2011 is for me a year of change. I’m trying to change a few things in my life to improve myself. One of those is the number of hours that I work. Before Christmas, using RescueTime, I found I was tracking an average of 120 hours a week working… that’s 18 hours a day for 7 days a week. That is just insane, but I did it because I had to… no – not a good … [Read more...]
Being busy is just an excuse – Part 3
This is the final article in a 3 part series on productivity by Robert Crane. Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here Many of the concepts developed here come from my upcoming book on productivity - Being busy is just an excuse. The last two articles have hopefully given readers a starting point as well as destination, we now need to look at getting from the one to the other. … [Read more...]
Being busy is just and excuse Part 2
Another guest post from Robert Crane – following on from his last post, Robert has this contribution. This is part 2 in a 3 part series on productivity. Many of the concepts developed here come from my upcoming book on productivity – Being busy is just an excuse. In the last post I covered how there are three major tasks that you need to examine when seeking to improve your … [Read more...]
Productivity Tips for the IT Professional
In response to my post last week on Cleaning up my inbox – Part 1, I got the following email from a reader… he’s allowed me to share it but wanted to remain anonymous for obvious reasons ;-) Hey Wayne, If it helps I’ve been doing the “monthly unplug internet day” for about 2 years now. …when I do it, I just mark my OOF as “Travelling around our fair country right … [Read more...]
Being busy is just an excuse
Following on from a few of the productivity posts I wrote earlier this week, Robert Crane volunteered to be a guest poster for a couple more. Thanks Rob. Many of the concepts developed here come from my upcoming book on productivity - Being busy is just an excuse. If I asked you whether you have enough time your most likely answer will be no. If I then ask you … [Read more...]