My clients often tell me that they waste too much time at work. There seems to be a common belief among ADDers that they spend too much time screwing around, while everyone else focuses intently and works productively all day long. I've always asserted that this simply isn't true! Everyone slacks of...

Since I left the corporate world, I’ve been having a bit of a time dilemma. When I was working in an office, I had distractions, sure. But those were all within the realm of work. Trying to stay productive here at home is a little different. So my planner and I had a come-to-Jesus meeting on F...

Photo by laffy4k There are 24 hours in a day, and I can drive myself crazy deciding what to do with that. Ah, time. I struggle daily with how to manage it, budget it, watch it pass, schedule it, forget about it, savor it, and squeeze every last drop of productivity out of it. I have a fear of wastin...

In my first post in this series , I discussed the steps I had begun to take in putting my GTD system back in order. I started by outlining my life at the moment (especially my Areas of Focus”) and sketching out a vision of myself in 3-5 years. The next step in my return to an orthodox GTD syst...

Do you remember this old saying, “Haste makes waste?” It certainly rolls off the tongue. But we wonder – is it still true? ___ ___ We hear all the time that we have to move fast today to gain, and maintain, a competitive advantage. So it may seem that the old saying has become outd...

I am not a watch wearer — haven’t really worn a watch for like 10+ years. The past few days, though, I’ve been wearing a VibraLite 8 watch I ordered off of Amazon and am very happy with it. Of course I’m not actually using it for anything as mundane as telling time — in...

Written by Dawn Foster. I’ve been on a time management kick lately with posts about reducing my side project overload, managing my time through better prioritization of activities and using Harvest to track my time. One of the things I learned from tracking my time more closely is that I spend...

by Seth Simonds How long can you work on a creative task before you need to recharge? I like to think of my creative energy in terms of a little electric car. Not a beautiful and fast electric supercar (who am I kidding?) but a little bee-bop two-seater with an 8-inch steering wheel. If I had a pict...

My computer activities have been monitored for the last few weeks, not by some keylogging stalker but by Rescue Time, with my full permission. I was drawn to use this time tracking application by their home page claim “Clobber procrastination with Goals & Alerts and watch your efficiency ...

Whenever you set a new goal, you’re unlikely to achieve it unless your habits already support it. If your goal runs afoul of your current habits, you’ll need to change your habits in order to achieve your goal. Suppose you set a goal to write a book, but you aren’t already in the h...