business diversification - Corporate workshops, University sector, conference speaking, overseas work, open/public course, book, ebook. Taming the Email Beast - Randy’s new ebook on dealing with email overload. 25-50% of the working day is spent on email, and less than 5% have had formal training on dealing with email. More info on emailsanityexpert. Issues around email - Time spent on email. Not leaving enough time for the bigger picture. Bad habits around email, such as “blinging” - dropping whatever they’re doing to read email just arrived, which can drop their IQ!! Messy inboxes. 21,000 emails in an inbox. Utilising Outlook Tasks - Do it in 2 mins or drag and drop email into a task. I didn’t know you can do this - drag the email to the task icon in Outlook, and it creates the task with the email text in the notes field. And saves the email. Cool. Re-reading email - Waste of time. 3min one look rule for email Media diet for a week and only look at email at midday and 4-00pm - 4 Hour Workweek 4 Hour Workweek - Get rid of 4/5ths of everything you think you need to do! Single Tasking - Working on one task at a time and stop multi-tasking. Stop the send/receive on your email. Find a new desk or work area - Working at home, set up another blank desk another room. Grab the one thing you want to work on and take it out for a coffee! Major Satisfactors = Major Success - Randy’s first book. Major Satisfactors. Fun/Energy. Necessities (Eat and Pay the bills). Empty Satisfactors (TV, too much news). A brilliant way to sort out the things you do into the four sectors. Love it. Ask a waiter for the news! Working from home - Give yourself time for fun during the day, rejuvenating. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. PDAs - Pick the device, or no device, that works for you. The Outlook 5- Email, Calendar, Tasks, Notes, Context - synchronised with Blackberry. Blackberry email - Do as much as you can on a PC/Laptop keyboard. Use Blackberry to clean up junk and Spam. Use deletion key, and answer emails on laptop, or brief reply on Blackberry. Call phone number from email on Blackberry to not send email. Save time. Don’t respond to email on a PDA - Or get a keyboard, or be 17 years old. GTD - David Allen principles from 20 years ago and combined with Randy’s own principles. Capture - Outlook and paper, portable office on the road. Tasks and Priorities. No distractions in a hotel room. 2-3 min rule after kids have gone to bed - Improves family life Horizons of Focus - Long term goals Daily Review - Pick up weekly what’s missing. Morning review of everything. Get things to top of pile. 3-4 hours of planning time per week. Mid to long term goals - And look around your office to check if discipline is still there. Don’t let little things stack up. Life Planning - Every 12 months Get systems into place - If it’s not working, Get Help! Promoting Your Business - YouTube, National Speaker Association, Books, Speaking, Networking, ecommerce, PR, Public Courses, Web enabled courses, MultiMedia, eBook. Spokes of the wheel. American Society for Training and Development. Alex Mandossian on teleseminars. Outlook Tip - Drag email to task to create new task. Randy’s love life! - More time to slow down and read books, self-help and fiction Delegate more busy work - Time to grow company and delegate activities Deep Dish Pizza - Chicago style Gino’s Pizzeria First Concert - New question for Footballers Questions download link Today’s guest is Randall Dean, The Totally Obsessed Time Management PDA Email Guy, who specialises in training people in productivity, dealing with email overload, and using PDAs. Oh, and he attended David Allen training long before Getting Things Done, so he’s seen it evolve. Totally Obsessed Time Management PDA Guy and Email sanity expert. David Allen early workshop - Randy attended a course in the early 90s, a planner system. Evolution to Getting Things Done and included Horizons of Focus for a higher view. Business diversification - Corporate workshops, University sector, conference speaking, overseas work, open/public course, book, ebook. Taming the Email Beast - Randy’s new ebook on dealing with email overload. 25-50% of the working day is spent on email, and less than 5% have had formal training on dealing with email. More info on emailsanityexpert. Issues around email - Time spent on email. Not leaving enough time for the bigger picture. Bad habits around email, such as “blinging” - dropping whatever they’re doing to read email just arrived, which can drop their IQ!! Messy inboxes. 21,000 emails in an inbox. Utilising Outlook Tasks - Do it in 2 mins or drag and drop email into a task. I didn’t know you can do this - drag the email to the task icon in Outlook, and it creates the task with the email text in the notes field. And saves the email. Cool. Re-reading email - Waste of time. 3min one look rule for email Media diet for a week and only look at email at midday and 4-00pm - 4 Hour Workweek 4 Hour Workweek - Get rid of 4/5ths of everything you think you need to do! Single Tasking - Working on one task at a time and stop multi-tasking. Stop the send/receive on your email. Find a new desk or work area - Working at home, set up another blank desk another room. Grab the one thing you want to work on and take it out for a coffee! Major Satisfactors = Major Success - Randy’s first book. Major Satisfactors. Fun/Energy. Necessities (Eat and Pay the bills). Empty Satisfactors (TV, too much news). A brilliant way to sort out the things you do into the four sectors. Love it. Ask a waiter for the news! Working from home - Give yourself time for fun during the day, rejuvenating. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. PDAs - Pick the device, or no device, that works for you. The Outlook 5- Email, Calendar, Tasks, Notes, Context - synchronised with Blackberry. Blackberry email - Do as much as you can on a PC/Laptop keyboard. Use Blackberry to clean up junk and Spam. Use deletion key, and answer emails on laptop, or brief reply on Blackberry. Call phone number from email on Blackberry to not send email. Save time. Don’t respond to email on a PDA - Or get a keyboard, or be 17 years old. GTD - David Allen principles from 20 years ago and combined with Randy’s own principles. Capture - Outlook and paper, portable office on the road. Tasks and Priorities. No distractions in a hotel room. 2-3 min rule after kids have gone to bed - Improves family life Horizons of Focus - Long term goals Daily Review - Pick up weekly what’s missing. Morning review of everything. Get things to top of pile. 3-4 hours of planning time per week. Mid to long term goals - And look around your office to check if discipline is still there. Don’t let little things stack up. Life Planning - Every 12 months Get systems into place - If it’s not working, Get Help! Promoting Your Business - YouTube, National Speaker Association, Books, Speaking, Networking, ecommerce, PR, Public Courses, Web enabled courses, MultiMedia, eBook. Spokes of the wheel. American Society for Training and Development. Alex Mandossian on teleseminars. Outlook Tip - Drag email to task to create new task. Randy’s love life! - More time to slow down and read books, self-help and fiction Delegate more busy work - Time to grow company and delegate activities Deep Dish Pizza - Chicago style Gino’s Pizzeria First Concert - New question for Footballers Questions tag:odeo.com,2007-12-06,22032946 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:42:37 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/18673393-The-Productivity-Show-32-Meet-my-GTD-Buddy-Daryl-Cook tag:odeo.com,2007-11-19,18673393 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:05:44 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22032953-The-Productivity-Show-32-Meet-my-GTD-Buddy-Daryl-Cook download link An outdoor recording with my Getting Things Done buddy Daryl Cook. We talk about GTD and his implementation of it. Apologies, the