Julie Morgenstern SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life: Clutter Part 3

In week three of our four part interview series with Julie Morgenstern about her new book SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life, Julie talks about the phenomenon of clutter and how it seeps into our lives– whether its physical or mental roadblocks in our life and even in our schedules. Julie goes beyond the normal concept of clutter to even clearly isolate negative... Read More

Julie Morgenstern SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life Part 2

In week two of our four part interview series with Julie Morgenstern about her new book SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life, Julie outlines the key steps to the SHED process. Each step builds on its predecessor and is guaranteed to have a real impact when applied collectively and at the right moment in your life. Knowing when and how to SHED can be often as important as this process... Read More

Julie Morgenstern SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life Part 1

This week we begin a four part interview series with New York Times best-selling author Julie Morgenstern about her new book SHED Your Stuff Change Your Life. In this intimate and personal interview, Julie reveals the life experiences that launched her career in business and productivity coaching. What is sure to impress the listener is not the unique nature of these experiences... Read More

GTD and Franklin Covey Tool: Pocket Informant A New BlackBerry APP Standard

As everyone knows, the world of smart phone applications is constantly inundated with new applications, apps promising better features to enhance your productivity and change your life. Sadly to say, some often come with hefty price tags and offer little in return, but empty promises. Time management paradigms aside, the reality is that there is only so many ways that a programmer... Read More

Steve Wozniak On The IPhone

“The iPhone is a new type of device – a true hand-held computer – that we’ve never had before,” User Experience Consultant Mark Hurst said in an interview with me. “I think the iPhone is the most significant new digital device we’ve had perhaps since the original launch of Macintosh over 20 years ago. It’s hard to overstate the importance of this little device.” Mark... Read More

“A Mind Like Water” – ZTD Guru Leo Babauta

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 we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.”... Read More

The Bit Literacy Paradigm

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... Read More

Bruce Keener Candid: GTD and Franklin Covey

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 an author, is both practical, humble and highly effective... Read More

The Getting Things Done Phenomenon

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. Read More Share/Bookmark  Read More

The Pavlina Productivity Pickle

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... Read More