December 2010
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The New Year's Resolution Magic Sauce →
Great article on WSJ.com about “Steps to New Year’s Resolution Success” looking at the magic sauce for actually keeping your resolutions. Hint: It requires more than willpower. As the peak season for making New Year’s resolutions draws near, most people, behavioral experts say, approach the process exactly wrong: They rely on willpower. Willpower springs from a part of the brain, in the...
Dec 24th
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“Don’t allow setbacks or blocks or anxiety to push you to say, “hey, maybe I...”
– Seth Godin
Dec 21st
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“I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply...”
– Malcom Mclaren
Dec 20th
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Working smart →
Awesome article from Dumb Little Man with 18 great advises on working smarter. Review them all in detail in the original post, rate yourself against each of them and figure out where and how you’d like to improve in 2011! Get clear on the objective Create a vision Take the 80/20 route Go for high impact items Create structures to maintain your flow Stop being a perfectionist Learn from...
Dec 19th
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Top 5 OmniFocus Applescripts
OmniFocus by Omnigroup has become the leader of the pack in terms of Mac and iOS task management. While there are millions of task list apps available for iPhone and iPad, very few compete with OmniFocus across all Apple platforms and qualify as professional-grade task managers. Out of the box OmniFocus does everything a GTD practitioner needs and it’s integration with Mac OS X is very tight....
Dec 16th
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“There are two kinds of people in the world … Those who make your life...”
– Dan Pink
Dec 14th
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Repost: Adding 'Waiting For' emails to Omnifocus
A very long time ago, I published an Applescript I’ve created that uses Mail-Act-On 2 and MailTags by indev.ca to create a task in Omnifocus for messages you send out that you need answer or follow up (“Waiting For’s” in GTD terms). While I haven’t been working on the script ever since, the brave community in the Omnigroup’s Omnifocus forum did. They refined the script, fixed some issues and when...
Dec 1st
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