wind was blowing against the mic, I’ll know to keep the mic cover on next time! Sponsored cycle - Amy’s Ride. Discussing GTD whilst cycling into a 40km/h wind! Buddying - The value of buddying up with someone to implement GTD Re-Read GTD - If you’ve read the book, read it again a few months later. You’ll pick up new things and a different perspective. Toilet Reading - Skim reading a book a second time! Natural Planning within GTD - Getting everything captured, including the small stuff. Buddy Timetable - Skype call every week, Friday afternoon, meet-up once per month. Keep at it, even if you miss a call. Capture all thoughts on A4 - Capture everything in your head on to separate pages of A4. Weekly Review - The one area most people fail with productivity and GTD, doing the 1 hourly weekly review. GTD Flow Chart - Quic... download link An outdoor recording with my Getting Things Done buddy Daryl Cook. We talk about GTD and his implementation of it. Apologies, the wind was blowing against the mic, I’ll know to keep the mic cover on next time! Sponsored cycle - Amy’s Ride. Discussing GTD whilst cycling into a 40km/h wind! Buddying - The value of buddying up with someone to implement GTD Re-Read GTD - If you’ve read the book, read it again a few months later. You’ll pick up new things and a different perspective. Toilet Reading - Skim reading a book a second time! Natural Planning within GTD - Getting everything captured, including the small stuff. Buddy Timetable - Skype call every week, Friday afternoon, meet-up once per month. Keep at it, even if you miss a call. Capture all thoughts on A4 - Capture everything in your head on to separate pages of A4. Weekly Review - The one area most people fail with productivity and GTD, doing the 1 hourly weekly review. GTD Flow Chart - Quick reference guide available from DIYplanner.com. Capture Levels - Importance of 30,000ft, 1-2 year actions. What are we doing today that helps us with our medium term goals. Focus on short term goals as a means to achieving long term goals. Desire to achieve the goal - Creating the desire to achieve your goal. Moleskine front end capture - Handwritten capture and MindMaps. Apple mail client - Daryl’s a Mac boy. iGTD for Macs and managing tasks. Another reason to get a Mac Reviewing higher level long term goals and projects - When changing jobs. Reviewing goals achieved - Congratulate yourself on what you have achieved. Setting the right contexts - Setting up the right contexts for where you do your work really helps. Know what you can do in a cafe or on the train. Procrastination - Perfectionism causing me to procrastinate. It has to be done perfectly or not at all. None completion for fear of failure. Overcoming the internal critic. Advice to kids - Compound Interest! Set several projects off and expect most of them to fail, but one will succeed big time. Throwing mud at walls. Breaking Projects into the smallest do-able action - Define action and then do it! Widget Widget Widget. Distractions - Working at home, the dog, Dick Dastardly, Wacky Races, Catch the Pigeon. Capture Tools- NOT Microsoft Project. Don’t need a Gant Chart! Detailed plan with an Outliner or MindMap. Feedreader - Google Reader. MindMap Tool - Inspiration, MindManager, FreeMind. Footballers’ Favourites - Nokia N73 synched, Mac Mail, Both way synching, Just Do It, Don’t put it down, put it away, Bike, Less Time at Desk, Veggie, Coventry City, Kiss. download link An outdoor recording with my Getting Things Done buddy Daryl Cook. We talk about GTD and his implementation of it. Apologies, the wind was blowing against the mic, I’ll know to keep the mic cover on next time! Sponsored cycle - Amy’s Ride. Discussing GTD whilst cycling into a 40km/h wind! Buddying - The value of buddying up with someone to implement GTD Re-Read GTD - If you’ve read the book, read it again a few months later. You’ll pick up new things and a different perspective. Toilet Reading - Skim reading a book a second time! Natural Planning within GTD - Getting everything captured, including the small stuff. Buddy Timetable - Skype call every week, Friday afternoon, meet-up once per month. Keep at it, even if you miss a call. Capture all thoughts on A4 - Capture everything in your head on to separate pages of A4. Weekly Review - The one area most people fail with productivity and GTD, doing the 1 hourly weekly review. GTD Flow Chart - Quick reference guide available from DIYplanner.com. Capture Levels - Importance of 30,000ft, 1-2 year actions. What are we doing today that helps us with our medium term goals. Focus on short term goals as a means to achieving long term goals. Desire to achieve the goal - Creating the desire to achieve your goal. Moleskine front end capture - Handwritten capture and MindMaps. Apple mail client - Daryl’s a Mac boy. iGTD for Macs and managing tasks. Another reason to get a Mac Reviewing higher level long term goals and projects - When changing jobs. Reviewing goals achieved - Congratulate yourself on what you have achieved. Setting the right contexts - Setting up the right contexts for where you do your work really helps. Know what you can do in a cafe or on the train. Procrastination - Perfectionism causing me to procrastinate. It has to be done perfectly or not at all. None completion for fear of failure. Overcoming the internal critic. Advice to kids - Compound Interest! Set several projects off and expect most of them to fail, but one will succeed big time. Throwing mud at walls. Breaking Projects into the smallest do-able action - Define action and then do it! Widget Widget Widget. Distractions - Working at home, the dog, Dick Dastardly, Wacky Races, Catch the Pigeon. Capture Tools- NOT Microsoft Project. Don’t need a Gant Chart! Detailed plan with an Outliner or MindMap. Feedreader - Google Reader. MindMap Tool - Inspiration, MindManager, FreeMind. Footballers’ Favourites - Nokia N73 synched, Mac Mail, Both way synching, Just Do It, Don’t put it down, put it away, Bike, Less Time at Desk, Veggie, Coventry City, Kiss. tag:odeo.com,2007-11-19,22032953 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:05:44 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/18673313-The-Productivity-Show-31-An-Orgy-of-Organising-Tips tag:odeo.com,2007-10-31,18673313 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:15:55 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22032960-The-Productivity-Show-31-An-Orgy-of-Organising-Tips download link Today’s guest is Lissanne Oliver, author of Sorted! The Ultimate Guide to Organising Your Life - Once and For All and director of Sorted!, a Professional Organiser, who provides hands on organising of your home, your business, yourself. We talk about getting organised, not just online, but around the house and workplace. (Thank you Cait for putting me in contact with Lissanne) Sorted! the Book - 40+ recipes for organising yourself in different situation. Sorted the Company - Getting organised, consulting with people to have a better quality of life, and improve their time management. Key Issues to getting Sorted! - Dealing with paperwork. Not having a handle on mess. Too much email. Feeling overwhelmed. A Perfect Mess - relationships and different mess areas. Time management in a relationship. “Get on with it, or Get Over it!” - Commit to doing it, or let go, say no, do less. I’m letting it go. Procrastination - Sometimes a good thing to making ... download link Today’s guest is Lissanne Oliver, author of Sorted! The Ultimate Guide to Organising Your Life - Once and For All and director of Sorted!, a Professional Organiser, who provides hands on organising of your home, your business, yourself. We talk about getting organised, not just online, but around the house and workplace. (Thank you Cait for putting me in contact with Lissanne) Sorted! the Book - 40+ recipes for organising yourself in different situation. Sorted the Company - Getting organised, consulting with people to have a better