This blog will no longer be inactive. I will be posting regularly here with some terrific surprises and some insights from my own life. Many of you know that jasonrspencer.com was my testing ground for a pod casting channel that we have been developing for the past year and half. I kind of got distracted with [...]
In life it’s often difficult to find authenticity, the true self within ourselves. Barbara De Angelis, Ph. D, writer, researcher and relationship expert summarizes this universal timeless struggle when she writes, “We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if [...]
The Challenge
“Man has a limited biological capacity for change,When this capacity is
overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. ” writes Futurist Alvin Toeffler in his 1970 Landmark book Future Shock, where he coined the phrase information overload. Toeffler poignantly argues that man’s ability to deal with his reality — his “sanity itself thus hinges [...]
One of my favorite web sites that I find myself revisiting is Bruce Keener’s blog Keenerliving and his PDA resource for Palm OS and Windows Mobile users. He also offers a free ebook which is a portable summary of all his suggested best practices and principles from years of experience in corporate America. Keener, as [...]
A single Google of the phrase “Getting Things Done” (GTD) turned up 12,200,000 results and counting at the moment of this writing and a single sponsored article link headline kept taunting me, “What is Wrong with GTD?” which necessarily resulted in the delay of this posting.
David Allen opens Chapter 6 of Making It All Work with an introductory quote from blogger Steve Pavlina on the power of clarity, “If you aren’t yet at the point of clarity, then make that your first goal.” The quote is from Pavlina’s Do It Now post part of his series on time management in which Pavlina portrays himself as a productivity expert and maverick challenging traditional life management systems.
