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posted at 10:16:33 By Flipping Heck!

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In an article published in the New York times in October (yes, I'm behind with my blogging, okay?!) entitled "Multitasking Can Make You Lose ... Um ... Focus" the author discusses something we've covered here at Flipping Heck before - how multitasking actually make you more unproductive. See my reviews of review of "The Myth Of Multitasking: How "doing it all" gets nothing done by Dave Creshaw.

From the article:

posted at 19:58:28 By Flipping Heck!

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I'm famous! Well, sort of.

I was asked by the kind folks at Simpleology to write a guest post on running productive meetings which went gone live a couple of days ago over at the Simpleology blog.

If you haven't heard of Simpleology before basically it's a series of 40 free lessons (with further paid ones available) taken over the course of 40 days.

The lessons cover a variety of subjects such as:


Each lesson is backed up by a Video and there's further reference material in the "Virtuosity Handbook", audio compaion MP3 and daily email reminders.

I have to ....

posted at 09:12:34 By Flipping Heck!

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Yesterday (yes, I''m a bit slow on the uptake!) saw the launch of "Productive!" magazine, a magazine dedicated to... er... Productivity!

Brought to you by the creator of Nozbe, the magazine''s mission:



The bonus is the magazine's a free download!

I've only had a chance to have a quick look through the magazine (some of us do have to work you know) but it looks really well done - it certainly wouldn''t be out of place on the shelves in my local newsagent - and there''s articles with many well known GTD gurus including >David Allen himself and Leo Balbauta of Zen habits.

So, if you''re into productivity (which I guess you must be if you read this blog!) then head on over to "Productive!" magazine and download your free copy.

posted at 15:43:04 By Flipping Heck!

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I've recently started reading the Four Hour Work Week* (hereafter 4HWW to stop me getting RSI) by Tim Ferris and, even though I'm only on page 97 I'm already a bit annoyed by this book.

In the chapter I'm currently on, Ferris talks about regaining time by only checking email and voicemail at designated times of the day such as 12pm and 4pm - and he stresses not to check email first thing in the morning. Doing so will save you x amount of time per day - but would this actually work in the Real World? I can't see how it could.

Now, I don't know if it's the type of job that I'm in that's leading me to the conclusion I've come to, or the fact that

posted at 09:00:00 By Flipping Heck!

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When I had the chance to review Smart-To-Do List recently, I didn't think I'd find another productivity tool that would work so well for me, the only reason I'm not using it day-to-day is that it's unfortunately Windows only.So, I continued the hunt and the next program I found was "iGTD" - from the website:




When I first fired up the program, the interface did look a bit confusing and certainly not as simple and clean as Smart To-Do-List but there are a lot of handy tutorials on the site - in fact the program has some of the best documentation I've seen for a while for a free program.

The first step I took was to add a list of contexts. This w....

posted at 09:00:00 By Flipping Heck!

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I read an article in The Daily Mail called "Email etiquette: What your response time reveals about your personality".

From the Article by Liz Hull:


Now, I'm not sure about you, but when I get an email if I have the time available (and I'm at a computer obviously!) I reply straight away as:

1. It's polite
   
   
2. I hate the inevitable follow-up "did you get my email" conversion/phone call/email/post-it
   

But then maybe that's because the article goes on to say:


I think the most worrying point of the article is:

posted at 09:00:00 By Flipping Heck!

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It's been a while since we looked at Steven Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective people. It was meant to be a weekly series but I'm having trouble getting though a chapter a week, not very effective is it?

To recap what we've covered before, we've looked at:

• Habit 1 - Be Proactive - Here we learn to take charge of situations and work towards our desired outcomes
  
  
• Habit 2 - Start with the end in mind - We need to know where we're going in order to get there
  
  
• Habit 3 - Put First Things First - How to become "personally effective"
  
  
• The Public Victory Phase - We begin to move from our own private area of influence into the public arena
  
  
• Habit 4 - Think Win/Win - We need to reach mutually beneficial outcomes to become more personally effective and build up our "Emotional Bank Account"
  
  

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