quality of life, and improve their time management. Key Issues to getting Sorted! - Dealing with paperwork. Not having a handle on mess. Too much email. Feeling overwhelmed. A Perfect Mess - relationships and different mess areas. Time management in a relationship. “Get on with it, or Get Over it!” - Commit to doing it, or let go, say no, do less. I’m letting it go. Procrastination - Sometimes a good thing to making the right decision. But you can let others down with it. The choice . How to overcome indecisiveness. Perfectionism and Procrastination. If you don’t complete anything you can’t be judged. Getting in Action - The cost of things not being in order and in action. Getting Organised - A practised skill, like getting fit. We know how to do it, but we don’t always apply it. “Don’t Put it Down, Put it Away!” - My 24 hour commitment to put everything away instead of putting it down. Opening mail over the rubbish bin, and file the mail after it’s opened. Completion. Coming back from holiday, but not unpacking. Lack of completion is fear of failure if you did complete it. “Clutter is anything you Don’t Love, Don’t Use, or Don’t Need.” 82 Litre Bins! We expand to fill our space. If we move to bigger house, we fill the space. Set criteria for getting rid of clutter. Managing Information Overload - Make friends with your Del key. Use it or chuck it out. Using desktop search to not be slave to filing. Starting up the Sorted! Company - Professional Organisers. The all time best quote - “She’s the kind of person who’d fold the clothes at an orgy!” Tidy is a misconception - It’s more about being organised - planning, time management, decision making. Being in control and doing action, not being super neat. It’s organic and balanced. Flexibility. Lissanne Oliver - Collector of Snow Domes! Footballers’ Favourites - Eudora, Thunderbird, Nokia, The “Magazine” Home, More Nothing, Blondie, Abba, and Debbie Harry! download link Today’s guest is Lissanne Oliver, author of Sorted! The Ultimate Guide to Organising Your Life - Once and For All and director of Sorted!, a Professional Organiser, who provides hands on organising of your home, your business, yourself. We talk about getting organised, not just online, but around the house and workplace. (Thank you Cait for putting me in contact with Lissanne) Sorted! the Book - 40+ recipes for organising yourself in different situation. Sorted the Company - Getting organised, consulting with people to have a better quality of life, and improve their time management. Key Issues to getting Sorted! - Dealing with paperwork. Not having a handle on mess. Too much email. Feeling overwhelmed. A Perfect Mess - relationships and different mess areas. Time management in a relationship. “Get on with it, or Get Over it!” - Commit to doing it, or let go, say no, do less. I’m letting it go. Procrastination - Sometimes a good thing to making the right decision. But you can let others down with it. The choice . How to overcome indecisiveness. Perfectionism and Procrastination. If you don’t complete anything you can’t be judged. Getting in Action - The cost of things not being in order and in action. Getting Organised - A practised skill, like getting fit. We know how to do it, but we don’t always apply it. “Don’t Put it Down, Put it Away!” - My 24 hour commitment to put everything away instead of putting it down. Opening mail over the rubbish bin, and file the mail after it’s opened. Completion. Coming back from holiday, but not unpacking. Lack of completion is fear of failure if you did complete it. “Clutter is anything you Don’t Love, Don’t Use, or Don’t Need.” 82 Litre Bins! We expand to fill our space. If we move to bigger house, we fill the space. Set criteria for getting rid of clutter. Managing Information Overload - Make friends with your Del key. Use it or chuck it out. Using desktop search to not be slave to filing. Starting up the Sorted! Company - Professional Organisers. The all time best quote - “She’s the kind of person who’d fold the clothes at an orgy!” Tidy is a misconception - It’s more about being organised - planning, time management, decision making. Being in control and doing action, not being super neat. It’s organic and balanced. Flexibility. Lissanne Oliver - Collector of Snow Domes! Footballers’ Favourites - Eudora, Thunderbird, Nokia, The “Magazine” Home, More Nothing, Blondie, Abba, and Debbie Harry! tag:odeo.com,2007-10-31,22032960 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:15:55 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/14934483-The-Productivity-Show-30-Meet-the-Buddy tag:odeo.com,2007-07-18,14934483 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:22:50 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22032966-The-Productivity-Show-30-Meet-the-Buddy download link Talking productivity with Michael Specht who works for Nortel, knows his stuff in the HR technology industry, oh, and just happens to be Cameron Reilly’s Getting Things Done Buddy. So let’s hear the other side of the story! (In true blogging about blogging tradition, the sound quality is a bit variable, and the recording ended abruptly with Phil Collins and Genesis!) Doing those Weekly Reviews Falling off the wagon - and getting back on by doing the Weekly Review Moving your Weekly Review time - Working in Corporates often means that on Friday afternoon there are urgent things to do, so find another time such as 8-00am on Monday morning to do your weekly review, instead of the ideal 2-00pm on Friday. Checking in with your Buddy - and bouncing ideas off them Dealing with large amounts of email without a Gatekeeper @Action for dealing with actionable emails GTD eBook by David Allen that explains Getting Things Done in Outlook, and the GTD Outlook plugin Outlo... download link Talking productivity with Michael Specht who works for Nortel, knows his stuff in the HR technology industry, oh, and just happens to be Cameron Reilly’s Getting Things Done Buddy. So let’s hear the other side of the story! (In true blogging about blogging tradition, the sound quality is a bit variable, and the recording ended abruptly with Phil Collins and Genesis!) Doing those Weekly Reviews Falling off the wagon - and getting back on by doing the Weekly Review Moving your Weekly Review time - Working in Corporates often means that on Friday afternoon there are urgent things to do, so find another time such as 8-00am on Monday morning to do your weekly review, instead of the ideal 2-00pm on Friday. Checking in with your Buddy - and bouncing ideas off them Dealing with large amounts of email without a Gatekeeper @Action for dealing with actionable emails GTD eBook by David Allen that explains Getting Things Done in Outlook, and the GTD Outlook plugin Outlook Tasks - Dragging and dropping incoming actionable emails in to Tasks, and then categorising each Task. Using Outlook keyboard shortcuts Setting an appointment for urgent tasks and colour coding the appointments Index cards - for note capture, and using notations Capturing each thought from your desk onto a single sheet of A4 to put in the Inbox, or on to Post Notes, to prioritise on your desk Making notes in meetings - Different methods Windows Mobile device - For carrying tasks Outlook Notes - for Horizons of Focus (Roles and Responsibilities etc) Outlook Tasks - for creating Projects, which makes sense, because you could capture all the actions, and set the task for the next action in each project @Waiting - To check up on actions of others that you’re waiting on GTD for managers to follow up Instant Messaging in corporates - As a primary form of productivity Twitter to help Brainstorm - SMS No Thanks Reputation/Identity - and the Wisdom of Crowds Just one more thing - Individual and team benefits of doing one more thing each day Achieving 1 year goals - Tony bangs on yet again about achieving 1 year goals (30,000ft) Goals that stimulate - Defining a goal that really excites you Create a Crisis - to make things so bad you’ll do something about it Process Widgets - to achieve your longer term goals Email etiquette - Accepting that emails are read but not always answered, poor subject lines, and copying Made to Stick - Sticky subject lines and intros which people remember The 4 Hour Work Week - How to outsource your life and work 4 hours per week! Footballer’s Favourites download link Talking productivity with Michael Specht who works for Nortel, knows his stuff in the HR technology industry, oh, and just happens to be Cameron Reilly’s Getting Things Done Buddy. So let’s hear the other side of the story! (In true blogging about blogging tradition, the sound quality is a bit variable, and the recording ended abruptly with Phil Collins and Genesis!) Doing those Weekly Reviews Falling off the wagon - and getting back on by doing the Weekly Review Moving your Weekly Review time - Working in Corporates often means that on Friday afternoon there are urgent things to do, so find another time such as 8-00am on Monday morning to do your weekly review, instead of the ideal 2-00pm on Friday. Checking in with your Buddy - and bouncing ideas off them Dealing with large amounts of email without a Gatekeeper @Action for dealing with actionable emails GTD eBook by David Allen that explains Getting Things Done in Outlook, and the GTD Outlook plugin Outlook Tasks - Dragging and dropping incoming actionable emails in to Tasks, and then categorising each Task. Using Outlook keyboard shortcuts Setting an appointment for urgent tasks and colour coding the appointments Index cards - for note capture, and using notations Capturing each thought from your desk onto a single sheet of A4 to put in the Inbox, or on to Post Notes, to prioritise on your desk Making notes in meetings - Different methods Windows Mobile device - For carrying tasks Outlook Notes - for Horizons of Focus (Roles and Responsibilities etc) Outlook Tasks - for creating Projects, which makes sense, because you could capture all the actions, and set the task for the next action in each project @Waiting - To check up on actions of others that you’re waiting on GTD for managers to follow up Instant Messaging in corporates - As a primary form of productivity Twitter to help Brainstorm - SMS No Thanks Reputation/Identity - and the Wisdom of Crowds Just one more thing - Individual and team benefits of doing one more thing each day Achieving 1 year goals - Tony bangs on yet again about achieving 1 year goals (30,000ft) Goals that stimulate - Defining a goal that really excites you Create a Crisis - to make things so bad you’ll do something about it Process Widgets - to achieve your longer term goals Email etiquette - Accepting that emails are read but not always answered, poor subject lines, and copying Made to Stick - Sticky subject lines and intros which people remember The 4 Hour Work Week - How to outsource your life and work 4 hours per week! Footballer’s Favourites tag:odeo.com,2007-07-17,22032966 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:22:50 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/13384873-The-Productivity-Show-29-Group-Massage-and-Productivity-Working-towards-a-Happy-Ending tag:odeo.com,2007-06-24,13384873 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:50:44 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22032972-The-Productivity-Show-29-Group-Massage-and-Productivity-Working-towards-a-Happy-Ending download link So this blog and podcasts have to be a shining example of productivity! What’s my next show after Cameron, I kept asking myself!! Kill the perfectionist and procrastinator, Tony! Ah Ha! Just do it. I had a coaching call this week with a couple (Simon and Sandra Allars of Soothe Mobile Massage) who are growing a business, with help from a business coach. Let’s record the conversation!! They’ve implemented Getting Things Done over the last few weeks. Let’s see how they’re getting on and applying it in their business. I’ve been using Skype with them over the last few weeks, talking about productivity and Getting Things Done. And let’s include their their business coach who is helping them with their business plan, Peter Christo. Next show done! Enjoy! We can almost see our desk! Nice to know something is working. Buy the book then read it! It’s a nice idea to actually read Getting Things Done, once you’ve bought the bo... download link So this blog and podcasts have to be a shining example of productivity! What’s my next show after Cameron, I kept asking myself!! Kill the perfectionist and procrastinator, Tony! Ah Ha! Just do it. I had a coaching call this week with a couple (Simon and Sandra Allars of Soothe Mobile Massage) who are growing a business, with help from a business coach. Let’s record the conversation!! They’ve implemented Getting Things Done over the last few weeks. Let’s see how they’re getting on and applying it in their business. I’ve been using Skype with them over the last few weeks, talking about productivity and Getting Things Done. And let’s include their their business coach who is helping them with their business plan, Peter Christo. Next show done! Enjoy! We can almost see our desk! Nice to know something is working. Buy the book then read it! It’s a nice idea to actually read Getting Things Done, once you’ve bought the book. My advice - Read the first 20 pages, and you’ll probably be hooked. Empty your brains on A4 - Capture all thoughts (Work and Home) on single pages of A4, it reduced your stress. Sort each A4 to action, project, incubation, Do Now! Horizons of Focus - Seeing the bigger picture Capture Systems -Try to move to a single front end capture system, paper or electronic, it doesn’t matter. Capture everything for a “Mind Like Water” Thunderbird mail client - But what about calendar and task reminders? Google Calendar for sharing. Basecamp online for project management - Milestones, Tasks, Completion. “GTD on Steroids” Group Completion of tasks. Capturing and bringing things down from the idea shelf - Using Horizons of Focus Pen and Paper may well work best - Sometimes you have to forget the gadgets and just get on with it. Virtual PA -As an effective way of being efficient. $1m per head or person in a small business, by using technology! (I’m not sure I believe that one) Print out your electronic system into a paper pack - With blank pages on the front to write on. Projects - A Wipe Board to capture things. “Never muck with a person with a plan!” Dealing with the 1 year view (30,000ft Goals and Objectives) and doing things now about it. Follow your bliss. Find the mountain you want to climb. Make sure it’s something you really like doing. Passion for what you’re doing. Take time out to make sure you’re in the right forest first. Keeping track of the Non-Urgent and Important Go get a real job! 10 Reasons you should never get a job! The passion to stick with it - E-myth way of not being a technician. Do all the processes with passion. Do a Business Plan as a working document, not just a compliance thing Business Card folder - as a prompt for making contacts (a tip not in the show, but collect business cards and sort them chronologically for when you received them) Palm Trio 650 keeps rebooting Get involved and have a crack - If you do do what you did did, you gonna get get what you got got (whatever that means) Have your vision written up where you can see it every day Outsource more Footballers’ Favourites - Fight Club and Planes Trains and Automobiles, Drac’s Back, C’mon Feel the Noise, Fragile (Yes), Bay City Rollers, Rockbird! download link So this blog and podcasts have to be a shining example of productivity! What’s my next show after Cameron, I kept asking myself!! Kill the perfectionist and procrastinator, Tony! Ah Ha! Just do it. I had a coaching call this week with a couple (Simon and Sandra Allars of Soothe Mobile Massage) who are growing a business, with help from a business coach. Let’s record the conversation!! They’ve implemented Getting Things Done over the last few weeks. Let’s see how they’re getting on and applying it in their business. I’ve been using Skype with them over the last few weeks, talking about productivity and Getting Things Done. And let’s include their their business coach who is helping them with their business plan, Peter Christo. Next show done! Enjoy! We can almost see our desk! Nice to know something is working. Buy the book then read it! It’s a nice idea to actually read Getting Things Done, once you’ve bought the book. My advice - Read the first 20 pages, and you’ll probably be hooked. Empty your brains on A4 - Capture all thoughts (Work and Home) on single pages of A4, it reduced your stress. Sort each A4 to action, project, incubation, Do Now! Horizons of Focus - Seeing the bigger picture Capture Systems -Try to move to a single front end capture system, paper or electronic, it doesn’t matter. Capture everything for a “Mind Like Water” Thunderbird mail client - But what about calendar and task reminders? Google Calendar for sharing. Basecamp online for project management - Milestones, Tasks, Completion. “GTD on Steroids” Group Completion of tasks. Capturing and bringing things down from the idea shelf - Using Horizons of Focus Pen and Paper may well work best - Sometimes you have to forget the gadgets and just get on with it. Virtual PA -As an effective way of being efficient. $1m per head or person in a small business, by using technology! (I’m not sure I believe that one) Print out your electronic system into a paper pack - With blank pages on the front to write on. Projects - A Wipe Board to capture things. “Never muck with a person with a plan!” Dealing with the 1 year view (30,000ft Goals and Objectives) and doing things now about it. Follow your bliss. Find the mountain you want to climb. Make sure it’s something you really like doing. Passion for what you’re doing. Take time out to make sure you’re in the right forest first. Keeping track of the Non-Urgent and Important Go get a real job! 10 Reasons you should never get a job! The passion to stick with it - E-myth way of not being a technician. Do all the processes with passion. Do a Business Plan as a working document, not just a compliance thing Business Card folder - as a prompt for making contacts (a tip not in the show, but collect business cards and sort them chronologically for when you received them) Palm Trio 650 keeps rebooting Get involved and have a crack - If you do do what you did did, you gonna get get what you got got (whatever that means) Have your vision written up where you can see it every day Outsource more Footballers’ Favourites - Fight Club and Planes Trains and Automobiles, Drac’s Back, C’mon Feel the Noise, Fragile (Yes), Bay City Rollers, Rockbird! tag:odeo.com,2007-06-24,22032972 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:50:44 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/13384843-The-Productivity-Show-28-Cameron%E2%80%99s-little-time-saver tag:odeo.com,2007-06-17,13384843 Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:22:32 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22170662-The-Productivity-Show-28-Cameron%E2%80%99s-little-time-saver download link It’s been a while, but here it is, the next show, with me, Tony Goodson, and a special guest (Cameron Reilly) who gives us a special tip on how to save the most time, certainly in his life! This show was easy, I skyped Cameron, and just sat back whilst he talked and talked and talked. The irony of 9 months to make the next productivity show! Productivity Buddy System - Find a buddy to check in weekly with and talk between you about what’s working and what’s not working. Dealing with email - GTD gmail plugin. Firefox better gmail add-on. Putting filters on incoming email Dealing with Distractions - Distractions as rewards. (10+2)x5. Xnote stopwatch. Less=More Making 1 year goals happen - Doing today what makes a difference in a year’s time. Non Urgent but Important. Doing the numbers. Get your buddy to help A Perfect Mess - A book on being messy Filing in Bins! - GTD Filing system Moleskine - One way to not do a Productivity Show! Separate Books ... download link It’s been a while, but here it is, the next show, with me, Tony Goodson, and a special guest (Cameron Reilly) who gives us a special tip on how to save the most time, certainly in his life! This show was easy, I skyped Cameron, and just sat back whilst he talked and talked and talked. The irony of 9 months to make the next productivity show! Productivity Buddy System - Find a buddy to check in weekly with and talk between you about what’s working and what’s not working. Dealing with email - GTD gmail plugin. Firefox better gmail add-on. Putting filters on incoming email Dealing with Distractions - Distractions as rewards. (10+2)x5. Xnote stopwatch. Less=More Making 1 year goals happen - Doing today what makes a difference in a year’s time. Non Urgent but Important. Doing the numbers. Get your buddy to help A Perfect Mess - A book on being messy Filing in Bins! - GTD Filing system Moleskine - One way to not do a Productivity Show! Separate Books -Daily Tasks, Big Ideas, Work Things PDAs for audio capture of ideas Three level capture system - Filofax Diary, Outlook for Task and Phone Calls, MindMap or Spreadsheet Overview GiroQ - Capture ideas and actions for Mindjet’s MindManager MindMaps Mindmap Desktop to Drag and Drop on to Mindmanager GTD Projects - Anything with more than one action. Taking small physical actions (Widgets). MindManager Templates for GTD Horizons of Focus - Levels of organisation in your life Weekly Review - Make sure you review your whole system once every week Go to the cafe without your Laptop - Mind Sweep. What’s getting in the way of my productivity. What’s the next action Footballers’ Favourites - Leo Sayer and The Shadows etc! download link It’s been a while, but here it is, the next show, with me, Tony Goodson, and a special guest (Cameron Reilly) who gives us a special tip on how to save the most time, certainly in his life! This show was easy, I skyped Cameron, and just sat back whilst he talked and talked and talked. The irony of 9 months to make the next productivity show! Productivity Buddy System - Find a buddy to check in weekly with and talk between you about what’s working and what’s not working. Dealing with email - GTD gmail plugin. Firefox better gmail add-on. Putting filters on incoming email Dealing with Distractions - Distractions as rewards. (10+2)x5. Xnote stopwatch. Less=More Making 1 year goals happen - Doing today what makes a difference in a year’s time. Non Urgent but Important. Doing the numbers. Get your buddy to help A Perfect Mess - A book on being messy Filing in Bins! - GTD Filing system Moleskine - One way to not do a Productivity Show! Separate Books -Daily Tasks, Big Ideas, Work Things PDAs for audio capture of ideas Three level capture system - Filofax Diary, Outlook for Task and Phone Calls, MindMap or Spreadsheet Overview GiroQ - Capture ideas and actions for Mindjet’s MindManager MindMaps Mindmap Desktop to Drag and Drop on to Mindmanager GTD Projects - Anything with more than one action. Taking small physical actions (Widgets). MindManager Templates for GTD Horizons of Focus - Levels of organisation in your life Weekly Review - Make sure you review your whole system once every week Go to the cafe without your Laptop - Mind Sweep. What’s getting in the way of my productivity. What’s the next action Footballers’ Favourites - Leo Sayer and The Shadows etc! tag:odeo.com,2007-06-16,22170662 Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:22:32 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22032987-The-Productivity-Show-28-Cameron%E2%80%99s-little-time-saver download link It’s been a while, but here it is, the next show, with me, Tony Goodson, and a special guest (Cameron Reilly) who gives us a special tip on how to save the most time, certainly in his life! This show was easy, I skyped Cameron, and just sat back whilst he talked and talked and talked. The irony of 9 months to make the next productivity show! Productivity Buddy System - Find a buddy to check in weekly with and talk between you about what’s working and what’s not working. Dealing with email - GTD gmail plugin. Firefox better gmail add-on. Putting filters on incoming email Dealing with Distractions - Distractions as rewards. (10+2)x5. Xnote stopwatch. Less=More Making 1 year goals happen - Doing today what makes a difference in a year’s time. Non Urgent but Important. Doing the numbers. Get your buddy to help A Perfect Mess - A book on being messy Filing in Bins! - GTD Filing system Moleskine - One way to not do a Productivity Show! Separate Books ... download link It’s been a while, but here it is, the next show, with me, Tony Goodson, and a special guest (Cameron Reilly) who gives us a special tip on how to save the most time, certainly in his life! This show was easy, I skyped Cameron, and just sat back whilst he talked and talked and talked. The irony of 9 months to make the next productivity show! Productivity Buddy System - Find a buddy to check in weekly with and talk between you about what’s working and what’s not working. Dealing with email - GTD gmail plugin. Firefox better gmail add-on. Putting filters on incoming email Dealing with Distractions - Distractions as rewards. (10+2)x5. Xnote stopwatch. Less=More Making 1 year goals happen - Doing today what makes a difference in a year’s time. Non Urgent but Important. Doing the numbers. Get your buddy to help A Perfect Mess - A book on being messy Filing in Bins! - GTD Filing system Moleskine - One way to not do a Productivity Show! Separate Books -Daily Tasks, Big Ideas, Work Things PDAs for audio capture of ideas Three level capture system - Filofax Diary, Outlook for Task and Phone Calls, MindMap or Spreadsheet Overview GiroQ - Capture ideas and actions for Mindjet’s MindManager MindMaps Mindmap Desktop to Drag and Drop on to Mindmanager GTD Projects - Anything with more than one action. Taking small physical actions (Widgets). MindManager Templates for GTD Horizons of Focus - Levels of organisation in your life Weekly Review - Make sure you review your whole system once every week Go to the cafe without your Laptop - Mind Sweep. What’s getting in the way of my productivity. What’s the next action Footballers’ Favourites - Leo Sayer and The Shadows etc! download link It’s been a while, but here it is, the next show, with me, Tony Goodson, and a special guest (Cameron Reilly) who gives us a special tip on how to save the most time, certainly in his life! This show was easy, I skyped Cameron, and just sat back whilst he talked and talked and talked. The irony of 9 months to make the next productivity show! Productivity Buddy System - Find a buddy to check in weekly with and talk between you about what’s working and what’s not working. Dealing with email - GTD gmail plugin. Firefox better gmail add-on. Putting filters on incoming email Dealing with Distractions - Distractions as rewards. (10+2)x5. Xnote stopwatch. Less=More Making 1 year goals happen - Doing today what makes a difference in a year’s time. Non Urgent but Important. Doing the numbers. Get your buddy to help A Perfect Mess - A book on being messy Filing in Bins! - GTD Filing system Moleskine - One way to not do a Productivity Show! Separate Books -Daily Tasks, Big Ideas, Work Things PDAs for audio capture of ideas Three level capture system - Filofax Diary, Outlook for Task and Phone Calls, MindMap or Spreadsheet Overview GiroQ - Capture ideas and actions for Mindjet’s MindManager MindMaps Mindmap Desktop to Drag and Drop on to Mindmanager GTD Projects - Anything with more than one action. Taking small physical actions (Widgets). MindManager Templates for GTD Horizons of Focus - Levels of organisation in your life Weekly Review - Make sure you review your whole system once every week Go to the cafe without your Laptop - Mind Sweep. What’s getting in the way of my productivity. What’s the next action Footballers’ Favourites - Leo Sayer and The Shadows etc! tag:odeo.com,2007-06-16,22032987 Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:22:32 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/1854567-The-Productivity-Show-027-Introducing-the-PRODUCTIVITY-BUDDY-SYSTEM tag:odeo.com,2006-09-07,1854567 Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:08:01 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22033009-The-Productivity-Show-027-Introducing-the-PRODUCTIVITY-BUDDY-SYSTEM Download Link technology is letting us down we both announce the death of the pocket pc as a productivity tool Cameron gives in and decides to buy a moleskine Des recommends the Treo We talk about GTDGmail Des talks about GyroQ GTDconnect We invent the idea of The Productivity Buddy System If you want to be a buddy, join the forum at the link above or email productivitybuddy@gmail.com We also coin the terms “productivity plaque” and “productivity floss” Cam likes lawdepot.com to create business documents And Cam also recommends you get a book keeper Des, who has made over 1000 dives, talks about the death of Australia’s latest saint, Steve Irwin Download Link technology is letting us down we both announce the death of the pocket pc as a productivity tool Cameron gives in and decides to buy a moleskine Des recommends the Treo We talk about GTDGmail Des talks about GyroQ GTDconnect We invent the idea of The Productivity Buddy System If you want to be a buddy, join the forum at the link above or email productivitybuddy@gmail.com We also coin the terms “productivity plaque” and “productivity floss” Cam likes lawdepot.com to create business documents And Cam also recommends you get a book keeper Des, who has made over 1000 dives, talks about the death of Australia’s latest saint, Steve Irwin Download Link technology is letting us down we both announce the death of the pocket pc as a productivity tool Cameron gives in and decides to buy a moleskine Des recommends the Treo We talk about GTDGmail Des talks about GyroQ GTDconnect We invent the idea of The Productivity Buddy System If you want to be a buddy, join the forum at the link above or email productivitybuddy@gmail.com We also coin the terms “productivity plaque” and “productivity floss” Cam likes lawdepot.com to create business documents And Cam also recommends you get a book keeper Des, who has made over 1000 dives, talks about the death of Australia’s latest saint, Steve Irwin tag:odeo.com,2006-09-07,22033009 Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:08:01 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/1557547-The-Productivity-Show-026-Jodie-Miners%E2%80%99-Tips-Tricks tag:odeo.com,2006-07-25,1557547 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:23:39 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22170663-The-Productivity-Show-026-Jodie-Miners%E2%80%99-Tips-Tricks Download Link Jodie Miners caught up with me recently to discuss her approach to productivity and how you have to bypass company policy sometimes in order to be productive. Among other tidbits, Jodie mentions her love for: David Seah’s Emergent Task Tracker Yubnub SlickRun - a free floating command line utility for Windows She also talked a bit about how she is helping set up a community website for an organisation she is involved in, and the set of free online tools she is using to build their site. I also mentioned Robert Scoble’s recent post about moving from Outlook to Gmail. If you’re also trying to make the move, or thinking about making the move, it’s worth reading the comment thread to learn some tips and tricks to make it easier. Don’t forget to check out the TPN Ebay Auctions. Sponsor a podcast today! And please pop over to our Productivity Forum to share your productivity tips and tricks with us. Download Link Jodie Miners caught up with me recently to discuss her approach to productivity and how you have to bypass company policy sometimes in order to be productive. Among other tidbits, Jodie mentions her love for: David Seah’s Emergent Task Tracker Yubnub SlickRun - a free floating command line utility for Windows She also talked a bit about how she is helping set up a community website for an organisation she is involved in, and the set of free online tools she is using to build their site. I also mentioned Robert Scoble’s recent post about moving from Outlook to Gmail. If you’re also trying to make the move, or thinking about making the move, it’s worth reading the comment thread to learn some tips and tricks to make it easier. Don’t forget to check out the TPN Ebay Auctions. Sponsor a podcast today! And please pop over to our Productivity Forum to share your productivity tips and tricks with us. Download Link Jodie Miners caught up with me recently to discuss her approach to productivity and how you have to bypass company policy sometimes in order to be productive. Among other tidbits, Jodie mentions her love for: David Seah’s Emergent Task Tracker Yubnub SlickRun - a free floating command line utility for Windows She also talked a bit about how she is helping set up a community website for an organisation she is involved in, and the set of free online tools she is using to build their site. I also mentioned Robert Scoble’s recent post about moving from Outlook to Gmail. If you’re also trying to make the move, or thinking about making the move, it’s worth reading the comment thread to learn some tips and tricks to make it easier. Don’t forget to check out the TPN Ebay Auctions. Sponsor a podcast today! And please pop over to our Productivity Forum to share your productivity tips and tricks with us. tag:odeo.com,2006-07-25,22170663 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:23:39 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22033017-The-Productivity-Show-026-Jodie-Miners%E2%80%99-Tips-Tricks Download Link Jodie Miners caught up with me recently to discuss her approach to productivity and how you have to bypass company policy sometimes in order to be productive. Among other tidbits, Jodie mentions her love for: David Seah’s Emergent Task Tracker Yubnub SlickRun - a free floating command line utility for Windows She also talked a bit about how she is helping set up a community website for an organisation she is involved in, and the set of free online tools she is using to build their site. I also mentioned Robert Scoble’s recent post about moving from Outlook to Gmail. If you’re also trying to make the move, or thinking about making the move, it’s worth reading the comment thread to learn some tips and tricks to make it easier. Don’t forget to check out the TPN Ebay Auctions. Sponsor a podcast today! And please pop over to our Productivity Forum to share your productivity tips and tricks with us. Download Link Jodie Miners caught up with me recently to discuss her approach to productivity and how you have to bypass company policy sometimes in order to be productive. Among other tidbits, Jodie mentions her love for: David Seah’s Emergent Task Tracker Yubnub SlickRun - a free floating command line utility for Windows She also talked a bit about how she is helping set up a community website for an organisation she is involved in, and the set of free online tools she is using to build their site. I also mentioned Robert Scoble’s recent post about moving from Outlook to Gmail. If you’re also trying to make the move, or thinking about making the move, it’s worth reading the comment thread to learn some tips and tricks to make it easier. Don’t forget to check out the TPN Ebay Auctions. Sponsor a podcast today! And please pop over to our Productivity Forum to share your productivity tips and tricks with us. Download Link Jodie Miners caught up with me recently to discuss her approach to productivity and how you have to bypass company policy sometimes in order to be productive. Among other tidbits, Jodie mentions her love for: David Seah’s Emergent Task Tracker Yubnub SlickRun - a free floating command line utility for Windows She also talked a bit about how she is helping set up a community website for an organisation she is involved in, and the set of free online tools she is using to build their site. I also mentioned Robert Scoble’s recent post about moving from Outlook to Gmail. If you’re also trying to make the move, or thinking about making the move, it’s worth reading the comment thread to learn some tips and tricks to make it easier. Don’t forget to check out the TPN Ebay Auctions. Sponsor a podcast today! And please pop over to our Productivity Forum to share your productivity tips and tricks with us. tag:odeo.com,2006-07-25,22033017 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:23:39 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/1518504-The-Productivity-Show-025-It%E2%80%99s-a-Google-Google-Google-World tag:odeo.com,2006-07-18,1518504 Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:38:39 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22170664-The-Productivity-Show-025-It%E2%80%99s-a-Google-Google-Google-World DOWNLOAD THE SHOW Hey it’s been a while. Apologies for the break in transmission but we were experiencing productivity difficulties. :-) Des and Cam are back (eventually) talking about the tools they are using to help them be more productive. The tools featured in this episode include: Google Notebook Google Writely Google Calendar CompanionLink for Google Calendar Google Desktop Google Browser Sync Firefox Mass Installer RealVNC Yeah it certainly is a Google Google Google World! Don’t forget to check out the TPN Ebay Auctions. Sponsor a podcast today! DOWNLOAD THE SHOW Hey it’s been a while. Apologies for the break in transmission but we were experiencing productivity difficulties. :-) Des and Cam are back (eventually) talking about the tools they are using to help them be more productive. The tools featured in this episode include: Google Notebook Google Writely Google Calendar CompanionLink for Google Calendar Google Desktop Google Browser Sync Firefox Mass Installer RealVNC Yeah it certainly is a Google Google Google World! Don’t forget to check out the TPN Ebay Auctions. Sponsor a podcast today! DOWNLOAD THE SHOW Hey it’s been a while. Apologies for the break in transmission but we were experiencing productivity difficulties. :-) Des and Cam are back (eventually) talking about the tools they are using to help them be more productive. The tools featured in this episode include: Google Notebook Google Writely Google Calendar CompanionLink for Google Calendar Google Desktop Google Browser Sync Firefox Mass Installer RealVNC Yeah it certainly is a Google Google Google World! Don’t forget to check out the TPN Ebay Auctions. Sponsor a podcast today! tag:odeo.com,2006-07-18,22170664 Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:38:39 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22033023-The-Productivity-Show-025-It%E2%80%99s-a-Google-Google-Google-World DOWNLOAD THE SHOW Hey it’s been a while. Apologies for the break in transmission but we were experiencing productivity difficulties. :-) Des and Cam are back (eventually) talking about the tools they are using to help them be more productive. The tools featured in this episode include: Google Notebook Google Writely Google Calendar CompanionLink for Google Calendar Google Desktop Google Browser Sync Firefox Mass Installer RealVNC Yeah it certainly is a Google Google Google World! Don’t forget to check out the TPN Ebay Auctions. Sponsor a podcast today! DOWNLOAD THE SHOW Hey it’s been a while. Apologies for the break in transmission but we were experiencing productivity difficulties. :-) Des and Cam are back (eventually) talking about the tools they are using to help them be more productive. The tools featured in this episode include: Google Notebook Google Writely Google Calendar CompanionLink for Google Calendar Google Desktop Google Browser Sync Firefox Mass Installer RealVNC Yeah it certainly is a Google Google Google World! Don’t forget to check out the TPN Ebay Auctions. Sponsor a podcast today! DOWNLOAD THE SHOW Hey it’s been a while. Apologies for the break in transmission but we were experiencing productivity difficulties. :-) Des and Cam are back (eventually) talking about the tools they are using to help them be more productive. The tools featured in this episode include: Google Notebook Google Writely Google Calendar CompanionLink for Google Calendar Google Desktop Google Browser Sync Firefox Mass Installer RealVNC Yeah it certainly is a Google Google Google World! Don’t forget to check out the TPN Ebay Auctions. Sponsor a podcast today! tag:odeo.com,2006-07-18,22033023 Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:38:39 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/1032958-The-Productivity-Show-024-IM-etiquette tag:odeo.com,2006-04-09,1032958 Sun, 09 Apr 2006 06:59:38 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22033035-The-Productivity-Show-024-IM-etiquette The Productivity Show #024 (MP3 - 16MB - 40min) LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE Hell, I even forgot we were sitting on this show! This is the interview Des and I with Aussie tech journalist Brad Howarth a few weeks ago. Our apologies for sitting on this so long Brad! I assume your position on IM etiquette hasn’t changed since then! We had a few troubles with Brad’s skype quality, but the discussion is so good I wanted to share it with you, so please forgive the audio quality. And if you dig the show, don’t forget to vote on Podcast Alley. The Productivity Show #024 (MP3 - 16MB - 40min) LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE Hell, I even forgot we were sitting on this show! This is the interview Des and I with Aussie tech journalist Brad Howarth a few weeks ago. Our apologies for sitting on this so long Brad! I assume your position on IM etiquette hasn’t changed since then! We had a few troubles with Brad’s skype quality, but the discussion is so good I wanted to share it with you, so please forgive the audio quality. And if you dig the show, don’t forget to vote on Podcast Alley. The Productivity Show #024 (MP3 - 16MB - 40min) LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE Hell, I even forgot we were sitting on this show! This is the interview Des and I with Aussie tech journalist Brad Howarth a few weeks ago. Our apologies for sitting on this so long Brad! I assume your position on IM etiquette hasn’t changed since then! We had a few troubles with Brad’s skype quality, but the discussion is so good I wanted to share it with you, so please forgive the audio quality. And if you dig the show, don’t forget to vote on Podcast Alley. tag:odeo.com,2006-04-08,22033035 Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:59:38 -0700 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/843339-The-Productivity-Show-023 tag:odeo.com,2006-03-07,843339 Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:53:27 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22033042-The-Productivity-Show-023 The Productivity Show #023 (MP3 - 16MB - 40min) LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE Des is at yet ANOTHER work conference tonight (I make it his third in as many weeks!), so my guest hosts David “The Lifekludger” Wallace and Hugo Ortega! Shownotes: Dave explains how a quadraplegic (like himself, auto accident) can type 25 words a minute! Check out Hugo’s exclusive sneak peeks pictures of Microsoft’s “Origami” device. Productivity tips for the week: Foxmarks for Firefox New version of Bloglines has Drag N Drop. Cam recommends Fraggin’ your Feeds. Hugo recommends InkGestures for the Tablet PC Put Wikipedia on your iPod! And if you dig the show, don’t forget to vote on Podcast Alley. The Productivity Show #023 (MP3 - 16MB - 40min) LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE Des is at yet ANOTHER work conference tonight (I make it his third in as many weeks!), so my guest hosts David “The Lifekludger” Wallace and Hugo Ortega! Shownotes: Dave explains how a quadraplegic (like himself, auto accident) can type 25 words a minute! Check out Hugo’s exclusive sneak peeks pictures of Microsoft’s “Origami” device. Productivity tips for the week: Foxmarks for Firefox New version of Bloglines has Drag N Drop. Cam recommends Fraggin’ your Feeds. Hugo recommends InkGestures for the Tablet PC Put Wikipedia on your iPod! And if you dig the show, don’t forget to vote on Podcast Alley. The Productivity Show #023 (MP3 - 16MB - 40min) LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE Des is at yet ANOTHER work conference tonight (I make it his third in as many weeks!), so my guest hosts David “The Lifekludger” Wallace and Hugo Ortega! Shownotes: Dave explains how a quadraplegic (like himself, auto accident) can type 25 words a minute! Check out Hugo’s exclusive sneak peeks pictures of Microsoft’s “Origami” device. Productivity tips for the week: Foxmarks for Firefox New version of Bloglines has Drag N Drop. Cam recommends Fraggin’ your Feeds. Hugo recommends InkGestures for the Tablet PC Put Wikipedia on your iPod! And if you dig the show, don’t forget to vote on Podcast Alley. tag:odeo.com,2006-03-06,22033042 Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:53:27 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast http://www.odeo.com/episodes/767949-The-Productivity-Show-022-The-Return-of-Jason-Womack tag:odeo.com,2006-02-21,767949 Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:43:30 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22033046-The-Productivity-Show-022-The-Return-of-Jason-Womack The Productivity Show #022 (MP3 - 16MB - 40min) LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE The response from our last show with Jason Womack (which, come to think of it, was our last show full stop) was so positive we decided to get him back on - quickly! Fortunately for us, Jason was happy to make himself available once again. For those of you who missed that episode, Jason is a GTD guru and staff trainer at the David Allen Company. On this episode, we talk about: having the discipline to keep yourself organized hacks for getting back on track having too much to do… problem or opportunity? handling complexity and ambiguity And if you dig the show, don’t forget to vote on Podcast Alley. The Productivity Show #022 (MP3 - 16MB - 40min) LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE The response from our last show with Jason Womack (which, come to think of it, was our last show full stop) was so positive we decided to get him back on - quickly! Fortunately for us, Jason was happy to make himself available once again. For those of you who missed that episode, Jason is a GTD guru and staff trainer at the David Allen Company. On this episode, we talk about: having the discipline to keep yourself organized hacks for getting back on track having too much to do… problem or opportunity? handling complexity and ambiguity And if you dig the show, don’t forget to vote on Podcast Alley. The Productivity Show #022 (MP3 - 16MB - 40min) LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE The response from our last show with Jason Womack (which, come to think of it, was our last show full stop) was so positive we decided to get him back on - quickly! Fortunately for us, Jason was happy to make himself available once again. For those of you who missed that episode, Jason is a GTD guru and staff trainer at the David Allen Company. On this episode, we talk about: having the discipline to keep yourself organized hacks for getting back on track having too much to do… problem or opportunity? handling complexity and ambiguity And if you dig the show, don’t forget to vote on Podcast Alley. tag:odeo.com,2006-02-21,22033046 Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:43:30 -0800 no TPN :: The Productivity Show podcast